I have come up with an idea that will create hundreds of jobs in England and solve the Barnett formula problem.
Get the unemployed to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall but a lot higher, install electrified razor wire and put up gun posts to shoot any trespassers. Then cut off Scotland and let them go it alone.
On going we can have border control posts ensuring that any from north of the border who wish to come south have funds and can pay their way.
Billions saved, thousands employed. Win win
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Rick: It probably could not be done without Scottish engineers and Irish labor, but Including Offa’s Dyke in the scheme could make the Welsh as happy as the Scots, they have never been beneficiaries of the formula.
Blimey, Rick, but you are just playing into the hands of the Scottish Nationalists, or whatever they call themselves.
I absolutely want Scotland to be part of the UK, and provided we are spared their politicians, I see no need to build a wall.
Aye right, RR.
I regard this site as a place where I am amongst friends. I don’t do politics or religion with friends. But, hey ho and just this once since you seem determined to grind on about it, having repeated yourself on the Janus blog! Here’s my flippant reply.
‘Brilliant idea, RR. I’m all for it. Moving the Scotland/England Border down to Hadrian’s Wall would give us so much. Large tracts of ex-English territory and major tourist attractions such as Lindisfarne. The Berwick question would finally be settled in our favour and we would get Alnwick, Bamburgh and several fine golf courses, particularly Goswick, which is one of my all time favourites. Not so sure about Morpeth but we’ll take it as part of the deal if you insist.
Extending your new border gives us even more than the 90% of the UK oilfields which lie within the present Scottish territorial waters. Then there’s the Ashington bonus with Milburns and Charltons playing in the dark blue of Scotland instead of for you.
More and best, we get Ferret.’
Here’s my serious reply.
‘Within the next three years, I will have to defend the beliefs and values which I have spent a lifetime acquiring and vote to defend them. I am a proud Briton of Scottish extraction and fundamentally believe that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has, in the main, been a very good thing. I would be sad to see it disappear.
Throughout the entire history of the Union, Scotland has had its own religious, educational and legal systems. Devolution changed not one whit of that but it is clear that the Government have to address the democratic deficit that Blair and Labour created. There must be an English Parliament for English Acts where MPs from Scotland are excluded and Welsh and Ulster MPs only vote if the proposed legislation affects them. It really is not rocket science. We are now, de facto, a Federal country and we just need to work out the detail. I still believe that it can be done.
So, my enemy is the SNP and their small-minded attempts to belittle the history and achievements of my country. I do not want to open a second front with you but, with respect, the Hadrian’s Wall analogy is seriously tired. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland have far too many ties of blood and history and this whole subject is far too important for such frippery.
In my opinion.
Well, I for one am proud of my Anglo/Scottish heritage.
OK Rick,
You want to make my abode part of Jockla’? Fair enough, I fancy the tax breaks and the free university places.
However you will have to accept my geological theory that anything south of Huddersfield is French. 🙂