OVER the past decade or more, Scotland has become well accustomed to discussions about whether its future lies inside or outside the United Kingdom.
While Scotland opted to stay in the Union on September 18, 2014, this did anything but end the debate about whetheris the route the country should take. Instead, it sparked the beginning of an ongoing national conversation, as significant cracks in the UK as we know it began to show.And yet, England’s only Green MP Caroline Lucas has highlighted an increasingly uncomfortable reality across the Border – England is not having this conversation.
“England and Britain are just used interchangeably. The Government in Westminster is seen somehow as being the Government for England and the rest of the UK and I think, as a result, people in England have lost a sense of their identity. We don’t quite know who we are anymore.
Lucas subsequently went around the country as part of a project she titled Dear Leavers to attempt to understand why so many English people felt disempowered. She said: “It’s somewhere we could locate a political identity and an institution that speaks for England, separate from the UK as a whole. Perhaps even before any discussions about policy or the future mechanisms of England separate from its apparent alias of “Britain”, she suggests the English simply need to discover “better stories to tell” about their nation so the country can stride more courageously into its future, whatever that may look like.
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