Now is not the time

Tom Griffin comments upon an article in the Independent that sets out what Gordon Brown's agenda will be if he succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister. High up on this agenda is a written constitution. I've always been a fan of written constitutions but I have to say that this does worry me greatly. Here is a man that speaks of England as a collection of regions and he is a member of a party that is not popular in England but that clings to power in part because of the support they receive from non-English MPs.

Now there's no way that such a constitution will be written by Brown himself and it is unlikely that it would be written by any politician as we think of them but that does not fill me with any great confidence.

England is currently experiencing a period of severe disadvantage within the Union and it would be foolish to create a written constitution at a time like this.