Yes Scotland
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Yes Scotland was the organisation representing the parties, organisations, and individuals campaigning for a Yes vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. It was launched on 25 May 2012 and dissolved in late 2014 after Scotland voted against independence.
Formation | 25 May 2012 |
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Dissolved | Late 2014 |
Type | Company limited by guarantee |
Registration no. | SC422720 |
Headquarters | 136 Hope Street, Glasgow, G2 2TG |
Key people | Blair Jenkins, Chief Executive |
Website | yesscotland |
Yes Scotland's chief executive was Blair Jenkins, and Dennis Canavan was the chair of its advisory board.[1] Stephen Noon, a long term employee and policy writer of the SNP, was Yes Scotland's chief strategist. Its principal opponent in the independence campaign was the unionist Better Together campaign.[2][3][4]
By the formal start of the referendum campaign period in May 2014, it had become the "biggest grassroots movement in Scottish political history", said Jenkins.[5] The campaign did not win independence, but "transformed politics in Scotland", suggested The Herald.[6]