All this week the Guardian has been running a series of articles and readers’ comments under the banner of Disunited Kingdom that looks at the process of devolution in all three administrations. What makes it interesting, apart from excellent (if predictable) contributions from Professor John Curtice, AL Kennedy and Simon Jenkins amongst others, is that this is almost the first time that a UK-wide newspaper has treated the subject of devolution and independence with anything approaching seriousness. A short sojourn in the deep south-west of England recently revealed to us that most people we spoke to still have not risen far above woad, Mel Gibson and the border passport control approach still prevalent in much of the English editions of the Daily Mail and Telegraph. And indeed, how can we expect them to become engaged if all they hear is how much they fork out to subsidise the celtic fringe? Which makes the Guardian’s attempt to elucidate and involve southern readers in this running debate all the more laudable. |
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