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| The UK government has today issued the first of a series of papers which have a rather peculiar character. On the one hand they are explicit in stating their commitment to a unionist position; but on the other they present their purpose as one of "informing the debate". The suggestion is that the content is impartial. It doesn't look that way, however. It looks like a puff piece for the unionist position. It is peppered with value judgements and very far from factual. I suppose that is to be expected, but it straddles uncomfortably between an implicit claim to authority and factual accuracy: and an inherently partisan position Nonetheless it is interesting for what facts it does present. They do not all tend in the direction the government thinks they do, but they put the best possible spin on it: indeed reading this document one wonders why they do not turn their attention to establishing devolution in the english regions: that is how wonderful it is ! It is "the best of both worlds" to use their own terms: one would almost think they were in favour of devolution from the very start: yet there is no devolution in England, and the UK is one of the most centralised states in the world. It is odd https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/syst...ndan...__1_.pdf |
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