Summary
TRYING to stave off devolution, John Major used to warn Scots about the dangers of arousing the sleeping tiger of English Nationalism and provoking a backlash. We paid no attention and the Scottish parliament came into being, with the result that Scotland is now a semi-detached part of the United Kingdom.
The parliament and Executive (or Government, as the new administration prefers to style itself) have settled down. We may grumble about their performance, but only in the same way as people have always grumbled about Westminster.See the full content of this document
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We'd Better Start Listening to Our Noisy Neighbours
The fact is, even those of us who voted 'No' in the referendum of 1997 have accepted the parliament as a reality.
There is not the slightest likelihood that devolution will be reversed. Indeed, it has come to seem so natural that it's hard to remember the time when there wasn't a parliament in Edinburg...See the full content of this document
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