British public life has a sad, surreal quality currently as the UK stumbles, zombie like, into major existential crises and its constitutional institutions and political Parties prove increasingly unable to fully recognize, let alone maturely address, these crises.

In normal circumstances, no one would give Ken McGoogan’s sophomoric prattle any notice but, given the fantasy quality of UK current political debate, he has cannily seized the chance to gain some publicity in the Scottish and Canadian media.

McGoogan inadvertently stumbled onto a useful implication, however.  The UK no longer functions adequately as a quasi-unitary State governed in the final analysis from London, could function well as a federal State and the Canadian division of Federal and Provincial jurisdiction would be a worthy model to consider.

Sadly, the political and institutional creativity simply does not exist at present for the UK to seriously consider such a constitutional evolution.