RECENT ELECTIONS

Regarding the recent set of elections in the UK, as has been pointed out on various news channels, the Scottish nationalists did well in Scotland, the controlling Welsh Labour Party did well in Wales, and the Tories did well in the so-called former ‘red wall’ areas that Labour used to control in the North and Midlands of England. Labour won in London, where the English are now a minority.

The Brexit vote was mainly an English rebellion, and the former Brexit-voting red wall areas are voting Tory because the Tory Government is spending money, borrowed and printed, on those areas in a ‘levelling up’ exercise.

Meanwhile, in the elections the dissident Right flopped badly. It is impossible to overstate how badly they did. All dissident Right parties bombed. UKIP lost every councillor up for election and lost all its representation in the Welsh parliament. UKIP was wiped out. The ex-UKIP splinters never got off the ground and were likewise wiped out. None of them defended English interests, or made the case against mass immigration. The UK’s dissident Right are a part of the woke-Right.

On television today, Michael Gove, who is heading the Tory Government’s ‘fight’ to save the union, said that Scotland has two governments. No it has not. Gove’s comment was a remarkable revelation of his incomprehension of the problem. As UK prime minister, Boris Johnson has reportedly offered the leaders of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland to meet with him to discuss the post-Covid recovery plan. What about the English?

There are rumours that Boris Johnson has some big-spending plans in mind to appease demands for Scottish independence. He is feeding a tiger with English money topped up with printed money.

There needs to be a proper federal structure for the whole of the UK, including England, with clear areas of RESPONSIBILITY for the Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish and English parliaments. The Tories prefer to pretend that Labour’s devolution, with the creation of the Scots and Welsh parliaments, never happened, and prefer to carry on as if nothing has changed. That is why the UK is in danger of splitting apart.

If the Tories continue to treat Scotland (and Wales) as being something separate, then it will eventually separate just as the Republic of Ireland did.