Gordon Brown has stated that the Union of England and Scotland is under threat, what can be done?

Question

Who is to blame for the union of the two countries being under threat?

Answer 1

I don't know enough about the subject to comment on the implications of the breaking-up of the Union. I suspect the English would benefit from the break-up.

I do know however that the seeds were sown by Brown and others in the Goverment when Scotland and Wales were given their own assemblies whilst denying the same right to the English.

Some of the comments from Brown recently suggest that they have made a monumental ****-up on this matter and somehow have got to waffle themselves out of it.

Answer 2

All this rubbish about England subsidising Scotland Is complete Cobblers. For a start ''England'' is NOT a country It is The United Kingdom or Great Britain if you prefer secondly Countless BILLIONS of Revenue have been generated by North Sea Oil Much of Which lie in Scotlands Territorial Waters should Scotland become Independent again now consider this Scotland has 5 million that is small for an Oil producing nation England has 60 million .Who do you think would benefit the most if Scotland Divorced England?

Answer 3

The present and previous governments are responsible for weakening the union not just of England and Scotland but the unions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland too. To allow Wales and Scotland and soon Northern Ireland to have their own independent parliaments without giving the same privilege to England is divisive, unfair and totally inadequate. Why should an MP with a constituency in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland be sitting in the Westminster house? For an answer you have only to look at the nationalities of the Prime Minister, Chancellor, Home Secretary and a host of other foreigners dipping their beaks into our trough.

Answer 4

Of course Gordon Brown is going to say that. He will say and do ANYTHING!!! Gordon Brown wants to become Prime Minister! He NEEDS the Union together. Brown is part of a UK Executive that exercises complete control over England when he himself is democratically unaccountable to the English people over vast swathes of Government policy, but when he becomes Prime Minister he will head up a UK Executive that effectively makes England a Scottish electoral dictatorship.That said, the Governments themselves are to blame!!!

Answer 5

i don't believe of it is in probability in spite of what the on a daily basis Mail likes us to believe. maximum flesh presser and wise contributors of the time-honored public understand that it is ridiculous and unsafe to divide into 4 small international places (and if Scotland achieves independence, i do not doubt that Northern eire and Wales will favor to be decrease loose too quicker or later) at a time at the same time as the international is do divided and hate-crammed. all of us stand a much better probability, a minimum of for now, to be one tremendous u . s . a .. the mission is that politicians refuse to do something to ease relatives between Scotland and England. The Scots are ill of getting used as an experimental floor for in spite of guidelines that the governement needs to attempt out (like the polltax and likely street tolls). both, the English are drained of non-English MPs vote casting on topics that impact purely England. What needs to be carried out is supply England their own devolved parliament for English topics and allow Westminister deal purely with guidelines affecting the united kingdom as an complete. And at the same time as it contains sorting out out new guidelines, benefit this on the country as an complete somewhat than basically lumping it on Scotland. Then everybody might want to be happier.

Answer 6

Scotland has faired better under devolution.

We have free student fees for college and university and all the eldery are entitled to free care.

Businesses are beneffiting from labour coming from Poland and other Eastern European countries and they are managing to break into other countries markets.

Scotland in the past was used by th government as a gunea pig for many of its experimental taxes (such as the poll tax) before they went country wide. Plus we all know revenue from whisky by passes us and goes straight down south.

So really to answer your question Westminster is to blame for the split.

Answer 7

Well... what do the people of the two countries want ? I think that's the important question. If Scotland wants to go its own way, then good luck. Either way, I no longer want to see MPs for Scottish constituencies voting on bills which only affect England & Wales.

Answer 8

It is Labour that has put it under threat by creating the present lopsided constitutional arrangement.

It is a lot like Charles Clarke's argument that because he created the mess he should be the one to clear it up - it didn't wash with him either.

Answer 9

Do we really care- as long as we can still travel between the two. Its Scotland's loss if they do become independant: we're subsidising their cheaper university fees etc. - and this is coming from someone who's brother's at uni in Edinburgh.

Answer 10

oh dear, if its union trouble, send for maggie... and as for the impplied threat, who aare you kidding... coracles on the tyne... trained herds of killer haggis roaming the open countryside...

personally i'd dig a bloody big canal, from the tyne thru to the other side... we could make money from shipping like the suez and panama canals, and its a vast improvement on hadrians efforts...