I am fervently committed to the Union. So
far evidence suggests it will be a yes vote to the Union (ironically branded as
a No vote!) but perhaps rather close.
A close vote will hardly solve the
matter.
Is there a gamechanger? An announcement from the
Government which might really change the way many people think.
I think the situation needs a
gamechanger.
Here is mine: an admission that there are
challenges with the Union, challenges at least in part driven by the Greater
London/Londoncentricity/ Westminstercentricity of the present. When Glasgow was
the workshop of empire, when the North East was King Coal and the NW the
cottonopolis of the world, these things were more balanced.
So what is the gamechanger? An expression that if
Scotland votes for the Union, the Union members will work towards a new Union
capital in Liverpool? At the centre of the Union and leave Westminster as an
English parliament.
I know most folk will laugh at this, at least at
first sight, but if the British government really want to demonstrate their
committment to the future of the Union what else is on the cards as a
gamechanger?
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