Whatever Scotland decides, the old order is dead and buried | Owen Jones | Comment is free | The Guardian
"If Scotland votes for independence next week,
it is the British establishment – and the establishment alone – that is
to blame. The yes surge is not being driven by blood-and-soil
nationalism, by dewy-eyed Celtic nostalgia or the resurrection of a
Braveheart spirit. It is a defiant protest at a bankrupt order built by
Margaret Thatcher and then preserved and entrenched by New Labour"
Tony Blair
speaking in Glasgow in 1999. 'New Labour’s surrender to the underlying
assumptions of the Thatcherite crusade gave the independence movement
its greatest opportunity.' Photograph: David Cheskin/PA
