BREEKS ARGUES SALVO IS THE WAY AHEAD.

An excellent commentary from regular contributor Breeks.

For as long as I can remember, I have known that Scotland was sovereign, but it was a notion to hold on to. I now have a much firmer grasp that it isn’t merely a notion, but something real and terrestial. Something, a principle, which the Union Establishment would have ditched a long, long, time before now, – had they been able to.

Sara Salyers and SALVO have been a revelation, and continue to do wonders both to articulate the Claim of Right, but also flesh out the wider context for these constitutional arguments. Once again, there are lots of Unionists, and I’m sorry to say a disgraceful number of pro-Independence gradualists, who would like to put it all back in the box and close the lid, but once again, they cannot do it.

But for every layer of archaeological stratification which SALVO uncovers, the painful truth is Westminster, (with the feckless complicity of Sturgeon’s SNP), are busy re-burying Scotland’s Constitution with new layers of stratification layed down, typically with liberal dozes of horse manure. 

We can’t blame Sturgeon for Devolution, but Section 30 of the Scotland Act wasn’t the gospel, not until Sturgeon’s “Government” agreed to be subjugated, rather than contest the Constitutional legitimacy of the invasive Scotland Act.

Not only have we witnessed Holyrood establish it’s credentials as a Vichy Assembly which can barely bring itself to mention the Claim of Right, nevermind act on it, we have witnessed the invasive doctrines of Westminster Parliamentary Sovereignty directly challenging and subjugating Scottish Democracy, and seeking to deeper embed the sketchy credentials of the UK Supreme Court. Instead of outcry and combative resistance, which constitutional probity demands, all our elected officials have demonstrated is their supine complicity with these new layers of stratification, which seek to bury the very constitution which Sara Salyers is trying to dig up. 

I find this whole SNP Leadership contest to be a massive distraction. Not because we are finally rid of Sturgeon, (hallelujah!), but because whether the result sees Humza Yousef donning a crash helmet to run himself headlong into a Scotland Act Section 35 brick wall, or Ash Regan turning every future Election into an Independence mandate, (yes, yes, yes, Ash Regan would get my vote). But at the same time, we’re not seeing the whole picture, what else is actually happening here?

What I see is, instead of rebuilding the drive towards Independence around a dynamic and apolitical Convention of the Estates, loyal ONLY to Scotland’s Constitutional Sovereignty and WHOLLY outside the jurisdiction of Westminster, we are once again constructing an new Independence initiative around a “First Minister”. – A Holyrood First Minister who’s station, authority, and status are all codified by the same Westminster 1998 Scotland Act which dictates whether we Scots allowed to vote or not, overseen by the rubber stamp of a UK Supreme Court, and with MSP’s who are demonstrably content to be silenced by arbitrary UK government dictat.

I repeat, Ash Regan is our only hope, particulary since Yousef and Forbes would repeat the absurd “Both Votes SNP” strategy. But my misgivings about Ash Regan’s strategy stem from it’s reliance upon the tainted system of UK Democracy. 

We are already compromised and divided about whether a Westminster based mandate needs 30+ Scottish Seats or a 50%+1 share of the vote, and equally at Holyrood, we are compromised and divided about a Constituency Party and List party managing to co-ordinate a Supermajority between them, and whether even that can still be spiked by the Scotland Act. What a blinkered and bloody mess, with no clarity, focus, strategic vision or direction beyond the next election. And yet we’re going to sell this plan to the UN are we? We can’t even sell it to 2/3ds of the SNP.

I was 13 years old when Scotland held the 1979 Devolution Referendum where UK Democracy introduced the 40% rule to skew the result. I’ve witnessed a prevailing philosophy where Scots would “weigh” the votes for Labour and/or vote for a monkey if it wore a red rosette. Yet time after time, election after election, Scotland didn’t get the government it voted for.
In 2014, I saw an Independence Referendum wrecked by a Unionist lies and propaganda on our TVs’, (which apparently had it’s result swung by the “domestic” style voting franchise). Then we had Brexit, where Scotland’s sovereign 62% mandate counted for nothing. An election where an unprecedented 96% of postal ballots returned, and where the Tory’s knew the result in advance. How many Countries in the Middle East have I seen bombed to dust in the name of Western “Democracy”? How many “Regime Changes” were affected to further Western “Democracy”? How many elections have been interferred with to secure the “right” result? The Maidan Revolution, – the made in America revolution more like. For decades, Taiwan was agreed by all to be part of one China, but wait, wait, wait, here comes democracy to make sure the US doesn’t lose it’s strategic foothold. Isn’t that the same democracy bug now assaulting China’s constitution?

Go ahead and brand me a heretic, but “Democracy” to me looks almost indistinguishable from the Religion of the medieval Christian Crusades… the benign facade to sanitise and justify brutal military conquest and colonial subjugation. What once was done in the name of Christianity is now done in the name of Democracy. Same old smiley face of bloodthirsty colonialism.

I “might” be persuaded to trust Democracy to deliver Scottish Independence, (or not, if that’s the verdict), but only a democracy which has Scotland’s Constitutional Sovereignty and the Claim of Right at the heart of it. And therein lies my problem with Ash Regan’s SNP democracy. Ash Regan is in front by a mile in my book, but sadly, I fear meaningful change ain’t gonna come no matter who wins in Holyrood.

In Scotland we need our MP’s and politicians weaned off Westminster white sovereignty, and that means “white” democracy too… We Scots must begin to see the watershed between red and white sovereignty.

Westminster needs Holyrood much more than we do, especially since Sturgeon has nullified it’s threat to the status quo.

MY COMMENTS

Breeks highlights the futility of always playing by Westminster rules. Rules they have no right to dictate and which are liable to change on their whim when ever they please. We are just realising in Scotland that the Scotland Act which “ granted’ us the Scottish Executive also encased every Scottish politician in a straight jacket at the same time.Debarring our politicians the ability to discuss our constitutional status abroad without falling foul of the “reserved” nature of the constitution within the Act.

Little do they realise it, but by keeping our Holyrood representatives outside that educational process greatly improves our chances of progress. It will be taken forward by Salvo/ Liberation. We will make the contacts, we will crowdfund the legal actions, starting small with test cases in Scottish courts, but all the time working towards a method to raise Scotland’s case for justice through the United Nations. We are already investigating and researching a number of potential test cases, seeking to identify those that offer the best prospect of favourable decisions,

There is and must never be straight jackets on the people of Scotland. We cannot be bought off. Beads, mirrors and honours will not buy us off. We intend initially to force Westminster to stop plundering the resources of our nation, of which they have no legal claim, and having won that battle and thereby making ourselves a much less attractive colony than we currently are, to win full Independence for our country.

I am, as always

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