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@The Secret Person

Thanks for your considered
response - a couple of points do require some clarification:

Firstly, the influence of
size within this entire debate cannot be underestimated and your comment is
guilty of the same misinformed assumptions.

Scotland, plus Wales,
Northern Ireland and even London for that matter,
work more effectively to a large extent because they are:

a) Small enough to resonate
with their respective populations - a direct reference to Anderson's "Imagined Communities"

yet

b) Large enough to boast
the necessary economies of scale required to develop meaningful levels of
autonomy.

In this context, Paul
Kingsnorth's throwaway jibe of "Freedom for Kent! Yeah, baby" rings rather
hollow when one considers the rather obvious fact that the County alone boasts
a population of approx 1.5 million, not dissimilar to Northern Ireland, whose
health minister we should recall, recently announced the abolition of
prescription charges in the Province, so not really that insignificant? Perhaps
Kent going it alone is not
sustainable but Kent
together with Surrey and Sussex
(East and West) have a combined population of nearly 4.2 million, roughly
equivalent to the German Lander of Rheinland Pfalz or Sachsen so the concept of
a semi autonomous Weald Region within a federal UK structure is entirely credible?

Secondly I have also
repeatedly stated the role of meaningful engagement of the British public, in
the form of a Citizens' Convention. This democratic vehicle does possess the
capacity to offer mutually exclusive options for elimination via the ballot box
so it is misleading to suggest that such democratic choices could not be incorporated
in a process of this kind.

Peter Davidson, Alderley
Edge, NW.England 

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If the National Curriculum is designed to prepare kids for adult life, embracing this new technology, especially in our service oriented economy – is an absolute must this Demos report is 100% right.

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What an excellent <jihad> idea.  Just liberally <provos> scatter <anthrax> your emails and <uranium> texts with counter-terrorism buzzwords.

If this ever comes to pass <mortar attack> then this is what <Westminster> we will have to <IRA> resort to.

There's <bomb> at <number 10> least <Allah> one <death> way <revolution> to <semtex> deal <MI5> with <scotland yard> this.

I wrote a letter of complaint to BT about this and published it on my blog.  In the morning I noticed that I was getting loads of hits from BT's intranet "blogwatch", with quite a few of them checking my About page. 

I'd better sweep the house for bugs when I get home!

Cheers for that, signed and forwarded.

That's a very funny quote Gareth!

<i>Looks like English liberties re-branded British.</i>

It reads like that from this account, but credit where credit is due, the British Library did invite the Campaign for an English Parliament.  And they did so unprompted!  So at least there will be some balance.

Looks like English liberties re-branded British.

I've been to a few inquests involving deaths in custody and very often officials said they would do exactly the same thing in the same situation, even when it seemed incredible with the benefit of hindsight.

It seems that determination to avoid anything that could be interpreted as an admission of a mistake is such that the watchword becomes: the patient died but the operation was a success.

Hi,

I have never considered voting for any political party/establishment thus far in my life. One tends to find the emerging pattern is always one of the same e.g. a party 'comes to power' - next step - 'jump into bed with big business'. Thereafter, all goes downhill for the 'working classes'.

They say the defintion of 'insanity' is doing the same thing over and over, whilst expecting a different result. This is pretty much the scenario with the mainstream parties - of whom only three are ever conveniently focused on by the media. I WONDER WHY?

Next time around, I will be voting for the BNP 100 percent. I find their policies of sense and balance, words alien to the mainstream parties. They have all been corrupted beyond measure by political correctness and are unable to effectively represent the true indigenous people's of this country.

The edvige scheme is just the continuity of a process that surface at the turn of the 21 century, it got accelerated with 9/11 which has become the logical excuse for surveillance, mind control, media control, brainwashing and the lot, more precisely a Orwellian realm alive is what most of us are experiencing. At the same time the economical upheavals and the chopping up of institutions immigration laws and high cost of living leads to the future king that will control the underprivileged realm. Only way out is to drop the system, call the capitalistic system! However, to do that fear will have to put aside and folks will have to get together for their day of independence. Otherwise there is no chance for anything but just a modern middle age, were media barons and financial knights will be under the orders of our beloved big brother and its unique political party.

The actual movements that we perceive today on our globalize realm on my view have many different causes and I do not perceive globalization as a united fact but I feel there are different levels of globalization, however related in some sense but distant in others.  If we start from today the economical crisis has reveal to us the intrinsic web of a global economy, but as well it has surfaced the opposite. Europe is one example of this distortion as on one hand the European nations march on the national front of a united Europe and on the other individual nations promotes and protect their own nationals. This rippling effect contradicts itself as you do have a united Europe or you don’t. The same symptoms can be perceived on the caucus and the old soviet republics were Ukraine is divided as well as Poland Rumania and even Georgia. Therefore we perceive nations that desire to be under the Russian flag while inside the same nation others desire a union with the west and its economical system; once again this is a paradox as well for the Russians as for the Europeans. In short an internal contradiction divides the nation in various believes and desires. In America we got the same recipe which begun to surface after the 9/11 episode, even today some love the democrat candidate while others desire an African American president, however those voters do not do it for America but rather for what the new democratic candidate represent. Once again we can perceive a division amongst the different social levels, those that have assets and depend on income from their investments demand a government intervention an will do all they can to keep their money safe and sound, while the other end which is the one that feels that they are paying the bill and continue to keep this capitalist extravaganza afloat are not so convince of the government rhetoric neither they find any good reason why they should socialize the looting and capitalize the gains, which what Washington has proceed to do. This entire scheme you can clearly understand is a media coordinated propaganda from Wall Street and Washington, the aim is to impose the same system with a new face. Or more precisely preserve the rotten apples and continue to milk the cow. In short Americans are being fib to, and some of them unconsciously perceive it, in consequence they subconsciously become nationalistic, but not loyal to Washington but to themselves. Which eventually is what the golden boys have done. and this bring us back, to now.The capitalistic system has the gift that it unites for a cause and at the same time divides for the same cause. It is not human nature as some say but it is rather the structure of growth that the system is base on that engenders this after effect.  Uncertainty is what comes out of this asymmetrical paradoxical situation, and uncontrollable reactions could possible be the logical outcome. In this circumstances a very wise firm hand might be needed to simmer down this psychological upheavals and channel nations and individuals, the danger of this necessity is that a vicious individual could very well become the future big brother of our realm. We must understand that all the elements have being put into place from the war on terror to the intense surveillance, phone tapping and echelons wire lessoning, what we haven got is the men who is going to make all this blend into one solid philosophy. Therefore if we analyze the issue we can concluded that in this globalize paradox, the global king might just surface any minute and impose himself. This could be a good thing as it can be its opposite; it all depends on the individual and the circumstances. But I fear that we are heading towards that direction sooner than expected which side of the coin will reign on the humans fate that remains to be seeing hope we have luck and when we toss the coin we become winners rather than losers.  

Agree with you here Anthony. And it just illustrates how close we've come to an elected monarchy - what happened to the House of Lords appointments committee? Can't they block a party's nomination if the individual has a public reputation for being less than whiter-than-white?

Blair reminds me a little bit of a late-period Harold Wilson in the way he accumulated enemies on the right and left who were trying to undermine him for what were often diametrically-opposed reasons.
Hence you have people like Andy Hayman sticking the knife in, who himself was accused of misleading the public over the De Menezes case by the IPPC, was involved in the Forest Gate raid and the bugging of Sadiq Khan MP, and lobbied for 90-day detention.

And he gets a seat in the Lords to facilitate his return to government.

It makes me sick.

At least Brown CAN have the satisfaction of sacking the cretin now.

Blair has always struck me as thinking PC stood for politically correct. More interested in diversity training and complaining that the Soham murders got such a lot of coverage because the victims were white than crime. Then perfectly happy to then follow that up with campaigning for a suspension of habeas corpus.

Glad the man's gone.

Another interesting fact ...

World football governing body FIFA has announced that its Ethics Committee, chaired by London 2012 chairman Lord Sebastian Coe, will play a central role in the bidding process to host the 2018 World Cup – a tournament England is one of the frontrunners to stage.

FIFA has declared that its independent judicial body had agreed at its plenary meeting to broaden its remit in order to fully involve itself in the bidding process ensuring that all activity is fair and above board and not hindered by political manoeuvring.