Which Scots conservatism?
Sunday, 18 May 2008 — 2:19 pm
For those who haven’t been keeping up with Caledonian affairs, Scottish independence has been brought onto the agenda by the victory of the anti-unionist, pro-independence Scottish National Party in the general election for the Scottish Parliament last year. The SNP victory comes after about half a century of solid domination of Scottish politics by the Labour party. Yet an important portion of the electorate, while willing to vote the SNP into power — or at least to vote Scottish Labour out of power — have proved more reticent when it comes to the actual matter of ending the 300-year union between England and Scotland. . . . [Read more]
I think Gerald Warner would see this as a superb analysis of the state of Caledonian conservatism. With him gone, where does one hear the staunch Unionist voice of a Scots Tory anymore?