One of the positives of the Scottish independence debate has been how it has forced all sides to return to first principles and examine the foundations of their ideologies. This most obviously involves the difference between socialism and nationalism. For followers of the former, solidarities of class trump those of nationhood. A worker in Dundee has more in common with a worker in Durham than he or she does with a businessman in Dunfermline. Any attempt to divide workers along alternative lines only serves to reinforce the dominant economic system.
It is this point that Ed Miliband will make with admirable clarity in his speech tomorrow at the TUC general council dinner in Liverpool.
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