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Illusion of Freedom - Scotland Under Nationalism (Hardcover, New)
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Illusion of Freedom - Scotland Under Nationalism (Hardcover, New)
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Alex Salmond, a talented politician in charge of Scotland's
devolved government since 2007, is mounting the biggest challenge
to the British union state in its 300-year history. His
fast-growing Scottish National Party wants Scotland to cease being
the invisible country of Europe and to embrace independence. This
book argues that if the Union is demolished, change will remain
elusive and Scotland will continue to be run by the close-knit
administrative, commercial and religious elites who have dominated
the country for centuries. Tom Gallagher contends that the SNP
remains fixated by resentment towards England and has no strategy
for reviving a struggling economy and the deep-seated social
problems which disfigure urban Scotland. He argues that the SNP are
not committed to independence, that the SNP is a super-unionist
party, that it recoils from popular sovereignty and is an
enthusiastic backer of the EU's plans for a post-national Europe
based on federalist rule from Brussels, and that it endorses a
radical multi-culturalism that devalues individual citizenship and
places Scotland at the mercy of globalisation.
Gallagher's hard-hitting analysis will stir emotions and generate
debate, especially his claim that if the SNP triumphs it will
reinforce the authoritarian trends which have disfigured Scottish
history and contributed to heavy emigration. He passionately
believes that moral and practical energies need to be released if
Scotland is to renew itself, but fears that as long as the country
is seen in romantic and propagandistic terms, this overdue
transformation will be stillborn.
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