Scottish Sovereignty Movement

Political Movement dedicated to the Restoration of 100per cent of Scottish National Sovereignty by and for the Scottish People

The Scottish Sovereignty Movement was formed by people who had devoted lifetimes of energy and commitment collectively to the SNP and who found themselves “homeless” when, in breach of their own Constitution, the leadership without debate foisted upon their membership the “policy” of “Independence in Europe”. The disenfranchised members left the party rather than be seen to participate in a deliberate deception of the membership by the leadership. I have posted three papers from the time of our leaving the SNP which people may find interesting and helpful in forming an opinion about the "National Question. " They are not only relative to Scotland’s position inside a British political union, but the UK’s position inside a European Union.


The first is a paper is entitled “Nationality. ”

The second, “The Sovereignty ’90 Charter” is a document circulated to 250 prominent Scots to give an indication of support for our position and to try and dissuade the executive of the SNP to ditch their flagship policy of “Independence In Europe. ” Some 157 of the people petitioned signed and returned the charters. This served to prove that there were “An hundred of us” of a similar persuasion to each other. The charters were signed by poets, politicians, ministers of religion, historians, the party President, a former Leader, a former Deputy Leader, a direct descendant of Gibbie Hay, Capt Jock Hay of Delgatie, Ellice and Nan (MacLean) Milton, James D Young and a good few humble ordinary folk . They were and are representative.


The third document is entitled the Declaration of Inverness. This was unashamedly drafted as a device to attract publicity for our point of view and to that extent it succeeded. After its publication the SNP framed and passed at conference a resolution to have a retrospective referendum in a post Independence Scotland. This promise, as I understand it, has been quietly withdrawn.

We, the late Bob Mulholland (my co-founder of the Scottish Sovereignty Movement) and myself read the document publicly from the Clach Na Chuddin Stone * situated outside the Town House in Inverness on the 670th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath. The document alludes to the contemporary relevance of the original and re-affirms its principles.

* (The stone whose gaelic name means literally, "the stone of the washer women" was originally in the River Ness at Friars Shott and was used by the women of the Burgh to bash their claes on. In memory of their aggrieved blethers, it is still today regarded as a place of free speech and as such the people protesting from thereon are, I believe, and hope, immune from prosecution. Definitely the best place in Inverness to “hae a bit rant. ”