Dec 24, 2023
The Path to Freedom The route to restoring our self-government does not lie with repeatedly asking – begging, some would say – the British State for some Section 30 order that gives us ‘permission’ to hold an independence referendum. As far as our independence is...
Dec 21, 2023
First off, it’s really important to understand that before the union, that’s before the UK began, Scotland (and England for that matter) was an independent sovereign state. Keep that in mind, because we’ll return to that fact frequently. For nearly a thousand years...
Dec 20, 2023
In 1707, the kingdom of Scotland forged a treaty, the Treaty of Union, with the kingdom of England to form Great Britain. Why? Why on earth would it do such a thing? Scotland was an independent nation state and had been for hundreds of years before William Wallace and...
Dec 20, 2023
In pre-union Scotland there existed a legislature whose existence can be traced back to at least 1286. Called the Convention of the Estates (and also known as the assembly of the communities) it was a body that represented the sovereign people of Scotland. Although a...
Dec 19, 2023
Ok, so we now know how the union came to be and therefore how the UK started. We know that it was no glorious merger of two nations, joyously coming together for common purpose but was instead an English takeover. And we know that the Scottish people rioted in the...
