The Disuniting Kingdom?
The Scottish National Party's victory in Scotland's recent parliamentary election was the momentous political event since the voluntary Act of Union was signed in 1707. But, with 59.6% of voters supporting pro-union parties, independence still seems a long way off.
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Three hundred years after the first Scottish Parliament voluntarily voted itself out of existence in 1707, the Scottish National Party has won a plurality in the devolved Scottish parliament that is one of Tony Blair’s great legacies. Does an SNP-led government herald the break-up of the United Kingdom? More broadly, does nationalism, that product of nineteenth-century politics, still have a role to play in Europe?