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What a night SCOTLAND Gonna Haiti smash the Moroccans and we’re on our way, from misery to happiness today!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #scotland

“On postcolonial theory, which also tells us of the “Manichaeism of colonial rule” (Fanon) in Scotland, where we see: – a people in ‘colonial slumber’ – a fake national party (‘co-opted by colonialism’) – a fake parliament (indirect rule, brings in oppressive and 'mystifying' laws) – a fake ‘justice’ system, views the native ‘absent of values’ – colonial show trials, to rupture the independence movement – all enabling the plunder of corporate colonialism to continue Colonialism is far more than a dodgy national party elite – colonialism creates such an elite just as it creates all else in colonial society, including the poverty and inequality of the colonized.” Prof Alf Baird

Watchdogs of Colonialism: Corporate Extraction and the Limits of Scottish Devolution Occasionally, as we see another loss to Scotland's economy or yet more resources handed out to neo-extractive globalists, our minds turn to Scotland's economic history: its heavy industrial enclaves (Michael Hechter) the older among us remember, wiped out when no longer needed for Empire; the closure of 'new' substitute industries like British Leyland, IBM, Singer, Motorola, NEC, Timex, Digital and the once-vaunted Silcon Glen's dwindled export output value down 80%; brutal removal of our oil refining capacity to an England without oil; the ethylene plant at Mossmorran shut. Yet in the meantime we see imposed huge private autonomous tax-avoidance zones in the shape of 'freeports' ("Scotland needs a piece of the pie" - a future SNP leader), the land covered in sky-scraping pylons to export energy in a way and at a speed reminiscent of plunder-purpose Indian railroads; our ports closed down and the common good assets on which they sat sold off to international 'operators'; our very stock exchange closed in the teeth of an oncoming oil boom and the forced removal of all financial activity to London; implantation without consultation or consideration of the benefit or disbenefit to Scots of colossal energy-eating data centres. What we are seeing is the ongoing plunder of 'corporate colonialism' applied to England's Scottish colony, with the 'Scottish Government' and its agencies providing, as Professor Alf Baird has explained, the role of Aimé Césaire's 'watchdogs of colonialism'. The term refers to Césaire's conceptual framework in Discourse on Colonialism (1950), applied as a political critique of Scotland's relationship with corporate power. Césaire argued that colonialism is not simply political and cultural domination, but is fundamentally an economic system of extraction and plunder - its true purpose. The colonising power installs local institutions that appear to serve the colonised population while in reality function to protect and facilitate the extraction of wealth by outside interests. He called those who administer this system on behalf of capital the coloniser's watchdogs (Scottish Government), local enforcers of external power. Corporate colonialism is where a foreign state - the colonising force - is corporate capital (energy companies, landowners, developers, financiers) which extract value from Scottish resources, land, and labour, with profits flowing elsewhere. Scotland's natural resources (oil, wind, water, land) generate enormous wealth, but this wealth is not retained by Scottish communities; it is extracted by corporations, often with public subsidy. There is a reality to be seen when it comes to how Scotland is governed. The Scottish Parliament is an institution which owes its existence to nothing more than an ordinary Anglo-British law; one which, despite the finest of 'straight-bat' British assurances, is as impermanent as Prof. Mark Elliot identified in his 2020 article, "The United Kingdom’s Constitution and Brexit: A ‘Constitutional Moment’?" (available online). The Scotland Act is the product of a Westminster parliament which had the shocking arrogance to subordinate the Treaty of Union to this run-of-the-mill Westminster statute (hint: not possible; it makes of the Scotland Act a legal absurdity). Yet - and this is extremely important - Scottish ministers and every member of that parliament only enter its portals by swearing allegiance to an English monarch. All this to say, what hope for the interests of the people of Scotland - the Scottish Crown - when members of the Scottish Parliament have sworn fealty not to them, but to another, English, Crown - of which the English monarch is the embodiment. His (and his Westminster parliament's) interests are sworn to come first. From this flows that fact that the Scottish Government, and thence Scottish agencies and institutions, extending to law, senior civil service, academia and press, are watchdogs of the colonial state. While the Scottish Government and its regulatory bodies (enterprise agencies, planning authorities) appear to represent Scottish interests, in practice they facilitate and legitimise corporate extraction rather than question it. They are administrators of the system, not challengers of it. Regional political autonomy, in Scotland referred to as devolution, has by design no more produced economic prosperity than it confers economic sovereignty. The structures of extraction remain fully operational - and expanding. The Scottish Government manages the conditions under which plunder proceeds, facilitating it, regulating it with indulgence and lending it democratic legitimacy, all of which makes it functionally equivalent to Césaire's colonial administrator class.

As Sara here acknowledges, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Professor Alf Baird for his book Doun Hauden, his work on post-colonial theory and his groundbreaking linkage of Scotland's subjugated national condition to that of each and every one of the world's colonised peoples, whether liberated today or still struggling for liberation. We are also indebted to @Grouse_Beater, one of the earliest and outspoken identifiers of the scourge of the colonialism that fundamentally ails us Scots. What all three have in common is their bravery to put forward such unfamiliar, indeed radical, views, at a time when it was an easy matter for the coloniser to portray them as eccentrics. Only by the demonstration of such strength of character has it now become impossible for our enemies to pursue any such line. The currency we are now dealing in is truth, and we are a wealthy people. All nationalist, to succeed in their just purpose, must display such bravery – particularly those who put themselves forward to be, or newcomers who aspire to be, leaders of Scotland's claim to restored statehood. The next step is to force the British state and its many unionist proponents and apologists, inside and outside of our boundaries, into reasoned argument – in particular in an international forum, because, as the 2022 UK Supreme Court showed, they will avoid arguing it domestically – over Scotland's true constitutional status. The step after that, we are able to assure you, is that they lose.

If you’ve no plan and no way to advance one you can always resort to the tactic of looking busy. I will not be signing up to this nonsense; it’s playing straight into the British state’s hands with its call for ‘a second referendum.’ We never had a first. If you don’t believe me look up international standards for a constitutional referendum and compare with the 2014 event, starting with ‘non binding.’ Then move into the franchise, the media bias, the threats and warnings issued by the Brits or by large businesses at the request of the U.K. govt and the breach of the purdah period with the super whopping promise of devo max days before the vote. Seeing it yet? Anyone asking for that all over again is just a turkey asking for Christmas.

We are back from last week's UN C-24 (Decolonization Committee) Caribbean Seminar in Nicaragua — a long, tiring haul, but well worth the journey. Our good friend and advocate Maître Jérôme Bouquet-Elkaïm made, with our participation, four important interventions on advancing the decolonization process and procedures within the UN (to be published soon together with the full report to committee). Against the backdrop of an alarming new colonialism that is creating intense geopolitical uncertainty, and following statements of acknowledgement from statesmen and diplomats ranging from Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney to Russia's Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov, this is one of the most pressing topics in the United Nations today. C-24 Delegates were left in no doubt that besides the 17 currently listed Non-Self-Governing Territories, other nations - some of which, like Scotland, never gave up their sovereignty to a dominating power - are waiting at the door to have their annexed and colonised status recognised. Watch this interview in Managua with Sara Salyers to hear what Maître Bouquet-Elkaïm had to say.

James, there is no ‘the UN’; it’s an organisation made up of representatives from 193 states, six main committees and hundreds of sub committees. We just got back from the C24 seminar in Managua -podcast being put together now. We held the meetings we needed to hold - successfully - and our legal representative put forward proposals for adoption which will speed things up considerably. Also the changed climate meant that he could mention Scotland and others waiting for decolonisation by name without being removed for breaking the protocol. (Previously you could only mention too. the names of the territories already listed.) So the whole C24 heard that Scotland awaits decolonisation! (So much for the colonial secretariat burying our notifications!) Meanwhile we’re working behind the scenes on strategies which will directly affect both international recognition of our right to self determination and our situation right now. (Enforcing rights ignored by our political ‘champions’ until now.) We have years of campaigning to catch up on and have been at this, working internationally, for just over a year! Think about that. And given the way we have already been faced with ‘grey zone diplomacy’ by the British state and its allies, I am sure you’ll forgive me if I only say we have powerful support from other states and do not say who that is!

There are no British people. It means English since Scotland is an English colony as it is now being called in the United Nations system, believe it or not. Scotland's decolonisation from the English colonial state has begun. England must leave Scottish territory.

The United Nations Has Received the Evidence: Scotland Is a Colony and the World Now Knows It. On Report UN Human Rights Council A/HRC/61/NGO/210 ift.tt/mAXr2xb When the Ground Shifts There are moments in the history of colonial struggles when the terrain of the cont…

My Indy choice for tomorrow is based on where I live but for anyone unsure on what to do…vote for Indy 1 and alliance 2 Dinna vote English partys FFS, ya dizzy? They created the mess, now they gonna fix it, better together really huzna worked oot huz it Brits oot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥾🇬🇧

If you vote for an English party in scottish elections yer a fuckin sasij . Dinna be hinkin it ahrite to cheer on Scotland at the World Cup ya thick fucks Get the British state tae fuck

A short video explaining the vagaries of the Holyrood voting system

A must read if you are at all interested in decolonising our Anglicised, rewritten history.

Smashed this out for the lads coming to Scotlands YES city

They’ve colonised our irn bru This was bought in Spain Get the Brits out 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥾🇬🇧

Professor Robert Black KC on his legalistic realisation that 1707 had never been the 'union' it was dressed up as at the time & ever since, but was in fact an English political annexation of Scotland which England, trading as 'the UK', continues to run as its exploitable colony.

When Westminster next 'concedes' a referendum When Westminster next 'concedes' a referendum, it will be a three question one; a 'solve this Scottish problem', Gordon Brown-style devo-max offering. It will be engineered with customary Great British finesse. Scots will be offered, once again, a 'nearest thing to federalism', without admitting our true status in the union - one of annexation. The offer will contain everything but the true levers of power - a central bank and those things that really define a nation state - external relations, the ability to make pacts or treaties, to go to war, to decide the state's nuclear capacity; to have the ability to make independent trade agreements. The offer will exclude everything diplomatic - all that gives us a say in the running of the world. Are we Scots happy with that? Are we happy with the foreign policy of the British state since the end of WW2? Were we happy with its compliance and engagement with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or its foreign policy right now, supporting an ex-TV host who wants to bomb one of the world's most ancient (and modern) cultures 'back to the stone age'? Such an offering from the UK state and any and all of those Scots who sustain it will be a poisoned chalice - made with the same propaganda carefully woven into 2014, this time with muscular unionism bells on - the BBC's most perfected pro-UK output; Multiple TV 'personality' disapproval; shrill corporate threats of business and capital flight from Scotland; Brown-style warnings about pension loss; newspaper front pages that the Russians - no, worse - the Chinese, are coming for us; Faslane 'keeps you safe' (ask the Gulf states); your oil's running out; the wind doesn't blow all day, and might very soon stop; you're SO in debt (see GERS), so poor, so incapable, so vulnerable. And yet, SO loved, you Scots; SO valued. (Indeed, on England's balance sheet). Lead us, Scotland. Don't leave us (without a permanent seat at the Security Council that keeps Faslane in place, and utterly broke, trying to pay in Yuan for our own energy). The 'referendum' we're going to 'grant' you must, of course, to be a 'civil' one, that is to say, count the 20% votes of visiting students, servicemen, oil and temporary workers, recent retirees with a South East England house cashed in, and the civil servants we've moved from London to Edinburgh. Plus the massive influx of wealthy English pensioners who've come to Scotland as refugees from Brexit France and Spain. The message will be: please vote as hard as you can by post; it's easy for you (but it is also SO easy for us to rig). But your ballot box votes in high YES areas will also, note, get selectively binned to bring the overall YES vote down. If all that fails, in the final few days we'll break 'purdah'. Our newspapers will wheel out a Gordon Brown and a collection of other smug London club chums - maybe London spiv Farage among them this time, in place of a Cameron or a Miliband - to offer you a REALLY solemn VOW. Which, if you believe it, will assure your final defeat - the defeat of accepting, forever, English sovereignty over your own Scots sovereignty. If Scots fall for this rotten mess of potage,they truly are prostrating themselves, finally and irrevocably, to what their ancestors refused in 1708, 1715, 1719, 1745, 1820 and later, following what appeared to be the death throes of England's empire pomp. In the 20th century, in the wake of the 1939-45 world fight against fascism and its colonial roots, once more a true reinvigorated Scottish nationalism took hold; one that built the membership of the Scottish National Party today - that wonderful body of Scots who want, and have the power to achieve, if they will demand it of their leaders, our nation's resumption of its ancient, yet so very modern, statehood. Fascism and its colonial roots are today back in play. Scotland has multiple reasons to expose those roots, oppose them, and declare, alongside those other nations of the world who won't accept colonial revival, "no pasarán" - they shall not pass. Scotland can figure as a central player on the world stage in making that declaration. If the Scottish Government won't play that role, Liberation Scotland will; indeed, is doing so right now.

Here is a prominent modern country of 120m people looking at itself in the mirror and wondering about the true nature of its relationship with a domineering state which, having subjugated it militarily, politically and culturally has operated all of its key levers of sovereignty ever since. Colonialism takes many forms.

There is no Scottish Govt. Holyrood is the Westminster Administration in Scotland. There is no territorial union because the crowns of Scotland and England both still exist. The government doesn’t own anything in Scotland because the Crown is diffferent here - not the monarch. If the people own Prestwick then they & not Westminster make the decision and Holyrood should be either informing Westminster on behalf of the people that it can’t use Prestwick to break international law or holding a public consultation asking Scots what they wish to do about it.

Scotland’s oil capital. Doesn’t It make you feel proud to know that your resources and revenue have helped fund 3.000 miles of motorway, a Channel tunnel, save their steel industry, build state of the art railway lines and stations and tart up their capital, etc? Fucking crooks!