Nod Bruce

Edinburgh middle-class socialist; pro-indy electronic engineer, biker & psychotherapist. RTs mean I clicked a thing.
@[email protected]

[Nod Bruce @NodBruce]

@Fergie_CJ @SharpeShirley Or, perhaps, before UN intervention?

[patrick holleran @pat11060]

The Argument
Scotland made the Claim of Right a condition precedent of the Union

A condition precedent means
“This must remain in force, or the treaty is void.”

The Claim of Right (1689) was explicitly included by name in the 1706 Act for the Preservation of the Presbyterian Church, which itself was written into the Treaty of Union
“in all time coming”.

This wasn’t accidental.
It wasn’t religious window dressing.
It was the only named statute in the conditions.

At the time, everyone understood what that meant.

The Claim of Right is not a religious act
it is Scotland’s constitutional statute
Rooted and written in the Arbroath Declaration

It sets out
the limits of government
the rights of the people
the requirement for a lawful monarch
the conditions for a lawful parliament
the nature of the Scottish Crown

Daniel Defoe no friend of Scottish sovereignty openly described it as the foundation of Scotland’s constitutional order.

This is why it was included.
It was the legal anchor of Scotland’s statehood.

The Scottish Crown is not the English Crown
This is the part most people don’t know.

In Scotland.
the Crown is the legal personality of the Community of the Realm
the monarch is merely the first among equals
the monarch has no immunity from legal process
treason is defined as betrayal of the Common Weal, not the monarch
sovereignty sits with the people, not the monarch

This is why the Scottish Coronation Oath requires the monarch to.

defend the Scottish Crown and never transfer or undermine its rights, rents, or privileges.

That includes its sovereignty.
The Treaty of Union required a single crown and therefore a single kingdom
A kingdom is defined by the territorial jurisdiction of a crown.

To create
one kingdom one parliament one state you need one crown.

But the condition precedent the
“Claim of Right”
forbids transferring the sovereignty of the Scottish Crown to a new British Crown.

So the treaty’s core requirement was constitutionally impossible.
Therefore the Treaty of Union could not be implemented as written

This is the heart of the argument.
If the Claim of Right remains in force the Scottish Crown remains sovereign.
If the Scottish Crown remains sovereign it cannot be merged.
If the Scottish crown is not sovereign then the treaty of the Union is void
Either way no Union

If it cannot be merged there can be no single crown.
If there is no single crown there is no single kingdom.
If there is no single kingdom the Treaty of Union’s purpose is unachievable?

This is not opinion.
It is constitutional logic.
England knew this and never intended to create a new state

The evidence states cites
threats of invasion
bribery
coercion
the dismantling of Scottish institutions
the failure to dismantle English institutions
the rebranding of the English Crown as the
“British Crown”
contemporary English commentary calling themselves “perfidious” for violating the treaty

conclusion
England annexed Scotland under the guise of a treaty it never intended to implement.

The modern British strategy is to hide this by reframing the
“Claim of Right” as “just religious”

Because if the world accepts:
the Scottish Crown still exists
its sovereignty was never transferred
the condition precedent was never fulfilled then Scotland is not a partner in a union.
It is a subjugated state.

In international law, that is the definition of a colony.

So what is actually being said?

In one sentence.

The Treaty of Union was constitutionally impossible to implement because the
“Claim of Right “ which had to remain in force prevented the creation of a single crown, and therefore a single kingdom.
England knew this, ignored it, and absorbed Scotland under the English Crown.

That’s the argument.

Just constitutional mechanics.
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In UN law, if a treaty cannot be implemented, the result is annexation
I rest my case😀
UN Resolution 1541 defines a Non‑Self‑Governing Territory

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Almost one year ago I was detained on arrival in London immediately after landing on a flight from Beirut. I was held for hours, interrogated, had my DNA taken and my electronic devices seized.

I was told that I was under investigation for potential terror-related activities, linked to my work as a journalist in countries deemed unpalatable to the British state.

Others including @georgegalloway and @richimedhurst have been subjected to similar treatment. One year on and I’m still living in exile from my own country and in reality I am never likely to be able to return with the threat of a prison sentence looming over me.

Full solidarity with @loffredojeremy the latest victim of the increasingly authoritarian British state which allows IDF soldiers and those that have fought against Russia in Ukraine to enter freely, while targeting those who stand against imperialist wars and genocide.

[Nod Bruce @NodBruce]

@SSalyers2 So ScotGov = 'Groomers and enablers'

[Anatolij Sharij @anatoliisharii]

A cartoonist who depicted Putin and the Kremlin in his drawings, who humiliated Putin and the Kremlin, has been killed in Europe.

This is what you will read everywhere.

The Western press is so honest and principled that it will tell you this.

But it will forget to mention that this person was listed on the Ukrainian kill list website “Myrotvorets.”

It will also forget to mention that this person repeatedly insulted the Ukrainian authorities, the Russian opposition, the Ukrainian armed forces, Ukrainian oligarchs, Zelensky, Yermak, Akhmetov, and many others.

The European press will forget about that.

A cartoonist who drew caricatures of Putin has been killed.

The case is solved.

How simple, isn’t it?

[Nod Bruce @NodBruce]

Embezzle This https://t.co/svV0xc9r9E via @gregmoodie

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you are old enough to have driven in Britain in the 1980s, you remember the windscreen.

By July you could barely see through it. A run from Leeds to London in August finished with a bumper that looked like it had been to war and a sheet of glass you scrubbed with a sponge at the services while the engine ticked as it cooled. Moths in the headlights. Flies in the wing mirrors. The grille packed solid. Nobody thought it remarkable. It was simply the price of moving through a country that was still, in living memory, heaving with flying things.

Drive that same road today. Stop at the same services. The windscreen is clean. Spotless. You could very nearly eat off it.

We have the numbers, for those who want them. The Bugs Matter survey, run by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife, has had volunteers counting the splats on their number plates since 2004. Britain's flying insects are down by roughly four fifths in twenty years. Gone in a single human lifetime, while the rest of us noticed nothing at all.

The birds went down with them, because the birds lived on them. A child born this year can grow up in the English countryside and never once hear a turtle dove, for the simple reason that there is almost nothing left to do the calling.

And none of it, not one acre of it, happened on the grass.

It happened in the arable fields, where the hedges were torn out for bigger machines and a single crop was sprayed over and over to keep it upright. The herb-rich meadow grazed by cattle still hums. The beetles, the pollinators, the ground-nesting birds, all still there, just about, on the pasture our ancestors never stopped grazing.

So when someone tells you your steak is emptying the British countryside, ask them what grew on that field before it was drained and ploughed and sprayed to raise the oats for the carton in their fridge.

It was grass, and there were cattle on it, and back then the windscreen needed cleaning.

[Nicky @NickyZog]

Who paid for this Israeli firm to interfere in the Scottish Parliament elections a month ago? Where is the Scottish press on this?
Surely this is a bigger story than all the tittle tattle they seem obsessed by. https://t.co/36yER9ZAh2

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The U.S. spends more on its military than China, Russia, the UK, France, Germany, and India combined.

Its citizens have no guaranteed healthcare, no guaranteed paid leave, crumbling infrastructure, and a life expectancy that ranks 62nd in the world.

And the most reliable way to win an American election is to promise to spend more on the military.

The chickens aren't just defending KFC.

They're crowdfunding the slaughterhouse.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.

[Greg Moodie @gregmoodie]

I wrote this cartoon not so much about the Peter Murrell story, but about how the media handled it. A reminder: One headline read: "A Greek tragedy in 3 acts: Nicola Sturgeon, Peter Murrell, and the SNP's ruin". I hope you see the truth in it.
https://t.co/MEzUwYK6V5

[Nod Bruce @NodBruce]

@WingsScotland Someone please tell them that's not what 'Viking camp' means.

[Mark Hirst @Documark]

Worth highlighting again that Harvie previously worked in the Foreign Office on secondment from MI5 prior to becoming Crown Agent at COPFS.

It was Harvie, in that role, who directed the prosecution against me and Alex Salmond that ultimately failed.

So the question really is, who actually runs Scotland.

As for the other individual shown... Well, where to begin!

[Nod Bruce @NodBruce]

@SamaHoole OTOH - They knew when your holidays were, too. Crime in our area fell by 40% (trumpeted by Police) when the local milkman moved out.
His brother was 'rumoured' to be a housebreaker.

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

Ukrainian terrorists targeted and hit a long distance civilian passenger bus northeast of Donetsk, killing 7 people.

Ukraine has been hitting buses with drones and artillery for years, slaughtering trapped passengers who are often burned alive.

"7 people were killed and 11 injured after a UAF drone strike on a regular bus Moscow - Simferopol in the city of Yenakiieve - head of the DPR Denis Pushilin."
https://t.co/EDhHhnBN9M

My posts from Donetsk after Ukraine terror bombed buses:

*warning: graphic footage: Ukraine's terrorism of Donetsk today, killing six civilians in a very central area of the city, where there are no military targets, only Donetsk civilians.
https://t.co/WSBa6WyEfM
https://t.co/hiIDesCe2t

*Heavy Ukrainian shelling of central Donetsk on April 28 killed 9 civilians, including an 8 year old girl, and injured at least 16 more. Most of the dead were burned alive when the minibus they were in was hit by a shell.
https://t.co/afGZ8poJSO
https://t.co/c5hdmTftMe

https://t.co/rN83P4yw9k

*This morning's driver had just finished a round of his route, was taking a break for coffee and due to leave in 8 minutes when the shell struck. He was not injured, but definitely traumatized by the thought that just minutes earlier/later and he would have been killed. A journalist with us showed me a small piece of the shell, noting that this type isn't designed to destroy military equipment, but to break into fragments and inflict more damage against whoever happened to be in the way. And Ukraine is firing them on residential areas.
https://t.co/UpBOQA11mZ

[Nod Bruce @NodBruce]

@WingsScotland Maybe the ring-fenced money was used to build a fence round a fence's ring?

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Made me smile
Speedbump cartoon

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

This is what an Emmy awards acceptance speech looks like. Kudos

[Nod Bruce @NodBruce]

@WingsScotland ?1968 I was in Paris and they claimed the temperature was 105F (over 40C). I didn't die.

[Iran (I.R.of) Embassy in UK @Iran_in_UK]

Press Statement by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the New UK Sanctions and Anti-Iran Measures

Following the press release issued by the FCDO on 11 May 2026 announcing sanctions against several individuals and entities allegedly connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran strongly rejects the claims as well as allegations
The Embassy stresses that these accusations are entirely unfounded and unsupported by any credible evidence. They appear to be politically motivated claims intended to heighten tensions and justify hostile policies against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Embassy also strongly objects to repeated attempts by certain British officials to link domestic tensions and incidents in the UK to Iran without presenting any verifiable evidence through proper legal or diplomatic channels. Such irresponsible allegations risk undermining diplomatic norms and harming bilateral relations.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has itself been a victim of terrorism, organized violence, and unlawful coercive actions over the past decades, including acts carried out by violent extremist and separatist groups that operate freely in some Western countries. In this regard, selective and politicized approaches to issues of terrorism and security only reinforce double standards and contribute to further instability.
The Embassy calls on the UK government to reconsider and reverse these measures, refrain from imposing unilateral coercive measures, including sanctions based on baseless allegations and political motivations, and avoid making further provocative statements against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Embassy also urges the British government to uphold its obligations under international law and to pursue dialogue and diplomacy on the basis of mutual respect and sovereign equality.

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran – London
14 May 2026