In a post #IndyRef Scotland will ‘form’ trump ideological ‘content’?
Interesting piece from Torcuil Crichton who is a Westminster lobby correspondent for the Scottish Daily Record, courtesy of Bella Caledonia.. There have been 29 general elections to the Dàil, Ireland’s parliament, since independence. Ireland’s Labour Party have won precisely none. When socialism goes up against nationalism in a country where all civic politics is about the nation, then Labour doesn’t stand a chance. What happened in Ireland – in fact Irish leader Eamon de Valera’s specific strategy – was to …