I support devolution for the UK.
My idea is to have regional assemblies across England. We already have regional devolution for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London. My idea is to have regional devolution for the English.
My idea would be to divide England into the following regions, South West, Cornwall, South East, West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire, North West, North East, and London.
Each regional and national parliament would have the same powers. Over law, economics, home affairs, and planning. With shared responsibility over foreign policy, the army.
The advantages of devolution are to that regional authorities will know better what their regions need. Of course their will be mistakes but that is part of the chance for experimentation of different systems within the UK.
In the USA they talk of how the 50 states are a great way of using the USA as a laboratory of ideas for what works best.
I think there is huge economic inequality between the regions, and nations of the UK. I think one reason for this is that all the power is largely held in London. So there is a corrupting motivation to concentrate wealth and power in London. The headquarters and investment will be concentrated in the region that has the most power. But spreading power out to the nations and regions of the UK wealth, power, and investment will be more equally distributed across the UK.
Why is London so much wealthier than the rest of the UK? And within England, the further you get away from London the poorer the regions are.
If you are a civil servant in London you will be motivated to make policy that best helps London as that is where you live. Rather than worrying about the North East of England.
Also another thing is that to solve the problem of England being divided we could have a rotational senate where each English region appoints senator who take it turns to rotate the position of English first minister.
My idea is to have regional assemblies across England. We already have regional devolution for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London. My idea is to have regional devolution for the English.
My idea would be to divide England into the following regions, South West, Cornwall, South East, West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire, North West, North East, and London.
Each regional and national parliament would have the same powers. Over law, economics, home affairs, and planning. With shared responsibility over foreign policy, the army.
The advantages of devolution are to that regional authorities will know better what their regions need. Of course their will be mistakes but that is part of the chance for experimentation of different systems within the UK.
In the USA they talk of how the 50 states are a great way of using the USA as a laboratory of ideas for what works best.
I think there is huge economic inequality between the regions, and nations of the UK. I think one reason for this is that all the power is largely held in London. So there is a corrupting motivation to concentrate wealth and power in London. The headquarters and investment will be concentrated in the region that has the most power. But spreading power out to the nations and regions of the UK wealth, power, and investment will be more equally distributed across the UK.
Why is London so much wealthier than the rest of the UK? And within England, the further you get away from London the poorer the regions are.
If you are a civil servant in London you will be motivated to make policy that best helps London as that is where you live. Rather than worrying about the North East of England.
Also another thing is that to solve the problem of England being divided we could have a rotational senate where each English region appoints senator who take it turns to rotate the position of English first minister.
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