STIRLING DIRECTIVE ADVANCE PRESS RELEASE.

The #StirlingDirective – Advance Press release

On Saturday 22 July,exactly 317 years to the day when the details of the disastrous Treaty of Union were agreed, a group of writers, speakers and activists from across Scotland’s Independence movement will launch a new, national campaign,the Stirling Directive.

The Directiverepresents a radicaldeparturefrom the old, worn out approach to Scottish self-determination.Thisapproach does not ask permission of anyone. Instead, it stands on the authority of the Scottish people alone, an authority that, rightfully,outranks allothers:

It affirms the sovereignty of Scotland’s people

It upholds the constitutional settlement of the ‘Union’

It requires political recognition of the lawful, Scottish constitution

It will pursue our inalienable right of self-determination as guaranteed under international law.

Until now, our elected representatives have sought,and have consistently been refused,Westminster’s permission for rights that belong, inherently, to the people of Scotland,rightsguaranteed by the limits and conditions of the Treaty…