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🏴What the Scottish independence movement could have won if they voted #BothVotesIndy
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And ensure independence.
Andy Burnham should grant Scotland Full Fiscal Autonomy. In one fell swoop he would save England billions of pounds, force the Scottish Government to reexamine Scotland’s fiscal position beyond “Westminster austerity” talking points, and elevate the constitutional debate.
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Here is an illustration of the lie Scots have lived with for centuries. While this pathetic half step away from royal tyranny is celebrated as evidence of the advanced level of English democracy in the 17th century, by that time Scotland had both popular sovereignty and mechanisms for its practical expression, three parliaments with different responsibilities, direct participation by the burghs and Extraordinarily progressive civil and human rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Claim of Right (in the same year as the Bill of Rights). The same as basic modern human rights, these were codified long before modern rights existed and they *still* far outperform any so called democratic rights allowed by the English state, upholding the authority of the people over government and courts, protecting against the abuses of the privileged and powerful enforcing the equality and impartiality of justice.
The English Bill of Rights was more than a political settlement.
It was part of a centuries-long effort to place law above arbitrary power.
Many of the protections people still expect today were strengthened by this single document.
This is the story of the English Bill of Rights. 🧵 1/6
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Yes, John Swinney promised to progress a Section 30 order. On 27 April 2026 he confirmed that, if the SNP forms government, on the first sitting day of the new Scottish Parliament they will table a vote to approve developing a Section 30 order to enable an independence referendum. He also pledged to publish a draft referendum bill within the first 100 days and open talks with Westminster.
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It’s political narcissism not to work with other pro-indy parties.
Just 1 out of 56 regional seats for SNP, the entire regional list vote effectively thrown in the bin. Again.
SNP 1 & 2 puts party before country — the antithesis of the 2014 Yes movement.
Just 1 out of 56 regional seats for SNP, the entire regional list vote effectively thrown in the bin. Again.
SNP 1 & 2 puts party before country — the antithesis of the 2014 Yes movement.
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Joanna is right, history tells us the same.
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Asking for permission and playing by Westminster's rules (non international standard) is a dead end or at least another trap.
The 73 to 56 in Holyrood is now a 'political will' gap, on the record awaiting action on behalf of the people.
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Asking for permission and playing by Westminster's rules (non international standard) is a dead end or at least another trap.
The 73 to 56 in Holyrood is now a 'political will' gap, on the record awaiting action on behalf of the people.
We can guarantee any Section 30 agreement will be pre-loaded as before with faux sovereignty mechanisms like the 1989 Claim of Right that had zero legal (justiciable) standing. Another referendum on Westminster's non-international-standard terms, as 2014 proved, is again destined to fail. The harder question is what comes next: step into the constitutional ground that Scotland already holds, or keep tinkering with section numbers while leaving the constitutional deficit Westminster has built standing?
The nations that have asserted their independence from Westminster in the modern era are the right comparator, and the records show their independence routes clearly.
These nations didnae wait for a legal "how-tae" guide fae London. They told Westminster they were leaving, and asserted their ain mechanics on the ground. The Acts came after — they documented the withdrawal, they didn't authorise it.
The decolonisation routes are on the record and varied. Ireland fought to maintain her sovereignty through centuries of oppression and continues to move towards re-unification with increasing civic resolve and strength — the 1918 election landslide forming the First Dáil, the 1919 Declaration of Independence, the 1922 Free State, the 1937 Constitution, and the 1949 Republic of Ireland Act, with Westminster following each step rather than leading it. India retook her ancient sovereignty through decades of organised non-cooperation that scaled beyond Westminster's enforcement capacity. Ghana, whose constituent peoples held sovereign authority long before the Gold Coast colony was imposed, recovered that authority under Nkrumah's positive action campaign. Across Africa in the 1960s, nations whose pre-colonial polities Westminster had suppressed but never extinguished — Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, and others — re-asserted sovereign authority locally, negotiating Westminster's withdrawal as a separate step. Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Malta, the Caribbean states and the Pacific territories moved sovereign authority back into local hands through their own legislative processes, with elections and referendums confirming what the legislative work had already established. By 1968 Westminster's East-of-Suez announcement acknowledged that maintaining colonial occupation had become unsustainable, and the Gulf nations — Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States — recovered the sovereignty their peoples had held for centuries before British protectorate status was imposed. Different routes, same ending: every one of those nations sits in the international community as a sovereign state today, on the strength of sovereignty they had always held and re-asserted on their own ground, in their own time.
The UN's importance should not be understated:
- The issue of 'sovereignty exposure' for Westminster is critical. The British State (English) has historically avoided "UN scrutiny" and in-depth UN decolonisation oversight that would confirm Westminster's known colonial actions on the international legal record creating legal precedents usable against the Crown-In-Parliament itself.
- The UN's 1945 founding architecture — Charter Article 2.1 (sovereign equality), Article 2.7 (non-intervention), the Security Council P5 veto — was built by the victors to protect existing state power. Self-determination of peoples came later, retrofitted under decolonisation pressure through resolutions 1514 and 1541 in 1960. The founding protective architecture has never been displaced by the later additions; the two principles sit in tension and the founding one usually wins when they collide. Other UN members prefer bilateral "internal" cleanups to UN-led independence pathways for exactly that reason: most have their own restive regions, and a UN-led precedent could be turned on them next.
- UN recognition is a necessary and achievable step after independence is declared, locking the new state into the international system and giving it standing to enter treaties as an equal. Scotland's case for recognition is exceptionally strong: continuous legal personality from 1320 onward, Scots rights, sovereignty and laws never repealed, a fully developed economy, established institutions, and a recognised border. The UN does not authorise independence; it witnesses it.
Declaration first, then bilateral negotiation — the divorce of assets, debt, bases, borders, and treaties — and finally UN recognition witnessing the whole settlement. That order is the route, and many nations have walked it.
The question isn't whether the much lauded Westminster mandate is referendal or electoral, it is when are we Libre Scotus going to use our rightful mandate as sovereigns?
Scots law and the various instruments of Scottish popular sovereignty, including the 'Claim of Right (1689)', have never been repealed — the constitutional ground of Scots Sovereignty has remained firm for over 700 years. Those nations whose foundations stood on less certain ground than Scotland's re-asserted their sovereignty regardless.
Why keep asking the Colonialists for our freedom when we hold the keys ourselves?
#ConstitutionalAudit #ScottishIndependence #SovereigntySeries #LetTheRecordsSpeak
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Ok are we ready?
How many people will be greetin' intae their soup because we didn't vote bothvotesindy.scot
How many people will be greetin' intae their soup because we didn't vote bothvotesindy.scot
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Banned @IndyScotParty from advertising and not allowed to use Woman if advertising in the herald !!
🚨As election day draws to a close, I'm reflecting on all the hard work the brilliant @ScotNational team has put into this campaign. Fantastic investigative reporting, brilliant analysis, agenda-setting articles and engaging video and podcast content ... I couldn't be more proud
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John Hannah
Independence for Scotland Party
Edinburgh and Lothians East.
Independence for Scotland Party
Edinburgh and Lothians East.
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bothvotesindy.scot shows the mistake we as a movement made by voting both votes SNP in 2021.
I'll take the weekend off.
The following weekend I'll start to build an analysis showing why SNP voters who voted SNP 1&2 in 2026, made the same mistake as they did in 2021.
The penalty for 1&2 same party is:
- 19 Reform seats.
- No section 30.
- 5 Years of ideological imposition.
- No progress towards independence for 5 years.
We may just be too stupid.
We'll see.
I'll take the weekend off.
The following weekend I'll start to build an analysis showing why SNP voters who voted SNP 1&2 in 2026, made the same mistake as they did in 2021.
The penalty for 1&2 same party is:
- 19 Reform seats.
- No section 30.
- 5 Years of ideological imposition.
- No progress towards independence for 5 years.
We may just be too stupid.
We'll see.
A shout out to the independence movement.
DO NOT make the 2021 mistake again.
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A shout out to the independence movement.
DO NOT make the 2021 mistake again.
DO NOT make the 2021 mistake again.
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All the best to the independence movement today.
We are big enough.
We are rich enough.
Let's see if we are intelligent enough.
Don't waste 1 million regional votes on the same party.
Maximise Indy MSPs for YOUR country. bothvotesindy.scot for a super majority.
We are big enough.
We are rich enough.
Let's see if we are intelligent enough.
Don't waste 1 million regional votes on the same party.
Maximise Indy MSPs for YOUR country. bothvotesindy.scot for a super majority.
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True story.
You won't lock Farage out with both votes SNP.
When there is a Farage opposition I'll remind you and every other stupid SNP member that fell for your nonsense.
bothvotesindy.scot is the way to increase MSPs.
If only you trusted the movement.
We may have trusted you!
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This very thing here.
I call on the 42 branches who wanted a plebiscite election to carry on with that strategy.
Keep unionists out and get more Indy MSPs in to support and progress independence.
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I call on the 42 branches who wanted a plebiscite election to carry on with that strategy.
Keep unionists out and get more Indy MSPs in to support and progress independence.
x.com/johnnypict/sta…
The only poll that matters is tomorrow. SNP voters, your country needs you more than ever ...TO NOT VOTE SNP 1&2 and waste list votes that will let Reform into your parliament.
bothvotesindy.scot
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Both votes SNP if you want SNP to win the constituency and Reform (or another unionist) to win the list seats.
Or do bothvotesindy.scot to get more indy MSPs.
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Or do bothvotesindy.scot to get more indy MSPs.
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🥾 More boots on the ground today as we continue to gee up supporters for Thursday’s election.
For a Government that will always be on Scotland’s side, make it #BothVotesSNP.
#activeSNP
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