Scotland

Yes I think they should be given the right to decide, but as I said the majority should be broad and confirmed in time.

Yes, I have. I see it every bloody day, just as you do. And, no doubt, we would agree that the people who run these local institutions are as big, if not bigger, w**kers than the self serving w**kers at national level. You will have no argument from me there, Dean.

There. Where I suspect we might diverge (I don't know) is the reasons why. As ever, there is no simple answer to that question. However, I am in no doubt that one of the biggest reasons why is that the political system, the media, and the establishment in general have, for years now, taken away, bit by bit by bit, local authorities power, and centralised them, to the extent that councils, in effect, now have to run on an ever diminishing dole by central government, and most legislation is governed nationally.

It is virtually impossible for a local authority to actually physically run anything, and, of course, local council elections are, mainly, contested by the same political parties, and, thus, the same political w**kers, as are the national ones. Indeed, council elections these days are, basically, nothing more than a media beauty contest  in order to judge the (Un)popularity of the ruling party's the day. There is, in effect, absolutely no incentive for the type of innovative and entrepreneurial people you used to get in local government, because they would not be able to do anything.

That is one of the reasons why this referendum has been so important. Whatever happens, Scotland will get more powers. So will English and Welsh regions. What they do with it.........that will be the defining political debate of the next twenty years, IMO of course.

Indeed, the EUSSR ( ) is becoming more and more another 'socialist paradise' mistake. Contemptible red ideologues who , as Ian Anderson put it so well once long ago, are Living in the Past.  

Easier win than originally touted, so never trust opinion pollsters

Still, 45% is still a sizeable vote for change and disaffection from and with Westminster. In many ways, the interesting politics starts now.

You have a good point here, but it would have shown that a superstate has no right to exist because the peoples that are trapped in it always prefer to govern their own affairs without an elusive superpower imposing some unwelcome rules.

Never mind, the No-camp pulled it off .