July 14, 2005 Dress rehearsal.

This was announced to the world. A Freedom March from the Wallace Monument to Gleneagles and a symbolic storming of the barricades. The barricades were left over from the G9 Meeting which came to a premature end on July 7th 2005.

I enjoyed an 18 mile walk through the Perthshire countryside carrying the Jacobite Standard.

Nobody showed up.

In politics as in life, timing is everything.

I do have the distinction of being the first Scot since Bonnie Prince Charlie to lead a revolution on Scottish soil.

July 14, 2006 The Real Deal. We need a big show of support for the cause. To establish the popular case for Independence, to establish the momentum for change and to get the show on the road. If that isn't enough, it should be one hell of a party.

In light of the 2005 experience, this was put on hold.

May 2007 Jacobite candidates with a Republican agenda in all Scottish Constituencies. Make the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections a referendum on change. Freedom for Scotland.

The Treaty of Union of 1707 which united the Scottish and English Parliaments was a short term English political fix. The aim was to secure the succession to the English throne. In 1703, the Scottish Parliament had passed the Act of Security which could have resulted in different monarchs on the Scottish and English thrones.

Following the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the Royal Court and Scottish center of power moved to England. The English Parliament passed the Alien Act in 1705, threatening to seize Scottish assets in England and stop all Scottish exports to England. An overt act of intimidation. Most of the Scottish nobility and merchants had lost money in the Darien Disaster. An ill-fated scheme to establish a Scottish Colony in Central America. The Act of Union includes £400,000 to cover the losses of Scottish investors in the Darien Company. A bribe. Despite country wide Scottish opposition to the Union, all but one of the Scotish negotiating commissioners appointed by Queen Anne were pro-Union. A Federal Union which would have retained the Scottish Parliament was rejected by these commissioners. Kirk opposition to the Union was bought off by a separate Act of Parliament which secured the position of the Church of Scotland and its right to tax the people. Passage of The Act of Union through the Scottish Parliament was eased by £20,000 in English gold. As Robert Burns noted later:-

"We're bought and sold for English gold - Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!"

In 1714, Queen Anne died and was succeeded by King George from Hanover, who could speak no English (or Scots).

The Treaty of Union of 1707, established Scotland as an English colony. Enough.

Historically, the Border has been flexible. As invading armies moved north or south, Berwick was English, Scottish, English as each army captured the town and moved on. Eventually army commanders decided that it was too much hassle laying seige to the town and by-passed Berwick completely. By historic accident, Berwick has been English since.

The land, property and resources of Scotland have been raped and pillaged by English interests over the centuries and it is time to redress this injustice. The last Jacobite invasion reached Derby and established the historic precedence to move the Scottish/English Border to a line of latitude through Derby. This would leave a rather paltry England. Our fall back position is a line one mile south of Hadrian's Wall. This Roman monument to Scottish tenacity would then serve to defend The Scottish Republic from further English incursions. We propose a compromise between these two positions.

The new Scottish/English Border will be a line from Morecambe Bay to Flamborough Head along latitude 54 degrees 7 minutes North.

Newcastle United, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Carlisle (Gretna) will play in the Scottish Premier League!

The Treaty of Union of 1707 was a document created by a corrupt process. It was designed to eliminate any political threat from Scotland and secure the English establishments approved succession to the English throne. The Treaty of Separation of 2007 will be negotiated openly, but it will adequately protect the interests of Scotland.

The assets of the Union must be divided fairly. After 300 years of exploitation and neglect, what is fair? Three hundred years of Scottish blood spilled on foreign lands in support of English adventures, three hundred years of Lowland and Highland Clearances, three hundred years of the brightest and best of Scotland forced to emigrate from their native land. What is fair?

Current divorce legislation in the Western World indicates a 50% split of all assets acquired since the Union.

This would leave an impoverished United Kingdom of England (Uke) which would be a threat to the security of an Independent Scotland.

Division on the basis of the populations in 1707? Maybe. Division on the basis of the populations in 2007? Maybe if we include the expatriate Scottish population. Division on the basis of the size of the two countries? Scotland is 31% of the area of the two countries combined. We claim 31% of the assets of the Union.

Army, Navy, Air Force, Foreign Embassies, Gold Reserves, Protectorates, Government Departments. Thirty one percent of the assets of the Union belong to Scotland by right.

An Independent Scotland out of the EU freed from the political and economic constrains of targets, waiting lists, league tables, strikes, unjust fishing quota allocations, the loss of ship building contracts to Polish yards, with a slim line government using e-democracy, using local bonds to finance local projects not expensive PPP and PFI schemes, no unemployment, a rebranded tourist destination, a sensible pay-as-you-go criminal justice system, without the financial drag of Trident and the East London regeneration scheme otherwise known as the 2012 Olympics will flourish.

An Independent Scotland out of the EU upgrades the Scottish/English border from a sign at the side of the road to an International Border.

To maintain the security of Scotland border controls will be necessary.

These will be equivalent to those in operation between Canada and the US. They can create traffic delays at peak times but are necessary to maintain the integrity and sovereignty of the two Nations - Independent Scotland and The United Kingdoms of England (Uke).

There will be problems on the Uke side of the border. They will have to set up refugee camps to handle those Ukes seeking a better life in a Free and Independent Scotland. However, Westminster has extensive experience with the refugee camps at Sangin in Northern France and should be able to cope.