The United Kingdom is being slowly dismembered and hollowed-out in full view, and with the tacit consent, of the political classes.
By creating multiple and competing poles of national authority and decision-making, and by financing them in such an egregiously unfair way, Brown and his Labour colleagues have sown the seeds of deep division and resentment and set in motion the break-up of the Union.
All true, but then he has to go and ruin it all, with this unnecessary piece of pessimism:
Abolition of the devolved institutions is not currently saleable. This means that we should now be looking at a re-balancing of the devolution experiment.
No. We are in the early month’s of administrations in N.Ireland, Scotland and Wales, all three "governments" contain separatist parties who are still riding on the crest of the wave of their election victories earlier on in the year. They haven’t been really put to the test yet and in all three cases, I’m confident that over the oncoming months, the results arising from the inherent instability of each adminstration will greatly weaken the respective electorates’ confidence in the "devolution experiment".
Tories like Stephen Crabb, if they really do still believe in the Union, should therefore be preparing the groundwork to take advantage of the inevitable situation I’ve described above; they should not be looking to "rebalance" the devolution experiment, but looking to see the best ways to bring it crashing down around the ears of Brown, NuLabour and the various separatists.
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