Read it here: http://bit.ly/inKwnN
Our comment: Mr Barder, this entire mess is down to New Labour’s bizarre devolution project. Any mature right thinking political party would have known that you cannot give devolved government to 3 countries while ignoring the 4th and biggest of them all. A federal UK in 1998 was the no brainer – the fact that Blair, Brown, Reid, Derry Irvine, Browne, Alexander et al chose to leave England wallowing in a democracy-free zone says much about their collective conceit, arrogance and naivity….
For after 13 years of democratic emasculation, while the other 3 home countries frolic in parliament / assembly / referendum overload an English grassroots rebellion is about to explode. Salmond, ever threatening to take his ball home unless a fawning Westminster gives him more and more concessions is skating on thin ice. There is now a clear majority in England (roughly double the percentage than there is north of the border) insisting that Scotland leaves the UK.
As a possible response to this worrying news that the English may after all be growing a backbone, the Scottish First Minister is now talking in terms of ‘independence-lite’ – sort of having all the benefits of being independent but with the security blanket that is the English taxpayer (a cake and eat it strategy?)…..
The problem is, that solution will not be tolerated in England. Salmond has grandstanded for the last time, the bluff has been called, the union is dead. Not because of the Scots but because at last, the English are beginning to wonder what possible advantages there are by being a member of a union so comprehensively skewed against them.
The sooner the UK is consigned to the bin, the better for all concerned – especially the English.
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By: The Scottish independence issue: there’s a better way by Brian Barder (via The Justice for England Blog) « English Warrior on May 16, 2011
at 12:02 pm
…the fact that Blair, Brown, Reid, Derry Irvine, Browne, Alexanderet al chose to leave England wallowing in a democracy-free zone says much about their collective conceit, arrogance and naivety…not to mention their Anglophobic racism.
By: Geoff, Worcester, England on May 16, 2011
at 12:24 pm
alex salmond is full of his self on a im the greatest trip he is determined to break up the uk on his terms and wait for it on english money so let them be independant but take english money away and see how long he lasts
By: BRIAN HIGGINSON on May 16, 2011
at 5:54 pm
“The problem is, that solution will not be tolerated in England” =====================================================
Maybe so but the problem is that David Cameron, our ‘there’s Scottish blood in these veins” and “I don’t want to be PM of England”Prime Minister is refusing to listen. It seems Alex Salmond is our only hope of an English Parliament.
By: JoolsB on May 17, 2011
at 5:52 pm
I consider myself English rather than British.
I think if we had a referendum on Scottish independence I think there’s a reasonable possibility that England would vote ‘yes’ and Scotland ‘no’.
Can you force a reluctant constituent part of an existing country to become independent?
By: Lee on May 19, 2011
at 9:11 am