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This from Hans Bromwich, Cowes. Ed
As we contemplate shuffling the deckchairs on Keir Starmer’s ship of change, Titanic, it doesn’t really matter if your glass of Solent water is half full, or half empty, if it’s heavily polluted then it’s likely to give you a gippy tummy if you consume too much of it.
The answer is to clean up your act first and make it a genuinely wholesome product if you truly believe you might benefit by drinking the snake oil salesman’s elixir for life.
And so it is with devolution. Amalgamating with other ravaged and diseased animals is hardly likely to be beneficial. It’s more likely to be a recipe for yet more heartache and misery, only this time on a scale and complexity that’s almost impossible to extract yourself from.
The alternative is more autonomy, governmental independence and freedom from more distant and less accountable tyrannical and exploitative regimes.
