The Scottish voting system was set up with the purpose of preventing the SNP ever getting an absolute majority and being able to hold a referendum on the issue of Scottish independence. That device has now failed and the new SNP majority government in Scotland will be able to hold such a referendum during the next four years.
I hope the Scottish people decide to stay within the UK but I am sure that the anomalies within the current UK constitutional arrangements with NI, Scotland and Wales having various levels of autonomy from Westminster whereas England with its diverse regional character is still held under direct rule by London must change. If Scotland goes its own way I think that issue will have to be tackled.
I think the very first political policy I supported when I must have been very young indeed was the old Liberal policy of turning the United Kingdom into a federal state and I still think that is the way to go. Sadly no political party is even thinking along those lines.
No comments:
Post a Comment