Man in a Shed (Woking, atoryblog.blogspot.com): Interesting article in the Guardian today about the inevitability of the break up of the UK, unless federalism is implemented.
Lets be clear the devolution settlement was fundamentally anti-English. The left almost never miss a chance to do down England as they suspect we are all Tories. ( Well a lot of us are - remember England voted Conservative at the last general election and got a Scottish socialist government whose key members make decisions that don’t affect their constituents).
Frankly this argument is over - England will get its parliament and government. The only debate is how that will be achieved. Either by a forward looking UK government or by a messy divorce.
I think the left are finally waking up and smelling the coffee. Since so much of left-wing politics is based on denying obvious facts and self-deceit its going to take a while for the message to get through. But then in a few years time the left won’t be in power any more so perhaps it doesn’t matter.
The English may yet choose independence form the UK and EU and we are able to do it. England will be free.
Moderator: This was originally a comment on David Marquand's Give Us a Moral Vision for England.
