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English regional government Archive
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Balance and Gordon Brown
Posted on 21/06/2006 | 1 CommentAs Gordon Brown gets closer to becoming prime minister and accordingly tries to accentuate his Englishness, his opponents are trying to raise the barrier of his being Scottish. The latest salvo comes in a report from the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee, reported here.... -
The centralising curse of UK Treasury rules
Posted on 04/05/2006 | No CommentsBy George Irvin Britain’s public finance is highly centralised by the standards of the European Union and the OECD. The degree to which tax revenue is centralised is far higher here than in Germany, Spain or even France. Council tax accounts for only a fifth... -
Fifty one votes to one
Posted on 25/03/2006 | No CommentsI took part in a debate with leading anti-European John Redwood on Thursday evening in his parliamentary constituency, Wokingham. (You can read my speech here.) We started off a little at cross-purposes. He turned up expecting a debate on the regionalisation of England; I had... -
Review of 2005
Posted on 02/01/2006 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming 2005 will be remembered as a bad year for federalism. There have been bad years before and there no doubt will be bad years again, so there is no reason to despair. It is simply necessary to be realistic. Perhaps we should... -
The future of English regional government
Posted on 13/02/2005 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming “I would be interested to know what the Federal Union’s response is post-NE Assembly defeat (which as you know was rejected by nearly 80%), and how it sees federation working for the UK? Of course the NE vote is a major set... -
Your region: your choice – revitalising the English regions
Posted on 30/08/2002 | No CommentsA response by Federal Union to the government’s White Paper, 30 August 2002 SUMMARY OF RESPONSES References are to paragraphs of the Federal Union Paper A. Federal Union is of opinion that the White Paper fails to give English regions “the opportunity to develop coherent... -
Will the government’s White Paper on regional government actually turn the tide on control freakery in Westminster?
Posted on 11/05/2002 | No CommentsReport from the AGM, 11 May 2002 David Millar opened his introduction by saying he would refer only to Whitehall and not Westminster: MPs are not powerful enough to be control freaks. The proposed new regional assemblies (not executives, he noted) would have power over... -
Regional government in England
Posted on 30/04/2002 | 1 CommentQuestions from Chris Mason, freelance journalist, to Richard Laming, Director of Federal Union CM: How important a step are the Regional Development Agencies in the move towards elected regional assemblies? RL: Let’s break the question of regional government into two parts: what powers should be... -
Regional assemblies
Posted on 03/01/2002 | No CommentsBy Lawrence Fullick To the Western Gazette, 3 January 2002 N SCRASE of UKIP seems to have a Brussels bee in his bonnet when he thinks Regional Assemblies will report to EU institutions. I look forward to elected Regional Assemblies in each of our domestic... -
London should run its own transport system
Posted on 13/08/2001 | No CommentsIn a democracy, you need a very good reason to deny people something they have voted for. The Labour government has yet to come up with that good reason regarding the tube. For the result of the London-wide election could not have been clearer. The...
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