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Towards a new, radical and distinctive LibDem platform

By Chris Tanner | Mon 12th September 2016 - 1:53 pm

I would like to contribute to the ‘radical and distinctive’ LibDem platform of the Radical Association. We should be proud of our devolution process, freely achieved without unrest and violence. But it has created inconsistencies underlined by the Scottish and EU referendums:

We are a Union of four countries, each theoretically equal within the Union…
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have a Parliament and First Minster
England does not have a Parliament of its own, or a First Minister
England does ‘host’ the ‘national Parliament’ to which the others also send

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