Injustice The Scottish and Welsh Nationalists represent one form of
resistance to the steam-rollering of local identity. Dotty as, I fear, their ultimate purposes irremediably are, they exert a mild appeal which persists through all electoral rebuffs; and, anyhow, touches of unorthodoxy are none too common on the hustings. This week, both these parties must have won greater sympathy than ever before, when they com- plained that they were to be excluded from party political broadcasts in Scotland and Wales during the election. This seems absurdly unjust. Indeed, the injustice has been conceded by both Tory and Labour Parties : but the arrangements to give them a hearing have become bogged down in procedural transactions between the Whips. It is just the sort of thing to confirm a Nationalist's blackest suspicions of what goes on in London. Is it really too late to let them have their eccentric say?
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