INDEPENDENCE-supporting politicians have responded to a letter sent to all pro-Yes MSPs highlighting the campaign to “decolonise” Scotland.
Liberate Scotland wrote to all 73 pro-independence Holyrood representatives to make them aware of its efforts to achieve Scottish independence through appeals to the United Nations.
The letter said that it was “untrue” for the SNP to argue there was no route to achieving independence without Westminster’s agreement.
It went on to argue that the terms of the Union “have never been given effect”, saying: “England’s Crown and state, renamed, with Scotland’s state extinguished and Scotland added to English control, (made a dependency) is all that exists.
“Scots are therefore subject to a foreign sovereignty, annexed rather than in a free association or freely integrated into a larger state.”
The letter also made the case that the Claim of Right Act “guarantees the right of Scots to remove any government that is in violation of their rights and replace it at will”.
It added: “Our primary aim is to secure international recognition of these rights and especially, UN recognition of Scotland’s status as a Non-Self-Governing Territory […] by which every recognised territory is entitled to decolonisation and to the right of self-determination.”
The letter ended by urging pro-independence MSPs to “support our campaign”.
The National contacted all MSPs who were sent the letter.
Alyn Smith, the SNP MSP for Stirling, said he had not received it and suggested it may have been caught by his email spam filter.
He added: “I obviously wish them well and take a ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’ attitude to the wider Yes movement, if they turn up something we’ve missed I’ll be the first to applaud.
“But, I disagree with their interpretation and do not see any useful outcomes from their approach.”
An SNP spokesperson, responding on behalf of their other MSPs, said: “Last month, voters across Scotland made their voices heard loud and clear by electing more pro-independence MSPs than at any time in the history of the Scottish Parliament.
“We now have first ministers in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all committed to fundamental constitutional change showing that people across these isles are fed up with the broken Westminster system which doesn’t work for them.
“Within the first month of the new Scottish Parliament, MSPs voted for the powers to hold a referendum on Scottish independence to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament. Whoever has the keys to Number 10 next can’t carry on ignoring the will of the Scottish people to decide on their own future.”
