Iceland is the sort of place to which Scottish separatists tend to look for inspiration. And now, it is giving them plenty.
There is a vast financial services sector based in Scotland, and it is very dear to the popular heart there. As well it might be. An independent Scotland could not underwrite one, never mind all, of the Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS, Standard Life, Scottish Widows, and all the rest of them.
So Scottish independence is now, and really always has been, a dead cause. And it is difficult to see what the point of devolution is, in that case. There is no need to go through the rigmarole of abolishing it. Just let it die of disuse. As, in fact, it is already doing.
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The point about devolution is that we did feel we were under the hand of a very Londoncentric establishment with neither interest in nor understanding of what goes on north of Watford. I think quite a lot of people in the north of England understand that feeling even if you don't feel moved to such action. There is certainly no popular feeling for reversing the process.
ReplyDeleteWho mentioned the North of England? And God forbid that we should ever have anys uch assembly here! Proper local government and a proper Parliament, that's what we all need.
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