Three societies, one country

I’m not an economics student, I’m very much an educated tourist to economics. I really hope someone more important than me has thought of this and knows more about why it wouldn’t work.

Here’s my idea:

We let Scotland be Scotland. We give back Wales, we give Ireland a choice. Major parties take control of these areas. They are still voted in. Still accountable to the public vote.

They each have their own government but are part of the UK as a whole to ensure movement and trade agreements stay amicable.

Trade and travel should continue in an open border style way. People should be free to move between the different nations.

Here’s the thing then, people could live under the rules they most agree with.

If you don’t like the regime put forward then you can move to one of the other nations. No questions.

Give people choice and freedom. We are already supporting an education system and child welfare system that breeds entitlement and choice. What’s going to happen to those people once they grow up and realise their childhood did not prepare them at all for the ‘put up and shut up or be prepared to face the consequences’ pedagogy currently abided by and abused by our society.

Hell, if I’m being utiopian about it, why don’t we work the whole world this way? Where in the world is there limited life available due to limited natural resources? (I don’t actually know, but I’m sure, given the disparity in privaledge worldwide, that it can’t all be down to government order) let’s leave that place for criminals that nobody wants.

Let’s fix the criminal justice system. More emphasis on rehabilitation. People can be rehabilitated if given proper support and resources. They get a second chance at a life as part of society. Even murderers and rapists.

I know that might be an unpopular opinion but ive seen first hand how proper rehabilitation has helped both of these types of criminal. I’m not saying we do away with prisons. But if the rehabilitation side was more accountable they would be forced to take it seriously. Part of the problem at the moment is a high percentage of people still in Power within the prison service, are running on minimal funds and maximum investment in the system they learned which was heavily punishment based rather than restorative. You can’t put a young head on old shoulders any more than you can the other way round. If you’re facing austerity, what do you do? You go with what you know. What do you do when you have no money, limited staff investment due to general austerity across the country? You do what comes naturally.

And if they fail that second chance? They go to that place with minimal resources. Left to fend for themselves.

As utopian worlds go, this one isn’t very exciting. But it’s where my mind went so…