[{"id": 140498, "created": "2020-05-28T05:48:40.079338", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90701, "user_id": 677, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-05-28T05:53:32.622895", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "Wind turbine, sea", "leafletBody": "Billions of pounds can be invested in renewable energy, creating thousands of green jobs. "}}, {"id": 140987, "created": "2020-06-10T15:36:09.312117", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90701, "user_id": 2113, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-10T16:03:23.588232", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "Picture of wind turbines with red bases located in water", "leafletBody": "MYTH\r\nVOTING YES MEANS BACKING SNP AND ALEX SALMOND\r\nA Yes vote in the referendum is not a vote for Salmond or an endorsement of the SNP.  Salmond is part of a neo-liberal party that has implemented cuts to local government and supports lowering corporation tax.  The SNP poses as a \"social democratic\" party and picks up working-class votes as a result of Labour's failure to offer any real alternative to Tory cuts and austerity.\r\nIn an independent Scotland, the SNP will not have the excuse of blaming Westminster and will be put to the test.  Elections will not cease if Scotland votes for independence.  We need to fight for our own demands for what a different, socially just and more equal Scotland could be like.\r\n\r\nMYTH\r\nINDEPENDENCE MEANS BREAKING UNITY OF THE WORKING CLASS\r\nShamefully, the main form of unity in the referendum campaign is an unholy alliance between Labour, the Tories and Lib Dems in Better Together.\r\nYet many people worry that Scotland being independent somehow means cutting us off from fellow workers in the rest of the UK.\r\nThis confuses the unity of the British state, and the capitalist interests it represents, with the unity of the working class.\r\nThe need for solidarity between workers north and south of the border will not suddenly disappear if Scotland becomes an independent country.\r\nWorkers and trade unionists in England, Wales and Scotland have a rich history of supporting each other against unscrupulous bosses and governments alike; from the great miners' strike to the hated poll tax that brought down the Thatcher government.\r\nWorkers should make every effort to build unity and solidarity with each other north and south of the border.  Working people in Scotland can share the lessons and take confidence from what we are able to achieve in the struggles against austerity with out brothers and sisters in England and Wales, and vice-versa.\r\n\r\nMYTH\r\nONLY THE UK GOVERNMENT CAN TACKLE BIG BUSINESS\r\nCorporations like Amazon, Starbucks and Vodafone all dodge paying tax in the UK, despite making massive profits here.  The process of privatisation, lowering corporation tax and ignoring tax evasion has been driven by successive British governments.  None of the mainstream parties in Westminster have any plans to reverse this process. \r\nAn independent Scotland would be just as capable as the UK of taxing the rich and, say, reversing the anti-trade union laws.  Yet, winning such gains will require further struggle, in the form of protests, strikes and occupations.\r\nRecent history shows that big business will blackmail ordinary people to get rid of policies they don't like in order to increase their profits.  Ineos boss Jim Ratcliffe recently blackmailed Grangemouth oil refinery workers to undermine their pay and conditions.  When this happens we must fight for the nationalisation of vital industries and services to bring them under democratic control\r\n\r\nBILLIONS OF POUNDS CAN BE INVESTED IN RENEWABLE ENERGY, CREATING THOUSANDS OF GREEN JOBS\r\n\r\nMYTH\r\nYES VOTE ABANDONS ENGLAND AND WALES TO PERMANENT TORY RULE.\r\nVoters in England and Wales have voted against the Tories in the past, and can do so again.  Despite 13 years of awful Labour governments, the Conservatives could not win a majority in the last general election and needed Lib Dem support just to form a government.\r\nIndeed, austerity is no more popular south of the border, and the Tories would have no chance if Labour put up real opposition to their policies.\r\nOnly on two occasions has the number of Scottish MPs turned a would-be Tory win into a Labour win at a general election (in 1964 and 1974).  Voters in Scotland regularly return around 40 Labour MPs to Westminster.  However, having Scottish MPs is no guarantee of opposition to the Tories' austerity.  This was recently illustrated by 30 Labour MPs in Scotland voting for the ConDem benefit cap.\r\n\r\nMYTH\r\nAN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND COULD NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE POUND\r\nCameron and Osborne regularly come to Scotland to threaten us with the disasters to follow independence.\r\nOsborne's bluff that Scotland would automatically lose the pound backfired recently when an unnamed minister revealed that the threat was unlikely to be carried out.\r\nIn any case, the problem with this debate is that it ignores what benefits ordinary people.\r\nBeing part of Bank of England ties Scotland to an undemocratic, pro-big business institution.\r\nScotland should have its own currency.  It should also nationalise North Sea oil and redistribute the wealth to working people.\r\nWe won't be bullied by bosses' organisations like the CBI or rich Tory ministers\r\n"}}]