A Holyrood election in 2026 means we should jumping with excitement

Three things first: Scotland and England are different countries; every country on the planet has a right to self-determination and democracy; and in Scotland the people hold sovereignty. Surely no-one would seriously contest these truths.
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Yet too many of us Scots, constantly brainwashed by the massively Unionist media, seem to believe that we need a foreign country's permission to have our own parliament – even a devolved one that must conform to foreign restraints on its constitution and governance.
Concomitant to that delusion there is our collusion in ensuring that the pantomime runs on. We accept a constrained, colonial-type assembly here in Holyrood and we elect and dispatch MPs to Westminster where they are virtually powerless in Scotland' s interest – and would remain so even if their number was increased fourfold.
Some of the above restraints are grosser than ridiculous: a referendum here is not permitted though Northern Ireland can by that means seek popular re-unification whenever it fancies – and again every seven years.
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The truth is that Westminster has absolutely no right to intrude on the governance of Scotland. Nor do we Scots need a referendum to establish a birthright. It beggars belief that for hundreds of years, by delusion and collusion, we have acknowledged a phoney Westminster overlordship of our very existence as a nation.
What to do about it is the hook on which hangs indy despond and frustration, yet hooks are removable.
We must remember we are sovereign in our own land. And happily, there's a Holyrood election as close as next year to set us jumping with excitement, for it is a rare opportunity to broadcast our sovereign claim to a universal birthright.
An election democratically demonstrates a nation's decision on its future, a vote for everyone of age, no foreign influence. Even Westminster wouldn't have the gall to contest the result of an election.
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The SNP and Alba and any other agency intent on restoring our national entitlements would electrify European interest in this election by declaring in manifestos that a majority vote by a sovereign people will authorise them to bin 1707 in order to form a new, free, equal, friendlier and more respectful union with England that will further our mutual interest.
Implementing these aspirations will take time, so intimately are our affairs interlinked, but with goodwill and application nearly all neighbouring states learn to live together.
Some things could be done or set up to do well before the 2026 rebirth. Priorities might include some positive action on the new currency issue, the setting up of a national bank, and the creation of a foreign office.
Let's all forsake despond and start jumping! The choice for the stuck-spot SNP becomes clearer almost daily: jump up to the bandwagon driving seat, or down into a flushable 2026 bowl.
John Melrose
Peebles
I THINK SNP HQ should start keeping an events diary. I would have attended this Saturday's National Council in Perth but I am already booked in for the Oliver Brown (Scots Independent) awards dinner at the Salutation Hotel, also in Perth, on the same day.
That same day, there is an independence rally (AUOB) in Stirling. I can't be at all three.
The organisers of all three events seem to act in opposition to each other. Why? This great cause of ours, INDEPENDENCE, needs all three events. Its not the opposition parties or Anglo/Brit rule that is preventing me from participating in all three.
I think back to the Bannockburn parades of the sixties when the SNP organised such a show of strength and solidarity that the Unionist press panicked, and hid in their bubble of silence. They ignored a Bannockburn parade so long that one couldn't see the end of it. Winnie Ewing headed it, and every nationalist that could make it was there. Bring those days back. This time we have The National, which will cover our mass demonstrations and rallies.
Let's show the WORLD that we mean to declare a new independent Scottish democracy. The SNP and Alba, the Greens, Scottish Republicans, The League of Celtic Nations, and AUOB must, just like separate chiltrons at Bannockburn, work together in the same army, and advance as one great phalanx to inevitable victory, liberation, and freedom.
Iain Ramsay
Greenock & Inverclyde
COULDN'T agree more with Dianne Alexander's letter yesterday about the SNP (Party seem content to manage decline). I would add 'badly' in front of 'manage'. We know what's happening, it's crystal clear: run down Scotland to an extent where they think about ending Holyrood. So what's the way forward. We've tried the courts. So a plebiscite election?
Ken McCartney
Hawick

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