A British Federation or Total Autonomy?

Why Calman Report could bring Salmond and Cameron together
Iain Macwhirter

From the "Sunday Herald"Click on link.

THE REPORT of the Calman Commission on Scottish Devolution will almost certainly never be implemented, yet it remains a landmark document - arguably as important as the 1988 Claim of Right and the 1997 Devolution white paper. By making the intellectual case for a degree of fiscal autonomy so cogently, it has set Scotland on a new course which should lead, at the very least, to a new federal United Kingdom within 10 years.

The original Claim of Right, produced by the Scottish Constitutional Convention in 1988, established the sovereign right of the Scottish people to have a parliament of their choice; Donald Dewar's sensational white paper Scotland's Parliament a decade later confirmed the Scottish parliament's right to legislate on all areas of government except those specifically reserved to Westminster. Now, finally, the Calman Commission's report has made the case for giving the parliament proper economic powers to reflect its political competence. Constitutional, legislative and now economic - the home rule project is nearing completion.

The most astonishing thing about the Calman Report, though, for anyone who has followed Scottish politics for the last 30 years, is that its findings were unanimous. Even the Scottish Conservatives, who bitterly opposed devolution 10 years ago, have now put their names to the most radical home rule document in a decade.

Pelagius has left a new comment on your post "A British Federation or Total Autonomy?":
Calman puts Scotland on the same financial footing as Catalunya is now.

Please, no British Federation! We'll still have to pay for their nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, foreign wars and antagonistic international policy.

Much better to become a member state of the EU, along with Scotland, Flanders, Catalunya, Euskadi, etc. Onwards to "Europe of a Hundred Flags"