Robertson ducks the Constitution part of his portfolio from fear of angering his colonial masters
Published in the Edinburgh Evening News, March 19, 2025.
Sounds like Angus Robertson had a grand old time at the St Patrick’s day reception hosted by the Irish Consulate General in Edinburgh. In his latest bi-weekly fluff piece, the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, extols the Emerald Isle’s economic and cultural success which puts colonial Scotland’s performance in the shade.
He seems to attribute Ireland’s relative prosperity to EU membership alone, not to its status as an independent state. In fact, Robertson doesn’t once mention the ‘I’ word, which is curious for a minister whose party’s raison d’être is supposedly restoring Scotland’s independence.
Robertson’s ambitions for Scotland are modest in the extreme. He complains about the UK having squandered Scotland’s oil, depriving the Scottish People of hundreds of billions of pounds and a sovereign wealth fund, but then weakly suggests Scotland can do something on renewables without providing details.
Airmiles Angus shows more enthusiasm for international outreach because that way he can maximise his foreign trips where he pretends to promote Scotland’s interests.
As for the “Constitution” part of Robertson’s ministerial portfolio, readers will recall that he couldn’t be bothered to respond directly to Respect Scottish Sovereignty’s petition, PE2135, that calls on the Scottish Government to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) into Scots law, which it has the power to do under The Scotland Act 1998:
Instead, he delegated the Scottish Administration’s response to Dominic Munro of the Directorate for Constitution, a civil servant reporting to Whitehall who wrongly claimed that the implementation of international human rights agreements only pertains to devolved matters.
“Devolved competence” didn’t exist prior to the Scotland Act 1998 which, insofar as powers to incorporate international Human Rights treaties are concerned, remains unchanged and in full force. Furthermore, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) and the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have repeatedly called for full ICCPR implementation - with no reference to devolution.
Here’s the deal. Robertson is afraid of upsetting his colonial masters. Because if ICCPR is fully implemented, it would give the Scottish People the political rights (referendums and initiatives) to hold government to account and the power to decide the form of government best suited to their needs, which isn’t the current one. Article 1 states:
Westminster fears people power more than anything and will go to any lengths to stop it. But there’s not much they can do if the Sovereign Scottish People decide to take matters into their own hands.
That’s why we must put maximum pressure on Robertson. His failure to support ICCPR implementation will expose him as the colonial tool he is.
You can write to him at: CabSecCEAC@gov.scot. If you reside in his Edinburgh Central constituency, he’ll have to respond to you directly.
The SNP needs to be turbo-cleansed of the current hierarchy and any/all who fail daily in their duty to WE Sovereign Scots.
Gutless, shameful and shameless!
Agree, the work by Salvo and Liberation.scot on the Cobsitutuonand the recent petition to the UN for Acotlabd to be declared a Non Self-Governing territory with a view to moving to a request for help in de-colonising Scotland so we can escape from Engkish shackles, should shame him and his political colleagues by showing what (extra)ordinary people can do when there is a will and a way to further our cause.