The obnoxious Peter Hain has a new project: Refounding Labour
The consultation document asks:
Despite devolution to Wales and Scotland which Labour delivered, our Party structure has not adjusted. Is there a case for direct Welsh and Scots representation on the National Executive Committee? Are any other reforms needed in the NEC?
What about English representation? Why is it right for the Labour Party to use the slogans "Scotland Forward Not Back", "Wales Forward Not Back" and "Britain Forward Not Back" when it would never dream of using the slogan "England Forward Not Back"? Is it not time that the Labour Party addressed the cancer gnawing at its flesh by tackling its institutionalised anglo-phobia?
A Scottish divorce (along with a Welsh and English divorce) would seem to me to be the correct route.
