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The general principle was supported in the decision of the Scottish Court of Session in Masinimport v. Scottish Mechanical Light Industries Ltd. (1976).

In Scotland, the Scottish government's climate change fund has funded Transition Scotland as a national organization supporting the spread of this.

48 British Yearbook of International Law 333 35 (1976 77) (citing Case No. I. Masinimport v. Scottish Mechanical Light Industries Ltd., 1976, reported in Scots Law Times, p. 245, Outer House, Lord Keith).

In Masinimport v Scottish Mechanical Light Industries Ltd., the Scottish Court of Session held that such treaties had survived the Second World War and were not covered by the Romanian Peace Treaty of 1947.

The Scottish National Party s crushing victory left Labour with only one seat in the country. There are no doubt many reasons for the SNP s overwhelming triumph, but support for austerity is not one of them.

For some British citizens south of the Scottish border, it will be difficult to act with the goodwill now required to recover from the referendum episode. I do not know how much Alex Salmond, the now resigned Scottish Nationalist Party leader who pressed for the referendum, is responsible for the surge in his own party s support but I suspect that he may, alas, have galvanized all too much nationalist sentiment in England.

True, Scotland s great minds in the age of Enlightenment, such as David Hume, Adam Smith, and even the national poet, Robert Burns, were all fervent advocates of Britishness, whatever that might mean today. Yet an identity based campaign could have resorted to the heritage of the Scottish Renaissance of the mid twentieth century or to the Celtic Revival and Celtic Twilight movements, which awakened a spirit of cultural nationalism among Scots in the late nineteenth century.

The Scottish National Party, embodying a left wing version of identity politics, wiped out Labour in Scotland, allowing the Conservatives to gain an absolute majority in Parliament. The government of Prime Minister David Cameron who has focused on British identity, rather than the UK s common destiny with Europe will undoubtedly hold a referendum on the UK s continued membership in the European Union, with unpredictable consequences.

To judge by the opinion polls, Cameron s best hope is to win more parliamentary seats than Labour and try to form a minority government, which could survive as long as the other parties failed to unite against it. This might be possible, because the Liberal Democrats and Scottish Nationalist Party may see benefits in allowing a weak Conservative government to remain in power, at least for a while.