It will be impossible to predict the outcome of a First Past the Post General Election featuring a minimum of five major parties in England, six in Scotland, six in Wales, and six in Northern Ireland. Anyone whose prediction came true would just have got lucky. But there is one thing that we can say. No other party could now enter into any coalition or other arrangement with a party that was led by Keir Starmer.
As to those parties themselves, the implementation throughout a United Ireland of the National Health Service and of other achievements would be an act of solidarity, although a United Ireland without those provisions would be unconscionable. But the withdrawal of Scotland or Wales because of the voting habits of the majority of such people in England as voted at all, if that, would be the antithesis of solidarity, not least in its weakening of trade union negotiating power beyond even that which had already been inflicted by devolution.
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