DR Elliot Bulmer’s regular columns in the Sunday National often supply food for thought with an Antipodean freshness, and last Sunday’s, under the headline “The conjuring trick of UK’s invisible ‘constitution’” (Nov 19), was no different: “Nothing is safe, because no fundamental laws, guaranteed rights, or foundational principles bind those in power.”
Let us look at the headline that talks of the UK constitution. It is not the UK’s constitution, but a ramshackle English constitution that appears to allow those in power at Westminster to do as they like, but is it true that there are no fundamental laws, guaranteed rights or foundational principles involved?
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As far as England and its people are concerned, all the above holds true. However, Scotland is a different kettle of fish entirely and has a democratic history, and a fundamental constitutional law that will yet protect our country and people in the shape of the Claim of Right Act, passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1689. It has intentionally been hidden and denied by those in England that would seek to bring Scotland down, but it is extant, and furthermore is an essential and fundamental part of the Treaty of Union between the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England.
As many foreign governments, including members of the EU, have discovered over the centuries, English governments are usually perfidious. They are basically untrustworthy, and if they can’t steal enough from foreigners will quite happily switch their gluttonous attentions to friends and neighbours. Since prodigious amounts of oil and gas were discovered in Scottish waters, they have been helping themselves. Tory PM Rushi Sunak has started a new feeding frenzy for more of Scotland’s oil and gas reserves with 100 new exploration licenses up for sale, and more promised on an annual basis.
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If you are suffering because of the constant bickering between different independence supporting political parties, you should take a well-deserved breather and join Salvo. It is free to join and brings a non-political, professional organisation to the table with a common-sense approach that is entirely different, and much more likely to see results through the restoration of Scotland’s constitutional law that was and is an extant and inviolable part of the Treaty of Union that has been usurped by England in breach of the Treaty.
What many folk don’t seem to realise is that the Treaty of Union is not a homegrown treaty despite it having been negotiated between the governments of Scotland and England. It is an international treaty between two independent sovereign states, and as such is subject to international jurisprudence, represented by the International Court of Justice in The Hague. It is entirely outwith the competence of England’s Supreme Court, and they will have no part in any proceedings that may follow. Learn more at salvo.scot.
Bruce Moglia
via email
DELIGHTED to see my ancestor Suibhne Ruadh O’Neill’s castle in Thursday’s National (Picture of the Day, Nov 23). As Prince of Knapdale his offspring also built Skipness castle on the east side of the Kintyre peninsula, whilst directly across Kilbrannan Sound on the Isle of Arran was their third castle, Lochranza.
Unfortunately, I hate to admit, his descendants were on the wrong side throughout the so called “Wars of Independence” and were therefore deprived of their entire holdings. The worldwide diaspora of the Sweeneys of Ireland claim Suibhne Ruadh as their progenitor.
Ruairidh NicSuain
Stornoway
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