Authoritarianism plays very well, especially with frightened and/or selfish elderly people. That said, to put it crudely, the Lib Dems are a sub-10% party at the moment. 34% is a vast improvement :sm… (View Post)

Unfortunately what you're creating there is something not unlike the European Union - effectively, the Council of Ministers at the top, the UK Government effectively functioning as the executive Comm… (View Post)

So? If, in that scenario, the Union is really that important to everyone concerned then the central Government will continue to be valued. It would have rather less to do but it would still have a su… (View Post)

Quite. The existing system of devolution creates four castes of voters, each with different rights. It's a complete mess. (View Post)

If there had only been four colonies and one of them was six times the size of all the others combined, then the constitutional convention might not necessarily have arrived at exactly the same solut… (View Post)