[{"id": 140802, "created": "2020-06-05T03:56:12.334828", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90771, "user_id": 677, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-05T04:00:20.047524", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "Women for Independence motto", "leafletBody": "Women for Independence. With independence comes control of our own affairs.  "}}, {"id": 141401, "created": "2020-06-21T20:02:34.563753", "project_id": 467, "task_id": 90771, "user_id": 2094, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-21T20:26:48.901640", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"comments": "", "graphelem": "Women for Independence logo.", "leafletBody": "Can independence change things or will it just be a change of politicians? \r\nWe have had a Scottish Parliament since 1999 and it has made important changes already Policies in Scotland have become increasingly different from those the Westminister Government has implemented in England. Overall Scotland has chosen a commitment to strong public service. We have maintained a comprehensive school system. We have kept the Health Service as a cooperative service in the public sector and not turned it into a competitive market with much of it outsourced to private profit-making companies as has happened in England. We have maintained public ownership of Scottish water, not privatised it as happened in the south. While England has imposed fees of \u00a39000 a year on university students, Scottish students do not pay fees. We have abolished the prescription charge 'tax' on illness and introduced free personal care for the elderly. Many other reforms have been implemented by the Scottish Parliament in the fourteen years of its existence with the powers the Holyrood parliament has. So we have proved that having control in Scotland can make a real difference in contrast to the decisions that have been made in London.. But we only have some of the powers.\r\nMost people aren't clear about who does what. We need to know what would be extra powers that would come with independence. \r\nA lot of people don't know where the decisions are made. We have important powers at present in the Scottish Parliament like health and education but there are many that we don't have. The additional powers we would get with independence would be control over our tax system, control over all welfare benefits including pensions, control over trade and industry powers, control over employment conditions including equality issues, control over defence including nuclear weapons and taking part in wars, representation in international organisations like the EU and the United Nations, Scottish women have hardly any chance to influence these policies when they are run from London but if the power was in Scotland, we would be over fifty percent of the voters and we could really make a difference. \r\nWe don't feel that what they decide in London like the Bedroom Tax works well for most of us, especially women. \r\nBritain isn't working for the ordinary people in Scotland. It is very good at protecting the rich which is why to many come to London and come to buy big estates in Scotland. Compared to other developed countries, the UK is the fourth most unequal and income inequality among working-age people has risen fastest since 1975. 70% of people in work in Scotland earn less than \u00a325 thousand a year. Our pensioners are the fourth poorest in Western Europe. There are twenty countries in Europe where there is a lower gap between and women and men's earnings and our childcare and transport costs are far higher. This means a worse deal for women. More women are among the low-paid and many will suffer from the welfare changes and all the cuts that are to come.\r\nCan we be sure of an independent Scotland being a fairer country?\r\nIt would be entirely up to us. That's the great thing. For a long time, Scotland has voted very differently from England. There are many people in the North of England who are closer to us in their politics but they get outvoted too because of the population in the South-East is growing faster"}}]