Brown Cannot Rule a Defunct Britannia ; Yesterday On These Pages Caroline Jack Explained Why We Needn't Worry About Having a Scottish Prime Minister - We're All British After All. Here Nigel Hastilow, Former Editor of the Birmingham Post, Writes That She Couldn't Be More Wrong

Birmingham Post › May 17, 2006

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Britain is dead. The British don't exist. No less a person than our Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, says so.

He's Scottish and a UK citizen but he doesn't feel "British". He said so on the day he announced as official Government policy that there will be no English Parliament - "not today, not tomorrow".

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Brown Cannot Rule a Defunct Britannia ; Yesterday On These Pages Caroline Jack Explained Why We Needn't Worry About Having a Scottish Prime Minister - We're All British After All. Here Nigel Hastilow, Former Editor of the Birmingham Post, Writes That She Couldn't Be More Wrong

Apparently, the English don't want one and, even if they did, it would create a federal UK dominated by England, and that would never do.

The Lord Chancellor's views are surprising because some of his colleagues are trying to reinvent the idea of Britishness. They see it as a useful cloak to spread over the many disparate groups, faiths, beliefs, ways of life and identities which go to make up the peoples of Great Britain.

The move rep...

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