The UK is Drifting Apart – Does Anyone Care?
| Author | Stephen Gethins |
| Published date | 01 June 2022 |
| Date | 01 June 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221108784 |
JUNE 2022•POLITICAL INSIGHT37
I
recently spoke to an academic colleague
from a European university who wanted
to informally discuss plans to set up
a centre for the study of the United
Kingdom in his country. I told him it was
a good idea. Post-Brexit there is a danger
of drift and a failure to understand one
another without the daily contact that EU
membership delivers. But my main advice
was to remind my colleague of the diversity
of the UK, that cannot be fully understood
through the prism of Westminster.
We could do with some research centres
in the UK dedicated to the United Kingdom
The UK is Drifting
Apart – Does
Anyone Care?
The United Kingdom’s constituent nations are drifting apart with
limited serious debate or discussion, writes Stephen Gethins, a
former SNP MP now professor of international relations.
itself. Instead, too often decision-makers
display heroic levels of ignorance and
disinterest in the dynamics and workings
of the country they seek to govern, and
comment upon. This is leading to a
conscious, and unconscious, uncoupling of
the United Kingdom.
UK unwinding
In May’s elections the dierences were on full
display. In England, the Tories did badly, but
not as badly as elsewhere. In Wales, Labour,
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