When you can't win a parliamentary election the only way to seize power is to remove it *from* that parliament and/or circumvent it. This is what Labour is planning to do under Burnham. Seize power from the Welsh Senedd and Holyrood and/or circumvent both. A devolution coup.
Our main takeaway from coverage of the World Cup is that Scotland needs its own national broadcaster. We need to see these events through a Scottish lens. Hear our own voices. Have our own emotions reflected back. We need to feel it's OK to be ourselves, flaws and all.
Hell, we might even start to embrace England if we aren't being bullied to do so and made to feel inferior.
Let's make this the biggest online poll ever on Scottish Independence! Do you support Scottish Independence? RT RT RT 🗳️🏴 #Poll#Independence#Scotland
Scotland is in a unique position where 90% of the television, radio and newspapers are actively working for a foreign government, against the interests of the Scottish people.
If you're watching the BBC, you're watching propaganda not journalism!
#BBCBias#Partisan#Propaganda
Andy Burnham is a fraud. His 'more devo' line isn't about more powers from Westminster, it's for next years Scottish & Welsh council elections. He's giving his Scottish puppets their campaign line which is to demand Holyrood gives up powers to councils.
This is why Paul Sweeney is pushing the line on BBC Scotland. He's ingratiating himself in the hope he is chosen to replace Sarwar.
BBC Scotland too is already on board. The usual suspects will start parroting the message that the Scottish Govt has centralised & hoarded power. It's why the station headlined the demand from a Burnham supporting think-tank for a Glasgow mayor.
https://t.co/WSsUfzYLRR
Hey Michael @michaelgove any chance we could see the results of your polling on Scottish independence?
The results must have been catastrophic!
Was it like the McCrone Report? A clear and present danger to His Majesty's Government?
#ScottishIndependence 🏴
If you want to see any serious critique of Andy Burnham's 'more devolution' from the perspective of the devolved Govts then forget BBC Scotland. You have to turn to BBC Wales. BBC Scotland is genuinely finished as a trusted political news vendor.
The UK government is attempting to block the Scottish Government from having an Independence Referendum.
If you believe it is up to Scotland to decide their own future and their own independence.
Show your support.
BritNat Breakfast presenter Sarah McMullan has said that Yes Scotland was "A company set up by the SNP".
Yes Scotland was a collaboration of pro-Indy parties. It's first two directors in the controlling company Yes Scotland Ltd, were Scott Martin, a lawyer for the SNP, and Blair Jenkins who wasn't an SNP member.
We are witnessing BBC BritNat messaging in play as police probe a complaint made against Yes Scotland. The intention is to link the probe to the SNP.
Indeed the BBC article about the story claims the company behind Yes Scotland was set up by Alex Salmond. It wasn't. The article also links the Yes Scotland probe to the Peter Murrell case. Neither are linked.
This is crude propaganda from a station now notorious for such.
BBC Scotland has, yet again, stood down its political team when scrutiny of Andy Burnham's announcements and their impact on Scotland is required. Contrast this with BBC Wales who have assigned a senior political correspondent to the story. This was Radio Wales this morning.
Labour's next leader is threatening to take power away from Holyrood. As expected, BBC BritNat is framing it it as a good thing.
This is what we mean when we say Scotland is defenceless against colonial attacks. Our media is run from England. Poison is actually medicine.
An English broadcaster, masquerading as Scottish, promoting anti-SNP headlines from English newspapers, also masquerading as Scottish. We're being bombarded with political propaganda by fake Scottish media outlets all controlled from south of the border.
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
Listen to this from @BBCJamesCook Supporting your team and having pride in your Country and he has to turn this into nationalism. Seriously @BBCScotlandNews SERIOUSLY? WTAF!!
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
Most Scots normally laugh this stuff off as banter with the English, but this level of sneering contempt cuts deep. The negative stereotypes - too drunk, too lazy, too poor, too violent, too rubbish at football to even care - are atrocious.
#FIFAWorldCup
@ScotExpress Utter pish! A five year police investigation costing over 2 million was done already.
I donated to the SNP and still do.
I’d rather see an inquiry into the Tories PPE scandal that actually miss used ‼️Taxpayers money‼️Not donations.
When can we expect that?
A guide to help you identify Scotland’s Political Enemies. They are all interchangeable, and mention Scotland’s inalienable right to self-determination, and they form a Britnat wall. Their House-Jocks are particularly treacherous, and prefer to see England thrive off our backs.