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BREAKING: Reform UK have unveiled plans to reduce the Scottish Parliament's powers in their 2026 manifesto Nigel Farage's party wants to slash the number of MSPs and regularly review Holyrood's devolved powers People were warned that this is what they wanted.

@thomsonchris This could be the start of the end of a legal fiction?

Indictment at the United Nations: A Report Submitted Directly to the UN Secretary-General Now Entered into the UN System Exposes Scotland as a Colony and Places the English Colonial State in the Dock Read the full report by Liberation Scotland and partners on the official UN website documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/… A document has now entered the official machinery of the United Nations. Circulated at the United Nations Human Rights Council (61st session), received by the Secretary-General, and registered under UN procedures, this report constitutes far more than an NGO submission. It is an intervention within the normative space of international law itself; and an indictment of the English colonial state. For Scotland as an English colony, it is nothing short of strategic. A Break in the Colonial Narrative For decades, the English colonial state has relied on a carefully constructed fiction. Scotland, the narrative insists, is part of a “voluntary union,” endowed with democratic representation, protected by devolution, fully exercising internal self-determination. It's a colonial lie. This report dismantles that fiction with clinical precision. It identifies Scotland not as a partner, not as a region, but as a territory under colonial sovereignty, explicitly placing it alongside cases such as New Caledonia and French Polynesia. This classification is not rhetorical but analytical, precise, legal, and comparative. It situates Scotland within the global structure of colonial domination. It strips away the British constitutional mythology and replaces it with a framework grounded in international law. Once that shift occurs, everything changes. Devolution Unmasked as Legal Assimilation At the core of the English colonial strategy lies devolution. Presented as a generous transfer of power, it has long been used to argue that Scotland already governs itself. The report exposes this mechanism for what it is. A colonial fraud. The Scotland Act 1998 is described as establishing administrative structures while preserving the overriding authority of the central, colonial English state, constituting a process of legal assimilation designed to negate Scotland’s status as a treaty partner. This is a devastating reframing. Devolution is no longer interpreted as autonomy. It is revealed as a technology of control, a system through which the English colonial centre maintains supremacy while projecting the illusion of self-government. Internal self-determination, in this light, is containment, certainly not liberation. The implication is profound. The English colonial state does not share sovereignty. It absorbs, restructures, subordinates, plunders. The Failure of Internal Self-Determination The report goes further. It demonstrates that systems of internal autonomy, wherever imposed under the authority of the dominant state, remain structurally incapable of delivering genuine self-determination. They operate within what the report identifies as a framework of hegemonic legal pluralism, where the colonised are permitted limited expression only within boundaries defined by the coloniser. Scotland’s constitutional reality is thus aligned with a broader global pattern. From New Caledonia to Okinawa, internal arrangements function not as solutions but as instruments of stabilisation for colonial rule. The conclusion follows with force. External Self-Determination & Decolonisation as the Only Solution The report states unequivocally that external self-determination is the only effective means of guaranteeing the rights of peoples subjected to such structures. This is not a suggestion but a doctrinal position grounded in international and UN law: -Article 1(2) of the UN Charter -The UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) -The UN General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV) The implication is unmistakable. @UN @UNGeneva @UN_HRC @UNHumanRights @antonioguterres

A political bombshell was dropped this morning at the #EFTA seminar. Iceland may leave the EEA agreement and EFTA and start to join the #EU. It was then suggested that Norway may follow.

This is Brussels calling. How could Scotland improve people's living standards if it was free to join #EFTA? @WP_Scotland @SSRG2021 @SSalyers2 @LiberationScot @MarkMmcnaught1 @yvonneridley

Off to Brussels to a #EFTA seminar. Scotland could join EFTA and enter the EEA and have a clear trading advantage over the UK. The #SNP has no plans for Scotland's future. #SSRG @SSRG2021 @WP_Scotland @ScotNational @SSalyers2 @LiberationScot

Restore Dunfermline’s Mercat Cross - Sign the Petition! c.org/xqQX9f4mqz via @UKChange

So which party has a clear plan and strategy for Scotland's Self Determination? @WP_Scotland @theSNP @ScottishLabour @LiberateScot

@NeilKing11 SSRG is not involved in the running of Salvo. If you are a member they will no doubt email the members.

@SSRG2021 What happened at the Salvo EGM last Saturday - I've not been able to find anything about it?

Some important news about the SSRG Conference. Due to some family health issues affecting two of the SSRG Directors, we have reluctantly decided to delay the Conference to a later date in the year. Details will be added to our website soon. Thanks for your support & understanding

@LiberateScot @kn_maci @YouTube @rblackqc There will be a number of lawyers attending the #SSRGConference 15th-17th May in Dunfermline. The ex #SNP MP Joanna Cherry KC will be on the "Meet the Authors" session with her new book. Along with Yvonne Ridley and her new book. Details to follow.

@kn_maci @YouTube Good question There are people in @SSRG2021 & prof Black @rblackqc himself who could tell you better, Ken.

Robert Black KC No honest & conscientious lawyer can look at the facts & not conclude that Scotland was annexed by England youtube.com/shorts/c3wUXvk… via @YouTube

OMG 😧 You’d never guess that the owners of the land in Scotland are the Scottish people. But that’s how this house of cards works. Belief over fact, perception over reality, manufactured mass buy-in to a false narrative = ‘everyone knows’. Everyone knows we have no power to stop this kind of vandalism. Everyone knows we have nothing but a pointless vote twice in a decade. Everyone knows we live under a system we can’t change. And everyone is dead wrong. Bear with me because this will take a bit of explaining. Everyone knows there is a single British Crown. It isn’t true. The whole ‘union’ is based on that premise, the one thing the Treaty of Union was supposed to create - one kingdom. (A kingdom is the territorial jurisdiction of a crown and so a single kingdom must have a single crown). But England never intended to give up its own identity, expressed in its horrible feudal Crown from 1066. And it never intended to honour the treaty. It did the same thing to Scotland as it did to 200+ other treaty partners - through the treaty in the bin and colonised Scotland. It ‘extended’ the English Coronation Oath to Scotland (to ‘harmonise the union’ 🤣), imposed English treason law and called itself Great Britain. That just means Scotland was brought under the English Crown - like India or Kenya or Ireland. The same Crown today as in 1066. It dismantled the Scottish state and carried on exactly as it had been without so much as a pause for breath. And amazingly, while all this happened in plain sight, it has got away with pretending that a name change is the same as a brand new, unitary/united kingdom state. They teach this ‘new kingdom, new state in 1707’ garbage in every law department of every university. And if the lawyers say it, it has to be true…? It’s a breathtaking, phenomenal confidence trick. Here’s its potential downfall though. (One of them) Adding Scotland to the English Crown did not abolish the Scottish Crown. It still exists but with no monarch; as Edward Longshanks pointed out, a vassal kingdom does not really need its own monarch. No monarch, no more Crown with its own rights and claims. Right? Wrong. England never really bothered to understand the constitutional differences that separate it from Scotland. And, after 300 years, it could expect those differences to be forgotten. (It’s worked very hard to make sure they are.) But: the Crown is the symbol of the state. In England the Crown *is* the monarch in his or her ‘constitutional identity’. In Scotland it’s not; the Scottish Crown is the Community of the Realm, the collective constitutional identity of the people. Read that again. The Scottish throne may be vacant but the Crown is not. Remember what I said earlier, a kingdom is the territorial jurisdiction of a Crown? The ‘title deeds’ to Scotland still belong to the Scottish Crown. The English state failed to account for the difference between the Scots and English Crowns. No English monarch would mean no Crown to claim its rights. But in Scotland having no monarch makes no difference to the rights of a Crown whose legal personality is the whole people. The title deeds to Scotland still belong to you and me, to all of us. The house of cards that lets an Anglicised, Scottish establishment behave as if there is one British Crown and one British power, authority and ownership descending from this imaginary Crown - and against which the people are powerless - depends on our not knowing that. Or not believing it if we’re told. Because, like every other system this power structure depends on belief. Stop believing the lie & we can restore the lawful sovereignty of the Scottish Crown as the people. We can bring down the whole house of cards, take Scotland back and protect what’s ours - oak forests included.

@murdo_fraser If Scotland was running its own economy it could change taxation so businesses paid based on profits. That's not possible while the economy is controlled from Westminster.

From April, many pubs will be hit with huge increases in business rates, with average hikes of 86%. The Government must act. Join our campaign to save Scottish pubs👇 scottishconservatives.com/news/save-our-…

@SirTomHunter The question is whether long term business has access to capital or just short term business?

It's not about whether or not there is capital available for Scottish businesses: there is. It's about ensuring that Scottish businesses are investor ready.   I was thrilled when Willie told me about Epidarex Capital raising $145M to focus on investing in early stage companies in the therapeutics medical device sector. I'm hopeful some of that capital will come to the incredible Scottish businesses operating in that industry.

@JohnFerry18 Just to focus on facts. Both the #LabourParty and the @ScotTories have run similar campaign messages in previous elections. In fact tactical voting is quite common in the UK elections.

@Malcolm_Offord @ReformUKScot @Telegraph This is from a guy that set up #VoteNoBorders and failed to submit accounts so got fined by the Electoral Commission. If you can't keep accounts of spending then why would anyone believe your un-tested promises? Scotland is being plundered by £150 billion a year.

.@ReformUKScot's objective is to make 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the most successful part of the 🇬🇧. This can only happen with a government whose priority is to empower you to create prosperity for your family, your community and our country as a whole. I've written in today's @Telegraph about Reform's tax plans ahead of the May election. 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

The substantive hearing in the petition of For Women Scotland for Judicial Review is scheduled to call from 10am on Tuesday 3 February. All three days of the hearing will be available to view online bit.ly/4aa1ReL

@ruth_wishart The problem is the #BBC hasn't been impartial and promotes the British government's foreign policy. Many examples of bias.

I know it's an unfashionable view these days. But I love and admire the BBC, not least its World Service and let's remember that US streaming services don't do news or serious current affairs. Beeb has some brilliant international reporters too.

Please retweet @SimonForrest11 @yesthinkscot @SSRG2021

Indeed Professor Alf Baird made an excellent presentation at the #SSRGConference last May. £150 billion a year is plundered from Scotland each year. Whisky is just part of it. youtu.be/Azohp0WXtAQ?si…