David E Williams

Better and Stronger Apart David E Williams

The amicable divorce proposed in this book will save Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Remain England from the folly and tyranny of Brexit. If the United Kingdom is to be re-invented in the wake of the English nationalist uprising that is Brexit, we must create a shared political project that protects the freedoms and prosperity of the Remain nations (the first of our two Systems). This marriage of four self-governing dominions living under a single roof of a new federal United Kingdom must unite the promise of a new Celtic dawn with the common decencies so alive in the liberal English defense of European Enlightenment values (Adam Smith and Voltaire). We must also find a way for the Brexiteers to travel a new path. They must have a kingdom by the sea of their own, free of European entanglements and free of us (the second of our two Systems). The price of realizing their revolutionary dream is that we will not share it with them. We want no part in their Brexit adventure. So what it is to be: a fraying United Kingdom or a divisive Brexit? It is upon this choice that the sobering spectre of partition must focus our minds-and theirs.