Since the union began in 1707, England has used it as a cover for a massive fraud: falsely declaring Scotland to be part of the 'crown' to enable the blatant theft of Scotland's natural resources.
It's all done in the name of the 'crown'. Declaring Scotland's resources to be held by the 'crown' sounds good, right? After all, we're in a union called the United Kingdom of Great Britain. One crown for England and Scotland. What's to argue?
Well, everything, actually. There was never one unified crown for the UK and never could be. It's constitutionally impossible. Here's why.
At the time of the union negotiations in the early 1700s, Queen Anne, Queen of England and Queen of Scots rather liked the idea of a "United Kingdom of Great Britain". But it could never be. And the clue lies in Anne's titles.
Anne, like all queens and kings of England, was Queen of England — queen of the land of England. But in Scotland, like all our queens and kings, she was Queen of Scots, not queen of the land of Scotland. And that distinction is a fundamental big deal.
Anne, and all her successors including Charles, does not own the land of Scotland. We do. You and me, i.e. the people.
In England it was accepted that a kingdom was first and foremost a feudal entity and was the property of its king or queen. But in Scotland, this situation was radically different. Here, the Crown's status was as the representative of the Community of the Realm which vested that 'ownership' in the sovereignty of the people.
Let's just emphasise that: In Scotland (then and still now), the institution of the crown represents the people of the nation rather than representing a monarch. It's why Scotland had no king or queen of the 'land', only of Scots.
The Giant Fraud
This is why the territories of England and Scotland could not be merged into a single, territorial nation. Neither Queen Anne nor the Scottish parliament could transfer to the new united kingdom something that neither of them owned in the first place. Sovereignty was (and is) owned by the Scottish people alone and could not be transferred.
Of course, all this made no difference to the new British state. It didn't care. It had a country to take over and a little thing like the Scottish people's sovereignty wasn't going to stop it.
To create its giant fraud, it simply replaced the sovereignty of the Scottish people with the English doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty and 'legitimised' it by letting the English Act of Union to replace the Treaty. Job done.
So the UK 'supreme court' upholds the English constitution in every respect, legitimising the overthrow of the Scottish constitution by that of England.
None of this is legal or lawful. Scotland as a nation was not absorbed into the larger kingdom which Great Britain aspired to become.
Scotland's rights of sovereignty over its territory are vested in the people under Scots law. Our rights were not affected by the Union of Crowns in 1603 and certainly not by the Treaty of Union in 1707.
Scotland may have surrendered its independent statehood but it continues to be a sovereign nation. This means that the ultimate ownership of the territory of Scotland still belongs to the people of Scotland.
This ultimate ownership encompasses the whole territory and all its natural assets, which, since 1707, the British state has stolen, plundered and ransacked, and continues to do so today.
The British State stole our money on a vast scale. I say that we should get it back.
#endtheunion