Thread by @Scotlandisyes

Here is 101 reasons and powers that Scotland will gain with dissolving the union with England, and these are real facts..

There are 62 areas of power that Scotland doesn't have but will instantly gain as a result of ending the union with England..

1 the constitution
2 registration and funding of parties
3 international relations
4 the civil service
5 defence
6 treason
7 fiscal, economic and monetary policy
8 currency
9 financial services
10 financial markets
11 money laundering
12 drug abuse

13 data protection, access information
14 elections
15 fire arms
16 film classification
17 immigration and nationality
18 scientific procedures on animals
19 national security and counter terrorism
20 betting, gaming and lottery
21 emergency powers
22 extradition

23 lieutenancies
24 business associations
25 insolvency
26 competition
27 intellectual property
28 import and export control
29 sea fishing outside the Scottish zone
30 customer protection
31 product standards, safety and liability
32 weights and measures

33 telecommunications
34 postal services
35 research councils
36 electricity
37 oil and gas
38 coal
39 Nuclear energy
40 energy efficiency
41 marine transport
42 air transport
43 social security schemes
44 child support
45 pensions
46 architect
47 health professional

48 auditor
49 employment and industrial relations
50 health and safety
51 xenotransplantation
52 embryology, surrogacy and genetics
53 medicines, supplies and poison
54 welfare foods
55 broadcasting
56 public lending right
57 judicial salaries
58 equal opportunities

59 weapons of mass destruction
60 ordinance survey
61 time
62 outer space

Scotland has none of those powers as they are reserved to England, we would gain all of this over night.
Impressed? Well that's not all..

Remember the powers that are being stolen by Westminster in the power grab? Here's the powers that will be added to the reserved list..

63 agricultural support
64 fertiliser regulations
65 gmo marketing
66 organic farming
67 zootec
68 animal health and traceability

69 animal welfare
70 chemicals regulation
71 reciprocal healthcare
72 environmental quality, chemicals
73 ozone depleting substance and gas
74 pesticides
75 waste and product regulations
76 fisheries management and support
77 feed safety and hygiene law

78 food compositional standards
79 food labelling
80 hazardous substances planning
81 eu emissions trading system
82 mutual recognition of qualifications
83 nutrition health claims
84 plant health and seeds
85 public procurement
86 services directive

All of the above is what every normal country in the world has the right to control, every country in the world except Scotland that is.

Let's continue with the long list of benefits an Indy Scotland will have, shall we..

87 removal of nuclear weapons

88 creation of modern constitution
89 modern functional democracy
90 exploration of oil and gas
91 pay for just one parliament
92 end to tax evasion, corruption
93 create a sovereign wealth fund
94 nationalise all infrastructure
95 invest in renewables
96 improve equality

97 increase state pension
98 create modern army, defense
99 eu membership or efta
100 no more Tory government's

This last reason for independence is the only one needed..

101 Scotland runs itself rather than our neighbour being in control.

Note: This statement was originally prepared for use within the United Nations, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international organisations when the question of Scotland’s exercise of the right to self-determination was raised there.

Scotland’s status as a nation is one of the key aspects to be considered by the national and international authorities, who are generally not very well informed on the subject, when the question arises of diplomatic recognition of an autonomous Scottish state.

It is therefore written with a foreign readership in mind, and it emphasises the points that will make the Scottish case in international diplomatic circles.

The expression "people", as tentatively defined by the United Nations Organisation,

denotes a social entity possessing a clear identity and its own characteristics as well as a lengthy common experience, and it implies a relationship with a territory. These are the basic elements of a definition for the purpose of establishing whether such a social entity is a

“people” fit to enjoy and exercise the right of self-determination. The expression "nation" implies a somewhat more highly developed stage of social cohesion and organisation.

The Scottish qualifications are absolutely unchallengeable on both counts.

The basic ethnic component of the Scottish Nation is a fusion of three related Celtic peoples, with later minor infusions of Viking, Flemish and other Germanic blood, especially in the small south-eastern corner of the country.
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This composition has remained predominant right to the present day, because the demographic movement has overwhelmingly consisted of a movement of population from Scotland, the only major inward movement until very recent times having been extensive immigration by the closely....

related Celtic Irish. Other recent ethnic immigrants have not altered this composition to the same extent. Three languages are spoken in the country to this day.

No nation in the world is entirely “pure”, in the sense of consisting of only one ethnic group, with the possible....

exception of a native tribe in some remote part of the globe. The decisive factor is the predominant ethnic element in its composition, the assimilation of incomers to its culture, and the distinctiveness of its way of life.

The Scottish people have been fused together over the centuries from distinct elements to become a unique whole unlike any other.

The Scottish Nation has occupied its national territory throughout its entire history, for there has never been any other occupant of the land...

since prehistoric times. Geographically, Scotland is almost an island. It has around 10,000 kilometres of coastline with 130 inhabited islands, and a mere 150 kilometres of land frontier - and that runs for most of its length over uninhabitable mountainous country. There are only

two main land routes into and out of the country, on the east and west coasts, as if Scotland were joined to a neighbouring island by two causeways.

This geographical distinctiveness is underlined by the nature of Scotland’s topography, with settlements to a great extent...

concentrated in narrow river valleys, on islands, along the coastline and the shores of fjords, with vast areas of uninhabitable mountainous country in between. Scotland is in fact a detached part of Scandinavia – something that is borne out by its geological history,.....

which is totally different from that of England to the south. England, where communications radiate out in all directions, is a detached part of continental Europe.

This distinctive geographical situation, and the climate of a land extending from 54° 38’ to 60° 51’ north of the

equator, is what determines Scotland’s geo-economic and hence geo-political situation. There is no more clearly defined geographical, and hence economic, social and cultural entity than Scotland. Consequently, Scotland will remain a natural base unit of political organisation for

all the foreseeable future.

The Scottish people are one of the most ancient nations in Europe, with one and a half thousand years of shared experience as a political unit, during which time they have lived continuously within the bounds of their present national territory......

While recent archaeological research indicates a history going back for thousands of years, the written historical evidence shows that the Scottish kingdom was founded by Fergus Mor around the year 500 AD. According to the first record of the formal inauguration of a monarch,....

Aedan mac Gabhran was consecrated King of Scots by St. Columba in the year 574 AD. The Declaration of Arbroath of the year 1320 states that Scotland had till that date been governed by "an uninterrupted succession of 113 kings, all of our own native and royal stock,....

without the intervening of any stranger". Scotland was a united kingdom by the early 9th century, with the union of the Picts and Scots under King Kenneth I, some 200 years before neighbouring England.

The present border between Scotland and England was finally established....

during the Middle Ages, almost exactly on the line of the frontier between the Roman province of Britannia (now England) and the unconquered territory of Caledonia (now Scotland). This is the line at which opposing forces have balanced out down through the ages....

The Scotland-England border was definitively fixed by the Treaty of York, concluded in 1237 between Alexander II, King of Scots, and Henry III, King of England. Scotland thereby gave up all claims to territory south of that border. Some minor adjustments were made by agreement in

1552, but otherwise the line agreed in 1273, running from the middle of the Solway Firth in the west to the mouth of the River Tweed in the east, has never been altered, and to this day it remains the border between the Scottish and English legal jurisdictions....

The 1706 Treaty of Union between Scotland and England and the subsequent Scottish and English ratifying Acts of Union all lay down that the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts may not be altered, notwithstanding the Union.

The only border issue comparable with similar cases in..

Europe concerns the town of Berwick upon Tweed, the strategically situated Scottish border town that was occupied by English troops in 1482 in an act of military aggression with no constitutional force. The Scottish king, James IV, who was anxious to marry the new...

English king Henry VII’s daughter, bowed to superior force and, in the 1502 Treaty of Perpetual Peace with England, agreed that Berwick would continue to be administered by England, while specifically remaining a part of Scotland. This curious mediaeval anachronism has never been

corrected, not even long after Berwick ceased to have any military importance, and it remains the situation to this day. Berwick upon Tweed is still under English administration, but the purely administrative boundary at Lamberton, 4 kilometres to the north of the town,...

has no constitutional significance. The Scotland-England border at this point is still the mouth of the River Tweed, as it has remained legally for almost eight centuries, and is the starting point for Scotland’s marine border. At no time has Berwick ever been transferred to....

England.

The factor that makes Scotland's claim of right to self-determination different from almost all others is that its participation within the present United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is not based on conquest or other form of assimilation,...

but on a treaty under international law as well as two acts of parliament that ratified and implemented the treaty. These measures can, of course, legally be rescinded at any time, since the circumstances that led to their conclusion now no longer prevail, and the disadvantages..

arising out of the present political structure are becoming daily more obvious. The elected Scottish Parliament and Government are completely competent to negotiate such a withdrawal from the treaty.

Scotland has a quite unique history of its own. It possesses its own highly...

distinctive legal and educational systems. The roll call of Scots who have achieved worldwide fame in the fields of learning, and the lists of their discoveries and inventions, would fill volumes. The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian, in the Calvinist tradition,...

but the Catholic and other Christian denominations are equally distinctive in character, springing as they all do from the early Celtic Church.

Almost all of Scotland's other national institutions are equally distinctive. Scots law is based on totally different principles from..

those of the legal system of the rest of the United Kingdom, and is more akin to continental European systems in its reception of Roman law. Scotland had a system of compulsory school education from the late 15th century, when its earliest universities were founded....

The Scottish Enlightenment had widespread international effects. Scottish constitutional ideas inspired both the American and French revolutions. The writings of the philosopher David Hume were the foundation for the Constitution of the United States and its numerous progeny...

around the world. Adam Smith founded the science of political economy, Adam Ferguson that of sociology. In the natural sciences James Clerk Maxwell is regarded as the equal of Albert Einstein. Scotland was a cradle of the industrial revolution, when the steam engine developed by,

James Watt revolutionised the world. The list of Scottish scientific achievements is endless: anaesthetic surgery, the bicycle, the telephone, television, radar, penicillin and countless others. The Scottish financial institutions are among the largest in the world.

Few people will fail to be aware of the highly distinctive Scottish national dress; even the Roman writers two thousand years ago described the checked tartan patterns of the clothing worn by their unconquerable adversaries, the Caledonians...

Many countries share the bagpipe as a musical instrument, but nowhere was it brought to such a pitch of perfection as in Scotland, which is unique in possessing a large repertoire of classical music for it. The Scots share their heritage of Celtic graphic art with their Irish...

cousins, but in music, dance, literature, architecture and many another field the Scottish culture is absolutely unique in the world. On an international scale, Scotland is one of the few custodians of Europe's ancient Celtic heritage,...

the preservation of which is a matter that concerns all the peoples of the continent.

The ancient crown insignia of the Kingdom of Scots, the Honours of Scotland, which can be seen in Edinburgh Castle, testify to one of the oldest monarchies in the world.

The State Crown is so ancient that its date of manufacture is unknown, although it was remodelled in 1540 for King James V. It was certainly in existence when the reigning Popes presented the State Sceptre and the Sword of State to James IV, King of Scots,...

in 1494 and 1505 respectively. The historic Parliament House in Edinburgh, completed in 1639, and now the seat of the Scottish supreme courts of law, indicates the country's lengthy tradition of democratic government in a national Assembly,

for which the word "Parlament" was used by a chronicler as early as the year 1174 under William I, King of Scots – the first time in history it has been recorded as a designation for a legislative Assembly.

Scotland's claim of right to self-determination was first raised at international level almost seven centuries ago, when the Declaration of Arbroath was sent in 1320 to the Pope - the then international authority - by the Scottish leaders in the name of...

"the whole community of the realm of Scotland". It was not an appeal for independence, but an assertion by a people who had been independent since their origins in the mists of history that they were under no circumstances prepared to give up that status for subservience to an..

aggressor. This important constitutional document confirmed the sovereignty of the people over the institutions of state, and unequivocally asserted the independence of the Scottish Nation, as the following extract makes clear:
"But if this Prince (Robert I, King of Scots)...

shall consent that we or our kingdom be subjected to the king or people of England, we will immediately exert ourselves to expel him, as our enemy and as the subverter both of his own rights and of ours, and we will make another king who will defend our liberties.

For so long as one hundred of us remain alive we will never consent to subject ourselves to the dominion of the English. We fight not for glory, or riches, or honours, but for freedom alone, which no good man will relinquish, except with his life."

No other nation in the world possesses a more inspiring declaration of independence. Moreover, its constitutional principles, which have been reinforced over the centuries by Scottish constitutional and legal writers, are fully in accord with modern concepts of democracy.

It cannot, therefore, be asserted that the Scots are not a distinctive people within the meaning of the United Nations definition. They have established their unassailable right to self-determination, and to such degree of self-government as they themselves...

freely decide to assume without external interference. We anticipate that Scotland's rights in this respect will be unequivocally confirmed and upheld by the international community in Europe and the world, in accordance with the..

United Nations Bill of Human Rights, the Helsinki Final Act and the other relevant instruments by which all participating states are bound.

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The reason Yes was on the back foot was because the status quo was known, therefore the Noes just had to ask questions. Which became increasingly stupid in many cases (eg how much will a first class stamp cost in an independent Scotland 🤪)

but while it seemed farcical to me - to the point where, after being in Glasgow that wonderful summer, I was sure we would win. So they drowned us in "unanswered" questions, and it was (just) enough to convince just enough people that it might not be worth the risk.

As my good friend Will said,we crystalised the thrust of the no argument in 2014. Vote No,because Yes is too much hassle. No is go back to sleep. But that is also why we have a great gift in the Brexit travesty. What status quo is there now? Who has the questions to answer now?

Let's put them on the back foot, for it is Yes and continued 'relations' (whatever form they take) with our European friends, allies and trading partners. We offer relative stability.

Some questions for No.
How are you going to replace all that European trade?

How are you going to replicate those trade deals the EU has negotiated that you've just walked away from?
How can the UK survive on its own with nothing in place?
Can you guarantee the security of our NHS?
Won't the UK be a basket case economy with £2trn debt?

Won't the UK be a basket case with nowhere to send exports and an already dreadful balance of trade deficit?
That pound, won't it now sink like a stone?
Why are you pulling us away from an awesome trade deal with the 35 most stable and affluent countries on the planet?

Why are we seeking shit deals with poor countries?
Why would we want you morons to continue to run our country?

One voice,
One meaning,
One demand,
One collective movement, slowly dragging a nation behind it, with stooped backs, digging their toes in the muck, gradually inch by inch edging closer and closer by the day, it can see where it needs to be, up ahead, to breathe, to enlighten,

it can see what it wants, what it desires to survive.
But there's clouds around and the rain comes in from the south and still it pulls, but with more and more gusto than before, it'll get there, slowly slowly catch a monkey.
The goal is greater than first thought, the size of

the task in hand has been realised for some, its relentless, the biggest chess game of the century has only some pieces left, the countdown has begun.

Put pettiness and tribalism aside, it's too important for that, we are one voice let it be HEARD

Yes.

We often try to figure out why we were not 'awake' prior to indyref campaign in 2012. There was not a mention of Scottish Independence then except from SNP, and they were not getting much support when we were young adults, though we did vote for them

..Our lives were run from Westminster in those days, and the politics on TV was always about Labour, Tories and Lib Dems, always the same. Until devolution, Scotland was kept in the dark, Labour in Scotland was, we know now, complicit in this. They were never acting for Scotland.

It was all a sham. The emergence of the McCrone report, thanks to Alex Salmond, and the moving of our sea border where Donald Dewar conspired to cheat Scotland out of some of it's oil revenue, opened Scotland's eyes. The fact they put a statue of this traitor at the...

Buchanan Steps, shows how much in the dark we were at that time. Devolution changed things as Blair knew it would, we then had a means to ask questions and start delving into Scottish affairs that we never had before.

We will forever be grateful to Alex Salmond for waking many more of us up. Another little fact is that Willie MacRae tried to take WM on and was silenced in 1985, that was also covered up and no proper inquiry permitted.

"A couple of facts to those who say Scotland had their say in 2014 as though democracy was decided and set in stone like some modern ten commandments.
The world has moved on since then.

In 2014 The Liberal democrats were in government.

David Cameron was Prime Minster
#Unaware of Piggate
Nick Clegg was Deputy Prime Minister
#Unaware of Brexit
George Osborne was Chancellor
#Unaware of his journalistic talents
Theresa May was struggling at the Home Office
#Unaware that strepsils were a good thing

Michael Fallon was at Defence
#Unaware that he may need one in sex offence case
Vince Cable still had influence as Trade and Business Secretary
#Unaware of his pending demotion to is liberal leader

Ian Duncan Smith planned work camps for the poor and sick
#Unaware that a few million folk will shoot him on sight
Jeremy Hunt was Secretary of State for Health
#Unaware that he will be held responsible for the state of the NHS

Justine Greening was carefully plotting her road to the top
#Unaware of others plotting banana skins in her career path
Secretary of State for Scotland is Alistair Carmichael
#
#Unaware of impending election fraud case.

And as the world turned on these events and 1..6 million of us retired to take stock about how we had lost. Some decided that they could never face the pain of that day ever again and put themselves into a political coma. Some fell by the wayside out of strength life and hope.

BUT UNAWARE 100S OF 1000S OF US WENT AWAY AND LEARNED STUFF. WE LEARNED ABOUT MEDIA, WE LEARNED ABOUT COMMUNICATION. WE LEARNED ABOUT MILITARY TACTICS WE LEARNED ABOUT MISINFORMATION .WE LEARNED ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY. WE LEARNED ABOUT MARKETING, WE LEARNED ABOUT NOT BEING GOOD LOSERS

BUT ABOUT BEING BETTER WINNERS.

And you sat in your bubbles thinking we had gone away.

UNAWARE that this is not about 2014 or 1314 or 1966

THIS IS ABOUT US FINALLY BECOMING AWARE.

AND HELL MEND YOU"