decide.scotPower sits directly with the peoplewho live here. You vote on whereScotland's money goes. Ministers deliver.
A genuine policy vision for a post-independence Scotland. No left versus right. No prime minister. Just decisions, made by you.
No MPs, no local councillors, no first minister. Government runs through one minister per sector, thirteen portfolios in all, listed below. They are hired to deliver, and replaced if they do not.
A minister here still holds public office and still faces a public vote. What they never have is a party, a whip, a manifesto, a safe seat, or four years of immunity between elections. Hired on a verified record rather than a promise, removed for not delivering rather than at the next campaign. That is the difference this model means by employees rather than rulers.
Anyone can self-nominate for a ministerial role by uploading their CV. A non-biased vetting system checks for a minimum of ten years' relevant field experience before a candidate reaches the public ballot.
Candidates who pass vetting are shown to the public with their experience laid out plainly. Citizens vote them into the role. No party machine, no safe seats, no career politicians.
Ministers are treated like employees. If they fail to implement their budget properly, they are removed and replaced. Accountability is built into the job, not deferred to the next election.
Ministers work together across departments. A transport plan that affects environmental standards is resolved by ministers collaborating, not by party politics.
Building codes, health and safety, and other standards sit within the relevant minister's remit and budget. No separate bureaucracy, no gaps between departments for problems to fall through.
Rather than 32 separate councils, Scotland is split into a small number of large regions: metropolitan and urban areas, and outskirt, Highland and island areas.
Each region also elects its own Coordinator, voted in only by that region's citizens, responsible for delivering what the region votes to fund, local roads, hyperlocal projects, regional service delivery, not for setting policy. Same standard as any minister: fail to deliver, and you're replaced. Full detail in Part V
Every citizen can see the full national tax pot, all £92 billion of it, broken down transparently. Then you vote on what happens to it.
A for or against vote on the full plan. Genuinely accessible to everyone, not a complex line-by-line allocation exercise reserved for spreadsheet enthusiasts.
Issues that affect the whole country are decided by everyone, together, through the same app.
Issues that only affect your area are decided by your area, based on postcode.
Each minister submits a proposed budget: how much they want, what it is for, and the pros and cons of more or less funding. Everything in plain language, visible to everyone.
Alongside ministerial proposals sits a forum layer where citizens submit and upvote their own ideas, which feed into what gets voted on. The agenda belongs to everyone. This part is already live on the Blueprint.
A maintained tax surplus covers the unexpected. Emergency spending is approved through fast-tracked votes on the same platform, not unilateral ministerial power.
A working sketch of the decide.scot app. Watch the pot count up, tap a segment to see where the money sits, then open the full app to vote on a live proposal. All numbers are illustrative.
The Blueprint is where visitors become participants. Citizens propose clauses, back the ones they believe in, and every clause that crosses its threshold is ratified. These are closest right now.
Verify your email, claim your citizen number, and every clause you back from today is on the record.
Three numbers everyone can remember, and a sovereign wealth fund underneath it all.
One flat rate. You always know what you pay, and you always see where it goes.
A simple annual levy on assets, so wealth contributes alongside income rather than sitting untouched.
Zero corporation tax for businesses operating in Scotland, with conditions that keep the benefit here.
Foreign companies hire at least 80% Scottish staff and never own the property they operate from. Zero tax is a deal, not a giveaway.
Major commercial buildings are publicly owned. Businesses lease the space, and the rent flows back into the national pot.
A sovereign wealth fund underpins welfare, guaranteeing housing and income support. Nobody falls through the floor. See the fund live in the app →
On currency: sterling for a transition period, then a genuine Scottish Pound with its own central bank, the same path Ireland took after 1922. No Euro requirement, and no stablecoin. Full reasoning in Part XII of the Paper →
No second homes. No short-term lets. No private landlords at scale. Housing follows work, and rents follow what people actually earn.
Losing your job triggers a six to twelve month grace period to find new work before any move, with a public-sector fallback.
Second homes and portfolio properties transition to public ownership through a gradual buyback, then are resold to citizens or rented from the state.
Rent control is voted on by the region it affects, scaled against regional median income. Rents track what your neighbours earn.
The detail, including how ordinary home ownership stays untouched, is in the Paper. Read Part IX, Housing and Land →
This is an early-stage concept, and some mechanics are still being pressure-tested. We would rather flag them than pretend every detail is solved.
Scaling rent against regional median income is the principle. The exact formula, and how it responds to income shifts, is still being worked through.
Constitutional-scale decisions now require a minimum turnout to be valid, and every result publishes its turnout figure. What those threshold percentages should actually be, and what happens if a question repeatedly misses them, is still open.
Emergency spending is approved by fast-tracked vote rather than ministerial fiat. Exactly how fast that process should run, and what safeguards it carries, is still being worked through.
Zero corporation tax paired with no commercial property ownership is a novel combination. Whether it attracts or repels investment at scale needs honest modelling.