Gayle's Scottish Blog

Below is the petition letter and dossier submitted to the UN on 13 August 2026 by email and portal. Dual submission was necessitated by the size and nature of the petition. At the time of posting this blog, 85 days have passed; the 60-day window of confidentiality has therefore been met, with additional time allowed for internal routing and the forwarding of the Letter of Allegation to English government diplomats. ​The dossier chronicles the timeline of foundational and material treaty breaches from 1707 to the present. These events are not isolated occurrences, but rather a systemic, generational series of deliberate industrial sabotage and destruction, violations of peer sovereignty and treaty terms, and the imposition of unnegotiated, unilateral English statutes that default the treaty. From its first official foundational breach on 23 October 1707 through to today, these foundational material breaches culminate in the English government seeking to amend its UK statute to include a...

Up until the 1600s England had a chief administrator answerable to the monarch but as the role of chief administrator began to grow with more responsibility being devolved and political change started to take hold the claim of  monarchical absolutism was challenged. It wasn't until the 1600s when the English monarch effectively abandoned the throne and was officially removed by parliament through a parliamentary convention and the new monarch, by dint of birth, was contested that the rise of English parliamentary sovereignty began to take hold. It was during this time that the English political parties began to emerge first as factions and then as the political parties that would stand in parliament. The Whigs, who were against monarchical absolutism due to their religious beliefs, were founded in 1678.  In 1859 the party dissolved and merged with the English Liberal Party. The Whigs opposition was the Tory Party which was founded in 1679. The Tories supported the monarch...

It is my contention that the treaty of Union  should be suspended with immediate effect. The fundamental breaches themselves are reason enough. The argument cited by SNP is that they need    to  convince folk. Well you are not going to convince folk through inaction. Folk only know the system as it currently is. They are not going to change their minds without hard proof that Scotland is better served through full governance of its statehood. So suspend the treaty. Take full responsibility and accountability. Demonstrate that Scotland’s statehood is best. While Scots wait they could be setting up petition stalls all across Scotland for the suspension of the treaty. Princes Street in Edinburgh usually has some petition or other being campaigned for on it. Its street has numerous folk handing out flyers for X,y,z so let’s organise. Get folk backing the suspension. Doesn’t need to be half the population that backs it. Utilise town and village halls, pubs and other place...

 Practical application demonstrates how theory is applied. Ifs, buts and maybes are addressed through demonstrating the reality. Where there is uncertainty practical application brings certainty through observation.  The argument from the "independence" movement is that people just need to be persuaded. Proponents have cited "facts" regarding Scotland, its wealth and its resources. They have theorised about how Scotland can do x,y,z better if circumstances were different, if only Scotland had full control of its governance yet that is where their arguments end. If someone came at you and said they were or could do x,y,z would you automatically believe them? If you disagreed, would you be persuaded otherwise through statement alone? Most folk would ask you to prove it. And for 53% of the Scottish population, that is precisely what they are saying. Put up or shut up. Stop harping on about something you cannot or will not prove. And who can blame them? Theory only gets...

Negative word choices used to describe ourselves can be debilitating. They can harm both the physical body and the mind and have long lasting emotional effects that permeate all areas of our lives. We often do not consciously note the tone in which we speak, the words we use or the frequency in which we use negative constructs. But take a moment to reflect. Have you told yourself you "lost" x, when describing yourself? That you "can't" do something because of some imagined limitation? Accepted a negative diagnostic "label"? Read an article that describes you, your nation or your country in a particularly negative manner and  believed it? Why is this act of self harm so prevalent and can anything be done to counter it? A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avern...

Scotland's statehood   is becoming an issue at the COP26 conference.   As far as awareness of Scotland's statehood at the climate conference is concerned, the English government are like Basil Fawlty in that episode when a group of German tourists come to stay at his hotel, and in increasingly manic tones he pleads with everyone “Don’t mention the War!” thus guaranteeing that the War was all that anyone could think about.  With their efforts to entreat delegates to COP26’s “Don’t mention Scottish independence!”, Scotland's statehood is very much forefront in the minds of many of them. Irrespective of what country you come from, you’d have to have been living in a cave not to know that Scotland has an active movement, and that Scotland resoundingly rejected England's EU exit which is the defining policy of the English Government.  Representatives of the international press who have descended on Glasgow are interested in the issue of Scotland's statehood. Their in...