Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Lib Dems In Disarray

Time to right the ship I think: the Lib Dems in Scotland have a new leader and he's talking about rediscovering his parties soul, but the electorate isn't so hot on the LibDems right now so some distance from the UK party may help, but how do you achieve that?

In London, Nick Clegg proposed an elected second chamber (what a shocking concept that is...) and was pretty much laughed out of the room.

I'm sure they'll get their shit together eventually, but for now, time to really get down to the nagging question of British politics: federalism or not? I think it's the logical conclusion that's fair to everyone. Right now Scotland gets free education courtesy of English taxpayers. Scottish MPs can vote on matters pertaining to England but English MPs are no longer allowed to vote on matters pertaining to Scotland because they've been devolved to the Scottish Parliament. That situation may be fine and dandy for the Scots, but it's grossly unfair to the English- and a relationship that unequal and unbalanced is doomed to implode.

So right the ship: Westminster, by all accounts is little more than a glorified echo chamber- everybody who knows anything about British politics knows that the real work is done on the local level- making a true, national government and giving the English their own Parliament would complete the process left unfinished by Blair.

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