Tag: Future of the Union
Welsh incremental devolution: history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as tax?
The possibility of significant tax devolution to the Welsh National Assembly appears to be an increasingly remote prospect. In the latest post of Democratic Audit’s Future of the Union series, Adam Evans argues that Financial Competence Orders, a system for devolving taxation, should become the focus for Welsh devolutionists. Similar PostsDon’t expect meaningful fiscal devolution for […]
We need meaningful decentralisation if we are to tackle England’s North/South divide
The North of England struggles when compared to the South on any number of economic and social metrics. In a speech given at a recent Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) conference in Manchester the leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, argues that tackling it requires leaving behind England’s centralised model of Government, and embracing […]
Unfinished devolution has created constitutional imbalances in the UK
In the 2012 audit of UK democracy, Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Andrew Blick, and Stephen Crone considered how effectively the UK constitution matched the territorial structure of the UK. Following England and Scotland’s national football teams facing each other in a rare match at Wembley, this post draws on their analysis to explore how the UK’s nations have fared in constitutional reforms of recent […]
The Government’s proposal for an ‘English only’ stage in the House of Commons could create problems
The Coalition Government has proposed a new measure to counteract some of the asymmetries brought about by devolution, which could see English MPs enjoying what amounts to a ‘Fourth Reading Veto’. Andrew Blick argues that this measure, if successful, could fundamentally change the way the House of Commons deals with legislation, and makes the case […]
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