The right are increasingly presenting as radical - in a country that never has been. What will be the effects of decoupling their agenda from their traditional image?
The Brown proposals don't look like anything anyone is asking for. If you are going to represent the regions, why not have a regional devolution for England and extend powers in Scotland and Wales in a Federal model, as works well right around the world. It might prevent the break up of the UK. Then if they want more money for the NHS or whatever, they can raise it, rather than be micromanaged by the Treasury.
Brown's proposals put regional coverage into the Westminster bubble making it as distant as is our ridiculous adversarial public school knock off, we call the Commons.
The Brown proposals don't look like anything anyone is asking for. If you are going to represent the regions, why not have a regional devolution for England and extend powers in Scotland and Wales in a Federal model, as works well right around the world. It might prevent the break up of the UK. Then if they want more money for the NHS or whatever, they can raise it, rather than be micromanaged by the Treasury.
Brown's proposals put regional coverage into the Westminster bubble making it as distant as is our ridiculous adversarial public school knock off, we call the Commons.