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Civic Nationalism alone is insufficient. Its had 11 years to prove itself & its not only failed to do so its divided a once strong United Movement by its repeated failed promises.
Civic Nationalism has many strengths & the baby doesn’t need throwing out with the baby box! But it does need bolstering by an international wing of the movement prepared to spell out the extractive exploitation of Scotland & the withholding of a route ton democratic self determination arises from a colonialist mindset in Westminster & does require addressing with international oversight alliances and pressure
Civic Nationalism has many strengths & the baby doesn’t need throwing out with the baby box! But it does need bolstering by an international wing of the movement prepared to spell out the extractive exploitation of Scotland & the withholding of a route ton democratic self determination arises from a colonialist mindset in Westminster & does require addressing with international oversight alliances and pressure
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The text of letter by Sandy Rose to The National in response to its podcast involving Alf Baird and Robin McAlpine.
"We must scrutinise every route to win our independence
"I listened to your podcast debate, "What's the best route to independence?" featuring Alf Baird and Robin Laura Webster.
"The discussion prompted me to consider what independence would deliver in practice, and why the Union's historical and constitutional foundations deserve international scrutiny.
"Most of us have bought something that promised more than it delivered.
"The words were carefully chosen, but what we received was not what we were led to expect.
"We should bring the same scrutiny to independence, and to the Union itself.
"Baird, drawing on Albert Memmi and Frantz Fanon, shows that domination shapes more than government.
"It influences how a people understands its history, values its culture and judges its own ability to govern.
"Some Scots find this uncomfortable because colonialism is something they believe happens to other people.
"Discomfort does not settle the question. The test is where power lies and how it constrains our choices.
"Fanon also warned that replacing those at the top does not put power in ordinary people's hands.
"A new flag alone does not end economic dependence.
History offers sobering examples.
"Haiti won its freedom, then was forced to pay France an indemnity for it, a debt not cleared until 1947. "Eight West African states, independent since the 1960s, were still required to lodge half their foreign reserves with the French treasury until a reform in 2019, and France continues to guarantee their currency.
Flags changed. Control of the money did not.
"Even if Westminster allowed another referendum and
Scotland voted Yes, the terms of departure would still be negotiated: debt, defence, currency, public assets.
"We cannot assume the independence people imagine would match the settlement eventually offered.
"The same scrutiny must reach back to 1707. Scotland did not enter the Union without a consititution.
"It had laws, institutions and limits on royal authority, including those set out in the Claim of Right.
"The Union was a treaty between two sovereign kingdoms, and its lawfulness and the keeping of its terms are matters of record and must be examined.
Liberation Scotland's research identifies where those terms were broken.
"Pointing to modern UK legislation does not answer that. Section 37 of the Scotland Act 1998 states that the Acts of Union "have effect subject to this Act"
"But the parliament that passed it was itself created by the Union. By what authority may it override the conditions of its own creation?
"Westminster's authority today and the justification for claiming it in the first place are different questions, and neither has ever been properly answered.
"That is why Scotland's case needs international hearing. The institution whose authority is in question cannot be the only forum in which the challenge is heard.
"An international approach must also set out its procedures, obstacles and intended outcome, or it becomes one more promise whose small print we discover afterwards.
"Scotland's people must gain the power to determine their future and to hold those who govern them to account.
"Every route to independence should be judged against that standard." Sandy Rose
"We must scrutinise every route to win our independence
"I listened to your podcast debate, "What's the best route to independence?" featuring Alf Baird and Robin Laura Webster.
"The discussion prompted me to consider what independence would deliver in practice, and why the Union's historical and constitutional foundations deserve international scrutiny.
"Most of us have bought something that promised more than it delivered.
"The words were carefully chosen, but what we received was not what we were led to expect.
"We should bring the same scrutiny to independence, and to the Union itself.
"Baird, drawing on Albert Memmi and Frantz Fanon, shows that domination shapes more than government.
"It influences how a people understands its history, values its culture and judges its own ability to govern.
"Some Scots find this uncomfortable because colonialism is something they believe happens to other people.
"Discomfort does not settle the question. The test is where power lies and how it constrains our choices.
"Fanon also warned that replacing those at the top does not put power in ordinary people's hands.
"A new flag alone does not end economic dependence.
History offers sobering examples.
"Haiti won its freedom, then was forced to pay France an indemnity for it, a debt not cleared until 1947. "Eight West African states, independent since the 1960s, were still required to lodge half their foreign reserves with the French treasury until a reform in 2019, and France continues to guarantee their currency.
Flags changed. Control of the money did not.
"Even if Westminster allowed another referendum and
Scotland voted Yes, the terms of departure would still be negotiated: debt, defence, currency, public assets.
"We cannot assume the independence people imagine would match the settlement eventually offered.
"The same scrutiny must reach back to 1707. Scotland did not enter the Union without a consititution.
"It had laws, institutions and limits on royal authority, including those set out in the Claim of Right.
"The Union was a treaty between two sovereign kingdoms, and its lawfulness and the keeping of its terms are matters of record and must be examined.
Liberation Scotland's research identifies where those terms were broken.
"Pointing to modern UK legislation does not answer that. Section 37 of the Scotland Act 1998 states that the Acts of Union "have effect subject to this Act"
"But the parliament that passed it was itself created by the Union. By what authority may it override the conditions of its own creation?
"Westminster's authority today and the justification for claiming it in the first place are different questions, and neither has ever been properly answered.
"That is why Scotland's case needs international hearing. The institution whose authority is in question cannot be the only forum in which the challenge is heard.
"An international approach must also set out its procedures, obstacles and intended outcome, or it becomes one more promise whose small print we discover afterwards.
"Scotland's people must gain the power to determine their future and to hold those who govern them to account.
"Every route to independence should be judged against that standard." Sandy Rose
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The Liberating Scot retweeted
“Caring for our salmon is a responsibility our farmers take seriously every day”:
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I often wonder at the naivety of the independence movement when I look back on the period leading up to the 2014 referendum. I include myself in that criticism. We thought, with some justification, that the way to restore Scotland's independence was to put political and electoral dominance in the hands of one party. I myself argued that only this single-party approach could possibly work against the power of the British state. It could have worked. It should have worked.
What we did not reckon on – and what now seems, with hindsight, the utmost folly – was how that single party would be changed as a consequence of being given the kind of power we gave to the SNP and, by extension, to the all-too-fallible people into whose hands we delivered it.
We should have known better. I should have known better. But at least I have learned from my earlier mistakes. At least I have the humility to admit that I made those mistakes. Far too many continue – against all evidence and against all reason – to believe that they were not and are not wrong to put total faith in the party that the SNP has become.
Arguably the most crucial of all the hard truths that Scotland's independence movement must recognise if Scotland's cause is to progress is that the SNP has comprehensively betrayed that cause and is no longer to be trusted.
thenational.scot/politics/26713… #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI
What we did not reckon on – and what now seems, with hindsight, the utmost folly – was how that single party would be changed as a consequence of being given the kind of power we gave to the SNP and, by extension, to the all-too-fallible people into whose hands we delivered it.
We should have known better. I should have known better. But at least I have learned from my earlier mistakes. At least I have the humility to admit that I made those mistakes. Far too many continue – against all evidence and against all reason – to believe that they were not and are not wrong to put total faith in the party that the SNP has become.
Arguably the most crucial of all the hard truths that Scotland's independence movement must recognise if Scotland's cause is to progress is that the SNP has comprehensively betrayed that cause and is no longer to be trusted.
thenational.scot/politics/26713… #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI
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There’s “inward investing” that leads to exploitative extraction facilitated by civil service & neoliberal SNP stewardship, which are effectively one & the same as colonial extraction. Not two different or opposing behaviours. Why “colonial? Because the larger Government withholds all democratic mechanisms for Scots voters to be self determining regardless of how much we vote for that power. One look at the Westminster devised Energy Strategy will clarify the colonial mindset to anyone looking at the detail.
Scotland is a colony of the Anglo-British state. We've an economy full of potential throttled, suppressed & exploited by UK sponsored theft thru extraction of our territorial resources and with the collaboration & complicity of Holyrood colonial managers.
Shafi fakes blindness.
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The Liberating Scot retweeted
John Swinney destroyed the career of fellow Minister Mark Macdonald without informing Sturgeon. Flush with success, he released his hounds on Alex Salmond the day after. caltonjock.com/2026/11/10/joh… via @twowittwo
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How? Polling measures opinion, elections are fought on multiple issues. Neither automatically constitutes an authoritative act of self-determination, and neither triggers such an event.
And Westminster refusing to engage isn't a "separate challenge". It's the constitutional obstacle we're discussing right now!
As for UN endorsement, nobody has claimed the process is complete. Liberation/Salvo have already engaged with UN institutions in Geneva and New York, held events involving senior UN independent experts including George Katrougalos, and secured circulation of a written NGO submission to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/61/NGO/210).
None of that constitutes formal UN endorsement yet, but it demonstrates tangible progress. Seeking international recognition is the objective, not something that must already have happened before the work can begin.
You're demanding that an alternative strategy demonstrate completed results while you argue for a single approach to the exclusion of all others. One that has yet to even explain how Westminster's refusal would be overcome.
That's precisely why I'm arguing for complementary strategies rather than putting everything into one basket.
So I'll return your question: what demonstrable progress has your single option made, and what demonstrable constitutional leverage does a sustained 60% polling majority provide, and by what concrete mechanism does it compel Westminster to recognise and implement the Scottish people's democratic will?
And Westminster refusing to engage isn't a "separate challenge". It's the constitutional obstacle we're discussing right now!
As for UN endorsement, nobody has claimed the process is complete. Liberation/Salvo have already engaged with UN institutions in Geneva and New York, held events involving senior UN independent experts including George Katrougalos, and secured circulation of a written NGO submission to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/61/NGO/210).
None of that constitutes formal UN endorsement yet, but it demonstrates tangible progress. Seeking international recognition is the objective, not something that must already have happened before the work can begin.
You're demanding that an alternative strategy demonstrate completed results while you argue for a single approach to the exclusion of all others. One that has yet to even explain how Westminster's refusal would be overcome.
That's precisely why I'm arguing for complementary strategies rather than putting everything into one basket.
So I'll return your question: what demonstrable progress has your single option made, and what demonstrable constitutional leverage does a sustained 60% polling majority provide, and by what concrete mechanism does it compel Westminster to recognise and implement the Scottish people's democratic will?
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On this Armistice Day a reminder that what is meant to distinguish a professional soldier from a terrorist is the rule of law.
17 unarmed civilians were shot in the head and killed by the SAS whilst sleeping. The youngest of them were just 14 and 15 years old.
If these British soldiers were sexually abusing those young victims (like so many British celebrities seem prone to do) instead of shooting them in the head, would there be the same clamour by veterans organisations and politicians to defend these atrocities?
We hold the military to a higher standard because they are meant to be, and we are continually told, professionals and billions of pounds are spent on their training and equipment.
If we ignore atrocities and war crimes of this nature the Brits might as well recruit fascist skin heads and football casuals, give them a gun and ship them out to foreign countries to do the same thing.
We could then use the money saved on public services closer to home.
There can never be ANY moral justification for the deliberate and systematic murder of civilians by ANYONE. That includes the "heros" of the SAS.
17 unarmed civilians were shot in the head and killed by the SAS whilst sleeping. The youngest of them were just 14 and 15 years old.
If these British soldiers were sexually abusing those young victims (like so many British celebrities seem prone to do) instead of shooting them in the head, would there be the same clamour by veterans organisations and politicians to defend these atrocities?
We hold the military to a higher standard because they are meant to be, and we are continually told, professionals and billions of pounds are spent on their training and equipment.
If we ignore atrocities and war crimes of this nature the Brits might as well recruit fascist skin heads and football casuals, give them a gun and ship them out to foreign countries to do the same thing.
We could then use the money saved on public services closer to home.
There can never be ANY moral justification for the deliberate and systematic murder of civilians by ANYONE. That includes the "heros" of the SAS.
New photos are 'essential evidence' of possible SAS war crimes, inquiry told bbc.in/4sS0rhK
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"A decolonisation standpoint is structural and geopolitical:
It defines the struggle against an external imperial power."
"It focuses on ending foreign economic extraction and colonial hierarchies.
It asserts the international right to self-determination."
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It defines the struggle against an external imperial power."
"It focuses on ending foreign economic extraction and colonial hierarchies.
It asserts the international right to self-determination."
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Why do so many modern independence movements succeed?
History shows it’s not about choosing between civic nationalism or anti-colonialism it’s about using the synergy in putting them together.
Here is how the powerful synergy of decolonisation and civic democracy could shape the path for Scotland:
In political history, there is no exact statistical dataset that cleanly isolates “civic nationalist movements alone” from “decolonisation standpoints.”
Why? Because the vast majority of successful mid-to-late 20th-century independence movements used civic nationalism and a decolonisation standpoint in active synergy.
Rather than being opposing concepts, they are complementary elements of the same modern historical wave.
The most common path in the 20th century combined both. When European powers drew administrative boundaries across Africa and Asia, they often bundled distinct ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups into single colonies.
Anti-colonial leaders therefore used civic nationalism as the practical tool to achieve decolonisation.
They constructed a shared political identity based on equal citizenship within the colonial borders, uniting people around a common future rather than common ancestry:
India (1947): The Indian National Congress, led by Gandhi and Nehru, advanced a pluralistic, secular, and civic vision precisely to mobilise Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and hundreds of linguistic communities against British rule.
Ghana (1957): Kwame Nkrumah forged a unified civic Ghanaian identity across the ethnically diverse Gold Coast to secure independence from Britain.
Indonesia: The Pancasila philosophy performed an analogous unifying role against Dutch rule.
In each case, the goal was decolonisation; the internal mechanism was civic. The two concepts are rarely mutually exclusive: one is the target (ending imperial rule), the other the tool (unifying the population).
The historic dominance of decolonisation - The proportion of states in historic terms that were built on a decolonisation standpoint is overwhelmingly dominant.
The United Nations records that more than 80 former colonies have gained independence since 1945, when the organisation was founded with just 51 members.
Today, the UN has 193 member states.
A large majority of the world’s current sovereign nations emerged either through classical overseas decolonisation or through the related dissolution of large multi-ethnic empires.
A decolonisation standpoint is structural and geopolitical:
It defines the struggle against an external imperial power.
It focuses on ending foreign economic extraction and colonial hierarchies.
It asserts the international right to self-determination.
The Rarity of Pure Civic Nationalism By contrast, fewer than roughly 1 in 10 successful modern independence movements can be classified as purely civic nationalist without a significant decolonisation or imperial-dissolution element.
Civic nationalism defines belonging by political allegiance, shared democratic values, adherence to a constitution, and residency rather than shared ethnicity or ancestry.
Clearer examples outside the classic overseas colonial pattern include the peaceful Velvet Divorce of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
Certain strands of the Soviet dissolution in 1991 (particularly the Baltic states, which framed their recovery primarily in terms of democratic self-government).
Even these cases contained cultural and ethnic components; pure ideal transitions to independence are rare.
In contrast active, peaceful campaigns in established democracies such as the Scottish independence movement rely overwhelmingly on civic nationalism, emphasising democratic mandate, popular sovereignty, and the right to choose.
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Science says folk would be better off eating the wild fish you pelletise to feed your sad, factory farmed #Salmon. Stop trying to wedge yourself in every #Scottish cultural moment, you are a foreign owned industry despoiling our coastal waters, taking way more than you give back.
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Ill informed drivel,the EU is not an option for an Independent Scotland that wishes to build a country with an economy focused on improving lives not profits.
Rejoining the European Union is in the interests of Scotland and the whole UK.
Scottish Labour will work to make that happen to better the lives of Scots.
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Doesn’t sound like the ‘13 legal’ brains even took Professor Robert Black KC findings into account
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Scotland has no right to self determination in international law? That was the finding of the heavily stacked Scottish Parliamentary Committee report published in February. This provides the point by point take down of that report.
ssalyers.substack.com/p/breaking-nar…
ssalyers.substack.com/p/breaking-nar…
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🚨🏴🎶 - "the ancient Highland law of sanctuary, hospitality, and sworn honor"
A HISTORICAL DOSSIER — SUMMER 1746 (COIRAGHOTH, GLENMORISTON):
The Shady River Bard - The Seven Men of Glenmoriston (Official Music Video) youtu.be/v5B4_pDW8Ho?si… via @YouTube
A HISTORICAL DOSSIER — SUMMER 1746 (COIRAGHOTH, GLENMORISTON):
The Shady River Bard - The Seven Men of Glenmoriston (Official Music Video) youtu.be/v5B4_pDW8Ho?si… via @YouTube
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Snakes and Ladders! ift.tt/31NZYrA
We know there are snakes in both governments but who are the snakes in the independence movement? Who are the manipulators who move silently amongst us, sometimes even climbing the ladders of influence?
Nothing happens by accident; a t place can wreak havoc, causing many followers to fall away in frustration.
Discussion is one thing; sabotage is quite another, and we need to learn the difference. There is a saying, ‘We are what we eat’!! I would also say, ‘We are what we speak’! Often, our words betray us by revealing our true feelings and beliefs. And once spoken they can never be taken back.
As Salvo/Liberation near their goal, it should come as no surprise that some will seek to muddy the waters. Whilst remaining wary of these people we can also take it as a compliment. Vigilance is the name of the game!
The Scottish goverment and the media are pushing Devolution as if it is a viable option; it is not. One leads to a longer chain; the other offers eventual freedom, if we choose it! Those last four words are important. Scotland’s status alone will not bring change; only we can do that.
Capturing the imagination of people will not be an easy task as many see this as a political issue rather than a constitutional one, and for some, the two are the same!
We have a huge task ahead of us. Wearing the label of ‘I am a member’ will not be enough; we need every hand on the plough!
We know there are snakes in both governments but who are the snakes in the independence movement? Who are the manipulators who move silently amongst us, sometimes even climbing the ladders of influence?
Nothing happens by accident; a t place can wreak havoc, causing many followers to fall away in frustration.
Discussion is one thing; sabotage is quite another, and we need to learn the difference. There is a saying, ‘We are what we eat’!! I would also say, ‘We are what we speak’! Often, our words betray us by revealing our true feelings and beliefs. And once spoken they can never be taken back.
As Salvo/Liberation near their goal, it should come as no surprise that some will seek to muddy the waters. Whilst remaining wary of these people we can also take it as a compliment. Vigilance is the name of the game!
The Scottish goverment and the media are pushing Devolution as if it is a viable option; it is not. One leads to a longer chain; the other offers eventual freedom, if we choose it! Those last four words are important. Scotland’s status alone will not bring change; only we can do that.
Capturing the imagination of people will not be an easy task as many see this as a political issue rather than a constitutional one, and for some, the two are the same!
We have a huge task ahead of us. Wearing the label of ‘I am a member’ will not be enough; we need every hand on the plough!
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She is culpable , who was the Homelessness champion at City of Edinburgh council until her election to parliament..an absolute charlatan . Is she still a registered landlord ?
AIRBNB BLIGHT :
Well said Kate - 'Tourists should be in hotel rooms & local people should be living in homes. Not the other way round!'
Those who want to make money out of tourism should invest in hotel industry or run a licensed guest house.
The latter too much like work maybe.
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The sadistic animal abuser Claire Bellamy moved to Scotland over our open border from the South of England in 2017.
She was previously charged here of similar offences in October 2018, but has clearly not learned any lessons from that.
She should have been jailed and then deported.
Scotland needs to take back control of its border and stop the influx of English immigrants crossing over in their inflatable egos and treating our country as a game reserve.
She was previously charged here of similar offences in October 2018, but has clearly not learned any lessons from that.
She should have been jailed and then deported.
Scotland needs to take back control of its border and stop the influx of English immigrants crossing over in their inflatable egos and treating our country as a game reserve.
The supposedly pro-Scottish independence supporting "National" mis-identifying the nationality of a sadist animal abuser who crossed our open border from England to engage in barbaric levels of cruelty.
Deport her.
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