Routes to Independence

The Routes to Independence

Our view based on research is that Scotland should have full self determination as a sovereign state as soon as possible and we have identified at least six routes to achieving this.

They are summarised below.

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Claim of Right

The Treaty of Union that created the UK is itself conditional on Scotland retaining its own distinctive constitution, contained and described in the Claim of Right Act of 1689.

It means, above all, that we retain the right, even today, to remove a governing authority when it no longer functions in the interest of the Scottish people.

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Plebiscitory Election

At the 2024 UK general election Indy-supporting parties adopt a manifesto commitment that a majority of seats won by parties supporting independence gives those parties a mandate for independence.
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Manifesto for indy

Independence Parties with a majority of pro-Indy Scottish MPs in UK Parliament withdraw those MPs, and withdraw from the Treaty of Union at any time on the basis of multiple breaches of the Treaty.
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UN Decolonisation

Scotland is not in a union of equal states but is in fact an internal colony within the UK.

The UN has defined Ireland, once a constituent part of the UK union, to be a former colony and thus Scotland, being little different, must be a current colony.

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Section 30 Referendum

The Scottish Government should ask the UK Government to grant a Section 30 order, enabling the a second independence referendum, along the lines of the 2014 referendum (the “Gold Standard”).

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Unauthorised Referendum

The Scottish Government should ask the UK Government to grant a Section 30 order, enabling the a second independence referendum, along the lines of the 2014 referendum (the “Gold Standard”).

If permission is refused, the Scottish Government should run it anyway.

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