Betrayed!

We knew when the final agenda was published that there was going to be no good news for Scotland’s cause coming from the SNP Conference in Aberdeen. Nonetheless, when the bad news came it came like a blow to the solar plexus. Delegates roundly endorsed the treachery that their leader proposes - calling it a ‘strategy’.

Let’s not mince words. The leadership resolution submitted in the names of John Swinney and Keith Brown should have been challenged on the grounds that it is treasonous. The proposal to go as supplicant to the British Prime Minister begging permission to conduct a glorified opinion poll that cannot lead to independence is an act of heinous treachery. To plead for a Section 30 order is to acknowledge the superiority of the British state. It is to validate the alien doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty and thus deny the sovereignty of Scotland’s people.

What hurts is that the membership of the SNP endorsed this treachery, they became accomplices. As does anyone who votes for the SNP in any election at any time. The SNP stands for betrayal. It is now the official policy and position of the self-styled ‘party of independence’ that fate of our nation is not in the hands of Scotland’s people, but in the cold and deadly grasp of jealous Britannia.

I cannot now vote for the SNP or any of it’s candidates. Not under any circumstances. The SNP leadership, with the full approval of the party’s membership, has made it impossible for a Scottish nationalist to vote for them. As a Scottish nationalist, I am obliged to embrace the principle of popular sovereignty. I do so gladly. Because I am also a democrat and a socialist - in the sense of having a social conscience.

Moreover, I am now forced to campaign against the SNP lest I be seen as condoning the treachery they propose. I have no choice but to actively oppose John Swinney’s intended legitimisation of British domination. I cannot by passivity allow his denial of the sovereignty of Scotland’s people. The sovereignty of Scotland’s people is both a constitutional fact and an inviolable principle. John Swinney intends to violate the principle with the approval of party members!

As things stand, the only choice we have is between parties which have no strategy for allowing the people of Scotland to exercise our right of self-determination and a party that is determined to has only a strategy to prevent the formal exercise of our right of self-determination.

There seems no way back now for the SNP. Up until Saturday 11 October 2025 I could hold onto some hope that with an election looming, the independence movement could combine in a show of strength which might force the SNP to rethink the Sturgeon doctrine of deference which has gripped the party since 2015. That small hope was crushed by conference delegates who put party before cause and the rewards of elected office before the welfare of our once proud nation.

What next? Obviously, I have thoughts on that question. But I intend to mull the matter a bit before making any statement. What I am sure of is that we must not let the treachery of the SNP go unanswered. The 2026 election provides the ideal opportunity to initiate the process of restoring Scotland’s independence. The SNP has told us in unambiguous terms that it is not the party which will exploit this opportunity. Voters must be offered an alternative. We desperately need a radical pro-independence party.