Friday, December 28, 2007

Bourne's Confusion

Another "Unionist" extols the virtues of the "Devolution Experiment">
Question: Won't extending devolution incrementally in the devolved parts of the UK inevitably lead to a break up?

Bourne: I don't see that at all, I don't understand people who put that argument forward and say there is something inevitable about independence.

That has not been the case in Spain, in Germany, the US or Australia so I can't see that if you have a separation of powers for the constituent parts of a nation state that it leads to independence.


In Germany, the US and Australia everyone considers themselves primarily as German, American or Australian. So bad comparison.
Which leaves Spain.

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