New Thames Airport for London

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Please don’t!

What my point is that we already have regional governments, of course when it was first done in the UK depends on what do you define as a regional government, but there are a few possible options:

1: Until 1803, Ireland (today the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland) had its own parliament (but with limited powers) when it was effectively part of the UK (and before that England) between 1542 and 1803, after that it formally (until 1922) became part of the United Kingdom itself

2: The setting up of self-governing dominions (all were at the time part of the British Empire and hence for all intents and purposes part of the UK), in Canada in 1867, Australia in 1901, New Zealand in 1907, Newfoundland in 1907 (until it became part of Canada), South Africa in 1910, Ireland (apart from the counties that remained in the UK) in 1922, Rhodesia (now split between Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi) in 1923, India (including what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh) in 1935, Burma in 1935, Sri Lanka in 1931, Kenya in the 1950s, Malaysia in 1948, Singapore in 1959, Brunei in 1959, Ghana in 1952 Nigeria after WII and The British Caribbean in 1958 (including Jamaica, Antigua, and other English Speaking Islands) and Hong Kong in the 1980s, all of which ended up independent by the 1980s (apart from Hong Kong, which ceased to be under British control in 1997)

3: The setting up of autonomous governments in our Crown and Overseas dependencies (for all intents and purposes part of the UK), in the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Bermuda, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, St Helena and several others

4: The setting up of the Northern Ireland Government (which had devolved powers) in 1923, which lasted until 1973, when the troubles took their toll and in the end a government was impossible to be established

5: The setting up of the Scottish Office and the Wales Office in those regions in 1967 for Wales and 1887 for Scotland, both of which had some sort of devolved powers and was a stop gap until they had their own parliaments/assembles (voters rejected them in the 1970s, but voted in favour in the late 1990s)

6: The setting up of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly (which previously had self-government between 1923-1973) in 1998

7: The formation of the Greater London Authority (the only regional government in England that was even established) in 2000