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An Independent Scotland Will Hurt Labour

A NEW NEW LEFT

Forget North Sea oil. The biggest implications of tomorrow’s Scottish vote are political, and they aren’t good for Labour in the long term.

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Imagine with me for a moment that the states of New England left the United States of America. Yes, absurd—if anyone ought to leave someday, it’s the yellow-bellies who left the last time so that they could preserve their God-given right to keep other humans as property, not the patriots...

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