Scottish Nationalism: From Protest to Power
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Just what does the Scottish National Party want? And what could it mean for the UK?
Douglas Fraser investigates the SNP's long search for an independence vision that works. He talks to insiders about the party's turbulent past, torn, as one leader put it, between 'Jacobites and Jacobins'. How has the party tried to build a vision of Scottish identity that keeps pace with social change? Does it aim to preserve the old British welfare state, or try something different? What do its plans for continued close links with the rest of the UK mean for its vision of a separate Scotland?
Scotland may be diverging more and more from England, whatever happens in next year's independence referendum. With that vote fast approaching, where this debate is heading matters for everyone in the UK. The SNP's journey reveals much about this important change.
Presenter: Douglas Fraser Producer: Chris Bowlby Editor: Innes Bowen.
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| 0:40.4 | In this program, Douglas Fraser is in Edinburgh asking whether Scottish independence is beginning to look more like a small nation it's got big recognition. The visit Scotland's sales pitch to the world |
| 1:06.5 | includes a round of golf where everyone's welcome and anyone belongs. |
| 1:11.2 | We've always done our own thing and followed our own path. |
| 1:18.3 | You don't have to join a club here. |
| 1:20.7 | Just bring a club. |
| 1:22.2 | Within Scotland that idea goes further. |
| 1:24.0 | The story it tells about itself is of a society where people look out for each other, |
| 1:29.0 | with community, traditional, homely values. |
| 1:32.0 | There may be a Scots word for that. |
| 1:35.0 | Cuthy. Cuthy, quaint homely. |
| 1:39.0 | There is a cuthiness about everything. |
| 1:41.0 | He'll fellow, well mate, a Kent his father. There's a sense of community and |
| 1:45.6 | solidarity because it's a small country. Down to a local, comfortable. |
| 1:51.1 | Kuthi is only a word and maybe the Kitch images of a tourism inverter, no guide to the modern |
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