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I will not claim 'The British Empire was the greatest organisation in history' but one of the side effects of it's dissolution was that without one central body, you can only blame the former masters for so long to stay in power before everyone realises it's not their fault it's the ones that replaced them that are shit. The UK is currently suffering the same thing just on a more localised scale.
England has always been overlooked so nothing new there as their government is locked in a London bubble. The regional governments have largely been a failure, so much so that during lockdowns, Scots fled to England to celebrate Christmas because their national government kept everything shut still.
The solution might be to get rid of devolved parliaments so the regions stop focusing on independence parties that easily use their dislike of England to stay in power while doing nothing to improve their country, but focus on putting more pressure on parliament to force more focus on the UK as a whole.
As the biggest irony of the SNP is, because they dominate Scotland, they effectively took it out of play in a general election so parliament no longer gives a fuck about Scotland because no matter what, they can't affect the power structure in parliament anymore.
I actually think that an English Parliament is probably a better solution under a federated system. Actually use the House of Lords for something relevant involving legislation, and allow it to be appointed by their countries. Hell, I think weakening the House of the Commons is absolutely necessary at this point to secure a functional government.
A weakening of the house of commons would be great but not by adding more bureaucracy by way of an English parliament. The UK suffers from so much red tape as it is adding more would stifle everything when what the need is less civil servants.
I think those are completely separate issues.
The bureaucracy needs to be utterly purged, but that doesn't negate the need for an English parliament.
A federated system means that the British Parliament would be representative of the 4 parliaments of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. These are entirely separate strata that conflict with one another. Whereas, a bureaucracy operates independently of political conflict and can be wielded as a weapon. You can cut the bureaucracy of the British state by 80% and still have an English Parliament, and frankly, I think you should.
I think there's another issue with an English parliament, where would you put it? There's as much tension within England equal to that of the tension between Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England so I think we might be opening Pandora's box by doing that as the root problem is Parliament's London centric viewpoint.
I'm of the opinion the UK shouldn't be Federated, the British Empire should have Federated when they had the chance, there was a lot of discussion doing so in the 19th century and you can imagine how many bullets might have been dodged if the commonwealth instead of just being a lose connection was a military and trade force.