If pro-independence parties win tomorrow

How likely do you think it is that the UK will break up?

Would you like to see independance of Scotland and Wales?

What of England, how would it react?

What would you see as a workable alternative to  control from Westminster?

Personally I'd be quite happy for the UK to break up and reform in a more equal way, maybe as a federation. 

I think it could drag our politics kicking and screaming into the 21stC.

I think it would be good if the devolved parliaments were given more powers and we all elect representatives to a reformed House of Lords that would oversee things that we could share, like defence, national security, national infrastructure ands things where it would be counter productive to have seperately. I think if that happened then there would also be calls for some Englsih regions to have more devolved powers too. I think the UK is quite unusual in its lack of regional devolution, other countries seem to be more regionally devolved but retain a strong national government.

I think England would be in uproar and would really hate it, when you live somewhere like Anglesey you get a real sense that many English people don't see us as a national with its own traditions and parliament that makes some rules, it feels like we're treated like a conquered people, even after 800 years. I say this as an English person. I do think England should have its own parliament to decide purely English issues as I agree with many English people that the current system feels unbalanced, it dosent' help that so many poeple are so poorly educated in politics.

 I guess we'll find out over the coming days and months how all this will play out

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  • I’m in Wales. I think Wales gets a very unfair treatment from both Westminster and Cardiff. If you want to build wind farms here to power the Midlands, no problem go ahead. Wouldn’t happen in Surrey. Yes we may get more wind on average, but why nit solar for Surrey, surely that makes sense? Especially when it’s foreign companies building the wind farms, then getting paid to switch them off as our national grid can’t cope with the power generated to get it to where it’s needed, the South, anyway. This is similar to Scotland too. Could it be that labs here can be bought or rented for less? NIMBY?

    Very close to where I live is a nature reserve on high land that has a plan to build the UKs tallest turbines. 3 times the height of normal ones, with blades longer than a 747. If Reform get in they’ll approve it and overrule local council planning permissions, Labour did this before on not burying power cables but building masts across open countryside, despite a hung vote. This won’t bring in local jobs and ecological will be a disaster as a new heavy access road will be needed and massive amounts of concrete that will be impossible to remove (company won’t pay for it). The local community “discussions” held had a representative saying they’d bring it all in by helicopter. Clearly speaking out of her *** as the only helicopter powerful enough is in Russia.

    if it takes Independence or serious discussions around it with better economic support for Wales to force that to happen then I know where I’ll be voting.

    Before anyone calls me a Nationalist I’m actually English. Not that I have any pride left in that.

    sorry rant over.

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  • I’m in Wales. I think Wales gets a very unfair treatment from both Westminster and Cardiff. If you want to build wind farms here to power the Midlands, no problem go ahead. Wouldn’t happen in Surrey. Yes we may get more wind on average, but why nit solar for Surrey, surely that makes sense? Especially when it’s foreign companies building the wind farms, then getting paid to switch them off as our national grid can’t cope with the power generated to get it to where it’s needed, the South, anyway. This is similar to Scotland too. Could it be that labs here can be bought or rented for less? NIMBY?

    Very close to where I live is a nature reserve on high land that has a plan to build the UKs tallest turbines. 3 times the height of normal ones, with blades longer than a 747. If Reform get in they’ll approve it and overrule local council planning permissions, Labour did this before on not burying power cables but building masts across open countryside, despite a hung vote. This won’t bring in local jobs and ecological will be a disaster as a new heavy access road will be needed and massive amounts of concrete that will be impossible to remove (company won’t pay for it). The local community “discussions” held had a representative saying they’d bring it all in by helicopter. Clearly speaking out of her *** as the only helicopter powerful enough is in Russia.

    if it takes Independence or serious discussions around it with better economic support for Wales to force that to happen then I know where I’ll be voting.

    Before anyone calls me a Nationalist I’m actually English. Not that I have any pride left in that.

    sorry rant over.

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