wecollect.scot was launched in late 2023 by Henry Ferguson, a dual national Swiss-UK citizen who has lived and worked in Switzerland since 1974. Henry’s been voting in Swiss elections, initiatives and referendums since becoming a Swiss citizen in 1999 and, during the last 50 years, he’s become progressively familiar with – and fascinated by – the Swiss governance model of Popular Sovereignty (often referred to as Direct Democracy (DD)).

By virtue of the Claim of Right, Scotland is generally acknowledged as having exactly that same DD constitutional cornerstone and this has led Henry to launch wecollect.scot as a source of authoritative information for Scottish Citizens, MSPs & Political Parties, Local Authorities, Civic Society and so on. The information presented is strictly non-partisan.

However, as she or he leafs through the following pages, the reader should be aware that there is nevertheless one fundamental hypothesis underlying the accompanying materials – the Scottish People and their elected Representatives are (or at least should be…) partners in a collective venture commonly referred to as National Governance. The governance framework described in wecollect.scot is therefore one based on the notion of popular consensus, as opposed to the current UK system of parliamentary conflict.

Please see further information on Henry Ferguson in the extract below from the document: ‘Scottish Popular Sovereignty and Modern Direct Democracy‘ that can be downloaded here