It's to be welcomed, not least because it pours ridicule on those "Little Englander"
tirades against Scotland
My preference is elected regional assemblies for the English Regions with two-tiers below: firstly, a unitary authority and secondly, town or parish councils but only where desired given that some localities aren't parished. Labour should have put that loud and clear in its 1997 Manifesto without any proviso for referenda and just did it anyway like the Conservatives did in abolishing the GLC and the Mets
As far as UK goes, I'm a staunch unionist. British
, first and foremost. Being in the North East, I have a greater 'political' affinity with Scotland than the I do the south of England
Dave