January 24, 2006
There are no brakes on this train
Gareth has a little roundup of some press coverage on the issue of the devolution settlement in the Union. It does seem that the issue that some bloggers have been saying will not go away and will be a major issue of our times are not as crazy or as dangerous to the Union as some might think.
The longer I have been involved in this movement the more English separatist chatter I have heard.
It is a situation that was completely predictable.
People who are not offered equality and who do not feel empowered or listened to in any meaningful way will always tend to loose faith in whatever system they think is failing them. I've always said that the greatest threat to the Union comes not from their ranks but from the ranks of those that refuse to accept that something needs to be done and that something must put the nation of England on the same footing as all the other Union nations.
Gareth is quite right when he says:
We been predicting and warning of this for ages of course, but our leaders failed to listen. The massed ranks of Parliament are always the last to notice the public mood. Well, they're listening now. We've passed being ignored, passed being labelled extremists, passed being labelled dangerous.We are rapidly getting to the point (and it is astonishing to me how quickly this is happening) where the accelerating gravy train of English nationalism (or British equalitarianism) will become too much for some politicians to resist and too loud for the others to ignore.
That will be the BBC singularity. A point where the issue is so acute that not even the BBC can ignore it.
From then on it will only be a matter of time.
