A Spat in the family
30 / 09 / 2008
Last year, on the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland, Scottish nationalists became the dominant party in Scotland.
By GRAHAM BOWLEY | August 30, 2008
Last year, on the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union between England and Scotland, Scottish nationalists became the dominant party in Scotland. A month ago they trounced Britain’s ruling Labor Party in a formerly Labor-dominated inner-city Glasgow district. Now, they promise to hold a Scotland-wide referendum on independence from England by 2010, and believe they just might win — so lowering the curtain on a union that is older than the United States.
“We feel that the union has had its day frankly,” said David McCann, secretary of the Scottish Independence Convention, a crossparty independence group. “We have a totally different attitude on lots of things in Scotland.”
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