Why Adam Price Could Be Wrong About The State Of England. For It Could Turn Into A State Of Denmark

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

Adam Price, the leader of Plaid Cymru has in a speech argued for England, Scotland and Wales to act like the Benelux nations. Whilst independent of each other pooling their resources for the common good in certain areas.

I won't go into the detail about what he had to say. In principle I'm not really against it. After all as the song goes good neighbours become good friends. Though I probably would argue that the initial priority would have to be to bed down independence first.

But it seemed to me to have one telling flaw without needing to go into detail first. And that flaw is that should Scotland and Wales become independent (let's assume Ireland becomes unified) then England will be a stable nation.

As I've chatted before more than any other time in my life the possibility that England will become A State of Denmark (a dystopian novel by Derek Raymond about an England under dictatorship) has never been greater. After all we will soon have a Tory Prime Minister who will inspire people to run away in despair whoever he is and a Brexit Party in the background led by Nigel Farage.

When Wales becomes independent there would be a sizeable non right wing vote lost and therefore there would be a good chance that England could be become right wing, and extreme right wing at that.

As I've also discussed before there is a possibility that Wales/Scotland could be sucked into this scenario if they were still in the union. But an England left alone would definitely be more susceptible.

Now I might be wrong. Crystal ball gazing is not my forte. But no one can say that the picture I've painted is impossible and because it's not impossible any sort of cooperation needs to be treated with an exceptional amount of caution. Indeed we can go further for should Westminster currently be seen to going in this direction there should be every effort to create an independent Wales/Scotland as quickly as possible no matter how messy the logistics could turn out to be because whilst it would be tough the consequences of aligning with right wing England and possibly extreme right wing England would be a lot worse.

Until the next time.