"On the island of Britain 'the Union' is dislocating through the transfer of powers to the Scottish and Welsh Assemblies. The 'Unitary State' in Britain is history - it is politically dead. What develops in Britain regarding the Union now is firmly beyond the control of anybody in this Assembly."
Not quite. The Union may well be in a shaky state, but it is still very much with us, simply because the majority in England, N.Ireland, Scotland and Wales still wish that to remain the case and all the machinations and black propaganda in the world from the various “nationalist” groupings will not change that fact. Her last sentence is, however, correct- although Irish unionists (but only if they can finally crawl out of their present parochial comfort-zone) can, working with like-minded English, Scottish and Welsh, still greatly influence the future of the United Kingdom.
"The destination of this process of dislocation does not lay with a Royal Commission - but with the sovereign will of the people of Ireland, Scotland Wales and England.”
No.
It lies with the sovereign will of the people of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales...the residents of the Republic of Ireland have no say in the matter. But...again, she is right to an extent, the Unionists at Stormont should not be relying on mere paper or Royal Commissions to guarantee the future of the UK, they should be really getting out more and start looking at the bigger picture; it’s no longer just the provos who’re threatening to destroy our nation- the (thankfully now in inverted commas)"fight" to preserve the Union is now a UK-wide one.
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I'm sorry mate but I think there is growing questions about the future of the Union. Every other day some development or statement on the constitutional arrangement is made, including David Cameron's ferverous pro-Union declarations today demonstrates that there is worry. I'm not saying that the Union is about to dissolve or that it should, but that there are questions about.
abdul-rahim
I'm not saying that the Union is about to dissolve or that it should, but that there are questions about.
Open and free debate is a good thing and should be welcome in any democracy.
All this questioning of the validity of the Union is starting to concentrate minds and again, that can only be a good thing.
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