A marked convergence is under way within the 'Scottish independence' movement, an awakening of sorts. It is no coincidence that Scotland's status as an English colony stands further exposed at the very moment the world is wrestling with the reality of modern colonialism and elite power.
In Scotland, sovereignty is already held by the Scots. Only the exercise of our power remains.
What’s in a name can be what determines our reality, and naming our own remedy is the first exercise of the power that is rightly ours as Scots. Every word Scots are usually offered to describe the status of our sovereignty concedes something to the de facto colonial power in Westminster. Restoration concedes loss: you restore what was taken. Reversion concedes the sovereignty effectively left. Recovery and reclamation concede it left your hands. Return concedes it went away. Scotland’s true position surrenders none of it. The sovereignty of the Scots is held by the community of the realm, declared and codified at Arbroath in 1320, inalienable and imprescriptible, never transferred, because the people never voluntarily submitted. What England built around it is an encasement: a structure that holds the exercise in stasis while the right stands untouched beneath it.
Reactivation concedes nothing and names the cause. Something held in stasis by an external mechanism gets switched back on. The remedy is not to ask, not to restore, not to create anything new. It is the community of the realm giving effect to what its instruments already declare: the collapse of the encasement, and the reactivation of the exercise.
The Status of Scots Sovereignty: The Position in Law and the Inalienable Right of the Scots People
In the coming days we will launch a new series setting out the practical mechanics of collapsing the structure England imposed on Scots in 1707 and sold as a Union, and exposing what the current colonial administrators could and should have done since 2015 to give effect to the Scots’ right of self-determination.
The ‘Reactivation Series’ will set out how putting All Of Us First is within the power of Scots.