The case for Scottish Independence has been around for hundreds of years.
“I understand that perfectly. We feel very much the same in Scotland”.
The late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, speaking to a Boer in South Africa who told her that he could not forgive the British for having conquered his country. (In reality the land of South Africa did not belong to the Boers either but to the South African people.) The Queen Mother, daughter of Lord Strathmore and Kinghorne, was born in 1900 and spent much of her childhood in Glamis Castle, Scotland.
If you thought it was only a recent policy thought up to grab some money back from the UK when they took all the revenues from the oil found in the North Sea off the Scottish coast then you really need to read the rest of this article.
Read about the Declaration of Arbroath here to discover how the Battle for Scottish Independence has been going for at least 700 years. It was granted temporarily after lots of blood (was shed on both sides) but was never fully accepted by the English Throne and was then largely subsumed back into the Union of Great Britain despite a lot of opposition from the Scottish people. As a consequence Scotland’s role and history has been officially forgotten. For example even in our schools I was taught from an early age about the history of the country (including Bannockburn) but when I moved to England at age ten I never heard again about anything related to Scotland. History was all about the English Kings and Queens (they did not even mention that Scotland had any kings) the word “British” was even changed to “English” as through that was the only country that existed in the Union.
We were a racial minority and thus were not worth anything in this country of England with ten times as much wealth.
The Union of the two countries have left a lot of people feeling our part of the United Kingdom has been largely neglected by the national government despite it’s government cabinet over recent years having a larger number of Scots on it than would be expected by the size of the population. However the real power behind the throne is of course the Whitehall mandarins who have responsibility for developing policy papers and spending.
In later years the rise to power of the Scottish National Party to gain control of the new Scottish Parliament has once again brought it to the headline status only this time in a manner which will hopefully not cause more wars and deaths on battlefields across our country. We intend to produce more on the powers and the limits on its powers of the Current Scottish Parliament in the near future.
The oil revenues has been a big thorn in the side of many Scots who feel the prosperity brought and wasted by the British Government should have been used to develop Scotland to enable its businesses and hence its people to benefit. We have developed separate pages on Scottish oil and what has happened to the revenues go to Scottish Oil for more information.
