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About LinkBacksScottish and Welsh Devolution is 10 years old today.
So, has been good or bad?
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Scots election anniversary marked
Scottish and Welsh Devolution is 10 years old today.
So, has been good or bad?
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Scots election anniversary marked
'A defeatist attitude now would surely lead to defeat, it primarly a question of whether we have confidence in ourselves and the dilligence and determination of our people,We can't opt out of the future.' Sean Lemass (1965)
The goodness or badness of any composite state will always depend on the particulars of the given situation, if not even on the particulars of the moment.
The problem with this ”devolution” process is that it circumvents the central-most question of where sovereignty resides in the UK. If the member-states never relinquished their national sovereignty, for example, then the Scots and the Welsh would have the right to opt-out of the Union at will. So, devolution in such a confederal UK could only have LEGITIMATELY been a process whereby the Scots and the Welsh unilaterally defined their respective STRUCTURAL relationships with the other member-states.
A historical truth taken out of context can be as deceptive as an outright fabrication.
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