IT is clear that the London based political establishment does not ‘get it’.
George Osborne’s offer of further devolution is too little, too late.
If the Scots fall for that, they would be buying a pig in a poke.
The only hope for the Better Together side is a federal Britain.
That federation would not survive for long with one member (England as currently constituted) having 84 per cent of the population.
If matters have not been left too late, it is now time to fulfil Herbert Asquith’s 1912 Home Rule for all pledge.
The UK should become a federal state, but with six members, not four.
These being England, north of the Wash, Saxland, south of the Wash, the federal territory of London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Whitehall’s long established preference regarding the Government’s standard English regions has been thoroughly rejected by the voters, as was apparent from John Prescott’s attempt to force it through in the North-East.
Robert Craig, Weston-super-Mare.
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