Labour and Devolution!

Now most people would tout the devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales and NI as one of Labour's biggest achievements in government.

As much as i think it is progressive to give powers back to people, it is also regressive as it splits the country up.

Even more importantly was how foolish it was to try and build a stronger United Kingdom without addressing the strength of the laws that made it.

To me the Act of Union 1707 and the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542 because of the lack of democracy back then aren't democratically strong. As they are the biggest constitutional changes in our history (they are the laws that make up the foundation of our United Kingdom) they need also to be the strongest.

Yet they are the weakest, a definition in law as to what is democratically valid with regards to constitutional change and to make sure that it applies to the whole constitution because we want everything to be democratically valid is enough to invalidate the Act of Union 1707 and Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542. That would make Scotland, England and Wales independent as if the union never happened.

We actually (thanks to Labour) might have a government willing to put this into the constitution making sure that a Prime Minister cannot hand powers over to Europe or make any other constitutional change without the blessing of the people.

Now you don't build your house on weak foundations, so why would you try and build your country on weak foundations?

Looking around the country, i see the Scottish parliament wanting more powers, the Welsh Assembly wanting more powers, England wants its own parliament, there is growing want for English independence, Cornwall wants its own parliament. This doesn't sound like a strong UK.

I strongly believe we need to re-negiotiate the union and how we actually shape our country with a written constitution written by the people not the politicians.