The Big Ask

Many of our readers will be following with interest the growing list of demands from Scotland's First Minister. Showing my heritage, how long before Home Rule for Yorkshire?? I return to my theme though, that whilst recent polls indicate a little more support for "independence" in Scotland (however so defined) there seems to be a growing list of demands for inclusion in the Scotland Act that seem to sit outside of any measured perspective of what greater autonomy to all parts of the United Kingdoms might mean. I for one am neither for or against greater devolution of authority and economic powers in any part of the United Kingdom in that I neither hold a political grudge nor look at the Union thtough rose tinted spectacles. Rather I want to seet the case made by both sidesfor the contribution to economic growth and social progress that either retaining the status quo or taking a progressive journey towards greater devolution will bring.

In the meantime I would urge all those giving political leadership to focus only on how we can nurture economic recovery, job creation, and maintain an acceptable level of social justice in the short term whilst we reduce the deficit. In that way the sins of our current leaders are not visited upon those who shall inherit the leadership of Scotland or the UK in some twenty years time or so. We owe it to the next generation to focus first and foremost on recovery, and to stop squaring up across artificial boundaries like schoolboys in the playground.



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