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There are three major issues in the campaign: how the government will respond to the trade unions' initiatives; how the government will attempt to distribute the burdens of inflation and depression; and whether Scotland will continue to be an integral part of the United Kingdom. All three issues, however, resolve themselves into a single difficulty--Britain's slow-motion economic collapse since the second world war has made ever-present class tensions the most decisive factor in contemporary British politics. The Scots, meanwhile, want to dissociate themselves from the London government in order to secure North Sea oil profits, which...
...Conservatives or even the Liberals, but by the various nationalist or regionalist parties, particularly the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP). The SNP holds 18 of the 71 Scottish seats at Westminster and chances are that they will increase this substantial share. The SNP stands for eventual self-government for Scotland, but its most immediate goal is economic independence...
...extraordinary gains of the SNP in the last election have already resulted in several significant moves by the English political parties. The Conservatives have least to lose in Scotland since they control only 21 seats, mostly in rural areas where squirearchical traditions are still strong. The industrial towns of the Lowlands, however, have always been among the safest of safe Labour fiefdoms. Labour needs the 32 Scottish seats it now has to maintain its majority in Parliament, but its concessions to Scottish national feeling came too little and too late. Labour promises about the same as the Conservatives--a consultative...
...once quixotic movement that has intensified and turned serious in the past three years, could also prevent a Tory or Labor majority. The Welsh nationalists currently have two members in the House and could pick up a third. The Scottish National Party, which won 22% of the vote in Scotland last February, now has seven seats at Westminster; some observers believe that they could double that number next month. Labor and the Conservatives are both trying to cut into the Scottish Nationalists' constituency by promising an impressive range of public-works projects for Scotland. Moreover, in a sharp reversal...
...which kept royalty watchers wondering: What ever happened to Lady Jane? As Charles and Davina passed 4,000 well-wishers while driving to church near Balmoral Castle, Lady Jane Wellesley, an earlier entry in the prince's little black book, was 190 miles away in Ayrshire, Scotland, vacationing with her mother...