Scotland: A Colony and Its Consequences

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In Scotland, a difficult truth is emerging — quietly, and against years of official narrative:

Scotland is a colony.

A parliament on loan.
Powers curtailed.
The centre of authority outside the nation.

Even neutral legal models now recognise it. 2/
Where empire ruled, one outcome repeats with bleak consistency:

addiction, self-medication, and early death.

Not from weakness.
Not from culture.
But from generations living without control over identity, resources, or direction.

The public-health record of empire is written in grief.

Unionist voices point to Scotland’s drug crisis as proof the country can’t govern itself.

But when Scotland’s case is examined alongside other colonised peoples globally, the pattern match is unmistakable.

1/ When Scotland is registered as a NSGT & accepted as England's Colony it's *proto-colonial* period will be examined. It will be hard to begin it later than the 11th C, or earlier.

Almost 800 yrs of *resistance* to colonisation - *before* colonisation was finally achieved. 2/ It was such a long resistance because Scotland is the land that defeated Rome - England struggled to defeat it militarily, and when it did it could not hold it. Scotland's fierce resistance is why its proto-colonial period was so long and so misunderstood. The atrocities...

@pix3lpro @DarkIslandTours @LiberationScot 1/"Given the tense nature of Anglo-Scottish relations, an incorporating union would remove the worst possible scenario from the Scottish perspective, namely a military invasion of Scotland... An invasion of Scotland was one policy option considered if an incorporating union..." @pix3lpro @DarkIslandTours @LiberationScot 2/"...should fail to be secured, but it remains debatable whether or not this was a disguised threat designed to bully the Scots into a negotiating position or whether or not English military forces would have been sent into Scotland. James Johnston informed Baillie of..."