Scottish Election Guide
A guide for Quakers has been produced by Britain Yearly Meeting
Britain Yearly Meeting has produced a guide to the Scottish parliamentary election, which will take place on 5 May.
Topics addressed in the briefing include militarisation in schools, Trident, housing and community justice, climate and energy justice, and land reform. It also covers social security and welfare.
Suggestions are made as to how Meetings can become involved in the build-up to the election. These include holding hustings, writing to candidates and meeting in small groups to discuss the election.
The authors of the guide stressed that it does not cover all Quaker work, focusing instead on ‘those concerns which candidates are likely to be familiar with and which are of interest beyond Quaker circles’.
2016 Scottish Election: a guide for Quakers will be sent to Meetings across Scotland. Friends are also urged to visit the Quaker Vote website and to contact Mairi Campbell-Jack, Scottish parliamentary engagement officer for Quakers in Britain, with election-related news.
