Thread: Time Has Come To Give England Her Own Parliament
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Old 01-05-2008, 03:34 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist View Post
Why would the IoM, Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Cayman Islands, Falklands etc want to be part of a Federal UK? I'm sure they're happy with the current arrangement, and besides, they'd probably want to remain independent of the EU too.
A federal UK wouldn't work unless you remove almost all power from the central gov't or regionalise the UK. England is simply too big, like Prussia in the German federation, and it would be an unsucessful federation.
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