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- The uncertain boundary between politics and law - 24/11/2011Here is an interesting examination of the interaction between politics and law in the British political system, delivered by leading barrister (and future judge) Jonathan Sumption QC. Delivered as the...
- The report on funding for political parties published today outlines some interesting ideas for reforming the way that politics works in the United Kingdom, improving it in some ways but...
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- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
- Authentic euroscepticism - 20/05/2012A very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph last Friday by Jeremy Warner (read it here) sums up the eurosceptic dilemma and reveals the perverse nature of the way they...
- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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referendum on Europe Archive
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A rotten way to fight a referendum
Posted on 15/04/2011 | 2 CommentsThere is something unsatisfying about the arguments deployed by the Yes side in the referendum campaign on electoral reform. They are right that the Alternative Vote is preferable to First Past The Post, but it is not vastly preferable and will not solve all the... -
Federal Union objects to the European Union bill
Posted on 10/01/2011 | 1 CommentThe Federal Union committee discussed the European Union bill that is currently before the House of Commons (to be debated on Tuesday 11 January) and specifically the proposal that any future pooling of sovereignty in the EU should be approved by a referendum. The bill... -
Two arguments against having a referendum on the Lisbon treaty
Posted on 12/03/2009 | 2 CommentsI was asked to give a speech at a conference today, arguing the case against having a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. I’d rather have been asked to speak about why the Lisbon treaty is a good thing – focusing on the content rather than... -
What does the Manifesto Club propose instead?
Posted on 08/12/2008 | 1 CommentA new publication denounces the European Union’s Brussels establishment (or perhaps that should read Establishment) for its contemptuous attitude towards the public. Bruno Waterfield and Chris Bickerton are critical of the way in which the EU institutions represent the member state governments and enable them... -
Do referendums work in practice?
Posted on 11/09/2008 | 1 CommentA great many political ideas sound great in theory but need to prove themselves in practice. Proposals for reform of the electoral system have to pass this test, and, yes, federalism has to do so, too. But let me apply that test also to the... -
Exactly what it says on the tin
Posted on 07/03/2008 | No CommentsI know it doesn’t help much to rake over Wednesday’s debate in the House of Commons on whether to have a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, but I can’t resist it anyway. In particular, I want to quote from the speech by former Conservative leader... -
Should there be a referendum on Europe and, if so, on what question?
Posted on 02/03/2008 | No CommentsThe House of Commons will be debating this week the call for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. There are two questions at stake, even if the Speaker in his wisdom will only allow one of them to be put to the vote. The first... -
Exposed by the call for a referendum
Posted on 26/02/2008 | 6 CommentsThe squirming of the Eurosceptics in the face of the Liberal Democrat call for a referendum on EU membership tells us a lot about them. The Liberal Democrats themselves, having fought the last general election on a platform of a referendum on the then constitutional... -
The people of Europe deserve to decide for themselves
Posted on 13/12/2007 | 2 CommentsThe hypocrisy and absurdity of the anti-Europeans just keeps on growing. In the European Parliament yesterday, protesting at the signing of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, UKIP leader Nigel Farage declared: “Referendum, we want a referendum. The people of Europe deserve to decide for themselves.”... -
The BBC gets it wrong again
Posted on 21/09/2007 | 1 CommentIn the wake of scandals over phone-in competitions and even the name of the Blue Peter cat, the BBC needs to confront yet another failing. It reports a UKIP-inspired referendum held in East Stoke parish in Dorset on whether a referendum should be held on...
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