PC: Violent Devolution within the UK

Most likely source of a violent devolutionary struggle post WWII?

  • Wales

    Votes: 2 3.2%
  • Scotland

    Votes: 11 17.7%
  • England

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Northern Ireland

    Votes: 45 72.6%
  • Cornwall

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Yorkshire

    Votes: 2 3.2%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    62
It has to be England. The only nation in the Union not to have devolved government.
Only in the last twenty years, and thats largely because there is no appetite for it among voters. And there hasn't been any significant movement banging the drum for English devolution or independence either.
 
Only in the last twenty years, and thats largely because there is no appetite for it among voters. And there hasn't been any significant movement banging the drum for English devolution or independence either.
The voters have never even been given the courtesy of a vote on it.
 
The voters have never even been given the courtesy of a vote on it.
There has been a vote on devolution to an English region, and it was lost pretty comprehensively. There hasn't been a vote on devolution or independence for England as a single entity, but there also hasn't been any sign of a appetite for it among the electorate-no SNP or Plaid equivalent has ever met with significant success in English politics, unless you count that time Doncaster elected an English Democrat Mayor. Even Plaid had multiple MPs when Welsh people voted against an assembly by an 80-20 margin.
 
England succesfully and thorughly destroyed the other cultures on the Isle. So late they were little more than a funny brand of english,poor conditions for violent struggle.
 

Glyndwr01

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England succesfully and thorughly destroyed the other cultures on the Isle. So late they were little more than a funny brand of english,poor conditions for violent struggle.
The English certainly have not destroyed the other cultures in Prydane, unlike the Germanies being subservient to the Prussian culture!
 
There has been a vote on devolution to an English region, and it was lost pretty comprehensively.

A vote on a rather poor devolution package, with an equally poor campaign.

If the Labour government offered a decent level of devolution (akin to Wales at the time), maybe it would have passed, and each English region would have its own assembly by now.
 
A vote on a rather poor devolution package, with an equally poor campaign.

If the Labour government offered a decent level of devolution (akin to Wales at the time), maybe it would have passed, and each English region would have its own assembly by now.
Possibly, though it would be significantly harder to get approval for an assembly in regions such as the South East than the North East, which was explicitly chosen for the first devolution referendum because it was the most favourable of any region toward the prospect of devolution.

And, of course, if English devolution had happened that way, the process would have been initiated more by politicians than by the public, which shows that, even if English people could be persuaded of the case for devolution, they have always been some way off of being violently supportive of it.
 
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