Does the Isle of Man have answers to Scotland’s ‘devo max’ dilemma?
I have been wondering about this for a while and stumbled across this article. Interesting for those who might wonder what Scotland could look like after devolution.
"In all the scrabbling around for ideas on what “devo max” would look like, nobody, it seems, has looked on Scotland’s doorstep – or not until now at any rate.
SNP MSP Kenny Gibson has spent the last few weeks looking in depth at the islands round England’s coast to see how they co-exist with Westminster – and he is encouraged by what he has found out.
The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, Mr Gibson reckons, represent a pretty fair approximation of what “devo max” would mean in practice.
He also believes, with some justification, that using real examples within the British Isles would take the “fear of the unknown” away from the issue and make “devo max” much more acceptable to the Scottish people.
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http://caledonianmercury.com/2011/11...ilemma/0025858
