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So called Unionists are trashing the UK for party gain

Some of our greatest political minds thought for decades about the consequences of devolving power to the United Kingdom’s constituent nations. William Gladstone and Enoch Powell are the two who expended the most intellectual effort, the first in the 19th century, the second in the 20th.

In the 21st century we have instead a businessman called Lord Smith of Kelvin and a panel of political lightweights. After eight weeks of bargaining they have to order come up with a new constitutional settlement governing relations between Scotland and the rest of the UK. This absurd deadline was the result of the panicky so-called vow of a further transfer of powers made by the leaders of the main UK political parties after a single opinion poll was…

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