Secessionitis: a good disease

2010 has seen revived efforts for WA secession. Now North Queensland is talking about secession from the state of Queensland.

The people promoting secession in WA and NQ are not crazy, nor are they un-Australian. In fact, secession means pluralism and greater competition, hence greater prosperity for all Australians. This state pluralism and decentralisation is exactly how Europe initially rose above all other regions of the world.

British European MEP, Daniel Hannan, explains this thesis (termed the 'European Miracle') very succinctly below. In fact he paraphrases the man who first put this thesis forth, an Aussie historian, Eric Lionel Jones.