Some things are indivisible and absolute.
“You cannot be slightly pregnant, you cannot be mildly dead nor partially independent, unless you are being misled.”
In recent days we have been treated to the nausea of Keir Starmer’s utterances about the British State and the degradation of listening to the Olympic commentators waxing lyrical about Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
What’s Great about it ?
Let us be clear. Britain is NOT a Nation
Britain is a STATE without NATIONHOOD
Scotland is a NATION without STATEHOOD
(for the moment.)
My hope would be that those of you here today might become the new age “Outlaws” prepared to challenge the status quo and instead of going South with a mandate, and coming back with Section 30 be the people who, “rose again” to win back the Sovereign Nation we always have been, at least since 1320, and before the Jiggery Pokery of the 1707 Buy out/Sell out by the Parcel of Rogues in a Nation. Do we indeed have the vision and courage to proclaim our Independence rather than beg for it?
Onlookers from other countries cannot believe the sleight of Hand of the British Government at the time of the 1979 referendum. The introduction of the 40% rule, whereby a clear majority of votes for a Scottish Assembly was negated by the simple expedient of counting people who did not turn out to vote and dead people as being “No” voters. I doubt there is any precedent in history for such behaviour short of measures imposed by a dictatorship.
I make my living these days as a Tour Guide and I promise you that people from abroad cannot countenance how we, as a distinct people are prepared to accept the unacceptable.
What inexplicable folly was the motive of the SNP in 1998 when they betrayed their own constitution by advocating so called “Independence” in Europe. Did they believe that this softer option might allay people’s quite natural initial fear of outright Independence or that they could persuade people that this cosy family of nations was worth the price of sacrificing so many of our freedoms to gain membership and still pretend that this was somehow Independence.
No campaign of information precluded this vital decision splitting the electorate unnecessarily between options, and leaving up to half of their own potential support homeless.
No constitutional amendment for this drastic change of policy was ever discussed or voted upon by the membership. This was the first of a long line of fete accompli’s summarily pushed through by the leadership by what was once the most democratic party in Scotland.
Firstly, it is not in the gift of any political party to decide what a newly liberated Scotland will be a member of, and certainly not swopping one corrupt Union for another. The estimated loss of Sovereignty by such a venture is estimated at between 40 and 60%.
If 59 seats out of 630 in Westminster is a stranglehold on any possible programme of change and progress …seriously,… would five million people amongst 830 million be a fair exchange.
Meantime, Viktor Orban openly supports Putin since 2010 and apparently this is ok with Strasbourg and Brussels and their unelected commissioners and puppet Parliament.
When we had 56 of the 59 MPs any rational onlooker would have considered this as a mandate for Independence but apparently not.
In my time in the SNP it was widely stated that if the party secured 37 of the then 72 MPs that that would be considered a mandate for Independence, but this was never achieved.
A further attempt to make people believe the unbelievable is the nonsense campaign of “Still European.” This can be nothing other than a wholly disingenuous attempt to justify a lie. Scotland is an ancient European Nation, was, still is, and will be whether or not we are a member of the increasingly dangerous and undemocratic EU. Not two sides of the same coin but an irrevocable fact against a deliberate attempt to deceive.
Now to the good news and hope for the future.
In a recent speech to this assembly David McHutchon highlighted the nations that had successfully gained their Independence by Declaring UDI or were supported by representatives of the British Government in their endeavours to be Independent. Gordon Brown and Margaret Thatcher to name two.
Very many of the African and Other nations secured their freedoms from the tyranny of Empires by means of Unilateral Declarations of Independence
All but the colony of Scotland apparently.
Consider this, Was Rob Roy actually an Outlaw for reclaiming his own cattle, robbed from him by the Duke of Argyll carrying the King’s warrant and grant of land to the Campbell to validate the theft.
Did the Outlawed clans of the West raid their own cattle every Springtime from the Grant’s who inherited Urquhart Castle from the frightened King who stripped the Lords of the Isles power? Who was the Outlaw in this negotiation. Sounds like the King to me.
Can you really be an “Outlaw” by reclaiming peacefully what is rightly yours, I think not.
Even if we are, the end will justify the means and then some. Did the British ask anyone’s permission to plunder half the world and build their Empire ?
Sovereignty will campaign for UDI whenever a democratic mandate for such action can be achieved.
If, in consequence we are to be labelled “Outlaw” then so be it.
In the words of the song “Outlaws and Dreamers”
“Then I raise up my glass and drink deep of its flame,
To those who are gone who were links in the chain
And I give my soul’s promise, I give my heart’s pledge to Outlaws and Dreamers and life at the edge
The fire is still burning, the future’s still calling to follow our dream to the end of our days,
Wishing’s for fools, but dreams are for Outlaws,
Laughter for lovers and tears for the brave.
Thank you.