There are plenty of alternatives such as local income tax, land value tax or a simplified property or sales tax. The Scottish parliament started well but has deteriorated substantially in recent years. At present, most regard themselves as British because British identity is a legal rather than a territorial or ethnic concept. English identity, by contrast, is primordial. Unless English identity embraces those who are not ethnically English, is it not time that Britain, to safeguard the legal status of its minorities, had an English parliament similar to those of those in Scotland and Wales?

Source: The Guardian July 02, 2019 16:41 UTC