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Old 19-01-2008, 12:44 PM   #5 (permalink)
cassie
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The point that I am trying to make is that various policies, all ostensibly intended to remedy the 'democratic and national identity deficit' in England, will tend to divide all those various pro-England and the English campaigners.

One particular policy to be campaigned for is the holding of properly conducted referenda which enable the voters on England to record their collective opinions to inform Parliament. Clearly, such collective opinions are unwelcome to Brown & Co, which is they (and the Lib Dems) have reneged on their explicit manifesto commitments to hold a referendum on the adoption or otherwise of the EU Constitution.

However, campaigning for the 84% of the UK's voters to be participants in any referenda is not only correct in its promotion of democracy in England, but will tend to unite them in by allowing them to participate in questions affecting England and its future!



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