Peter A Bell

We have created an economy which works by ensuring the vast majority of people are made to feel insecure in some way and to some extent. Security is the ultimate luxury good. peterabell.substack.com/p/doing-the-... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

The constitutional issue was lost in a welter of policy issues, primarily to do with the economy. peterabell.substack.com/p/the-wonks-... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

It is difficult to find anything new to say about the constitutional issue—which is my main interest—when nothing much has happened for twelve years. peterabell.substack.com/p/the-curren... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

That's odd! Why would they reject Swinney's 'demand' when 'ringfenced' means they can spend the money however they please? www.thenational.scot/news/2665922...

The Scotland Office is the British state scent-marking what it regards as its territory. It is a symbolic imperialist presence. A daily reminder of Scotland's subordinate status in a grotesquely asymmetric political union. www.thenational.scot/politics/266... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Whether Scotland is a colony or is merely being treated as such by the British state, what we must do remains the same. We must act as if we have been colonised regardless of whether we are or are not. peterabell.substack.com/p/lighbulb-m... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Whether Scotland is a colony or is merely being treated as such by the British state, what we must do remains the same. We must act as if we have been colonised regardless of whether we are or are not. peterabell.substack.com/p/lighbulb-m... #ScottishUDI #EndTheUnion

The SNP’s position is that we can choose whatever we want, so long as it’s something England-as-Britain doesn’t mind us having. peterabell.substack.com/p/two-lies?r... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

"But perhaps the cancellation that hit home with the maximum impact was that of the author Sally Rooney, who withdrew sales of her books from Britain." bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/10/18/t...

#ScottishUDI - The strategy for independence peterabell.substack.com/p/scottishud...

Here we are, nearly 27 years into the devolution era, and only now is a splinter group within the self-styled ‘party of independence’ talking about setting up a Constitutional Convention. peterabell.substack.com/p/no-horses-... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

If you ask permission, the asking necessarily implies that permission may be granted or withheld. peterabell.substack.com/p/grating-co... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Politicians speak in glittering generalities much of the time. There is no substance behind the SNP’s lofty pronouncements. peterabell.substack.com/p/being-gull... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Never let the independence movement forget this statement from the man who claims to speak for all of us. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Relying on the Section 30 process is probably the best example of the old thinking we might find. peterabell.substack.com/p/first-thin... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Scotland is caged in a political union we were dragged into more than three centuries ago by England, which had always regarded Scotland as both a weak point on its northern flank and a potential threat from that direction. peterabell.substack.com/p/the-destin... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Now into three figures. I'm calling it a landmark. openletter.earth/an-open-lett... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

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If you want to argue that Scotland is not a colony, then you have to explain why only England-as-Britain is able to change the terms of the political union. peterabell.substack.com/p/making-our... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

I've made the news! youtube.com/shorts/F2g6Q... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

An Open Letter peterabell.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

Swinney is openly admitting that while speaking and acting on behalf of the people of Scotland, he accedes to the alien doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. peterabell.substack.com/p/giving-it-... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

The mindset that pervades the independence industry is what keeps Scotland’s cause on a treadmill of our own construction. peterabell.substack.com/p/on-the-tre... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

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The resolution doesn’t call for any change in the SNP leadership’s current ‘strategy’. peterabell.substack.com/p/less-than-... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Then the likes of Giugliano come along waving their credentials and telling the group, “Ye cannae dae that!” peterabell.substack.com/p/the-one?r=... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

This is the kind of ‘coincidence’ that prompts conspiracy theories. www.thenational.scot #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Swinney was OK when it was a meeting of party leaders. It was a different story when it came to being in the same room as the likes of Common Weal (CW) and Scottish Independence Forum (SIF) peterabell.substack.com/p/not-so-eas... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

The interesting stuff comes with the amendment submitted by the Newington & Southside branch. You may recall that this is the branch responsible for what came to be called the Newington Resolution, submitted to the 2026 conference. peterabell.substack.com/p/interestin... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

If we act in the manner of a sovereign state, it is for others to challenge our right to do so. It is for them to prove that we are not sovereign. peterabell.substack.com/p/call-and-r... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

But the pictures in the glossy brochure for the independence vacation are of different destinations. And there is no information at all about how and when you travel to whatever turns out to be the actual location. www.thenational.scot/news/2658903... #ScottishUDI #EndTheUnion

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One would expect that a ‘party of independence’ would have had a “Pathway to Independence” under continuous consideration since its inception. peterabell.substack.com/p/is-john-sw... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/25/r...

These exercises in futility are coming at the rate of one or two a week as the party conference looms and the SNP leadership grows more fearful of some kind of revolt by those in the party who recognise the game Swinney is playing. peterabell.substack.com/p/willing-vi... #ScottishUDI #EndTheUnion

These AI characters seem ideally fitted to the role of party-political spokesbladder. www.thenational.scot/news/2657183...

The SNP’s failure to deliver the frequently promised referendum is without doubt the party’s Achilles heel. peterabell.substack.com/p/machiavell... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

The SNP doesn’t have a strategy for restoring Scotland’s independence. The leadership is desperately trying to conceal this fact while simultaneously making it glaringly obvious. peterabell.substack.com/p/falling-ap... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

I will make the case that the generally accepted (SNP) framing of the constitutional issue is wrong and that the obstacles to progress for Scotland’s cause are not what we have been led to believe they are. peterabell.substack.com/p/an-opportu... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Scotland’s independence will not be restored by Westminster. Nor will Westminster provide the means and opportunity for the people of Scotland to fully and freely exercise our right of self-determination. peterabell.substack.com/p/somethings... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

If the SNP adheres to the principle that the people of Scotland are sovereign, and if the SNP claims to have a mandate from the sovereign people of Scotland, why would Westminster’s consent and cooperation be required? peterabell.substack.com/p/perpetuati... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

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“mostly symbolic and performative" – John Curtice Good to get a bit of honesty in the pages of The National. www.thenational.scot/news/2655213...

Would it be tempting fate too much to have one named after Alex Salmond and the other after Nicola Sturgeon? www.thenational.scot/news/2655080...

One of the earliest and most powerful lessons I learned from the 2014 campaign is that there are no definitive answers to any of these questions. peterabell.substack.com/p/slow-learn... #ScottishUDI #EndTheUnion

"That pursuit of a different attitude from UK Government." - Welsh First Minister ap Iorweth Am I the only one who sees the tragic folly of making the restoration of independence contingent on a change of attitude by the UK Government? www.thenational.scot/news/2654604... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Dangerous ideas The Scottish Parliament is the only body which can legislate for a proper constitutional referendum. It can only do so by first repossessing the powers in relation to the constitution which were stripped from it by England-as-Britain. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Dangerous ideas There is no route to a proper constitutional referendum and the restoration of Scotland’s independence through the legal constitutional framework which has developed under the influence of England-as-Britain’s imperative to preserve the Union. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Dangerous ideas The ‘self’ in ‘self-determination’ refers only to the people of Scotland and not the people of Scotland plus whoever John Swinney invites into what is entirely an internal matter for Scotland. #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI

Nobody is going to be allowed to speak if there is any danger of them stating the truth that Westminster has no legitimate role in the process by which the people of Scotland exercise our right of self-determination. peterabell.substack.com/p/running-on... #EndTheUnion #ScottishUDI