TRULY COLOSSAL

This short article comes from regular reader ”Breeks” . For employment reasons he wishes to keep his identity secret but I have confirmed his true identity.

It is a fair point to make that the Civil Service is a British organisation “conflicted” by Scottish Independence because of the threat it poses to the UK. But even coming from me, a die-hard independentist, if we are honest with ourselves, what else would you expect the British Civil Service to do? Even neutrality puts it’s feet on shaky ground. For the love of God, don’t trust it to do the right thing by Scotland.

But the huge “pup” which Scotland has been sold, is that Holyrood, Scotland’s devolved assembly, is anything else except a similar British institution just like the British Civil Service. Think about it.

Holyrood is codified by the Scotland Act, an Act of the Westminster Parliament with Queen Elizabeth it’s head of state. Through the Scotland Act, Westminster is dictating what Holyrood can and cannot do, and Sturgeon’s SNP “government” dutifully nods and agrees.

Both Holyrood and Westminster are conspiring together to supplant the ancient sovereign Constitution of our Nation, our popular sovereignty and our status under international law, and replace it with the lightweight small “c” constitution of a subservient regional assembly. Scotland’s people are SOVEREIGN. The Scotland Act has NO Constitutional authority to prevent Scotland having as many referendums as we like.Proceeding with Brexit meant subjugating Scotland’s Sovereignty thus collapsing the Treaty of Union, and furthermore demolishing the fallacy that Scotland’s place in the Union was consensual, (an important tenet of Westminster’s unwritten convention on Parliamentary Sovereignty).  The alternative option of  aborting Brexit meant Scotland had a recognised sovereign veto over the UK Government, which Westminster could never have accepted…

I keep referring to my own Red Sovereignty / White Sovereignty argument, because when Holyrood was established, the Constitutional truth was fudged, like the Treaty of Union itself was a fudge. The arguments whether Holyrood answered to the Sovereign people of Scotland, or instead, answered to the Palace of Westminster were never resolved in detail. 

Scotland’s Constitutionalists saw Holyrood as Scotland’s Sovereign Parliament in waiting because the people are sovereign, while Scotland’s Unionists were delighted that Scotland had embraced and taken to it’s heart, a subservient legislature which gave Westminster’s Parliamentary Sovereignty a faux-constitutional bridgehead in Edinburgh. But critically, for the next 20 years, both completely incompatible and irreconcilable perceptions were allowed to co-exist. And for as long as they were allowed to co-exit, the binary question of who Holyrood answered to remained completely ambiguous.

All that changed after 2016, when Sturgeon capitulated to Brexit, sweeping aside the emphatic will of the Scottish people, talking utter nonsense about Scotland’s “only” lawful route to a referendum was through Section 30, and setting all manner of grossly unconstitutional precedents which undermined Scotland’s Constitutional rights as a Nation, and indulged the fallacies of Westminster’s colonial adventurism to a thoroughly sickening degree.

Sturgeon has single-handedly destroyed the uneasy ambiguous equilibrium of a Holyrood Assembly which “might” be sovereign or might be subverient, and she has GIFTED the apparent ascendancy to Westminster. 

Sturgeon has SOLD SCOTLAND OUT.

She was wrong, utterly wrong. She had no authority to do it. But now it looks to all the world that Scotland’s Government is a Vichy style puppet government with no Constitutional clout. Holyrood is a White Institution. Not red.

Had Sturgeon in 2016 grown a backbone and left Westminster in no uncertain terms that Scotland’s emphatic Remain vote was an inviolable sovereign edict, and then created a Scottish Constitutional Backstop to that effect; Westminster was over a barrel. 

Proceeding with Brexit meant subjugating Scotland’s Sovereignty thus collapsing the Treaty of Union, and the alternative, aborting Brexit meant Scotland had a recognised sovereign veto over the UK Government, which Westminster could never have accepted.

For once, it was Scotland who held both ends of the string, victory and Independence was ours for the taking! …. Up until Sturgeon’s asinine capitulation, which fkd Scotland sideways and let the Union off the hook. She was the toast of Whitehall that day!

From all we have learned since, and taking the holistic perspective, do you still think ANY of this was down to incompetence? 

The truth will out eventually, but whether it turns out to be incompetence or betrayal, the scale of it is truly Colossal !

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