Six bullet points

The Manifesto for Independence consists of only six bullet points. I’ve had people complain that it is too complicated. It’s six bullet points!

The six bullet points outline a process which I call #ScottishUDI. This process starts from where we are right now and ends with independence restored. To date, it is the only such process to have been identified.

Where the original idea was merely to produce a kind of template which others could use when formulating their own plan, it quickly became apparent to me that there was no other plan. #ScottishUDI is the only thing that works. Others talk of this and that ‘route to independence’. But all those routes either end up being #ScottishUDI, or they fail to reach the endpoint of independence.

All routes to independence converge on the issue of legislative competence. The British state does not deny our right of self-determination. What the British state does is obstruct our access to the means to exercise our right of self-determination. The main way in which it does this is by ‘reserving’ powers over the constitution. Powers which rightly belong with the Scottish Parliament, but which are being withheld.