TODAY is White Rose Day for Scotland, when independence activists and people who simply detest Brexit will carry a white flower and lay it, or wreaths of white flowers, somewhere in their own locality to mark the day that would have been this nation’s first outside of the European Union.

Prime Minister Theresa May’s dithering means that exit day has been put back until at least April 12, but the people who first dreamed up the idea, Dumfries and Galloway Pensioners for Independence (DGPI), decided that their unique protest should go ahead on the original date to mark the death of democracy in Scotland which, if any Scot needs reminding, will see this nation of 5.3 million people dragged out of the EU against our collective will.

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In their perverse view of democracy, the Westminster elite feels it can just ignore the fact that exactly 62% of those who voted in Scotland in the 2016 EU referendum voted to remain, against the 38% who voted Leave.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Constitutional Relations Secretary Mike Russell, the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament can all testify as to how the Tory Government, propped up by a Leave party in a nation that voted Remain, has ignored the Scottish case for a Scottish solution from day one.

They have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind of Scottish independence.

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Calling for those who can see what Brexit is doing to Scottish democracy, Ian Richmond, spokesman for DGPI, told The National what drove his group to set up White Rose Day.

He said: “White Rose Day is not simply about Brexit itself. It is a much wider protest at the disregard for democracy in Scotland.

“At no point since 1707 has Scotland ever voted to be subsumed within Britain. The Scottish Parliament voted to merge with the English Parliament but Scottish institutions remained independent as did its people.

“The mark of a democracy is legitimacy. What legitimacy is there in disregarding the wishes of 62% of the population?

“Of course this charade is played out against the background of Brexit. Brexit was ill thought out, certainly.

“Brexit has caused the downfall of two prime ministers. But Brexit also opened a can of worms which exposed the extent to which Scotland and England have gone different paths.

“It is often said that the working class in Sunderland have the same issues as the working class in Motherwell. Faced with austerity and a lack of investment in the NHS; appropriation of public housing by private landlords; zero hours contracts and a vindictive climate towards immigrants and the poor, people in England turned to the right, while Scotland embraced progressive parties and policies.

“At no point did either of the main British parties consider Scotland. They could have done so but didn’t.

“If I were a citizen of Northern Ireland I could continue to receive the benefits of continued citizenship of Europe; a right guaranteed under the Good Friday Agreement. A privilege won by the bullet and the bomb. It is to Westminster’s eternal shame that they care more for the bullet than the ballot.

“A bespoke solution could have been found for Scotland which preserved freedom of movement and trade but that would have exposed the fatal flaw in the Brexit fiction.

“There is no point or need for doom saying. It is already here. Orange bands parading past the House of Commons. Families divided. The flight of capital and investment. England is broken and it will take much to mend it.

“Things may well get worse for us in Scotland but we have a capital of goodwill and resources. As things get worse our resolve will be greater. This is only the first act.”

Send us your White Rose Day pictures to community@thenational.scot for Sunday’s paper!