'Once you breach the principle that all MPs should vote on matters before them in Westminster you get constitutional anarchy.
The hypocrite.
It was NuLabour and specifically Gordon Brown in the late 90s, by unleashing the "devolution experiment", which created the present inequitable, unworkable and "constitutionally anarchic" situation in the United Kingdom. And whilst I have serious doubts about this proposal, Sir Malcolm Rifkind is at least sincere in his desire to save the Union.
But if the Tories do manage to pull it off and it works, theoretically this Grand Committee concept could also be extended to the other countries of the Union- would this not be a worthwhile future strategy for the Conservative party in Scotland and Wales to pursue?
Makes mores sense than a Unionist party joining up with Plaid Cymru and the SNP in constantly demanding more powers to be devolved from Westminster surely?
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Lets say scotland do leave the union.How is that going to affect Northern Ireland with regrads to its place in the union
Technically/legally/constitutionally Scotland leaving the UK would leave England, N.Ireland and Wales still together within a smaller version of the UK.
Economically NI and Wales would be less able (or actually, completely incapable) than Scotland to break away.
But psychologically?
The effect of Scotland breaking away would hit very hard many Unionists in NI-there have always been very close ties between NE Ulster and especially the Western part of Scotland; much more closer ties,in my opinion, than between much of NE Ulster and the rest of Ireland.
Most of us still have relatives there, also, for a variety of reasons there is probably a closer cultural and social affinity between the N.Irish and the Scots, than there is between the N.Irish and the English.
So, it would hit many Unionists very hard if Scotland were to leave the UK
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