During the 2014
independence referendum campaign football was again mooted as a way to foster support for the union with the Better Together cup floated as a stunt that would see Scottish and English legends play a high profile game.
While many senior Labour politicians have realised that the Scottish
independence referendum campaign had seriously harmful political ramifications for the Labour Party, I believe that they drew the wrong inference for why such harm occurred.
After the No campaign emerged victorious from 2014's
independence referendum campaign, Blairite MP Jim Murphy seized the Scottish Labour leadership and, with Dugdale as his deputy, promised to rebuild a party that has taken pounding after pounding from the SNP.
Perceptions of «Scottishness» and «Britishness» will prove critical as nationalists and unionists plan their looming Scottish
independence referendum campaign.
Ed Miliband will appeal to Scottish voters» desire for «social justice» in his biggest intervention yet in
the independence referendum campaign.
The simple answer is learn from
the independence referendum campaign in Scotland.
It is now widely accepted that nothing has damaged the Labour party in Scotland more than their role in
the independence referendum campaign.
Even back during the 2014 Scottish
independence referendum campaign, there were clear indications that Farage backed the creation of a devolved English parliament.
Mr Burnham said Labour had to learn lessons from the Scottish
independence referendum campaign.
When Lord Kerr argued a similar case during the 2014 Scottish
independence referendum campaign, the Scottish government insisted that the EU would find a way of accommodating Scotland.