Gordon Macpherson

Before Scotland's annexation in 1707 now fully documented; there was never any voluntary union and Scotland is an English colony; Scots were forbidden in law from joining the English empire and slavery was forbidden in Scots law. Actually, Jamaica was colonized by England while Scotland was colonised by Cromwell; and Scots were brought to Jamaica for example as political prisoners and servants before actual African slaves came; and they all died. The law of the English empire, which changed its name to "British" when it suited it after 1707, since annexation of a sovereign state like Scotland was already illegal in 1707, was FULLY ENGLISH. The English East India Company was English in law. Fully English. The English colonial state has lied to the international community about Scotland having entered a so-called union voluntarily when it's simply English colonialism, territorial alienation and annexation. There isn't even a territorial union between England and Scotland; and the two Crowns remain; that's why the English colonial state had to vest Scottish oil resources in the English Crown. Think about the magnitude of that colonial crime and theft. Of course a very small minority of Scots joined or were coopted in the English empire. But that's the case of all colonized people. The colonial power genocides, ethnic cleanses, suppresses, pacifies the colonised and then integrates the collaborators to run the empire as soldiers administrators etc. It's all fully known and theorised. The level of propaganda of the English colonial state against Scotland and Scots is probably the highest in history, hiding the real constitutional situation of the annexation of a sovereign state, a supreme crime in international law. But Scotland's decolonization has begun via UN mechanisms. English colonial lies are being exposed globally. A decolonised, liberated Scotland, restored as a sovereign state, will support all former English colonies against the English colonial state for reparations, etc.