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Palestinian leadership. Thank you very much indeed. | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
When did you last sit down and write Israeli leadership and | :00:07. | :00:07. | |
Israeli leadership and Tonight, on | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight | :00:08. | :00:08. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
When did you last sit down and write a letter? I'm | :00:09. | :00:09. | |
a letter? I'm not | :00:09. | :00:09. | |
a letter? I'm not talking | :00:09. | :00:09. | |
a letter? I'm not talking to | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
a letter? I'm not talking to you with your nib quivering like a | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: with your nib quivering like a | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: As the | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
hummingbird over the green ink. Chances | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: As the pipers | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
hummingbird over the green ink. Chances are | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: As the pipers and | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
hummingbird over the green ink. Chances are it's | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: As the pipers and kilts | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
hummingbird over the green ink. Chances are it's been | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: As the pipers and kilts of | :00:14. | :00:14. | |
hummingbird over the green ink. Chances are it's been a | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Tonight, on Newsnight Scotland: As the pipers and kilts of the | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
hummingbird over the green ink. Chances are it's been a fair | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
As the pipers and kilts of the Tartan | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
hummingbird over the green ink. Chances are it's been a fair while | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
As the pipers and kilts of the Tartan Army | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
Chances are it's been a fair while since | :00:15. | :00:15. | |
As the pipers and kilts of the Tartan Army descend | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Chances are it's been a fair while since you | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
As the pipers and kilts of the Tartan Army descend on | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
Chances are it's been a fair while since you received | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
As the pipers and kilts of the Tartan Army descend on London | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
Chances are it's been a fair while since you received a | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
As the pipers and kilts of the Tartan Army descend on London for | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
Tartan Army descend on London for tomorrow's | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
Chances are it's been a fair while since you received a letter | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
Tartan Army descend on London for tomorrow's football | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
Chances are it's been a fair while since you received a letter either. | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
Tartan Army descend on London for tomorrow's football match | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
since you received a letter either. Perhaps | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
Perhaps then, | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
Tartan Army descend on London for tomorrow's football match at | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
since you received a letter either. Perhaps then, the | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
tomorrow's football match at Wembley, | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
since you received a letter either. Perhaps then, the only | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
tomorrow's football match at Wembley, just | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
since you received a letter either. Perhaps then, the only thing | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
tomorrow's football match at Wembley, just how | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
since you received a letter either. Perhaps then, the only thing left | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
tomorrow's football match at Wembley, just how much | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
since you received a letter either. Perhaps then, the only thing left to | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
tomorrow's football match at Wembley, just how much significance | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
Perhaps then, the only thing left to do | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
Wembley, just how much significance remains | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
Perhaps then, the only thing left to do is | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
Wembley, just how much significance remains in | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
Perhaps then, the only thing left to do is to | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Wembley, just how much significance remains in the | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
Perhaps then, the only thing left to do is to read | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
Wembley, just how much significance remains in the world's | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
Perhaps then, the only thing left to do is to read other | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
Wembley, just how much significance remains in the world's oldest | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
Perhaps then, the only thing left to do is to read other peoples' | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
remains in the world's oldest international | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
do is to read other peoples' outpourings. | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
remains in the world's oldest international fixture? | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
do is to read other peoples' outpourings. The | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
outpourings. The popular | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
outpourings. The popular website | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
outpourings. The popular website Letters | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
Letters of | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Letters of Note | :00:22. | :00:22. | |
Letters of Note is | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Letters of Note is to publish its first book in October, filled with | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
the personal scribblings of the rich the personal scribblings of the rich | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
site has given Newsnight access to some of the letters. So with his | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
some of the letters. So with his tongue curled heartbreakingly | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Good evening. Good evening. | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
You know Elvis is the king of Good evening. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
You know Elvis is the king of Good evening. | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
You know Elvis is the king of rock'n'roll. You might not | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
Good evening. Today marks 400 days to go to the | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
You know Elvis is the king of rock'n'roll. You might not be | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
Today marks 400 days to go to the independence | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
You know Elvis is the king of rock'n'roll. You might not be so | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
Today marks 400 days to go to the independence referendum, | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
independence referendum, but | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
rock'n'roll. You might not be so familiar | :00:47. | :00:47. | |
Today marks 400 days to go to the independence referendum, but it's | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
independence referendum, but it's only | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
rock'n'roll. You might not be so familiar of | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
familiar of him | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
independence referendum, but it's only one | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
only one day | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
rock'n'roll. You might not be so familiar of him as | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
independence referendum, but it's only one day until | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
only one day until Scotland | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
only one day until Scotland take | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
only one day until Scotland take on | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
only one day until Scotland take on England | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
England at | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
rock'n'roll. You might not be so familiar of him as a | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
only one day until Scotland take on England at Wembley | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
England at Wembley for | :00:50. | :00:50. | |
rock'n'roll. You might not be so familiar of him as a sparking | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
only one day until Scotland take on England at Wembley for the | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
England at Wembley for the first | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
England at Wembley for the first time | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
time in | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
time in 14 | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
time in 14 years. | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
rock'n'roll. You might not be so familiar of him as a sparking con | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
familiar of him as a sparking con verisationist | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
verisationist on | :00:53. | :00:53. | |
verisationist on the | :00:53. | :00:53. | |
verisationist on the page. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
verisationist on the page. Here | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Here he | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Here he is | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Here he is offering | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Here he is offering to keep tabs on the youth of America on behalf of | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
President Nixon whom he looks forwarding forwarding -- forward to | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
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done Hutchinson scored and I think we'll never forget that. We probably | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
have more chances of Done Hutchinson scoring this time as well. It is one | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
of those games that means so much over a period of time. | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
It is just the history that goes with the games. The first official | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
international between Scotland and England took place here in 1872 in | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
the West of Scotland cricket ground in Glasgow. The century's old | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
rivalry between the two countries was seen as the perfect vehicle to | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
promote the fledge Palestinianing sport of the association football. | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
So, 2,500 fans turned up for what in the end was a 0-0 draw. No goals but | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
it became an annual event that helped create an enduring national | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
obsession. It was very special, when I was a boy in the East End of | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Glasgow, the whole neighbourhood used to come out and we would wave | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
goodbye to the Wembley bus. It was very special for us. This game is | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
back but it is a one-off. It is far removed from that tradition I was | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
brought up in. In the '6 #0s and 1970s, you would actually have huge, | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
huge numbers of Scots going down through the Wembley club system, | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
going to London to Wembley and outnumbering the English home | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
support inside Wembley. That gives you an idea of how important that | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
particular game was. Very important to the English absolutely but I | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
think it has particular poshes to Scotland. This is a Scotland shirt | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
warn in the match in 1976 when Scotland became unofficial World | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
Scotland became unofficial World A 3-2 win over the world Cup winners | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
is part of the Wembley folklore. So, too, the broken goalposts and | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
pilfered turf that followed victory in 1977. The following decade, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
however, in the face of increasing violence and disorder, the fixtures | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
were scrapped. I remember walking the streets with Ernie Walker, the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
form former secretary of the SFA who said to me, "I'm not going to have | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
this any longer because of the misconduct (unfortunately of a | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
fairly sizeable amount of the Scottish support." It did no credit | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
to the country. He was right and I supported him on that. It was just a | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
pity. I felt then, even though we have played subsequently since then, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
it's been in special competitions. I've felt then it would never revive | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
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in the same way. # Flower of Scotland... # | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
With the passage of time, what, if anything a return of a fixture will | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
tell us about modern Scotland? think there has been a shift overall | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
in terms of the place sport has as part of the national identity. There | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
is still very much there and we'll probably see that in the | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Commonwealth. I don't think you would have the same peaks that you | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
would have in the '60s and '70s as football as a national identity. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
don't think it has been a yard stick for wider concerns. I have seen and | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
experienced humiliation at Wembley T didn't make me less Scottish. The | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
simple desire of thousands of travelling fans is that tomorrow | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
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they witnessed their own piece of history. Joining me from Leicester | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
is Rob Colls, Professor of History at the International Centre for | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University. He is | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
organising a conference on the social and political significance of | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
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fixture has lost something over the years? I think it is very important. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Commentators are saying it is one of the oldest international football | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
fixtures in the world. Certainly judging by the fans that were going | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
through both Glasgow and Edinburgh train stations this morning, it | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
means something for them. I also think football is socially and | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
politically significant and we just have to be absolutely clear about | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
why that is. So, I think football and sport is | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
generally very, very good for Scotland. That's where I come from, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
I think. It is good for a number of countries. But not just for the sake | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
of identity. You know, football and sport, as we know has a significant | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
impact in terms of reducing crime impact in terms of reducing crime | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
rates. Hang on. I don't really want to get into that discussion. | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
We'll take the benefits of sport for granted. It is really important. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
You can't dismiss them. I'm in the trying to dismiss T I'm asking about | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
the fraughtness of that fixture, has it dispated, if for no other reason | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
than it hasn't been held for 14 years. It has a wee bit. We need to | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
see the size of the crowd tomorrow. But in pure football terms, it is | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
really, really important. We are in the process of building a world | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
class sports system and fatted ball system in Scot lands and playing | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
football nations that are ranked before you in the world, and it is | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
really, really important in that that. Zorb Scotland. This is the | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
150th anniversary in terms of that particular celebration, a one-off | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
game but in terms of what football does for communities and being | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
important to countries and in terms of what Scotland has given to the | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
world, in terms of sport, there is a range of sports that we take | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
cultural ownership of, or argue that we take cultural ownership of and | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
football is one along with other sports, including curling. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
But it has to be taken seriously in its own right. I think people are | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
recognising that. So if there is a fell-good factor after tomorrow | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
night that will help with the economy. People will feel better. I | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
think that is the real - it is clear about the social and political | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
significance of football and this football match might help to stir | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
that a bit. OK. The under-21s got thumped 6-1 by England this evening. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
You are not really going to tell me, if Scotland should suffer a similar | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
fate tomorrow newt, somehow that's going to tank the economy. Are you? | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
No, I'm saying football in sport is important to the communities and | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
important to countries and if we have a feel-good factor tomorrow | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
that will be good but if we have a not so feel-good factor, we still | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
need to recognise that football and sport is important for communities. | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
You did some research, didn't you, on the history of Scotland-England | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
matches and their relationship to the general culture around them? It | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
has changed. I agree with some of Rob Coles work but identitity for | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
identity sake is not the main things. It in terms, it wasn't | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
football, it was rugby. I wrote about Scottish sport in the making | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
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of the nation and I'm joint author of another sport sporting book. And | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
I have written other sport sporting books. | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
We have Rob Coles. Can you now hear me? I can.Is that Gordon. ! Yes, it | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
is. You think there is some relevance to the independent debate | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
for this match, tomorrow, do you? Well, it was just speculation that | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
things were looking interesting, given that Scottish Parliament, | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
1999, the last England Scotland match, 1999, a Scottish win might do | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Scottish self-regard a lot of good and, in a sense, this referendum is, | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
in a way, about Scottish self-regard. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Is it important in England. Do the fans in England or people in England | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
generally see this as important, or is it more - is it more they think - | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
oh, if we beat Germany that would be a big thing? I think that's true, | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
actually. I think it's not a big thing here in football terms, or | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
indeed political terms. It's always probably meant more to the Scots | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
than the English anyway and I think that's probably the case tomorrow as | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
well. So you don't detect any sort of - | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
some people have said - look, there is a rising sense of English | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
nationalism and that could be on display tomorrow. Do you get any | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
display tomorrow. Do you get any better. Why?You are going to have | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
more stored. You are going to get a wider picture of that person's life | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
and wouldn't you want to he read the Pope's e-mails or the Queen's | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
e-mails. Do you think it is more honest in a way? I think you get a | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
broader picture so you will get some of the formal messages from very | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
public figures that they are sending as head of State, but you might also | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
get their private communications that are much more casual and so you | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
get a much richer picture about who they are because we can store that | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
now in a way it was much more ad hoc in the past with physical letters. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
Isn't it something about the letter? It is the letter and someone has | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
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been out doing the gartening, there do for countries in terms of | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
recognition. We also know in terms of what it can | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
do in terms of reducing crime rates. We also know what football can do in | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
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becoming culturally important - either I would imagine a community | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
or an imagined nation. I come back to this. - is it, I wonder, is it | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
any longer the case, or is it something that happened in the past? | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
! Are you talking to me, Gordon? #12k3w4r Yes.What has Scotland | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
based previous national identities on? Great engineering achievements, | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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scholarly achievements and I suppose military traditions. . All of those | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
look in trouble these days. In a sense, football is Scotland's truly | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
national sport. Nothing rivals it. Andy Murray did great in the English | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
heartlands but I don't think tennis makes hearts beat any faster in | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
Glasgow. I hope there are no golfers watch, they will be furious. The | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
question of national identity is never far from the surface of the | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
politics of Northern Ireland but the possibility of Scotland voting for | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
independence next year means they are keeping a watchful eye on events | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
here. In the first of two reports from Derry-Londonderry, Ian Hamilton | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
has been finding out what impact of the debate that Scotland's place in | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
the UK is having on unionists across the Irish Sea. Over the decades and | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
centuries this old walled city has seen its fair share of religious | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
tension and conflict. These tensions haven't disappeared, | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
but they have certainly diminished. As part of its revival, this year | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
it's the UK City of Culture. Last week it was the Maiden City's | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
festival, celebrating everything that is protestant and loyalist. It | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
looked back to the 1688 siege when the Protestants defended the city | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
against King James II, a Catholic king. | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
Many of these Protestants defenders came from Scottish descent. Its | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
these ultra-Scott traditions that live on to this day and formed a | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
major part of last week's festival Depending who you are talking to, | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
this is either Derry or Londonderry. We are only about four or five miles | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
from the Irish Republic border. There is great interest here on the | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
whole debate on Scottish independence. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
In Scotland, we can't agree what independence might mean for us, so | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
it is even harder to understand what Scottish independence might mean for | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
people living here in Northern Ireland. And some say there will be | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
consequences. This is our Siege Museum. It's | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
temporary, in a sense that we are going to open a new... Jim Brownlee | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
is the governor of the Awere tis Boys. There will be a bit of | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
pressure. There has been pressure in Northern Ireland for a number of | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
years. Around about the same argument, if you like, whereby you | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
have had so-called republicans wishing to annex Northern Ireland | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
from the UK and have it part of a with-be United Ireland. But do you | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
think Scotland Eving the UK would put further pressure than that, | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
then? Not sure. I think it may actually strengthen | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
the resolve of the loyalist people in particular, to defend what then | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
would have left. You know what would remain. | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
As is now known, Derry-Londonderry, the Protestants are very much in the | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
minority and are having to work closely with their Catholic | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
neighbours. Across Northern Ireland the population is far more even. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Unionists here believe that Scotland will reject independence but if we | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
don't, they've got great concerns. We are confident that the people of | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Scotland will decide to do the right thing and to stick with the union. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
But again, we don't want to put any pressure on the people of Scotland. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
That's up to the people of Scotland to do that. However, I do think it | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
would be disappointing if Scotland did leave the union and it would | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
believe news a difficult position all right. As it was described to me | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
- Northern Ireland is like auto child that nobody wants. Dublin is | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
no more interested in running this place than London is. -- like a | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
child. Some say Scottish independence may | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
force both communities to work together, to create their own | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
identity. I catch up with two prominent businessmen and met up | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
with them on the city walls to get their perspective. It'll | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
inevitableably lead, to some can he gree, the Scottish vote, to some | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
degree of devolution if not independence. That will have a | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
inevitable long-term consequence for us as policy makers in London wonder | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
if the Scottish devolution max is neutral for the exchequer in London, | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
why they have to pay a large amount to Northern Ireland. We have a | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
unique situation where emotions at particular times of the year get | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
very, very tense. I know there is a watchful eye from Northern Ireland | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
on to the referendum in Scotland, to sooe what way it goes. -- to see. | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
political unionism here has a large cultural look across the channel to | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Scotland and if Scotland isn't part of that mix any longer, I think that | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
will #230e6r change the way that unionism sees itself. -- will | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
forever change. Particularly if England and Wales comes out and | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Scotland remains in and we are left wondering, you know, what are we | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
going to do but all of this is part of a long of had term process of | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
forcing us as a politicalentity achieving adulthood and working out | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
our political decisions locally. While I've been here, some people | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
have said to me that unionists are stuck in the past and are in denial | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
that Scotland with a even contemplate voting for independence | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
We always know there is a nervousness within unionism, that's | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
because of the principle of consent and changing demography. We have the | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
population relatively equal now. If Scotland was to leave the union that | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
would create a nervousness. What is also important is that pro-union | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
politicians are not very good at selling the constitutional question. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
I think they lack charisma. I think they like assurity of the arguments | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
they make. I think they are living in a 1950s' type idea of what | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
unionism is, as opposed to understanding what it means in the | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
modern area. The protestant tradition here in Derry-Londonderry | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
run deep. As the maiden city festival comes to an end, these | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Ulster Protestants may have to think about a different kind of future | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
should Scotland vote for independence and leave the UK. | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Tomorrow night Ian speaks to Irish nationalists to see how they | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
perceive the possibility of Scottish independence. | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
A quick look at tomorrow's front pages. Starting with the Scotsman: | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
SNP want one-stop shop for consumer protection after independence. Is | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
the headline there. The picture of the Tartan Army there | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
in Trafalgar Square. The Daily Telegraph - SNP urged to | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
attack English cancer - the pro-independence campaign by Gordon | :19:06. | :19:16. |