Labour in the form of a hard left wing party has gone. It was tried with Foot and to a lesser degree with Kinnock. It just meant that Labour became unelectable. Given that Thatcher was in power that was a real achievement. Smith, then Blair then Brown brought the Labour party to a more middle ground place to make it electable.
That is because the parties do agree on so much. There will also be the hard left, hard right individuals, but for the bulk of issues the actual discussion points are quite small and not far apart. For example – Lab and Con both believe in a publicly funded NHS free at the point of delivery. There are discussions about how much should be done by private companies but the fundamental issue is not in doubt.
Without Scotland, I suspect that there would be very little change. There will be no devolved powers to the regions, because defining the regions (except for Wales and NI) is almost impossible). We are a very small country in terms of landmass, so a Federal system like the US probably is not practical. Remember that the German Federal model was put in place to stop the rise of German superpower after WWII. In any case the German states, were actual countries/states until the rise of Germany in the late 19 Century.
There will be no change in the political system. There will be a movement of UK jobs out of Scotland into Wales/NI/North East. Economically the UK will survive and as a country of 55 million will still be one of Europe’s largest voices. There is a thought that without the distraction of trying to include Scotland we may end up with a more balanced spending pattern.
