I agree with the Home Rule for All programme. I do remember writing an essay on that some years ago, although in hindsight I remember my lecturer being slightly bemused by that.
Anyway.
I would think that one side butterfuly of HRFA would be that a federalised Britain would be a better foundation for an imperial federation or at least longer relationships.
I do think that the OTL constitutional model is not well suited to expanding past its current limits. We have one very big unit (England), two smaller units (Ireland and Scotland), then a smaller annexed unit (Wales) in the core group; then a bunch of personal possessions around the periphery (IoM, the Channel Islands) etc If there was a more organised, thoughtful constitutional framework that clearly placed all of those units within one structure, that had signficant local autonomy and one unified centre, then that model could take on new units more easily than the current one.
Anyway.
I would think that one side butterfuly of HRFA would be that a federalised Britain would be a better foundation for an imperial federation or at least longer relationships.
I do think that the OTL constitutional model is not well suited to expanding past its current limits. We have one very big unit (England), two smaller units (Ireland and Scotland), then a smaller annexed unit (Wales) in the core group; then a bunch of personal possessions around the periphery (IoM, the Channel Islands) etc If there was a more organised, thoughtful constitutional framework that clearly placed all of those units within one structure, that had signficant local autonomy and one unified centre, then that model could take on new units more easily than the current one.