The Scottish Nationalist Party has enabled it to demand a referendum on national independence next year

Scotland’s Choice

THEODORE DALRYMPLE 

Independence could arouse national pride; it might also force self-sufficiency.

Nationalism such as the Scots’ might seem anomalous in a Europe in which national sovereignty is deliberately and constantly being diluted. After all, about 80 percent of the new laws and regulations of every member of the European Union now emanate from Brussels.  

Is this really anomalous? I don’t think so, at least not if you take the view that the political class throughout Europe is forming itself into a caste, and in the process is creating an administrative nomenklatura.  

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