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Unlike many other European countries, and indeed England at points in its history, Scotland has no significant history of fascist organisation. In the 20s and 30s, while it was in the ascendancy across Europe and a fascist presence was starting to be established in England under Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, Scotland proved relatively barren ground. Although sectarian organisations did flourish, any attempt to organise by anyone identifying themselves as fascist met with substantial and sustained resistance. Again in the 70s, while the National Front gained a level of prominence south of the border, again Scotland proved megre pickings for the fash.