Three hundred years after the first Scottish Parliament voluntarily voted itself out of existence in 1707, the Scottish National Party has won a plurality in the devolved Scottish parliament that is one of Tony Blair’s great legacies. Does an SNP-led government herald the break-up of the United Kingdom?
在1707年第一个苏格兰议会自行投票解散的三百年后，苏格兰国民党在自治的苏格兰议会中赢得了多数席位。而自治的苏格兰议会正是布莱尔的重大遗产之一。由苏格兰国民党领导的政府是否预示着联合王国的解体呢？在更为广泛的意义上，民族主义作为十九世纪政治的产物是否依然可以在欧洲发挥作用呢？