Ructions within the SDLP as it counts down to the existential crisis that would be a border poll. The implementation throughout a United Ireland of the National Health Service and of other social democratic and labour achievements would be an act of solidarity, but a United Ireland without those provisions would be unconscionable to any social democratic labourist. Similar things may be said about the IRSP and the Workers’ Party, but of course that is pretty much academic.
Meanwhile, 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 Blairite devolution. And people accustomed to the immensely generous public provision in Northern Ireland should join the Republic if, but only if, they could both preserve that for themselves and extend it to their islemates. Without that, and until it, they should join with comrades with Scotland and Wales to free the English from, for example, the prescription charges that no one else had to pay.
“Meanwhile, 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, “
ReplyDeleteIt would be great as Peter Hitchens and Simon Heffer say-without Wales and Scotland, we’d never have to endure a high tax pro-immigration left-wing government again.
I have a map that, in their own terms, they need to look at.
DeleteHeffer has taken a Tory peerage after all so he probably wouldn't see the problem but no MP in England is from a party Hitchens approves of.
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