Devolution https://indylibrary.scot/ en Territorial inequalities under devolution: do Scottish and Welsh residents perceive a gap between capital cities and their local communities? https://indylibrary.scot/territorial-inequalities-under-devolution-do-scottish-and-welsh-residents-perceive-a-gap-between <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Territorial inequalities under devolution: do Scottish and Welsh residents perceive a gap between capital cities and their local communities?</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Davide Vampa</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 27/03/2024 - 18:26</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Centre on Constitutional Change</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2024</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=1390&amp;2=like_content" token="Jp1stR4FzbcY4pyGjvx7suyUb7H__vAapQAUVYJtL5I"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Devolved institutions risk (re-)creating new (real or perceived) gaps at lower territorial levels.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>In summary, devolution not only shifted power from the centre of the British state to Scotland and Wales but also contributed to the creation and strengthening of new centres of power in Edinburgh and Cardiff. Therefore, while addressing or channelling tensions between Westminster and more ‘peripheral’ parts of the UK, devolved institutions risk (re-)creating new (real or perceived) gaps at lower territorial levels. A challenge for the political class of the two devolved nations is to bridge these gaps or, at the very least, to prevent them from expanding or being politicised. Failure to do so might <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/35619-who-supports-abolishing-devolved-parliaments-and-w">strengthen calls for a reversal of the entire devolution process</a>. Indeed, in Wales, there is still a sizable share of voters who think devolved institutions should be abolished altogether (one fifth of the respondents in the survey). My data suggest that, while only 2 percent of them see devolution as beneficial for their local communities, almost 40 percent perceive Cardiff as the primary beneficiary. These results are significant also in light of recent findings and recommendations published in the final report by the <a href="https://www.gov.wales/independent-commission-on-the-constitutional-future-of-wales-final-report">Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales</a>. </p> <p>Correlation is not causation, but after the EU referendum, it became apparent that diffuse perceptions of being ‘left-behind’ or disadvantaged compared to other places may produce a backlash capable of subverting established institutional and constitutional equilibria. If a complex process like Brexit, which was unthinkable until a decade ago, could partly occur as a consequence of this, it is not unreasonable to think that devolution may be exposed to future challenges to its legitimacy and, possibly, its very existence.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/territorial-inequalities-under-devolution-do-scottish-and-welsh-residents-perceive" target="_blank">https://www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/territorial-ine…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1263" hreflang="en">Devolution in Scotland</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/916" hreflang="en">Wales</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/456" hreflang="en">Scottish Government</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:26:39 +0000 Stephen Richard 1390 at https://indylibrary.scot Scotland Can https://indylibrary.scot/scotland-can-0 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Scotland Can</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Our Scottish Future</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 18/03/2024 - 10:34</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Our Scottish Future</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Website</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=1360&amp;2=like_content" token="wuPZVCmEZ0ktpnBtj6wJ6G4VYDZFcDV9OAEeHS_LBZs"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>A devolutionist website with interesting articles.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.wecan.scot/" target="_blank">https://www.wecan.scot/</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:34:15 +0000 Stephen Richard 1360 at https://indylibrary.scot Scotland Can https://indylibrary.scot/scotland-can <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Scotland Can</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">We Can</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 19/02/2024 - 11:13</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Our Scottish Future</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2024 -</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/written-culture" hreflang="en">Written culture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Website</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=1324&amp;2=like_content" token="EgGCvl3LN-XR-10Qmhw_xIMwkhMyRs0PHQTmc497eDo"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>If Scotland wants to carry out radical land reform, build a new health system, change the school starting age, create new welfare benefits, or get working on dozens of other issues, then there is nothing to stop us.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.wecan.scot/" target="_blank">https://www.wecan.scot/</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1224" hreflang="en">Lanark: A Life in Four Books</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:13:58 +0000 Stephen Richard 1324 at https://indylibrary.scot Devolution and the Labour Myth https://indylibrary.scot/devolution-and-the-labour-myth <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Devolution and the Labour Myth</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">James Wilkie</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 22/11/2023 - 19:22</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Scotland UN-Committee</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2012</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Article</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=1203&amp;2=like_content" token="M45ULgPjMAcXeDh0ZuzbU58hbo1Mhhjqy7OMnS10eE4"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Establishment hostility [to devolution] reached its sordid peak with the orgy of corruption that was the 1979 referendum.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>It would have killed Labour’s pretence to have “given” Scotland home rule, to say nothing of its election chances for both Holyrood and Westminster. It was an acute embarrassment for the Labour leadership, a tale of how they had been outmanoeuvred, outgunned and outsmarted by a group of nationalist amateurs. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>More recently, however, when English Attorney General Dominic Grieve again banned any disclosure of the background to devolution, on 9 February 2012, the situation had become even more acute.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>It was obvious that blocking this information had become a major factor in preventing Scottish opinion from drifting any more strongly towards independence.  That is the stage we are at for the moment. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Open government, freedom of information, democracy and the rule of law are scraps of paper that may be composted for the sake of expediency. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Until these facts are made known, however, there can be no balanced judgement on the independence issue.  For that is exactly what the unionists fear.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.electricscotland.com/independence/devolution_labour.htm" target="_blank">https://www.electricscotland.com/independence/devolution_labour.htm</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/784" hreflang="en">Labour Party</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/783" hreflang="en">History</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:22:41 +0000 Stephen Richard 1203 at https://indylibrary.scot A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy https://indylibrary.scot/a-new-britain-renewing-our-democracy-and-rebuilding-our-economy <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Commission for the UK’s Future</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 26/01/2023 - 18:55</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Labour Party</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2022</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">150pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=1001&amp;2=like_content" token="So9NLJvfWA_e76M3pWJxczRF-apJnDXdwCTvJq1GcOk"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The Labour Party's Commission for the UK’s Future has little more than additional consultation on some matters.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>‘More devolution’ in the report is limited; nothing to give Scotland and Wales more secure access to the proceeds of any higher tax rates they set, and no more than ‘consultation over updating Scottish capital borrowing… any changes should retain the limits on what borrowing can be used for and be consistent with UK-wide fiscal rules’ (p110). Devolved parliaments would gain the right to enter into international agreements in their areas of competence, which might ease the consequences of Brexit. Jobcentres are proposed for devolution, Wales is offered youth justice and the probation service, and English local authorities more stable funding streams that could easily be compromised at Treasury will.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Commission-on-the-UKs-Future.pdf" target="_blank">https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Commission-on-the-UKs-Future.p…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1069" hreflang="en">Government Reform</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/519" hreflang="en">UK economy</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:55:01 +0000 Stephen Richard 1001 at https://indylibrary.scot Some constitutional cogitations from Cardiff https://indylibrary.scot/some-constitutional-cogitations-from-cardiff <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Some constitutional cogitations from Cardiff</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Ciaran Martin</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 12/01/2023 - 10:39</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Ciaran Martin</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2022</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Lecture</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=975&amp;2=like_content" token="ehpbH6ZYkjg8iU2dGd1xLHiRwqUJUZBzZpnrdG_KWf4"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Reform of the UK in the light of Anglo-centric British nationalism.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>An insightful analysis of the fractured state of the nations of the UK and possible approaches to reform of relations and processes.</p> <p>"If you’ve taken the trouble to work out how to do it, then make the case for it. If you believe in a devolved, respectfully multinational UK, then make the case for it in its own right, not as a way of stopping something else."</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/some-constitutional-cogitations-from" target="_blank">https://ciaranmartin.substack.com/p/some-constitutional-cogitations-from</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1054" hreflang="en">UK reform</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/218" hreflang="en">Northern Ireland</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/916" hreflang="en">Wales</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/911" hreflang="en">Brexit consequences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1023" hreflang="en">UK constitutional reform</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:39:55 +0000 Stephen Richard 975 at https://indylibrary.scot Can muscular unionism save the Union? https://indylibrary.scot/can-muscular-unionism-save-the-union <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Can muscular unionism save the Union?</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Iain McLean</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 27/12/2022 - 10:49</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Sceptical Scot</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2022</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Article</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=972&amp;2=like_content" token="M3HzXh5UQlH2aL_cYlLIRBMG7TTYXBXzmdk4aav9RQ0"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p><strong>The phrase ‘muscular unionism’ is new but the concept is not.</strong></p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>"Muscular unionism didn’t work in Ireland in 1921 and there is no reason to expect it to work now. Ignoring the votes, and the people elected, in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, is not unionism. It’s imperialism. Dicey and other unionists were willing to countenance everything up to a Protestant paramilitary army to resist Home Rule in Ireland. And that didn’t end well either, for Britain, Northern Ireland, or indeed the Free State (now Republic) of Ireland which endured a civil war in 1922-3. Rishi Sunak would be wise to choose vanilla over muscular unionism. He should respect the entrenchment of devolution and bring section 28(8) of the Scotland Act back to life." This section states that the Westminster parliament will not normally legislate on matters devolved to Scotland.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://sceptical.scot/2022/11/can-muscular-unionism-save-the-union/" target="_blank">https://sceptical.scot/2022/11/can-muscular-unionism-save-the-union/</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/385" hreflang="en">Unionism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Tue, 27 Dec 2022 10:49:23 +0000 Stephen Richard 972 at https://indylibrary.scot Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise https://indylibrary.scot/further-devolution-wont-fix-scotlands-democratic-malaise-0 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">David Jamieson</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 27/09/2022 - 20:30</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Conter</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2022</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Opinion</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=792&amp;2=like_content" token="gBP1iSophpZE718qrrNynVYOCik-ZHD7oETOR1YhMhA"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>"</p> <p>The independence movement was indeed contentious, even angry. That is what democracy is – a conflict. Democracy only exists because conflict is an intractable part of society. We had to fight to get it in the first place.</p> <p>The suspicion is Noon would be as disappointed by any new devolution settlement as by the present one. It would not quell the unrest we see breaking out in workplaces and on the streets in response to the worsening economic situation. The utopian hope of a public life characterised by harmony is dying from natural causes.</p> <p>It would also be unlikely to quell discontent over the national question. To understand why, we only need to look to the Scottish Government’s response to inflation. <a href="https://www.conter.scot/2022/8/10/nicola-sturgeon-is-powerless/">Increasing and dishonest pleas that Sturgeon is powerless</a> to meet the demands of the population due to the restrictions of the devolved settlement will not be silenced by any new tranche of powers – no matter how expansive. It would be a typical naivety of the newspaper classes to think more tax raising powers would end the buck-passing so important to modern post-political and transnational structures of governance – from Devo era UK to the European Union and far beyond.</p> <p>None of this is to say that devolution itself is simply a mistake, or that it can be regressed back into a more centralised UK state – hardly the acme of democratic life. Forward is the only direction we can go. It should be forward to an independence rooted in a democratic and popular sovereignty, rather than the elitism and managerialism that characterises both Noon and Sturgeon’s approaches."</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.conter.scot/2022/8/30/further-devolution-wont-fix-scotlands-democratic-malaise/" target="_blank">https://www.conter.scot/2022/8/30/further-devolution-wont-fix-scotlands-democra…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/516" hreflang="en">Democracy</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:30:26 +0000 Stephen Richard 792 at https://indylibrary.scot Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom https://indylibrary.scot/taking-back-control-brexit-and-the-territorial-constitution-of-the-united-kingdom <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Taking back control? Brexit and the territorial constitution of the United Kingdom</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item"> Michael Keating</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 27/09/2022 - 18:20</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Journal of European Public Policy</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2021</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Article</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">19pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=786&amp;2=like_content" token="XfLgFvJkrhrx9LsymNiUNWy678Yx_G0cV_kjtSfTjWw"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Brexit removed the external support for Devolution. The territorial tensions are made worse by the fact that majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland opposed it. There have been three responses: United Kingdom as a unitary state; to fragment into its nations; and to seek a Brexit with exceptions. Only Northern Ireland has been granted n exceptions.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>"The United Kingdom has presented a model of territorial/ national accommodation which, ... provided a basis for negotiation and adjustment. This rests upon historic understandings of the state as a union... Nation, state and sovereignty were all contested but this rarely became a zero-sum game; even the prospect of Scottish independence in 2014 was eased by the fact that both successor states would remain within the EU. ... Brexit, however, represents an assertion of a territorially-bounded and internally-integrated state which, arguably, the United Kingdom never was.</p> <p>The EU has never been an actor in the UK constitutional reform or the territorial fall-out from Brexit, except in the case of the Irish border, where it had a stake in protecting its own economic border and in supporting a loyal Member State. Similarly, it has stayed out of territorial conflicts in Spain and elsewhere....</p> <p>Another lesson from the case concerns differentiated integration.... The EU has permitted Member States to opt out of some aspects of integration and non-Member States to opt in. It has allowed regions of some Member States to opt out, wholly or entirely. The Brexit agreement, with its provisions for Northern Ireland, is the first instance of a region of non-member state having a significant opt-in. ... Brexit has increased centrifugal tendencies within the United Kingdom but they remain a matter for a domestic political arena now dominated by unitarist and centralizing tendencies."</p> <p> </p> <p>Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 29, 2022 - <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/29/4">Issue 4</a></p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2021.1876156?cookieSet=1" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2021.1876156?cookieSet=1</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/501" hreflang="en">Brexit</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/218" hreflang="en">Northern Ireland</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/910" hreflang="en">EU Opt-in</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/663" hreflang="en">UK Government</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/829" hreflang="en">Centralisation</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:20:41 +0000 Stephen Richard 786 at https://indylibrary.scot The Smith Commission Report - Overview https://indylibrary.scot/the-smith-commission-report-overview <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Smith Commission Report - Overview</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Scottish Parliament Information Centre</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 22/09/2022 - 18:07</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Scottish Parliament</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2015</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">52pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=757&amp;2=like_content" token="YUrdaIs6iZ-Wa4QHv9TrW27-XAH5jMTMT6AYKjgUlt4"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Smith Commission report is analysed by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The proposals presented to the Smith Commission are collected under the heads of the Commission report. The conclusion of the Commission in response to these proposals is given. Sources are cited.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://external.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefingsAndFactsheets/S4/SB_15-03_The_Smith_Commission_Report-Overview.pdf" target="_blank">http://external.parliament.scot/ResearchBriefingsAndFactsheets/S4/SB_15-03_The_…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/894" hreflang="en">Smith Commission</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:07:03 +0000 Stephen Richard 757 at https://indylibrary.scot CAMPBELL II The second report of the Home Rule and Community Rule Commission https://indylibrary.scot/campbell-ii-the-second-report-of-the-home-rule-and-community-rule-commission <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">CAMPBELL II The second report of the Home Rule and Community Rule Commission </span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Scottish Liberal Democrats</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 22/09/2022 - 18:01</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Scottish Liberal Democrats</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2014</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">14pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=756&amp;2=like_content" token="RlWyjj-1ZOwpcl9g0aAdLxgGDcqv0VAS3nO2YapCARg"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The 2014 Scottish Liberal Democrats proposal for a Federal UK</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>This report was published in the run up to the 2014 Independence Referendum, proposing a Federalist approach the governance of the UK.</p> <p> </p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/repository/CampbellIIreport.pdf" target="_blank">http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/repository/CampbellIIreport.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/753" hreflang="en">Scottish Liberal Democrats</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/481" hreflang="en">Constitution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:01:40 +0000 Stephen Richard 756 at https://indylibrary.scot Scotland in the United Kingdom: An enduring settlement https://indylibrary.scot/scotland-in-the-united-kingdom-an-enduring-settlement <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Scotland in the United Kingdom: An enduring settlement</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">UK Government</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 22/09/2022 - 17:55</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">UK Government</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2015</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">134pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=755&amp;2=like_content" token="QcNnqYHY7uQJGkjhouyCFqx-PePmBfSS9uC9TT0EmdY"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The UK Government response to the Smith Commission</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>This is the document published by the UK Government in response to the Smith Commission, indicating what of the Commission report they proposed to implement.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397079/Scotland_EnduringSettlement_acc.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/atta…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:55:41 +0000 Stephen Richard 755 at https://indylibrary.scot The Smith Commission; COSLA Convention Item 3 https://indylibrary.scot/the-smith-commission-cosla-convention-item-3 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Smith Commission; COSLA Convention Item 3 </span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">COSLA</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 22/09/2022 - 17:44</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">COSLA</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2014</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">11pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=754&amp;2=like_content" token="IrwMPcv8hW9I9nGLTikUACp96y1YCOfLVvwqUiV8cBM"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The COSLA review of the implications of the Smith Commission report for local government.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.local.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/3-ecc.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.local.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/3-ecc.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/894" hreflang="en">Smith Commission</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/304" hreflang="en">Local Government</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:44:57 +0000 Stephen Richard 754 at https://indylibrary.scot Report of the Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament https://indylibrary.scot/report-of-the-smith-commission-for-further-devolution-of-powers-to-the-scottish-parliament <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Report of the Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Smith Commission</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 22/09/2022 - 12:06</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">UK Government</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2014</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">28pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=753&amp;2=like_content" token="LMDg2uaLnSQNfZwE_GDfamQbVShW6oPyVbt6fd4V230"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Text of the Smith Commission report</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20151202171017/https://www.smith-commission.scot//wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The_Smith_Commission_Report-1.pdf" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20151202171017/https://www.smi…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:06:52 +0000 Stephen Richard 753 at https://indylibrary.scot Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise https://indylibrary.scot/further-devolution-wont-fix-scotlands-democratic-malaise <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Further Devolution Won’t Fix Scotland’s Democratic Malaise</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">David Jamieson</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 01/09/2022 - 18:33</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Conter</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2022</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Discussion Paper</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=712&amp;2=like_content" token="YgD1AEuurRqKp4vJExhjju4W0OiEFI8hkwZAkDcCdAM"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p><em>further devolution is not a meaningful response to Scotland’s democratic impasse.</em></p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The suspicion is Noon would be as disappointed by any new devolution settlement as by the present one. It would not quell the unrest we see breaking out in workplaces and on the streets in response to the worsening economic situation. The utopian hope of a public life characterised by harmony is dying from natural causes.</p> <p>It would also be unlikely to quell discontent over the national question. To understand why, we only need to look to the Scottish Government’s response to inflation. <a href="https://www.conter.scot/2022/8/10/nicola-sturgeon-is-powerless/">Increasing and dishonest pleas that Sturgeon is powerless</a> to meet the demands of the population due to the restrictions of the devolved settlement will not be silenced by any new tranche of powers – no matter how expansive. It would be a typical naivety of the newspaper classes to think more tax raising powers would end the buck-passing so important to modern post-political and transnational structures of governance – from Devo era UK to the European Union and far beyond.</p> <p>None of this is to say that devolution itself is simply a mistake, or that it can be regressed back into a more centralised UK state – hardly the acme of democratic life. Forward is the only direction we can go. It should be forward to an independence rooted in a democratic and popular sovereignty, rather than the elitism and managerialism that characterises both Noon and Sturgeon’s approaches.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/871" hreflang="en">Stephen Noon</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/867" hreflang="en">Scottish Parliament powers</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:33:06 +0000 Stephen Richard 712 at https://indylibrary.scot Worth the wait? Reforming Intergovernmental Relations https://indylibrary.scot/worth-the-wait-reforming-intergovernmental-relations <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Worth the wait? Reforming Intergovernmental Relations</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item"> Nicola McEwen</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Sat, 15/01/2022 - 08:20</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Centre on Constitutional Change</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-date-published field--type-datetime field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Date Published: </div> <div class="field__item"><time datetime="2022-04-11T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">11/04/22</time> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Article</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=580&amp;2=like_content" token="ietIvzHKfw43Zy2huOzfq5AaMQCptG9WktZ65Kfda94"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Intergovernmental relations (IGR) have long been the weak link in the UK’s system of devolution. Overall, the reforms carry the potential for significant improvements to the system.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The heart of the [three tier] system is likely to be the middle tier.</p> <p>This has two key forums: an interministerial standing committee (IMSC) and a Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee (F:ISC), with the opportunity for further time-limited IMCs.</p> <p>The IMSC is to meet monthly to discuss cross-cutting, strategic, or more political issues, both domestic and international, and to resolve any disputes that escalate from the lower tier. In the IMSC, the governments have the opportunity to meet and act as equals.</p> <p>By contrast, in the F:ISC, the Treasury looks set to maintain the lead role. The F:ISC has its own rules and terms of reference, its own dispute process, and its own language.</p> <p>Overall, the reforms have gone further than I thought they could. But the proof will be in the practice. Machinery matters. Process and organisation matter. But the culture and conduct of intergovernmental relations matters more.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/worth-wait-reforming-intergovernmental-relations" target="_blank">https://www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/worth-wait-refo…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/492" hreflang="en">Intergovernmental cooperation Great Britain.</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-related-questions field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Related Questions</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/questions/how-will-scotland-be-governed" hreflang="en">How will Scotland be governed?</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Sat, 15 Jan 2022 08:20:05 +0000 Stephen Richard 580 at https://indylibrary.scot Brexit and Beyond: the union https://indylibrary.scot/brexit-and-beyond-the-union <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Brexit and Beyond: the union</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">UK in a Changing Europe</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Sat, 25/12/2021 - 10:14</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">UK in a Changing Europe</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">February 2021</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Report</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">22pp</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=559&amp;2=like_content" token="EY-nu-GKEbi4mzzjXjpE0GD7gKXxpwKMIxS77k3yBDg"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>What happens to powers that were formerly exercised at the EU level, but which fall within devolved competence, has been a recurrent source of disagreement between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The UK’s Union is shot through with ambiguity and tension. The <a href="https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Brexit-and-Beyond-report-compressed.pdf">Brexit and Beyond</a> report sets out a series of major challenges the UK state faces. There is a real possibility that that <a href="https://ukandeu.ac.uk/long-read/the-possible-break-up-of-the-united-kingdom/">the UK will break up</a>, following the exit of Scotland, Northern Ireland or both.</p> <p>Beyond the dedicated section in the report on the Union, issues of territorial governance and politics, of spatial inequalities and the difficulties of ‘levelling up’ echo through many other contributions.</p> <p>A vast range of problems need to be defined and addressed, and politicians seem set to clash over basic design questions as they look to rebuild the ship (or ships) of state. At sea. In a storm.</p> <p>Reflecting on the Union as a whole, Mike Kenny and Jack Sheldon highlight basic differences in how it is viewed from the UK centre – by both Conservatives and Labour – with contrasting views taken in all its other parts.</p> <p>Robert Saunders touches on territorial identities – ‘the Scottish people’ and ‘the British people – in his analysis of ‘rival sources of democratic authority’ in the constitutional politics of Brexit.</p> <p>Nicola McEwen emphasizes the right to self-determination and the preference for a system of government able to act according to the interests and preferences of the people of Scotland; they are ‘powerful drivers of independence claims’.</p> <p>Analysing public opinion data Ailsa Henderson shows how Brexit, the handling of Covid-19 and a distaste for Boris Johnson have strengthened support for independence and the SNP.</p> <p>Wales is historically more tightly integrated with England than the other devolved polities. Covid-19 has greatly enhanced the profile of its devolved politicians and institutions. Independence remains a minority preference.</p> <p>Brexit, Covid-19 and the prospect of what Laura McAllister calls a ‘cut and shut ‘England-and-Wales’’ as Scotland  leans towards independence is feeding a growth of ‘Indy-curiosity’ and the increasingly prominent ‘Yes Cymru’ movement.</p> <p>Brexit has raised anxiety and wariness on all sides in Northern Ireland. Katy Hayward shows that only among Unionists are Leavers now a plurality, while clear majorities of Nationalists, those rejecting both labels (‘neithers’) and also ‘others’ identify as Remainers.</p> <p>As Brexit unfolds, particularly if the UK diverges further from the EU, these resentments may deepen. An increasingly distant UK-EU relationship wold mean that the ‘strain on Northern Ireland’s place in the Union’, Hayward argues, ‘will inevitably grow’.</p> <p>Despite its size, England rarely seems to come into sharp political focus. Multiple contributions on England in the Brexit and Beyond report suggest that may be changing. Three chapters on ‘The Union’ are devoted to England, but issues of English governance recur throughout the report.</p> <p>Generally governed by UK-wide institutions, only ‘limited Commons procedure for ‘English votes for English Laws’’ cater specifically for England.</p> <p>John Denham distinctively analyses England as a whole – ‘national’ English politics. England is, he argues, ‘at the centre of tensions within the union’, as the ‘prime source of both <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1369148117730542">Brexit</a> and an Anglo-centric British unionism.’ Though Englishness is a strong political identity, Denham sees no clear path ahead for ‘a national’ English ‘governance that is more democratic but also more decentralised.’</p> <p>In the ‘Politics’ section, Tony Travers takes up UK hyper-centralism and sees a need for pan-England regionalisation. Noting English devolution’s ‘disoriented position’ he calls for a ‘consistent form of sub-national government where there are service-delivering elected authorities operating within (joint) combined authorities’.</p> <p>Meanwhile Andrew Carter’s contribution on England in the Union concentrates on the metro-mayor part of this landscape. For Carter, they are vital for the delivery of the Prime Minister’s political ambitions. But he is pessimistic, fearing that Johnson may decide ‘more English metro-mayors just aren’t worth the hassle’.</p> <p>Colin Copus and Catherine Saltis turn to England’s local government, not its ‘regions’, where ‘leading councillors’ might ‘seek to redress the devolution imbalance across the UK’ without ever getting ‘near’ the powers ‘granted to the rest of the UK.’</p> <p>Complexities of English local politics mean Colin Rawlings and Michael Thrasher foresee ‘no clear winner’ in May’s local elections.</p> <p>Local government also faces challenges elsewhere in the UK. In Scotland and Wales devolution has provided some protection for local authorities from <a href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/austerity-cuts-twice-as-deep-in-england-as-rest-of-britain">extremes of English-style austerity</a>. Locally or nationally, devolved governments have been less keen to contract out public services, thus somewhat limiting the impact of major outsourcing companies’ public-contract rentierism.</p> <p>‘Rent-seeking’ has, for Mark Blyth ‘come to structure the UK economy’. It will prove tricky to unwind. But devolution’s focus on national-constitutional politics may have helped stifle policy innovation where <a href="https://lgiu.org/local-governance-review-the-state-of-play/">Scottish</a> and <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/newe.12221">Welsh</a> local authorities might be key partners.</p> <p>Both the UK Union and its territorial governance arrangements face the deepest of challenges. Decades of piecemeal reform have stitched together a complex patchwork state. Covid-19 has shown that its fabric is threadbare, at least along some important seams, its stitchwork unravelling.</p> <p>UK territorial politics were troubled long before austerity or even the introduction of asymmetrical devolution at the end of the 1990s. Whether Labour or Conservative, UK governments have lacked a coherent approach to the territorial constitution. Had it aimed to disorganise territorial governance, the UK state could hardly have been more effective.</p> <p>Scottish independence and Irish unification would pose immediate challenges to the UK state. Scotland’s May elections could ramp up this pressure. Parallel elections in Wales and for England’s metro-mayors and local authorities could condense myriad tensions, contradictions and ambiguities into a single political moment.</p> <p>Tony Travers’ notion of ‘disoriented’ English devolution is equally applicable to UK territorial governance in general. As yet there is little sign of the creative thinking necessary for governance to be reoriented and re-founded across these territories.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/DanielWinc">Daniel Wincott</a></strong></p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Brexit-and-Beyond-the-union.pdf" target="_blank">https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Brexit-and-Beyond-the-union.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/501" hreflang="en">Brexit</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/419" hreflang="en">Independence</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/385" hreflang="en">Unionism</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-related-questions field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Related Questions</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/questions/will-brexit-cause-scottish-independence" hreflang="en">Will Brexit cause Scottish independence?</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Sat, 25 Dec 2021 10:14:30 +0000 Stephen Richard 559 at https://indylibrary.scot The dilemma of devolution – more powers but potentially worse off https://indylibrary.scot/the-dilemma-of-devolution-more-powers-but-potentially-worse-off <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The dilemma of devolution – more powers but potentially worse off</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Richard Parry</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 16/12/2021 - 18:05</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Centre on Constitutional Change</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-date-published field--type-datetime field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Date Published: </div> <div class="field__item"><time datetime="2021-11-03T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">03/11/21</time> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Article</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=533&amp;2=like_content" token="rZ00i65h550CZlgl74ELOQTYyO8MKzgx9vggt_RO3SU"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Increments [of devolved powers]...expose yet more anomalies and disadvantages to Scotland that only the full powers of independence would resolve.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p> At the point when taxes or spending responsibilities are shifted from UK level, the money yielded or spent moves over to the Scottish budget for subsequent changes to be made by devolved political decision.  But in practice the overall effects are complicated. The concept of the ‘block grant adjustment’ is also meant to protect the UK from Scotland’s making a lesser tax effort than England in its own-resource area (either through setting lower rates or achieving a lower yield through weaker economic growth). Until 2022 the ‘indexed per capita’ transition mechanism is meant to prevent Scotland from losing out from the new arrangements, but in the long term more devolution means more risk. Calculations of spending and tax yields are unstable and often revised retrospectively. Covid has added swathes of new UK spending either bypassing the Scottish budget altogether or generating Barnett consequentials requiring decisions on when and how to spend them.  Accounting management within and between financial years in consultation with the Treasury is as delicate as ever.</p> <p>Beyond the detail is the status of the main mechanism of territorial stabilisation in the UK in recent decades – the granting of incrementally more devolved powers sufficient of stave off nationalist demands. The SNP’s argument is that such increments, while in principle welcome, expose yet more anomalies and disadvantages to Scotland that only the full powers of independence would resolve. In the meantime they have a dilemma – do they turn down more powers to protect the UK funding supply? So far they have understandably fudged and manoeuvred, preserving for as long as possible transitional rights from the pre-2016 pattern of very limited local revenue sources. It helps that the complexity of the issues keeps them below the political radar, and the new independent review may work to Scotland’s advantage.  But lurking around is the dark secret that the Treasury’s position of ‘you’re welcome to more powers and please raise the money to pay for them’ is perhaps a poisoned chalice and a self-limiting factor on the amount of tax-and-spend devolution that a Scottish calculation of ‘transactional benefit’ would indicate.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://indylibrary.scot/node/add/information_resource" target="_blank">https://indylibrary.scot/node/add/information_resource</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/594" hreflang="en">Public finance</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/189" hreflang="en">Barnett formula</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-related-questions field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Related Questions</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/questions/what-is-the-barnett-formula" hreflang="en">What is the Barnett formula?</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:05:21 +0000 Stephen Richard 533 at https://indylibrary.scot Devolution https://indylibrary.scot/devolution <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Devolution </span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Malcolm Harvey</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 01/12/2021 - 11:45</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2020</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Book</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=474&amp;2=like_content" token="ptObBXc39RfU9kUc2nTiFwdDDJcNs_QXh5GZrtGFCNo"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Devolution has caused a de facto decentralisation of the UK, although such arrangements as the Sewel Convention can be over turned by the Westminster government.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The UK remains <em>de jure</em> a unitary state in the legal sense but <em>de facto</em> operates as a decentralized polity with a number of constraints on sovereign authority in the UK Parliament. This chapter assesses the role devolution has played on the development of this <em>de facto</em> reality.</p> <p>By placing Scottish devolution in context alongside developments in Northern Ireland and Wales, the chapter assesses some of the important aspects of devolution that have led to this new constitutional reality, such as the competencies of the Scottish Parliament and the Sewel Convention. The chapter also discusses the impact that Brexit is having on the UK territorial constitution.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/759" hreflang="en">Sewel Convention</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/663" hreflang="en">UK Government</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/456" hreflang="en">Scottish Government</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:45:59 +0000 Stephen Richard 474 at https://indylibrary.scot Twin Tracks: Cultural and Political Nationalism after 1967 https://indylibrary.scot/twin-tracks-cultural-and-political-nationalism-after-1967 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Twin Tracks: Cultural and Political Nationalism after 1967 </span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Scott Hames</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 30/11/2021 - 17:06</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">2020</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Book</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=463&amp;2=like_content" token="WAgcW80FJThY7TsbNsQrKxuiLHSany0-xGj7KuJ31uc"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The idea of Devolution arriving on a wave of artistic Renaissance and rising national ‘confidence’ is too simplistic, and obscures important disparities between the ‘twin tracks’ of cultural and political nationalism.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Though easily conflated, the cultural and political nationalism of modern Scotland are not the same.</p> <p>Parallel developments in cultural production and constitutional change from 1967 to 2018, and the role of the Scottish intelligentsia in re-instituting national-political space are observed.</p> <p>Drawing on the key journals and magazines of the pro-devolution left, we explore the role of Scottish cultural ‘voice’ in affirming, mobilizing and institutionalizing the national-political frame. Scottish devolution had an important but highly mediated cultural dimension, with claims to national representation deeply entangled in electoral triangulation, and the emergence of ‘neo-popular’ Scottish identity cementing the image of anti-Thatcherite cultural consensus. But the idea of Holyrood arriving on a wave of artistic Renaissance and rising national ‘confidence’ is too simplistic, and obscures important disparities between the ‘twin tracks’ of cultural and political nationalism.</p> <p> </p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825098.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198825098-e-38" target="_blank">https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825098.001.0001/ox…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/531" hreflang="en">Scottish nationalism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:06:02 +0000 Stephen Richard 463 at https://indylibrary.scot Scottish devolution at 20: some hits, some misses and that eternal maybe https://indylibrary.scot/scottish-devolution-at-20-some-hits-some-misses-and-that-eternal-maybe <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Scottish devolution at 20: some hits, some misses and that eternal maybe</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Christopher A Whatley</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 12/10/2021 - 19:07</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">The Conversation</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-date-published field--type-datetime field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Date Published: </div> <div class="field__item"><time datetime="2019-09-08T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">08/09/19</time> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">News Media</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=200&amp;2=like_content" token="7WcLuM2tbhPLqm0RQKjAgYmWGAgEM6IQG10EwlnPh00"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Many hoped devolution would kill nationalism stone dead. Labour colleagues failed to grasp Scots’ powerful sense of nationhood. Although a Labour man argued that devolution could lead to independence. Alex Salmond <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election/alex-salmond-scots-will-vote-for-independence-within-4-years-1-4529994"> asserted that</a> independence was “rendered inevitable when the Scottish parliament was established”. </p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>It’s obvious that commitment in Scotland to the union is much weaker now than in the 19th century. Yet Scottish national feeling was as intense then as that which fuelled independence movements elsewhere in Europe. Much of it in Scotland coalesced around celebrations to commemorate <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-nervy-elites-seized-robert-burns-before-radicals-got-there-71839">Robert Burns</a>. Yet few challenged the union. And despite its flaws, that remains an ingrained habit which large numbers of Scots have yet to break.</p> <p>Many hoped devolution would kill nationalism stone dead, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-31129382">to paraphrase</a> George Robertson, Scottish secretary during the 1997 referendum. His Labour colleagues in particular failed to grasp Scots’ powerful sense of nationhood.</p> <p>It was another Labour man, the late <a href="https://theconversation.com/tam-dalyell-never-held-office-but-he-was-margaret-thatchers-sternest-critic-72021">Tam Dalyell</a>, who argued that devolution could lead to independence. As you might expect, Salmond shares this view. He <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election/alex-salmond-scots-will-vote-for-independence-within-4-years-1-4529994">recently asserted that</a> independence was “rendered inevitable when the Scottish parliament was established”. In his view, the Scots will vote for independence within four years.</p> <p>Will they? Both sides may claim to know where Scotland is heading, but history tells us not to be so sure. When it comes to what relationship it wants with the rest of people in the British Isles, the reality is that Scotland has never quite made up its mind.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://theconversation.com/scottish-devolution-at-20-some-hits-some-misses-and-that-eternal-maybe-83681" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/scottish-devolution-at-20-some-hits-some-misses-and…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/290" hreflang="en">Scottish Parliament</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:07:49 +0000 Stephen Richard 200 at https://indylibrary.scot A Sign on the Road https://indylibrary.scot/a-sign-on-the-road <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">A Sign on the Road</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">John S Warren</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 12/10/2021 - 11:16</span> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item">Bella Caledonia</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-date-published field--type-datetime field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Date Published: </div> <div class="field__item"><time datetime="2021-10-12T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">12/10/21</time> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">News Media</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=311&amp;2=like_content" token="PCAEm48Yr2g4CxtEe5bDOfOkE-aQmB6bmfePEUjWU0A"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>A critique of "Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom", and especially Alister Jack's view of Scotland in the Union.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>"Jack’s sole appeal to intellectual support for his loose, discursive thought, is to the conventional tropes of Mankiw’s economics. Jack appears never to have read Morris Copeland, or his modern successors, at last representing a movement aspiring to transform the antiquated and failing superstructure of academic economics, through the modern critical study of ‘money and banking’. The history and evolution of new economic thought, rooted in the methods of experimental science; offering more rigorous standards of evidence, over the scholastic eccentricities of ‘a priori’ abstraction, deductive theorising, and the rhetorical language and political cunning of social exploitation, together masquerading as the tradition of ‘individual rights’; that has most forcefully represented, and propagandised the defective ideas of Neoliberalism to the world. The new approach is not conventional neoliberal economic theory; which does not adequately account for the motor of all economic activity: money. Oddly, ‘money’ has never been central to neoclassical or neoliberal economics.</p> <p>We can, frankly ill-afford to see the continuation of the politics of important issues discussed in the complacent, casual and perfunctory, absent-minded form demonstrated by Jack’s essay."</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/10/12/a-sign-on-the-road/" target="_blank">https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/10/12/a-sign-on-the-road/</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/605" hreflang="en">Unionist fight back</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/385" hreflang="en">Unionism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/474" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/674" hreflang="en">English nationalism</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-related-questions field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Related Questions</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/questions/is-scottish-independence-good-for-england" hreflang="en">Is Scottish independence good for England?</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:16:24 +0000 Stephen Richard 311 at https://indylibrary.scot Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom https://indylibrary.scot/strength-in-union-the-case-for-the-united-kingdom <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom </span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Alister Jack</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/19" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Olanna</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Sun, 10/10/2021 - 23:22</span> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-author-s-creato field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Additional Author(s) / Creators</div> <div class="field__item">Andrew Bowie </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item"> Centre for Policy Studies</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-date-published field--type-datetime field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Date Published: </div> <div class="field__item"><time datetime="2021-10-12T12:00:00Z" class="datetime">12/10/21</time> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">September 2021</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/national-borders" hreflang="en">National Borders</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/143" hreflang="en">Independence</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Collection of essays by a Conservative Think Tank</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-length field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)</div> <div class="field__item">111 pages</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=119&amp;2=like_content" token="G0u4_9cr3sliDoLOhCQnBTyMLPQgVYFZnpzYpqsGFdM"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Is Scotland a Nation or a Region. MP David Cameron called Scotland a Nation in September 2014 in the run up to the Referendum. In 2021, Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland, refers to Scotland as a region.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Collection of essays by 14 Conservative MPs with forward by Michael Gove and introduction by Theresa May on the Union with Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Union is Strength, the motto of Glasgow’s Trades Hall since 1605, is is the Secretary of State for Scotland’s essay on Scotland as a region.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/211001211002-CPSUNIONESSAYCOLLECTION31.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/211001211002-CPSUNIONESSAYCOLLECT…</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/547" hreflang="en">Act of Union</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/674" hreflang="en">English nationalism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/385" hreflang="en">Unionism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/605" hreflang="en">Unionist fight back</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-related-questions field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Related Questions</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/questions/is-scottish-independence-good-for-england" hreflang="en">Is Scottish independence good for England?</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Sun, 10 Oct 2021 22:22:26 +0000 Olanna 119 at https://indylibrary.scot An Unequal Kingdom: The Barriers to Federalism in the UK https://indylibrary.scot/an-unequal-kingdom-the-barriers-to-federalism-in-the-uk <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">An Unequal Kingdom: The Barriers to Federalism in the UK</span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-or-creator field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Primary Author or Creator:</div> <div class="field__item">Craig Dalzell</div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/user/18" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">Stephen Richard</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Sun, 12/09/2021 - 09:01</span> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-author-s-creato field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Additional Author(s) / Creators</div> <div class="field__item">Isobel Lindsay</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-publisher field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Publisher: </div> <div class="field__item"> Common Weal</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-alternative-published-date field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Alternative Published Date</div> <div class="field__item">April 2018</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Category: </div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/category/devolution" hreflang="en">Devolution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-type field--type-string field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Type of Resource: </div> <div class="field__item">Policy Paper</div> </div> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="flag.link_builder:build" arguments="0=node&amp;1=283&amp;2=like_content" token="tqYhtKhJyCBjf6Wzx6nrLRMFY7b7Eb2S1ZW7PRsPIQU"></drupal-render-placeholder> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Fast Facts</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Federalism will not work without constitutions for all the parts of the UK and most importantly England.  Without defined powers England can undo any federalism.</p></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-precis field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">More details</div> <div class="field__item"><p>The constitutional question over Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom was not resolved by the results of the 2014 independence referendum. In addition to the ongoing debate around independence at least two political parties – the Liberal Democrats and Scottish Labour – currently support constitutional reform for the whole of the UK along some kind of Federal structure.</p> <p>― As the debates about Scottish independence, several parties – notably Labour and the Liberal Democrats – have sought to distinguish themselves by offering a “third option” in the form of converting the UK from a Unitary State to a Federation of states.</p> <p>― So far, the details of these proposals have been lacking and barriers to the transition have not been adequately addressed.</p> <p>― Federalism itself does little to solve the issues around the centralisation or decentralisation of power in the UK. A Federal UK can be highly centralised or highly decentralised just as a Unitary State with devolution can be.</p> <p>― It is not clear whether a Federal UK will involve England as a distinct state (which would mean a Federation in which one state held an absolute majority of the population of the UK compared to the other states) or whether England would be dissolved and broken into multiple states (which would mean the dissolution of a country simply to solve a demand for constitutional change emanating from outwith that country)</p> <p>― The state of devolution in the UK is highly asymmetric with some devolved nations having control over different powers and different overall degrees of autonomy. It is not clear if this asymmetry would be replicated in a Federal UK.</p> <p>― If these asymmetries are to be flattened out then this would require either that Scotland loses powers that it has held since the Union in 1707 (such as its autonomous legal code) or potentially that regions of England are granted those powers.</p> <p>― There has so far been little to no demand in England for these constitutional changes and without England’s support they will not happen. Thus, presenting Federalism first and foremost as a “solution” to the Scottish independence debate is doomed to failure. Federalism must be able to work regardless of whether or not Scotland leaves the UK either before or after the latter becomes a Federation.</p> <p>― Any attempt to use a Federal constitution to somehow block, impede or render illegal any campaign for Scottish independence (as is the case in the Spanish constitution) would be profoundly undemocratic and dangerous.</p></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-resource-url field--type-link field--label-inline"> <div class="field__label">Full Document (link)</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/An-Unequal-Kingdom.pdf" target="_blank">https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/An-Unequal-Kingdom.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/238" hreflang="en">Federalism</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/608" hreflang="en">Legal system</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/481" hreflang="en">Constitution</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-related-questions field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Related Questions</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/questions/why-does-scotland-want-independence" hreflang="en">Why does Scotland want independence?</a></div> </div> </div> <div id="field-language-display"> <fieldset class="js-form-item js-form-type-item form-type-item js-form-item- form-item- form-group"> <label>Language</label> English </fieldset> </div> Sun, 12 Sep 2021 08:01:20 +0000 Stephen Richard 283 at https://indylibrary.scot