Spear o' Annandale

Retired trawlerman. Now fully engaged in seeking self-determination for Scotland

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

Internationally, we are finding that people of other nations can see and understand our colonial status very easily. However, here in Scotland it has been covered up, and with over 300 years of developing a colonised mindset it is often harder for Scots to recognise their own condition.

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

@ScotNational Really great if only to get the usual reaction from the unionist/colonialist mob. They're not smart enough to know that their reactions vindicate everything we say.

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

@SSalyers2 Such ignorance is shocking. Check the House of Commons Library "Technically, any form of the Coronation Oath which does not match the wording set out in the 1688 Act is contrary to law. In practice, however, several changes have been made without amending the original Act". Oops

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

Such gross ignorance shows that David has no idea of what really took place when Scotland tried to establish its trading facility at Darien. It was compromised from the beginning by the English Parliament and the East India Company. They also used their king (who also happened to be King of Scots) to issue a Royal Proclamation to ensure no help was given to the Scots - on pain of the King's wrath. When the king's involvement was uncovered and published in a pamphlet, they offered a £500 reward for selling out the author and £200 for the publisher. Why the need to do that?

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

Here's how you can answer that question with certainty. As you've pointed out the Claim of Right was made a precondition (condition precedent) of the union and the treaty, because it was specifically named in the overall condition precedent - the 1706 Act for the Preservation of the Presbyterian Church. This was ratified word for word, ('by the tenor thereof') along with the Articles of Union as a condition in all time coming. Before the British began reframing the CoR as a sectarian act purely concerned with the religious matters suggested by the title of the 1706 Act, neither the Scots nor the English failed to recognise the significance of the inclusion of the CoR Act, the only named Act, in the overall condition. Nor did anyone imagine for a moment that it was just a religious statute. It was then and still is the first and only statutory summary of the Scottish constitution.
"The Laws of Government, (in Scotland), continue as the Government continues establish'd in the Claim of Right, I mean as to the Limitations of Government and Obedience", Daniel Defoe, chronicler, Propagandist and English spy. Note: the Limitations of Government and Obedience is how a constitution is often described both then and now.
Now, the Claim of Right remains a constitutional statute because otherwise the union is void. But, of course, it is given lip service only and the latest British trick is pretending its all about religion so people stop noticing or caring.
But adopting it at the time, in the full knowledge of what it meant, proves there was never any inention to create a single kingdom (single crown) or a new state. Why? Because the CoR requires a lawful monarch - enabling a lawfully assembled legislative parliament, as summoned by a lawful monarch - to take the Scottish Coronation Oath. But the Scottish Crown is the Community of the Realm and not the monarch and so the Scottish Oath of Accession includes a promise by the would-be monarch to defend the Scottish Crown and never to transfer or undermine its rights rents and privileges. The Treaty of Union, however, calls for a (new) single crown/kingdom which would necessitate transferring the sovereignty of the Scottish Crown to a new, merged British Crown.
So a condition precedent/sine qua non of the union made that union impossible!
No pea brain involved in pushing through the Treaty and Acts could have failed to see that the only way their terms could all have been implemented would have been to impose the Scottish Crown, (with its identity as the people, its monarch just the first among equals with no immunity from legal process and its treason laws protecting the Common Weal and not merely the king or queen), on the new 'Great Britain' in place of the English. And that was never going to happen.
The treaty was impossible to implement. The condition without which it was and is rendered void, the continuation of the CoR, prevents the creation of the 'single kingdom (crown) which is its whole purpose. And because the monarch summons the legislative parliament that makes the joint parliament just as impossible.
Either no one had the brains to realise that or the English pushed the treaty through, by threat of invasion, bribery and coercion and contrary to Scots law, without the slightest intention of implementing. Once it was ratified, they could dismantle the Scottish state in preparation for the new one - and then simply fail to dismantle the English state and instead add Scotland to its control and its crown. That is what they always intended and that is exactly what happened. Cheaper and easier than the alternative - invasion.
"Foreigners say publicly, I mean our own allies, that we [England] are a perfidious nation; and since we have violated our treaty with Scotland and laugh at the notion of fundamental and inviolable articles [of Union], there is no great wonder if we treat other nations as we do."
Harley, Robert, "Letter by Lord Harley Earl of Oxford to William Carstares, 1709.
Now the Brits want the world to believe there really is a British Crown and the treaty really was given effect and they hope no one digs up proof of the continuation of the Scottish Crown or realises what that means about Scotland's legal status in the so-called union. Can you say colony?!

[Angry Pict @SymbolStones]

The English seem to believe their subservient form of monarchy is the only model.

"Lord Robert... his right of succession according to or laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King... and by him, come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King"

Worth repeating: "we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King"
Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

CONDITIONAL MONARCHY
THE MONARCH HOLDS DELEGATED SOVEREIGNTY

The ancestor of the English Monarch is irrelevant, Scots do not just have some Englishman foisted on them and accept it by default.

This is codified into the 1689 Claim of Right, still live legislation and a "condition precedent" of the Treaty and Acts of Union.

The fact it is continually being breached, and has been from the start, making that so called 'Union' void, is one of the many reasons we will not bow down to an English monarch, even when he styles himself "King of Great Britain" - a branding exercise to mask the fact he is King of England alone, having sworn no covenant with the sovereign Scottish Community of the Realm as is constitutionally required.

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

Something that should have done many years ago. Sign this petition to recognise one of Scotland's most recognisable heroes. https://t.co/7WVJQDkOLg

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

It's clear from the turnout in the 2 by-elections that our supporters are staying home and are sceptical of any route to independence that goes through Westminster. The only viable route now open is by international recognition and Liberation Scotland. https://t.co/9rj97jyD3C

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

https://t.co/ziRrWgjXrm Sara and Jerome (Liberation Scotland's representative at the United Nations) speaking when at the recent C-24 Annual Seminar in Managua resulting in support and encouragement from a significant number of nations.

[ScotNews @indyscotnews]

#LiberationScotland at the UN. Interview with Jerôme Bouquet-Elkaïm who now represents @LiberationScot at the UN. @SSalyers2 @PAlanMcMahon @thomsonchris @Broonpot @ScotSalvo @HazelLyon16 @IndyScotParty https://t.co/F8Dp9EaA1Z

[ScotNews @indyscotnews]

#LiberationScotland at the UN. Interview with Jerôme Bouquet-Elkaïm who now represents @LiberationScot at the UN. @SSalyers2 @PAlanMcMahon @thomsonchris @Broonpot @ScotSalvo @HazelLyon16 @IndyScotParty https://t.co/F8Dp9EaA1Z

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

@Douglas_Haribo It's so funny - and a bit frustrating - to see so many uninformed comments. Who knew there were so many constitutional experts on Scotland's annexation? Check out the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties - not retrospective but very indicative.

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

@Buckfast_Belch @Douglas_Haribo They can call it what they like, but it was NOT an internationally recognised constitutional referendum. It was simply an internal non-binding opinion poll. Check out referendums and how to conduct them at the UN.

[Popular Sovereignty @Douglas_Haribo]

Scotland a Colony of England: Three indicators.

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

From Prof. Alf Baird:

On postcolonial theory, which also tells us of the “Manichaeism of colonial rule” (Fanon) in Scotland, where we see:

– a people in ‘colonial slumber’
– a fake national party (‘co-opted by colonialism’)
– a fake parliament (indirect rule, brings in oppressive and 'mystifying' laws)
– a fake ‘justice’ system, views the native ‘absent of values’
– colonial show trials, to rupture the independence movement
– all enabling the plunder of corporate colonialism to continue

Colonialism is far more than a dodgy national party elite – colonialism creates such an elite just as it creates all else in colonial society, including the poverty and inequality of the colonized.

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

@Bill10556177 @LiberationScot You misunderstand the relationship. Liberation Scotland is not, and never will be, "Anti English" in fact many of our members were born in England. However, Westminster has been anti-Scotland for far longer than 1707.

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

@pseudostar Fair enough. Thank you. We're tending to agree that pieces of this length should perhaps go to blog. We're proposing to do more on the Still Yours For Scotland blog run by Christophe Dorigné-Thomson (see https://t.co/X5E95Eb4R6

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

@LiberationScot Recognition of Scotland's true history as a colonised nation is vital if true liberation is to be achieved. The Scotland Act 1998 and its subsequent manifestations act as Scotland's constitutional straightjacket from which we must escape and the people hold the key to open it.

[Still Yours For Scotland @decolonise_Scot]

The 2014 Referendum as a Colonial Plebiscite Scotland Must Never Accept Again: How the English Colonial State Suppressed Scotland's Inalienable Right to Self-Determination. What Genuine International Supervision Free From Colonial Interference Looks Like https://t.co/V8hHkUa8LL

[Spear o' Annandale @Thor49Alex]

@LiberationScot Having been effectively blocked by MSM from providing the news about the impressive progress made internationally by Liberation Scotland over the past couple of years, we largely have to rely on SM to spread the news. Please repost on as many platforms as you can.

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

LIBERATION SCOTLAND:
NEW MEMBER APPEAL🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Dear Supporter of Scottish Independence,

It is now clear that the recent election has delivered a fractured ineffective administration at Holyrood that will spend the next 5 years unable to progress either (a) independence for Scotland (despite its ‘pro-indy’ majority) in the face of Westminster refusal, or (b) expand national domestic investment in services and infrastructure to improve living conditions for Scots (to at least parity with other western countries with which Scotland is regularly compared) without the necessary control over the revenues from Scotland’s own resources, especially energy.

The presence of ‘nationalist’ administrations in Cardiff and Belfast means that Starmer (and his Downing Street successors) will simply double-down on blocking ‘indyref2’ in response to any repeat demands by John Swinney! Westminster’s constitutional arrangements with NI, Wales and Scotland are NOT identical and there is a real danger that Westminster/Holyrood could trap Scotland within a future ‘devo-max’ settlement that undermines our historic popular sovereignty and strengthens England’s illegal grip on our nation, its territory and resources.

The only deliverable route to restoring Scotland's full historic nationhood is through engagement with the international legal mechanisms of the UN and associated international organisations. It does NOT pass through Westminster or its Holyrood administration.

Liberation Scotland’s key mission is to secure international recognition of Scotland as a Non-Self-Governing Territory (NSGT), as defined by the UN (i.e. colony), and to initiate the UN-mandated process of decolonization of the Scottish nation and sovereign people, including via the UN Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) and terminate England’s wrongful act of 320 years of colonial annexation of Scotland.

It is this important international campaign by Liberation Scotland, with support from Scots at home (including Salvo’s domestic campaign) and our extensive global diaspora, that gives Scotland an international voice where it matters and provides a clear and deliverable route, free from Westminster interference, to the restoration of Scotland to its rightful place as an independent and sovereign nation state within the international community of nations.

Details of Liberation Scotland’s UN campaign (including attendance by Liberation Scotland representatives in March at the UN Human Rights Council 61st session in Geneva) can be found on our website and in our latest member newsletter, along with details of Salvo’s domestic campaign to protect Scotland’s historic national Common Good assets, which are currently under threat of loss to our communities from sale, transfer or change of use.

Thanks to our extensive work during the last 2 years, Scotland’s case is now firmly on the agenda at the UN and our nation’s voice is being heard once again – most recently at the C-24 Regional Seminar in Nicaragua, where Liberation Scotland contributed towards four interventions on the very live issue of the advancement of decolonization.

However more work remains to be done, and with three further interventions and a side event programmed for New York and Geneva later this month and next, we ask you to please join us and support our campaign any way you can to restore Scotland’s nationhood and sovereignty and to return its alienated assets and resources to the ownership of its people.

Sign up as a Liberation Scotland member today via this link: https://t.co/idA8qO9FSi

Liberation Scotland Committee 07 June 2026