I very much enjoy and admire your writing. Keep it up!

I think that you may be wrong on a couple of points.

I don’t believe that Scotland will leave the union in the next 20 to 30 years. We’ve reached peak SNP. The death of the Oil Industry is the nail in the coffin of independence. This will be even more so if England votes to leave the EU (which it won’t). The economic fundamentals are firmly against independence, and the SNP have now to show that Scotland can thrive by doing better than RUK, and I’m not sure they are either up to or in for it.

This being so, its a mistake for Labour to equivocate on independence. There is no space for a pro-independence Labour party and so the gesture is counter-productive.

Secondly, I don’t see that Jeremy Corbyn and his circle have a clue about how to address issues of pay and opportunity. His interests and focus have been pretty-exclusively anti-colonial for 30+ years and he has shown no interest in or engagement with issues of a new economic arrangement beyond the merest platitudes. John McDonnell is trying, but with no support that I can see. This is, I believe a problem for progressives. There seems to be a large store of goodwill, but it won’t last forever.