Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Gordon Brown urged supporters to speak up for the 300-year-old union and resist any drift towards a "Balkanisation of Britain".

The chancellor said Britain's success as a union should be acknowledged.

On Tuesday it is the 300^th anniversary of the 1707 signing of the Act of Union, so where Gordan are the flags?, the banners?, the street parties?. 

This government has made no plans to celebrate, because Gordon Brown has another agenda and has posed us in his article with a trick question. 

What he really wants to know is how much opposition would there be if he scrapped it!.

Probably very quickly followed by the abolition of the Monarchy, and the Bill of Rights. 

The building blocks as I have mentioned in earlier blogs are already in place for the formation of a Republic or Federal Britain.  It was this government that instigated and formed the Assembly in Wales and the Scottish Parliament, and is trying hard to get Stormont up and running again.

The only place not yet represented by a national parliament is England, but he cannot blame secessionists for creating the want for a national identity, his party has done that all on its own. 

Critics have questioned whether he would prove popular as a Scottish prime minister, with Scotland devolved and nationalists pressing for independence.

Well he wont have to.  As head of a Federal Government, the Prime Minister could be drawn from any of the member states, England, Scotland, NI or Wales. 

But beware, because this would not be a modern open and free Federal State, this would be a repressive, controlling soviet style of federalism, which in the main has already been legislated for, and would be controlled on a day to day basis by the Politburo  Dept of Constitutional Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs Home Office, backed up by the Supreme Court.

So it is not surprising that Gordon quotes George Orwell thus;

George Orwell rightly ridiculed the old Left for interpreting patriotism as little more than the defence of unchanging institutions and for posing a false choice between patriotism and internationalism. 

Well it looks like New Labour and Gordon are going to try and bring us both, Orwellian style.

Which leaves but one more question. Where would the Jersey states, Gibraltar and the Isle of Man sit in this new Federal arrangement. 

Could we see Jersey finally align itself with France, something that even William the Conqueror could not achieve, see Gibraltar finally sacrificed to Spain and the Isle of Man become a province of Ireland. 

And finally, phrases like civic pride, patriotic purpose, social responsibility, when used in speeches or column inches remind me of the days when the BBC felt it had to interpret for the benefit of the viewing/reading public similar phrases from speeches made by the old Soviet leaders. When those who didn’t fall silently into line with soviet government thinking were regarded as socially irresponsible, therefore obviously working against the state and referred to as ‘hooligans’ or ‘terrorists’.

Could I trust and vote for someone who uses such old fashioned and politically misused rhetoric, and whose government is actively promoting much of the same thought process.?  I think not.