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!
The sovereignty of Scotland’s people is both a constitutional fact and an inviolable principle.
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.
We desperately need a radical pro-independence party.
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.
Excellent summary of this sad yet rather predictable outcome, Peter. The co-opted National Party colonial payroll continue its deceit, much in line with postcolonial theory and evidence. But the people are moving, on a range of liberation initiatives, yourself at the forefront of political thought on the matter.
For my own part the ongoing Liberation Scotland/Salvo petitioning of the United Nations Committees on Decolonization last week in New York has brought our right to self-determination and denial of this right much greater international attention. And our visits to many Permanent Missions of UN Member States has further expanded their knowledge and understanding of our case.
It is also evident that had the SNP leadership any real interest in independence they would have already long since created a (provisional at least) Scotland Permanent Mission at the UN in readiness for independence, which is defined as decolonization, as well as UN Membership.
https://grousebeater.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/the-other-scotland/
"Delegates roundly endorsed the treachery that their leader proposes - calling it a ‘strategy’."
The first thing I'd say is that 'strategy' has got its work cut out there.
Swinney's response to Graeme McCormick's question about 'what happens when they say no' is "nobody knows the tactics I’ll deploy".
That's a sort of 'trust me, I'm honest but crafty John with a very cunning and, most importantly, secret plan'.
With regards to the residual SNP membership the term 'dumb beast' that you, Peter, often use with respect to the electorate in aggregate could apply even more pertinently to those in the conference hall in Aberdeen that endorsed.
They are supposed to be nationalist 'anoraks'. They are supposed to be 'switched on'. They are supposed to support Scotland's Cause to the exclusion of all else. They are supposed, above all, to back Scotland's popular sovereignty over England's parliamentary sovereignty.
It turns out that the membership dumb beast is a nodding donkey.