2 years on from this, the SNP are in pretty dire straits after scandals engulfing the husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland has just elected 30 Labour MPs and the country as a whole has ejected the Tory government.
Britain will survive. It will look different from the Britain of the 1990s, like how the Britain of rhe 1990s looked entirely different from the Britain of the 1960s.
> From England, we ventured north into Scotland, which today feels almost like a foreign country
Yet the SNP is dying an electoral death as Labour and even the Conservatives gain vote share.
> Nominally, Britain has a National Health Service, but in practice this has been broken up into its component (sub)national parts
And why should the NHS be centralized?
Health indicators and issues in Cornwall are going to be distinct from those in London or Yorkshire.
Medical care is inherently community driven, and this requires health providers being attuned to local conditions in a way that central control cannot provide.
This is why Canada also created localized single payer groups.
> attempts to rebuild a sense of Britishness will remain marginal
Then accept that you can be British and <insert-ethnic-identity-here>. The UK absolutely needs to federalize, as broad stroke identities like "English" or "Scottish" mask the diversity that exists in the UK.
Instead of centralizing everything in London, empower Regional Assemblies or even convert them into states.
The amount of central control London has is archaic compared to peer states by population (Germany, France, Turkey, etc).
> And while there is no active British state to speak of in Scotland
Smh, this is basically assuming being British means being Londonian with extra steps.
2 years on from this, the SNP are in pretty dire straits after scandals engulfing the husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland has just elected 30 Labour MPs and the country as a whole has ejected the Tory government.
https://archive.is/WXz4B
Of course it's an UnHerd editor who wrote this.
Britain will survive. It will look different from the Britain of the 1990s, like how the Britain of rhe 1990s looked entirely different from the Britain of the 1960s.
> From England, we ventured north into Scotland, which today feels almost like a foreign country
Yet the SNP is dying an electoral death as Labour and even the Conservatives gain vote share.
> Nominally, Britain has a National Health Service, but in practice this has been broken up into its component (sub)national parts
And why should the NHS be centralized?
Health indicators and issues in Cornwall are going to be distinct from those in London or Yorkshire.
Medical care is inherently community driven, and this requires health providers being attuned to local conditions in a way that central control cannot provide.
This is why Canada also created localized single payer groups.
> attempts to rebuild a sense of Britishness will remain marginal
Then accept that you can be British and <insert-ethnic-identity-here>. The UK absolutely needs to federalize, as broad stroke identities like "English" or "Scottish" mask the diversity that exists in the UK.
Instead of centralizing everything in London, empower Regional Assemblies or even convert them into states.
The amount of central control London has is archaic compared to peer states by population (Germany, France, Turkey, etc).
> And while there is no active British state to speak of in Scotland
Smh, this is basically assuming being British means being Londonian with extra steps.