The Brown Plan – By getting cold feet over voting reform, Labour has missed an opportunity that might have saved the union

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  1. Tories / Labour can simply stop Separatism by just saying no

    Most other countries do just that. The US would not allow Nevada, Kansas, or Cali to ever leave.

  3. The problem with Brown’s plan and whatever Labour comes up with is that they genuinely want to fix the relationship breakdown between Westminster and Holyrood and to satiate sensible nationalism in Scotland. The issue with this is the Tories, who play in to the hands of the SNP over and over by stoking the anger of moderate Scots and push them into the embrace of nationalism.

    Before Brexit, Scottish Nationalists supported more devolution, voting reform and power decentralisation over flat out hard independence, but after Brexit and especially so after Boris Johnson’s election the Tories as a whole have been so hostile to the SNP and to Scotland that any of those proposals for the constantly growing number of nationalists are no longer acceptable, and Labour is just going to be putting out fires before the Tories come back and light even more, until most of the Scottish aren’t just anti-unionist, they just stop considering the British government as legitimate which will lead to independence one way or another.

    Conciliatory behaviour may have been unpopular with English and Unionist voters, but it would have gone a long way to save the union, again especially before Brexit. Unfortunately I believe it’s only a matter of time before Scotland declares independence, whether that’s through a democratic vote or through insurgency remains to be seen.

  4. As usual when Labour look like winning, people pop up hoping to get every pet scheme implemented. It seems like the public doesn’t want electoral change so the policy could be a way of letting Tories in and saving the union

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