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Devolution is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at national, regional, or local level.
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I was watching the news a few days ago and saw some story about Scottish and Welsh devolution and would like to know what others think of it. I am unsure of where I stand on the issue as opposition to it stinks quite strongly of Imperialism and Nationalism and I, personally. have no objections to 'Great' Britain losing her remaining 'empire' (such as it is) but on the other side there are some other factors to consider as well.
The economical impact would be quite huge on the UK as the North Sea oil is in Scottish territory and Scotland as a nation lacks any kind of independent police force or army. After speaking with a few Scottish friends I was quite alarmed to discover that there seems to be quite an uncalled for anti-English feeling in Scotland as taxes and other stuff are seen as 'England robbing from Scotland' as opposed to the central government distributing resources for the betterment of her people and I believe a few weeks ago the head of the Scottish Assembly reported to Scotland that England can not be trusted to give Scotland what she needs which I see as basically hate preaching.
There are also other reasons why I think total devolution would be a bad idea including the added difficulties a border (as much as you could call the line between any EU countries a border) would make including the added hardship of university applications (Britain has a national university application centre which includes unis in Scotland and Wales) and the added divisions between nations who according to the EU are supposed to be trying to form extra cohesiveness between them. But anyway I was interested in hearing the views of other British people and those of international people as well.
