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The Parliament at Westminster, to which Scots continue to elect MPs, still controls defence & foreign affairs, macroeconomic policy, taxation, and social security. The Scottish parliament, however, is able to legislate over health services, education, local government, housing, criminal & civil justice and economic development. It can also raise or lower the basic rate of income tax – though by no more than 3% – and levy charges, such as road tolls.

This semi-independence partly reflects the absence of linguistic motives in Scottish nationalism. Gaelic is spoken by only about 80,000 of Scotland’s 5.1 million inhabitants. Nor does religion play a discernible role; while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being liable to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland’s institutions. Moreover, unlike East European or Balkan nationalism, the Scottish variety has little to do with ethnicity or religion.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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