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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Sturgeon is clearly leaps and bounds ahead of BoJo, and I'll bet it boils his piss.

But further devolution would be crap, we've been essentially one country for ages now, no need to break it up.

There is a clear and present need, and as I said I'd go further and devolve the English regions into pseudo-"states" with control of their own budgets.

Westminster policy is geared towards the functioning of the City of London and has been since the 80's, it clearly and demonstrably does not work for anywhere other than the South of England, and it can't really ever work, for obvious reasons. Scotland, and several large regions of England, have very different needs to London and the South. I get (to an extent) not supporting independence, but I can see no valid reason to oppose full devolution of regional budgets (up to and including health services, education, benefits & social support etc.)

Scotland is finally getting there with Social Security Scotland being in transition from the England-based DWP, still a few years until that's fully active, and I think it will make an absolutely massive difference. But again, I think there are several English regions that would be better served by similar devolved services in place of the massive, bloated country-wide systems.