Scotland’s Silenced Majority Deserves a Voice – And the Great British PAC is the Answer

By Peter Morris, Great British PAC County Director for the Scottish Borders.

I thought I’d write something from a Scottish perspective — because frankly, we don’t often hear much from up here.

Let me start with this: I’m the Great British PAC County Director for the Scottish Borders.

When I first came across the PAC, I immediately connected with it. Here was something more professional, more strategic, an organised version of what I’d been quietly advocating for years.

It had always been my firm belief that the right, and particularly the pro-UK, Unionist sections of our society, needed to come together, not in constant competition, but in collaboration. Representatives from different parts of the conservative and Unionist movement should sit down, bring forward their respective issues, and forge a united front. That vision? It’s now closer to reality than ever.

A Strategy for the Silenced

The idea was straightforward: collate a cross-section of conservative, patriotic, and pro-UK voices. Build a shared policy platform, a document shaped by many hands, speaking for tens of thousands of people. Each contributor brings their priority issues to the table, and together, those issues are refined, expanded, and formalised into a collective political strategy.

Once consensus is reached, this document becomes the Right/Pro-UK Unionist Political Strategy. It’s then taken back to the groups who helped build it, and assuming a majority support it, it becomes the roadmap for action.

This document wouldn’t just sit in a drawer. No more would pro-UK voters be taken for granted, their loyalty cashed in every election, only to be cast aside for another four or five years. This strategy would be formally presented to the UK Government at Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh. Support would not just be requested, it would be expected. Publicly. From there, it would be presented to Scottish Labour and the Scottish Conservatives with a clear message: back this, or face the consequences.

We will not be sidelined anymore. We will not allow our British identity to be erased from Scottish political life. If we don’t receive meaningful support, then we will start standing our own candidates, and we will mean it.

The PAC Vision

The above should, by now, have led the reader to recognise that, although not identical in any way, the Great British PAC does exactly what I had been advocating in Scotland, albeit in a more professional and common sense approach. By having the Policy Platform, everyone can sign up and put forward policies. No one is judged, no one is hounded, and help is available if required, to put forward a policy.

And yes, it could easily form the foundation of a political party manifesto — a bottom-up, people-powered programme built by real voters, not spin doctors.

This is real democracy. Not the filtered, stage-managed kind Holyrood peddles.

A Dangerous Game of Labels

Unfortunately, in Scotland today, this sort of vision is branded dangerous. Literally.

Across the United Kingdom, those of us who stand on the right are increasingly labelled “far right.” But here in Scotland, the rhetoric has turned particularly toxic. The First Minister himself recently declared that the “far right” is a danger to democracy in Scotland.

Let’s not forget, this is the same First Minister who promised to “remove the toxicity” from Scottish politics in his very first speech as SNP leader. But like everything else with the SNP, that promise has crumbled. Instead, he has poured petrol on the fire.

Labelling a significant section of Scotland’s electorate as “far right” and “a danger to democracy” doesn’t reduce toxicity. It escalates it. It radicalises. It divides.

We’ve heard these kinds of claims before: that words can radicalise, that political rhetoric can inflame unstable minds. The First Minister should know better. He’s doing exactly what his own party warned against.

Hatred Unchallenged

Let’s be honest: the SNP thrives on division. When a party is based around a single ideological issue (in this case, independence) it can only survive by fuelling polarisation. Anglophobia. Us vs. them. We’ve seen the inflammatory banners. “F*** the Tories.” “Tories Out of Scotland.” “England Out of Scotland.”

These weren’t just fringe protesters. Elected Ministers were marching alongside these slogans. Not once did the SNP leadership disavow the hatred. Not once did they say, “This goes too far.”

And as we’ve seen, words have consequences.

Offices of Conservative MSPs and councillors were attacked. Vandalism. Threats. Political violence. The seeds were sown by years of scapegoating the UK Government for every problem, no matter how trivial or devolved.

Now, with Reform UK rising in the polls, the First Minister is nervous. He should be. The SNP’s days of comfortable dominance may finally be coming to an end. And make no mistake: there would be no greater gift to Scotland’s future than waving goodbye to the most extreme, divisive party in British politics.

The SNP has governed by blaming, isolating, and inflaming. But that tide is turning.

A Warning and a Way Forward

Sadly, the First Minister’s recent rhetoric puts a target on the back of every voter in Scotland who leans right. He may not say it out loud, but the message is clear: your views don’t belong here.

That’s dangerous.

It’s dangerous for civil society. It’s dangerous for democracy. And it’s dangerous for those of us who just want a united Britain, run by reason and principle, not rage.

I pray we do not see a repeat of the violence already suffered by Scottish Conservatives. But if we do, the First Minister cannot say he wasn’t warned. His words are not without consequence.

In the meantime, the rest of us will keep building. Quietly. Strategically. Democratically.

Because this country is worth saving.

And we will not be cast aside.

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Peter Morris
County Director, Scottish Borders
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