CONSIDERING that it is the foundation document of the United Kingdom, there is a vast amount of ignorance about Scotland’s Act of Union which brought about the Union on May 1, 1707. I seriously doubt if any more than, say, 2% of the Scottish population have read all of the Act of Union as passed by the Scottish Parliament on January 16, 1707, by 110 votes to 67. So today and next week I am devoting this column to that Scottish Act of treachery and self-interest. I am not writing about how the Act came about as I have written about that process before, but about the Act itself and what it means for those of us who believe in Scotland regaining its independence – not winning independence but taking it back, which is why my personal slogan is “regain the nation”.