Thread by @thomsonchris

Breaking the Colonial Frame at the United Nations: A Thread

1/ A report now formally lodged within the UN system @UN, submitted to the UN Secretary General António Guterres @antonioguterres by the Chinese non-profit International Probono Legal Services Association (IPLSA) based in Hong Kong, China, with Liberation Scotland and several partners, reframes Scotland not as a “region” of the UK, but as a case of decolonisation. Scotland is an English colony.

IPLSA has Special Consultative Status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The significance of its support for Scotland is tremendous, notably geopolitically. Former colonised people recognise other colonised people.

This is legal positioning not commentary.🧵

2/ This document has crossed a decisive threshold:

-Circulated at the UN Human Rights Council (61st session)
-Received by the UN Secretary-General
-Entered into official UN procedures

The whole world can read it online on the official United Nations website.

Scotland has been inserted into the architecture of international law.

3/ For decades, one narrative dominated:

“Scotland freely chose and continues to choose the Union”. It's a colonial lie created by the English colonial state.

This report fractures that narrative at its core. Scotland did not enter into a "voluntary union" and is a "decency" i.e. an English colony.

4/ It replaces political storytelling with legal analysis; a colonial fiction with the truth.

Scotland is examined not through British i.e. English constitutional language, but through the framework used globally to assess colonial situations.

5/ Within that decolonisation and international law framework, the conclusion is stark:

Scotland aligns with recognised patterns of territorial subordination under a dominant, colonial state.

6/ This is the strategic breakthrough.

Once a situation is read through international law rather than domestic mythology, the entire terrain shifts.

7/ The report dismantles the central pillar of the UK’s position i.e. the position of the English coloniser :

the idea that devolution equals self-government.

8/ Instead, devolution is revealed as a managed system of delegated authority.

Power is distributed, but never transferred.
Control remains structurally centralised. Scotland remains annexed and plundered by the English colonial state.

9/ In plain terms:

Scotland administers (certain domains given the highly colonial existence of "reserved matters"). The English state decides.

That is not sovereignty but colonial supervision.

10/ This reflects a wider global pattern.

Across multiple territories, limited autonomy has been used to stabilise domination, not to dismantle it. What is particularly shocking with the case of Scotland is that the English colonial state has managed to mostly hide its annexation and territorial alienation of Scotland until now. But Liberation Scotland, Scotland's liberation movement, with Professor Robert Black King's Counsel, Scotland's leading law authority, has proven annexation. This must be judged on the international stage.

11/ The report identifies this clearly:

internal arrangements operate within boundaries defined by the dominant power.

Freedom is simulated. Authority is retained. Scotland is enslaved by the English colonial state.

12/ From this follows a crucial legal conclusion:

internal self-determination, under such conditions, cannot resolve the situation. Scotland is a sovereign state illegally occupied by another state, the English colonial state.

13/ The only coherent pathway, grounded in UN doctrine, is:

external self-determination.

The recognised route of decolonisation in international law. This is the road for Scotland to be free and sovereign again.

14/ This is not rhetoric.

It is anchored in:
-UN Charter Article 1(2)
-UN General Assembly Resolution 1514
-UN General Assembly Resolution 1541

These are the foundations of modern decolonisation.

The English colonial state should have reported Scotland as a non-self governing territory i.e. a colony in 1946/48 under the UN Charter. Instead the English coloniser has created a fiction of a "voluntary union".

15/ The implication is decisive:

Scotland’s status cannot be settled within the constitutional order that defines and limits it. Westminster is illegitimate in Scotland and unlawfully intervening in Scotland. Scotland is a matter of international law.

16/ Another key dimension:

Scotland is not only colonially governed, it is strategically instrumentalised (and plundered as we know, Scotland being the most resource-rich nation in Europe).

17/ The presence of nuclear weapons at Faslane illustrates this clearly.

Decisions of existential consequence are imposed, while risks are borne locally. Nuclear presence in Scotland should only be a sovereign Scottish decision. (Not even mentioning nuclear pollution and contamination in Scotland).

18/ This is a familiar structure in colonial configurations:

The colonial centre concentrates power. The colonised, annexed territory absorbs exposure.

19/ The report then advances a concrete institutional pathway:

consideration of Scotland as a Non-Self-Governing Territory i.e. a colony listed as such by the United Nations.

20/ Such recognition would trigger:

- Formal acknowledgment within the UN system
-Legal responsibilities under Article 73
-International monitoring of the decolonisation process
-Global interest

This is procedural leverage at the highest level.

21/ For decades, this classification has been avoided.

Now it is reintroduced, formally, within UN space. Once again, Scotland should have been classified as a colony by the UN in the 1950s. The English colonial state created a fiction and a lie instead about a "voluntary union".

22/ The most profound shift is this:

Scotland is no longer confined to a domestic, English constitutional question.

It is repositioned as an issue of international concern.

23/ Once internationalised:

-External actors can engage
-UN bodies can intervene
-Legal scrutiny replaces narrative control
-The international community can see the truth

The monopoly of interpretation is broken.

24/ The cumulative effect is severe for the established narrative:

-“Voluntary union” is destabilised. It's an English colonial construction
-Devolution is reinterpreted. It's simply part of England's colonialism in Scotland
-Internal self-determination is insufficient and rigged

A different legal reality emerges.

25/ That reality is structured, comparative, and grounded in law. International law.

Not slogans. Not sentiment.

But doctrine. (By the way, the Treaty of Union is international law since it was signed between sovereign states. But England never implemented the Treaty used to colonise Scotland.)

26/ This document therefore functions as:

- A legal articulation of Scotland’s colonial condition
- A diplomatic instrument within the UN system
- A bridge toward formal decolonisation mechanisms
-An important milestone for unveiling the truth about Scotland's reality on the global stage

27/ Its entry into UN processes matters enormously.

It creates record and introduces language while compelling response.

28/ For Scotland, this is an opening.

For the English colonial state, this is exposure to external scrutiny.

The world can understand that Scotland is an English colony.

29/ The essential transformation is now underway:

The question shifts from political preference to legal status.

30/ Once framed in law, at the international level, the dynamics change irreversibly. As an English colony, Scotland's liberation cannot be left to the English colonial state, which opposes it.

31/ This is how decolonisation begins:

not with permission,
but with reclassification, mobilisation, knowledge, and international engagement.

32/ End/ As an English colony, Scotland has now entered that process.

The framework is in place and the argument is lodged.
The arena is now global.

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