Posted: Sep 30, 2017 8:32 am
OlivierK wrote:Sendraks wrote:There are plenty of people who are sufficiently tribal that they identify with their county, rather than being "English." If their county identity neatly overlaps with that of a preferred sports team, so much the better.
It's always seemed odd to me that a country like England with such strong regional identities hasn't adopted a more federal system of government. Having said that, I live in a federal system, whose faults are sometimes extremely frustrating (non-uniform laws, endless buck-passing between state and federal governments over funding of national infrastructure within a state), so I recognise the fact that federalism is not a panacea for regional grievances, but it still seems it could fit well in England as part of a federal UK.
Ah, but 'Mother of all Parliaments', idiocyncratic long-winded nonsensical tradition must be maintained etc. It staggers new MP's to Westminster that every vote involves every member squeezing through a physical lobby door to cast their vote, once the usual suspects have been dragged from the many bars, only to troop back in and wait for the final vote to be counted and then announced. And then another vote, troop back out ...
It especially shocks those who have come from other devolved assemblies and Parliaments, where they press fucking buttons on a desk, each vote taking 20 - 30 seconds.
Federalism? IN ENGLAND? To the tower with you, Olivier
