National Collective Six months today, the people of Scotland - TopicsExpress



          

National Collective Six months today, the people of Scotland will have a fifteen-hour window in which they hold the future of their country in their hands. That day marks the culmination of decades of effort from those who tirelessly kept alive the hope and ambition of an idea whose time has now come. Scotland’s national movement was born in the hearts of a small band of visionaries, poets and romantics who saw independence as the natural state for a country with a distinct culture and heritage. That desire for independence has been fuelled by British decline. Decades of resentment at deindustrialisation, inequality and a democratic deficit has created a national movement entrenched on the left. As much a rejection of Westminster-centricism and the Tory right as an assertion of identity, the romantic nationalism of the movements pioneers has been replaced by a pragmatic, progressive and inclusive demand for self-government.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:01:56 +0000

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