Make London and England Independent There are obvious problems with the idea that, as very soon may be the case given the political winds in Scotland, England may have to be an independent country again. For a start, the question of what status the isle of man, Wales, Cornwall and the Six Counties in the north of Ireland will have is unclear, of course. But there is one entity that is bigger than all of them. It has its own economy. It would inevitably unbalance any independent England, sapping its young and dominating its politics and culture. It is a cosmopolitan, multi ethnic hub which threatens to parasitize England and which does not really understand the rest of the country and does not need to. An independent England would be a Byzantium or a Veneto; a hinterland characterised by attachment to a city. That would be a sad fate for the country of England. So, why not start planning now for the obvious? England should be an independent, democratic country in charge of its own tradi...
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