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On the trail in Glenrothes

Ian Jack has a dispatch from Glenrothes in today’s Guardian. Here is his main point:

“The conventional wisdom about Glenrothes goes like this. After its victory in Glasgow East, the Scottish National party thought it could wipe out Labour’s 10,000-majority. Then the global crisis erupted. Small-country nationalism no longer looked so clever – Salmond will never praise Iceland again.

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