Comments on: That pesky F-word

By: Britain needs a constitutional convention - Voting TaKtiX

Britain needs a constitutional convention - Voting TaKtiX — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:08:16 +0000

[...] devolutionists of various stripes [...]

By: James

James — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:35:35 +0000

Wildgoose,

I don’t know what happened to your previous posts but it is clear for all to see that I’m not deleting them.

As for your argument about “balkanising” England, I fail to see why the US, Germany and Spain (to name but three) manage perfectly well with significant devolution while we can’t.

And it isn’t me who is calling for the UK to be remodelled along the lines of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

By: Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:05:25 +0000

So Paul you will join me in a fight for a vote of all of Englands people.

Do you want an English parliament
Do you want English regions

Surely this then would be acceptable to the Libdems.
Scotland I believe only got one option
Do you want a Scottish parliament

By: Paul Griffiths

Paul Griffiths — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:13:14 +0000

Unfortunately, for Liberal Democrat purposes, all of those polls are worthless. The first two only relate to Prescott’s “talking shop” ERAs and the second two didn’t use proper sampling.

By: Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:49:47 +0000

The people on here will never change the other sides view point. So why dont we all join together to fight for a Vote of the English people and let them decide.

2004 North East region 78% against regions.
2004 YOUGOV 11% for regions 24% for English parliament.
BBC poll 75% for an English parliament.
ITV poll 95% for an English parliament.

Now where we going to have our parliament

By: Paul Griffiths

Paul Griffiths — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:35:23 +0000

To David Wildgoose (great name, by the way): Conversing via comments is deprecated but, briefly, under existing party policy (currently under review) an ERA would be able to acquire secondary or primary legislative powers subject to a referendum. How you describe that state of affairs is up to you!

By: David Wildgoose

David Wildgoose — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:11:59 +0000

That’s interesting. When I made my posts yesterday they were flagged up as “awaiting moderation”. This time apparently straight through. Or not. Who can tell?

By: David Wildgoose

David Wildgoose — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:08:51 +0000

I made 3 posts yesterday. One to the board games section recommending Klaus Teuber’s “EntDecker”. And 2 about an English Parliament, including pointing out the comment made at the CEP Fringe Meeting (which I attended) at the Lib Dem Conference in Blackpool by one of the Lib Dem students.

He asked whether the intention was that the English Regions would have the ability to pass primary legislation and have different laws, alter income tax rates, etc., just like Scotland now, and Wales when the Government of Wales Bill is complete.

If they didn’t have these rights, in what way are they different to glorified (and more remote) County Councils?

And if they do have that right, in what way can it not be described as balkanising England into competing mini-statelets?

Oh, and if my posts weren’t made, then why did I not have to fill in my name and e-mail address this time?

By: jolly

jolly — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:40:09 +0000

Spammers? These are replies!

By: James

James — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:56:56 +0000

The least these spammers could do is read my response. Or is that too complicated?