BREEKS WITH A COUPLE OF RESPONSES TO SARA.

Well said Sara. 

I think you are absolutely right, and thank God for SALVO, but while I know it’s not essential and Independence is the priority, I would still love to see the sovereign people of Scotland given a formal mechanism / protocol of impeachment to depose this rotten SNP Government. Call it good housekeeping, call it a dress rehearsal for Westminster.

As you say, the right already exists, of course it does, it’s actually no different in principle from the Claim of Right and Declaration of Arbroath. But had such a thing existed before Devolution; that is, the Claim of Right WITH codified protocols attached, it is hard to see how this mess could ever have arisen. The Scotland Act would never have happened. 

The more I dwell on it, the deeper my mistrust of Holyrood becomes. The Holyrood Assembly has taken the trappings and power of office and let it go to it’s head, but looking a little deeper, it has always shirked it’s constitutional liabilities to the people. It’s done so because it has been able to. It was designed that way; to serve another master who WAS given the codified power of veto and sanction, the very rights which Scotland’s people were denied. 

These politicians just pay lip service to the Claim of Right, because there is no consequence befalls them or their career if they betray the principle. The Claim of Right needs potency; it needs codification, it needs an Enforcer, and a permanent watchdog / Guardian of Scotland’s Constitution.

Scotland has no protection. None. No Home Defence Service, no soldiery or police force any less compromised than our devolved “Government”, and no Internal Security or Intelligence Agency. We are wide open. Scotland’s enemies already have freedom of movement everywhere, access all areas, the keys to our codes, our safes and our arsenals. Our money is their money. Our lands and assets are in their hands. They own and propagandise our media and communication. They captain our institutions and industries with their gatekeepers. We are compromised top to bottom and infiltrated across our whole spectrum, but still, they cannot untie the Gordian Knot of Scotland’s Constitutional Sovereignty.

Poor old Scotland… all it has is the winning card.

AND ALSO ANSWERING A COMMON MISUNDERSTANDING.

Mr E, I believe you misunderstand the Claim of Right.

The Claim of Right of 1689 does not define what the Claim of Right is, it “minutes” an application of it. It cites a litany of failures on the part of James VII, charges against him, which render him unfit to be King of Scotland and thereby claims the right to remove him from the throne. It’s almost like a trial. An accusation was made that the King had abandoned his throne, the King was judged guilty, and the penalty was that he lost his throne. It was an application of the law, NOT the writing of it.

The Claim of Right is a protocol. It is ephemeral and no two renditions of it need be the same, except the constant principle that the people are sovereign.

The Claim of Right of 1689 is of it’s time. The Right it is claiming however, the sovereign principle, is perpetual. That right is the sovereignty of the people. 1689 represents a juncture in history when the Right was claimed, the case was made, and the dethroning of a monarch was carried through.

You might argue with some credibility that the most recent “Claim of Right”, that is, power drawn down from Scottish sovereignty, ergo “the right claimed” upon, occurred only a calendar month ago, 22nd September 2022, when the new King of Scots swore fealty to the Claim of Right which has the power to depose him. You could legitimately interpret that as Scotland the nation, claiming the right to have it’s monarch swear fealty to the people.

The 2022 “Claim of Right” was not to compel the King to vacate his throne, but to compel the King to swear an oath of fealty. Both occasions constitute an application of sovereign ascendancy where the monarch was obliged to obey.

The essence of the Claim of Right, the sovereignty of the people, is much older than 1689. It is even older than the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath which makes oblique reference to a pre-existing right to remove a Scottish King from his throne and choose another. Arbroath 1320 was merely a Declaration of the Right, NOT the writing of it.

It confuses people, because in 14th Century Scotland there was no popular democracy synonymous with what we now call a democratic society, but there was a very clear, mature and unequivocal principle that the sitting Monarch of the day was NOT sovereign, and it is that principle which matured into Scotland’s popular Sovereignty, which in turn matured into Scotland’s democracy which has sovereignty at it’s heart.

MY COMMENTS

Above you see the strength of the Salvo message. It is very understandable when it is explained. It is easy to demonstrate the sense and example of it. When I was younger I was an avid reader of the late great author Nigel Tranter. I think it was in one of his novels that I read of this “anomaly” that there was never a King of Scotland, that the title was always King or Queen of Scots. As he explained it the holder held the title on a temporary basis, subject to the sovereign wishes of the Scottish people. The assets of Scotland belonged to the people for their common good. That is still the position today which explain why King Charles 111 required to take a oath of fealty to Scotland in September. This was necessary if he wanted to retain the crown of Scotland. The Claim of Rights exists, we just need to find ways to use it more effectively. Those ways exist and we will all be learning more about them very shortly…..and more, much more, beside!

I am, as always

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