New Constitution for the whole UK
September 9th, 2014
Letter to the Daily Telegraph, published on 9th September 2014.
Lord Lexden (September 8th) is surely right to call for a new modern federal constitution for the whole United Kingdom in which Scotland would play a leading part in negotiating as an outcome of its rejecting separation on September 18th. This is the type of positive future that the “No” campaign should have been advocating with the tacit support of the Westminster parties since day one of the campaign.
Instead of applying himself in this way, Cameron has left our fellow citizens in Scotland to fight a rear-guard battle against the pied piper of West Lothian leading Scotland into Nowhere Land: not in the UK, not in NATO, not in the EU, not in the Commonwealth, not in a Sterling currency Union, with a credit rating about equal to Argentina’s.