UK could break up unless it is rebuilt as ‘solidarity union’, says Mark Drakeford

[Still Waters]

The UK could break apart unless it is rebuilt as a “solidarity union” where every citizen’s rights to public services and financial security are protected, the first minister of Wales, has warned.

Mark Drakeford said the social and political bonds that tie the different parts of the UK together have come under “sustained assault” from 40 years of neoliberalism, a trend launched by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and then reinforced after Brexit by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

“In order to persuade people in all parts of the United Kingdom that their futures lie together within a restructured United Kingdom, we have to recreate a solidarity union,” the Welsh Labour leader said in an interview with the Guardian.

That included rebuilding the safety net for those sick or out of work, with fundamental rights, he said, to environment, consumer and trade union protections, to human rights and to affordable public services.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/29/uk-could-break-up-unless-it-is-rebuilt-as-solidarity-union-says-mark-drakeford

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12 minutes ago, Still Waters said:

The UK could break apart unless it is rebuilt as a “solidarity union” where every citizen’s rights to public services and financial security are protected, the first minister of Wales, has warned.

Mark Drakeford said the social and political bonds that tie the different parts of the UK together have come under “sustained assault” from 40 years of neoliberalism, a trend launched by Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and then reinforced after Brexit by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

“In order to persuade people in all parts of the United Kingdom that their futures lie together within a restructured United Kingdom, we have to recreate a solidarity union,” the Welsh Labour leader said in an interview with the Guardian.

That included rebuilding the safety net for those sick or out of work, with fundamental rights, he said, to environment, consumer and trade union protections, to human rights and to affordable public services.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/29/uk-could-break-up-unless-it-is-rebuilt-as-solidarity-union-says-mark-drakeford

Decentralisation results in politicians who want to drag their area away from the union, especially when it as at a country level.

What should happen is county decentralisation instead, while country decentralisation is dissolved.

[Alchopwn]

4 hours ago, Still Waters said:

The UK could break apart unless it is rebuilt as a “solidarity union” where every citizen’s rights to public services and financial security are protected, the first minister of Wales, has warned.

Wales has a lot of nerve.  First they serve as the major voice of xenophobia that CAUSES BREXIT, and now they want to dissolve the UK if they don't get their way?   

[quiXilver]

UK is experiencing a bit of cultural evolution.

No empire lasts indefinitely after all. 

 

Perhaps a Brexit from Britain for the rest of the UK is on the horizon.

 

[L.A.T.1961]

Another idea might be to have a wide ranging inquiry into the delivered benefits  of devolved government and when it becomes obvious that the talking shops do not improve lives dissolve them and spend the money used, to run another layer of wasters, to the local council to spend on something worth having.