Ethics may seem an odd word to use in conjunction with Politics but there is the odd one or two Parties in Scotland that do have ethics at their core.

My definition of Ethics may be different to others but put simply I believe it to mean to conduct one’s business in the spirit of honesty and dignity towards others. As I said, not often seen within the Political sphere!

If I am not mistaken the Claim of Right shows within it a clear set of ethics, a platform for us to aim at surely?

A number of Parties are standing on this platform which is good for Scotland but how many are fully absorbing the true spirit or ethos of the COR?

Would it be for instance right for a Party to change its Policy just to gain votes, then maybe revert to their old Policy having gained seats? Is that within the true spirit of the COR? I personally would say no! But then I’m not a Politician and they do say ‘All is fair in love and war’ even Political wars!!

Only voters in Scotland can decide which parties operate within a code of ethics, and ethics are important because we live or die on decisions made by them.

Are Morals and Ethics the same thing? I remember when Boris became PM, when asked if morals were important he said No! He went on to say morality had nothing to do with the ability to do a job! Surely the morals of a person are a good indication of his/her ethics? Prime Ministers are supposed to set examples in all manner of ways.

How we measure people and Political Parties is important because what we are saying when we vote is, this person/party is close to my beliefs, my ethics! Sadly very often the person who stands before us in a Hustings changes into a different species when in Government.

At the moment we can do nothing about that, only in very exceptional circumstances can recall be made.

Sometimes we need to ask ourselves an uncomfortable question, ‘Does my Party fully embrace the spirit of the COR, do I fully embrace the spirit of the COR through my words and conduct?

We are judged rightly or wrongly in everything we do and say.

The hardest word to say is, sorry, oh how I wish more Politicians would say this and actually mean it.

Salvo has come at the right time and I believe it’s meant to be! But the COR challenges us all if we truly want it’s contents to be the foundation of a new Sovereign Scotland.

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!

Some call this the ‘silly season’ I think when it comes to Politics every season is silly!

By the end of August, we see the colours change as nature begins to slow down, but in the world of Politics, things are just hotting up again. August is also the start of the shooting season when Scotland becomes the playground for the rich and famous. Next month the proverbial bullets will fly around Westminster hoping for a kill.

It is after all the start of a year that will conclude with a General Election. Now these GE years tend to be a wee bit different, pledges are more generous, not that they will all be kept!! Some will however because the Budget will come before the Election.

Manifestos will pop through our letter boxes, most will end up in the bin unless they catch our eye. Good graphics are always important, they are the headline. Some of these Manifestos will be brave enough to include future Policies, but they won’t give much detail, so beware of what you think is coming down the track!

At the last Holyrood Election a brief reference was made to updating the GRA Bill and look at the disaster that unfolded there!

So how do we dig behind the headlines?

HUSTINGS! I love going to these, they provide the opportunity to put Politicians and would-be Politicians on the rack!!! Ask the awkward questions, and dig behind the headlines.

I wonder for instance how many will know about the Claim of Right, let alone understand it. We have about 9 months to make sure we know all the facts because there is nothing more embarrassing than asking a question that is meant to put someone on the spot if you haven’t got the answer to hand yourself.

Now is the time to start changing the conversation.

Imagination!

Imagine you woke up one morning and found out that your long-term partner was not really your partner, and to add to the insult they had been very busy over the years selling off the family silver! How would you feel?

Betrayed, angry and other unmentionable feelings!

Well, that is Scotland just now, we are wakening up to some pretty unpalatable truths about our so-called partner England. Not it’s people but those who sit in Westminster and the unelected House of Lords.

Firstly, they are not their partner, never have been, never will be. They have become our Masters with a townhouse in Edinburgh called Holyrood. The marriage never took place, it was a mirage disguised as the union of two Parliaments coming together to work together for the good of the two countries for Trade etc. Very quickly the biggest partner became the abuser and the rest is history, but not the history you will ever read in a book!

Then came the theft! The one selling off the family silver gained momentum when oil was discovered, the secret they tried to hide until the Acts were all neatly signed and bundled up and again hidden away from sight in case those nasty Nats saw them.

But now we know and we are right feeling aggrieved and angry. Anger is not necessarily a negative feeling, it’s how we use it that matters. If used to propel us into action using the legal means we have, then that is all to the good.

We have the facts to hand, we are building an army of people who are prepared to put their signature to a modern-day declaration of their own. We will take it to where it will be heard and there will be no hiding for those that have wronged us over the centuries.

No need for even a divorce! Just restitution for wrongs done.

Join the new army on the move!

https://salvo.scot/

https://liberation.scot/

People in general hate Mondays, so for a complete change I am going to reveal some secrets about myself to give you a laugh, because I am one of those crazy old women that still walks and talks a lot!

I was born in Canada, but grew up in Canonbie, a sleepy little village almost sitting on the border between Scotland and England.

I hated the confines of school.

I got the belt on my first day at school, for talking!

I was made to go to Sunday school every week!

I believe in marriage, but more so in divorce!

I love fried liver but hate tripe!

I believe gravy and sauces cover up cooking errors!

If I go to church, I sit at the back with all the other sinners!

I prefer to blend in, rather than stand out in a crowd!

I will remain silent, until I have something worth saying!

I love Politics but not Politicians!

I prefer raspberries to strawberries!

I wear perfume at a Zoom meeting!

I used to lick my mothers baking bowl!

I like my eggs easy over!

I am a people watcher!

I like to have my cake and eat it!

I have a weird sense of humour!

I trained as a Counsellor to Counsell myself!

I am not dead yet!

I was watching the Women’s World Cup Final yesterday, yes I am one of those irritating people who believe Politics should be kept out of Sports! Anyway, my thoughts turned to Teamwork.

Even within footie one can spot the ones with egos, the ones who keep the ball, always want to be the main goalscorer.

The first thing I think about regarding team work is,

“I” = ego!

Salvo has a great team made up of many personalities and from many different Parties, all working together as one people for the People. We should be very proud of that achievemeent. Our goal, a Sovereign Scotland where we the People are Sovereign. For a lot of Scots the word ‘Sovereign’ has no meaning other that being related to Royalty. We have some explaining to do! Because not until they realise the power locked away within them will they have the confidence to act.

Words easily spoken must be explained in full.

So much has been achieved in such a short time, that is no mean feat.

We have attracted attention in places that fear our existence and our goal. Persons are charged with keeping this Union intact and are spending a lot of time and money trying to make Salvo invisible.

They are not doing this because they love Scotland and want us to stay, no, this is about the harvest they reap from Scottish assets……its all about the money!

Money is as we know the root of all evil, and every Act that has been passed in Westminster regarding Scotland is evil because the root of it is money, some of which ends up in personal bank accounts. A good example of this was the Covid contracts! Millions paid out to pop-up companies who had no premises and no workers! No checks were made…..corporate theft!

So, they will move heaven and earth to stop us. This means we as a team must be at the top of our game, where team really means team!

Wave the flag!

https://salvo.scot/

There is a lot of anger and hurt flying around the country at the moment, some of it is about financial struggles as those at the top fill their pockets whilst emptying ours. We feel aggrieved and rightly so. We feel helpless and in some measure we are. Those of us in Salvo believe we have found a way out of these struggles, both for the country and personally but we must also understand, this will not happen tomorrow or even next month!

But we can start showing people what kind of a Scotland we want to see, and we can do that now! We start by caring about those less fortunate than ourselves, the neighbour with kids finding it hard to put food on the table. The pensioner who has to chose between heat and food.

Then there is the kind of anger we fire at people on a personal level, we see that on SM on a daily basis but what about the anger we fire at people personally, not on SM but sometimes publically?

Anger in itself is not a negative emotion but sometimes how we use it is! To publicly annihilate someone says more about that person than the person in the firing line. It shows bad judgement, lack of self-awareness and plain bad manners. It also shows a person is led by emotions rather than critical thinking.

How we reflect a new Scotland starts within us and if we can’t see that then we should not be on a public platform. The measure of any person is how they react to anger and how they deal with their own mistakes. A person who can say sorry is a far bigger person than one who stays silent in the background.

We are being watched because we are worth watching, so let’s keep the movie clean!

The goal……a Sovereign Scotland built on the ethos of the Claim of Right.

https://salvo.scot/

According to some MPs Scotland no longer exists! Strange that, because we have our own flag, our own Laws, our own Legal system, our own Crown, our own NHS, our own Education system and we also have the ability to print our own bank notes, yet we are but an illusion!

Fortunately for us, the International courts do recognise us and they maintain that Scottish Territorial borders are still intact.

There are those, even within Salvo that find it hard to believe Salvo will even get a hearing at the appropriate committees within the UN. I am at a loss as to why this is.

Within the UN there are departments set up precisely to address these matters. Laws have been passed to address ‘wrongful acts between nations’ …..and the British Government signed up to these very laws.

Scotland’s stands in a great place just now internationally, apart from the masses of documentation accrued by Salvo we must remember that England [ Westminster] carries very little leverage in the EU now.

The ECJ is made up of International Judges [ and if I am correct there is no English Judge sitting now.] who can be very pedantic about such matters, even if English Judges aren’t! Many countries have regained their Sovereignty through this system…..why not Scotland?

A little faith goes a long way!

Then there are those who say they want Independence but only their way is right! Shouldn’t we be trying every way we can to get a Legal ruling? Then hand over to the Politicians to take that ruling forward. That’s when the ‘wheat will be shaken from the chaff’ !!

We will see who really believes the People are Sovereign! Who really has the vision of popular democracy and a new kind of Governance?

Somewhere down the line Scotland will have to decide whether the People are Sovereign or Parliament is Sovereign, it cannot be both and we need to understand the difference.

Who dares wins!

Check out the facts.

https://salvo.scot/

https://liberation.scot/

It’s that time of year again folk, a bit like the Edinburgh Comic Festival when those magical figures appear telling us Scotland is in debt!

We have spent too much money, and lived beyond our means. The problem is, we didn’t spend the money! Westminster did, on our behalf!

You see GERS is one of those accounting tricks where only certain figures relating to taxes are used, carefully picked out to prove how poor we are. The method used is called ‘Per Capita’ it is a Latin term that translates to ‘per head’ To put it simply it means taxes received from the people of Scotland per person.

See the problem?

Nothing in that method relates to Scotland’s assets, why is that? Because all our assets are deemed as UK assets, in the eyes of Westminster, Scotland as a country doesn’t exist and everything belongs to them!

Scotland has become Westminster’s cash cow! Millions drip into the Treasury per minute from oil alone, but that doesn’t show up in the books as far as Scotland’s accounts are concerned.

The so-called Union of Parliaments has been used to con Scotland out of everything it rightfully owns. Our Territorial waters were never handed over to England, that is an undisputable fact……although Westminster will try and dispute it! They are the experts on the misrepresentation of facts.

Normally when a country goes about balancing the books, it’s total income v total outgoings, but then the Treasury never ever produces accounts, at least not ones we get to see! Did you know that receipts from oil pumped directly from the North Sea ship to ship are recorded as ‘unknown income’? Someone needs a geography lesson! Accounts hidden, out of everyone’s sight, although we do know the debt, that’s probably our fault too!

How do we get out of this circle of mythical debt?

By re-claiming our legal and rightful Sovereignty! Taking charge of our own taxes and assets.

Let’s become more like Norway where assets are used to enhance the lives of the people through a Common Wealth Fund and not to fill the pockets of the wealthy.

We start by reclaiming our Rights as laid out in the Claim of Right which is still to this day legally binding.

Start by telling people why they lack the means to put food on the table and heat their houses. Tell them where the money is going. Show them the big lie and how to escape, and it’s not through begging for a Referendum!

There is a huge difference between self-importance and self-esteem.

Within the realms of Politics, we seem to have an awful lot of people who have an over-exaggerated sense of their own importance and very few with humility. They prance, or should I say dance around the stage soaking in all the attention that feeds their egos. But the message they deliver is the same old….just sound-bites and repetitive ones at that.

Nothing new, no bold initiatives just continuity, the words may sound new but the methodology beneath hasn’t changed…..its still Westminster this or Westminter that. It must be Politicians who have ultimate power with a quick reference to the People being Sovereign to entice like a spider spinning its web.

Oh, how they love the attention but oh how quick they are to anger when the stage lights go off and any sign of popularity diminishes and another Party gains some traction.

On the reverse side of that scenario are those who have great potential but also have low esteem, the flowers that have yet to bloom. There are a lot in Scotland. Future leaders, gifted people who really do care about Scotland more than they do about themselves. We need to nourish these folk, and nurture them, they are our future.They understand the ethos upon which the Claim of Right was built, they understand the meaning of community and the importance of every individual.

Yes the world has changed since the COR was written but some things never change, the values that are inherent in the people of Scotland still remain. We are a canny people, we are a caring people and we will take these things forward to a new Sovereign Scotland.

The future is bright, we just have to believe it!

Encourage people to seek out the truth!