I think the word ‘inadvertently’ is the PM’s favourite word at the moment, come to think of it did the MPs in Westminster all those years ago, inadvertently send all the documents pertinent to the Claim of Right across the Pond never to be seen again? Or so they hoped!

The other day I posted a picture about the COR on FB. It was just an ordinary picture showing some of the contents and relevances of the COR, but one guy decided to challenge the notion and then proceeded to give a long, very long history of what happened around the time it was written. He lost me in the second paragraph!

However in his last sentence, he claimed the COR could not bring about Independence, he is of course quite right! I think we inadvertently confuse people when we talk about the COR outside the context of the Treaty of the Union. Please correct me if I am wrong but this is the way I see it, the purpose of Salvo is to get a ruling from the ECJ regarding our legal stance within the Union of the Parliaments. Did the original Treaty see us as an equal Partner? [This so-called Union was only about the Parliaments, there was no mention of Crowns, land or Territorial seas etc.]

The COR was added by the Kirk because they didn’t trust England! It is our escape route and still valid as England signed up for it. But here’s the rub, the COR is not a stand-alone document in the context many think it is. Some of the contents are, as they give us a picture of how the Country was governed, but it can only be used as an escape route when the first question is answered by the ECJ in a way that shows the Treaty has been broken!

The cart does not come before the horse!

Then there is the question mark around Independence, Salvos’ purpose is to get a legal ruling on the Treaty of the Union, not Independence!

Once a ruling is made it will be up to Scottish Parliamentarians to decide how to appropriately respond, an Indy Referendum or even maybe UDI, who knows?

That is how I see it, I may have oversimplified it but that’s just me, one thing I do know is, there is confusion!