Originally posted by lord xyz
Yeah, but we're not all that different, really.Why is that a silly idea?
i personally thought a devolved scottish government was a stupid idea because the simple fact is we dont need all these layers of government
we have at the bottom of the pile the local council government...then a Scottish parliment with some devolved powers...then a UK government that still has most of the meaningful power over local issues...then a European government that can implement the largest changes to law in the UK as a whole...and then the united nations deciding about matters of international law...
more beauracracy isn't ever justifiable anymore...and even less so when they propose devolved and seperate parliments for seperate areas of the same country...which will still be governed over at a central level in a UK parliment
we've already got the ridiculous situation where members of the UK government representing Scottish constituencies can vote on issues that will only effect English constituencies because the issue they are able to vote on is a power that has been devolved to the Scottish parliment of which they are not a member...and example of someone who is able to do that is the prime minister himself because he represents Dunfermline
Personally, the only problem I have is people's power to vote on matters that affect other people. Now, if Westminster had a system that only those a law affects gets to vote, then all would be fine, but that's not mainstream enough.
I'm still infavour of a federative system, those in Yorkshire have their laws and government, and those in Cornwall have their laws and government etc etc. Westminster would still be around ofcourse whenever an issue considered the country as a whole, for example, war.
On a completely unrelated topic, I'm listening to waller fm, and it is great.