IF YOU see a smug, self-satisfied look:
someone s sace north of border, more likely than not person is a member oi the Labour Party While Buronean social-democracy has suffered consistent electoral defeats in the past two years, just the opposite is true in Scotland.
At the generar election, Scotland increased is share of the poll from 36 per cent to 42 per cent; in the UK as a whole, Labour went down from 39 per cent te 37 per cent. Every region, including Wales, drop in the Labour vote except Scotland, where nearly a quarter of a million extra people voted compared with 1974.
This dramatic shift was not just the of previous, •Labour returning from the Scottish alist camp.
The 1970s slump was bound polarise politics on class lines to the detriment of the lationalists, especially in a Scotland where the cowboy economy bases por oil and multinationals did nothing to halt the net of 50,000 industrial jobs since 1974.
Scottish Labout laghan's 5 per cent wage limit WOUS DIRECTRIEs stole the SN's thunder by for devolution. Though middle class voters took fright at the referendum, working class voters in the industrial heartlands went overwhelmingly the Assembly, Labour was thus able to seize the banner of self-deter, mination from the Nationalists.
his does not wholly account I le reconsolidatido of Lábour. On factor is Labour's dominant role in cementing togerber Scottish society -different from England.
Scottish Labour emerged in the '30s on the basis of cheap housing, Catholic communalism, and a historic compromise with Clydeside ritalto prete Westminster for financial The Tories Socialișt Challenze, & September 1979 Page 12 .
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