If you want to be popular with the independence movement, don't let reality intrude.

Take back our government!
Take back our parliament!
Take back our nation!

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A brief explanation of the #ScottishUDI plan The idea is to assert legislative competence in matters relating to the Union (constitution) in defiance of the Scotland Act (1998) Schedule 5.1(b) which reserves to Westminster matters relating to…

A brief explanation of the #ScottishUDI plan

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Take back our government!
Take back our parliament!
Take back our nation!

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There is only #ScottishUDI If ten years, why not twenty? If twenty years, why not forty? If forty years, why not four hundred? It is not the period of time involved that matters but the arrogant sense of entitlement with whi…

There is only #ScottishUDI

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Take back our government!
Take back our parliament!
Take back our nation!

manifestoforindependence.scot/manifesto-fo...

#ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Take back our government!
Take back our parliament!
Take back our nation!

manifestoforindependence.scot/manifesto-fo...

#ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

New campaign urges voters to back independence to save money on energy bills YES groups have been urged to join a “national push” as part of a campaign urging voters to back independence to save money on their energy…

Restoring Scotland's independence is not a business transaction. It is rectifying an ancient injustice that daily affects adversely this entire nation and all who call it theirs.

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Party like it isn’t 1999 What depressed me most at the AUOB event in Edinburgh was how evident it was that large numbers of people imagine we are still in the same fight we were in 2012-14. For a large part of that crowd, …

The 2026 election is very much more important than most people realise. peterabell.scot/2025/09/13/p... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Party like it isn’t 1999 What depressed me most at the AUOB event in Edinburgh was how evident it was that large numbers of people imagine we are still in the same fight we were in 2012-14. For a large part of that crowd, …

Looking back, we can clearly see the period during which devolution’s usefulness to Scotland’s cause declined while it’s utility to the British state increased. peterabell.scot/2025/09/13/p... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

No comfort Scottish nationalists like me are left with only the hope that Scotland’s cause survives the SNP leadership’s betrayal and the abject failure of Alba Party to step into the breach.

Realists know that the election and electoral fortunes of the parties are totally irrelevant since the independence movement doesn’t have a horse in this race. peterabell.scot/2025/09/05/n... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Outrage over 'weaponisation' of Saltire in anti-migrant campaign backed by far-right PRO-INDEPENDENCE parties have reacted with outrage after a campaign organised by far-right agitators has led to the Saltire being co-opted as part…

The Saltire represents the nation and people of Scotland – nothing more. It is, in any context, a simple statement of identity.
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I should say at this point that I had a very strong suspicion from the outset that the leadership motion was largely a negotiating gambit. peterabell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

A watershed? Only the Newington Resolution transforms the SNP into a spearhead for the independence movement.

If you are pro-independence then the fate of the SNP matters. peterabell.scot/2025/08/29/a... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

A Proud Malcontent Wednesday 27/08/2025

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A Proud Malcontent Wednesday 27/08/2025

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Continuity of treachery Requesting a Section 30 order continues to be an act of heinous treachery.

Requesting a Section 30 order continues to be an act of heinous treachery. To advocate for this makes one complicit in the offence. To vote for it makes you an accomplice to that act of heinous treachery. peterabell.scot/2025/08/12/c... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Jist sayin'!

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Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

Forcing the nominally pro-independence parties to refocus on the constitutional issue will require a combined effort by the mass of the independence movement. peterabell.scot/2025/08/22/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Inherited folly I will be voting in favour of the resolution presented by our leader and depute leader, because I know that independence for Scotland is inevitable, and it is the SNP who will deliver that independenc...

The restoration of Scotland’s independence is neither imminent nor inevitable. The complacency implied and fostered by such notions stands as one of the greatest threats to Scotland’s cause. peterabell.substack.com/p/inherited-... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

The 2026 Scottish Parliament provides the ideal opportunity to reboot the independence campaign as a human rights issue and initiate the process by which independence will be restored.

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Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

Responsibility for ensuring the people of Scotland can fully and properly exercise our right of self-determination lies entirely with the Scottish Government. peterabell.scot/2025/08/22/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

What's missing? 'Independence first, everything else later’ is a straw man.

People may love the vision. But they need to have confidence that it can be realised if they are to actively support it. peterabell.substack.com/p/whats-miss... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Petition - Manifesto for Independence

If you have already signed the Manifesto for Independence Petition, please go back and share it again. Sharing is activism.

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What's missing? 'Independence first, everything else later’ is a straw man.

Support will increase when people are persuaded that restoring independence is a realistic possibility by being given a clear, detailed explanation of the process by which it will be done. peterabell.substack.com/p/whats-miss... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

The Scottish Parliament is the national parliament of Scotland. It is the only parliament that holds a mandate from the sovereign people of Scotland. peterabell.scot/2025/08/22/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

The people of Scotland are sovereign. We are the ultimate political authority in Scotland, and our mandate is the sole source of legitimate political power. peterabell.scot/2025/08/22/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

There is no route to independence which will not be declared ‘illegal’ by the British state. peterabell.scot/2025/08/22/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

There is no route to independence which does not pass through a point at which there is inevitably acrimonious confrontation with the British state. peterabell.scot/2025/08/22/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

A route to independence can only lie in the space outside the strictures of the British legal and constitutional framework but within the scope of international laws and conventions. open.substack.com/pub/peterabe... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Time is running out The Scottish Parliament is the ancient parliament of Scotland stolen from us in 1707 and returned to us in 1999 – in chains! The chains of devolution must be removed if the Scottish Parliamen…

There is no route to independence through the legal and constitutional framework which has evolved under the influence of the British state’s imperative to preserve and protect the Union. peterabell.scot/2025/08/22/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

The absent alternative Why would we suppose the British state’s intransigence would melt just because a (probably small) majority of people in Scotland voted for disparate parties each more or less committed to their own…

Swinney and Brown envisage the convention serving the SNP leadership and not Scotland’s cause. peterabell.scot/2025/08/18/t... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Consider the implications! Yes—Scotland is a British territory, but with a very specific meaning depending on how we define “British” and “territory.”

What Are Crown Dependencies? peterabell.scot/2025/08/16/c... #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution