The Independence for Scotland Party has embraced the policy of abstention. It was abstention – the promise not to take their seats at Westminster – that won Sinn Fein a massive majority in the 1918 General Election. The traditional Home Rule party, whose MPs were riding the Westminster gravy train, was swept inside and never recovered. Ireland re-established its own parliament in 1919 and British rule ended within 3 years.
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