'If the Scottish Government isn’t prepared to fight for us through the courts, then there is only one option left, and that is to mount our own challenge and prepare a modern case for asserting nationhood' // Letters
is wrong. Such a conference is effectively an extraordinary general meeting to discuss one topic – in this case, how to hold a legal route to independence – it isn’t about how many votes or seats you can get at a General Election.
After all, how many times now have the SNP won the most seats in Scotland at a General Election? I have lost count, but estimate that they have won at least 10 or 11 consecutive elections in Scotland. We are no further forward, and until such times as we resolve the Supreme Court decision,retains supremacy under some ancient and long-dead king’s authority from before the Union of Parliaments 1707.
Last year, the SNP took the step to challenge Westminster via the Supreme Court and a lot of people said that this was the wrong step to take, but it did give a definitive answer to some questions. So I think it was the correct step to take if you want to go down the legal route, and what we should now do is to build on that and take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights .
That doesn’t mean that we need to take the same case to the ECHR to make an effective appeal, and ultimately we could take the case to the United Nations. I wouldn’t be surprised if at some stage in the future a case is presented to the UN from Scotland before Westminster sticks its tail between its legs and lets us hold a referendum or become independent.
As a matter of interest, there was a petition begun two or three years ago that was sent to the UN. I wonder how many responded and what updates we can get on it?THANKS to Lesley Riddoch and The National for the lovely obituary of the late, great Derek Bateman in Saturday’s National.
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