{"id":57974,"date":"2015-09-12T18:40:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/?p=57974"},"modified":"2015-09-12T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T18:40:04","slug":"landslide-victory-for-jeremy-corbyn-in-the-uk-what-will-election-of-a-new-labour-party-leader-mean-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=57974","title":{"rendered":"Landslide victory for Jeremy Corbyn in the UK: What will election of a new Labour Party leader mean for Scotland?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0\"<\/a>Scottish Americans\u00a0are hearing some interesting news from the United Kingdom today.\u00a0 The UK Labour Party has chosen socialist Jeremy Corbyn as its next leader by a landslide.\u00a0 A big one.\u00a0 It is a result that is sending a few shock waves through Britain.\u00a0 What will the election mean in Scotland?\u00a0 More specifically, what will a Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party mean for the Scottish Diaspora’s\u00a0issues of interest, independence and heritage?\u00a0 Let’s take a quick look.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the historically formidable and well established Labour Party is particularly troublesome to those in power at Westminster due to his strong anti-establishment outlook matched together with a distinctly farther-than-usual left agenda.\u00a0 Scotlan’s reaction has been cautious and mixed.\u00a0 Corbyn is anti Nuke, which speaks favorably to a growing consensus in Scotia against the renewal of the Trident nuclear submarine program housed in Scotland.\u00a0 Indeed, the Conservative UK government has suggested that the Corbyn victory\u00a0has created a UK wide risk to national security, economic security and every family in the Union.\u00a0 Probably a bit of over reach, but it does express the degree of discomfort the established political organizations in the UK are experiencing. <\/a><\/p>\n

Scottish Indy<\/strong>.\u00a0On the other side of the coin, Corbyn is a Unionist and has not in the past supported Scottish Indy.\u00a0 Indeed, there is an argument that a Corbyn led and potentially resurgent Labour Party could stifle the recent surging support for a Scottish exit from the United Kingdom by fueling some hope of an alternative to the wave of recent Tory Conservative majorities in the UK Parliament at Westminster.<\/p>\n

The seeds of SNP and Labour cooperation were sown earlier during the Labour leadership campaign when Corbyn signaled that, unlike his predecessor at the Labour helm Ed Miliband, Corbyn would be willing to work with the SNP at Westminster if it meant the opportunity to defeat the Tories and create a coalition UK government.\u00a0 Although that position raised criticism from Corbyn’s own party in Scotland, the SNP’s Alex Salmond, now an MP at Westminster representing a Scottish constituency, welcomed the sea change saying that he could work with Corbyn on a range of issues such as welfare reform and abolishing Trident. <\/a><\/p>\n

\"Travel<\/a>Scottish Culture and Heritage<\/strong>.\u00a0 Regarding preservation and enhancement of Scottish heritage, there are a few things to remember about Labour.\u00a0 The Labour Party in Scotland is a “branch office” of the UK Labour Party, ultimately taking direction across the\u00a0board from Party leadership in London.\u00a0 The influence of “Corbynism” will be strongly felt in Scotland.\u00a0 The Labour Party has never proven itself to be a very interested partner in the Scottish Diaspora’s expressions of Scottish heritage, preferring a more completely forward looking agenda.<\/p>\n

The most current\u00a0Labour Party\u00a0Manifesto <\/a>(2015)\u00a0does not\u00a0focus on heritage issues at all and fails to mention Scottish native language revival.\u00a0Labour’s 2015 Charter for\u00a0Culture and the Creative Industries<\/a>\u00a0 includes the\u00a0basic statement, \u00a0“[T]he beauty of our cities, towns and villages, including exceptional monuments, churches, cathedrals and historic houses should be protected and enhanced.”\u00a0 Not a resounding and deeply thought commitment but a place holder at least.\u00a0 There is little reason to expect the election of Jeremy Corbyn to alter that outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scottish Americans\u00a0are hearing some interesting news from the United Kingdom today.\u00a0 The UK Labour Party has chosen socialist Jeremy Corbyn as its next leader by a landslide.\u00a0 A big one.\u00a0 It is a result that is sending a few shock waves through Britain.\u00a0 What will the election mean in Scotland?\u00a0 More specifically, what will a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1260,582,12,1427,1430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-independence","category-scottish-diaspora","category-scottish_news","category-scottish-politics","category-watching-scotland"],"yoast_head":"\nLandslide victory for Jeremy Corbyn in the UK: What will election of a new Labour Party leader mean for Scotland? -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=57974\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Landslide victory for Jeremy Corbyn in the UK: What will election of a new Labour Party leader mean for Scotland? 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