The way the United Kingdom, the Caribbean’s one-time colonial power, manages its affairs is unlikely ever to be the same again. The decision by the Scottish people on September 17 to vote decisively against independence, and the British Prime Minister’s subsequent announcement that greater powers will now be devolved to the regions of the United Kingdom, and even major cities, means perhaps paradoxically, that even the ‘no’ vote in the Scottish referendum, is set to change the nature of the United Kingdom.
This is because when it first appeared that Scotland would vote ‘yes’ by a slender margin, the British