In November 2020, Britain’s company register welcomed a curious newcomer
onto its rolls: the Northern Independence Party. With the slogan of ‘A
free Northumbria and fairer North for all’, the private company was to
run for elections in 2024. Like the Brexit Party, or for that matter the
Scottish Nationalists, the outfit’s ambitions were openly plebiscitary—a
referendum on Northern secession, completing a miniature of Britain’s
European uncoupling. The nip is demanding that the uk Parliament hold a
referendum on an Independent Northern England, with a ‘yes’ vote leading
to ‘the establishment of a sovereign Northern Republic.’ The petition
ended with a quote from a Guardian article by Tom Hazeldine: ‘It is a
mistake to present the North–South divide as a challenge for a
well-intentioned government to overcome, rather than a geographical
reflection of how Britain is run, and for whom.’
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii128/articles/anton-jager-rebel-regions
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