Posted on August 4, 2017. Tags: Brexit, catalonia, Economics, European Central Bank, European Union, Independence Referendum, Politics, spain, Trade, United Kingdom
Image by David Tubau (Energético) One year on from the Brexit vote, Europe’s economy faces yet another monumental challenge in the shape of the Catalan independence referendum. There are doubts as to whether the referendum will go ahead; a referendum on independence was held in 2014, but after the Spanish constitutional court anhttp:\/\/global-politics.co.uked it, the […]
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Posted in Economic Security, Economics, European Union, Global Economy, World
Posted on June 19, 2016. Tags: Boris Johnson, Brexit, Conservatives, Constitutionalism, David Cameron, Democracy, Economics, EU Referendum, European Union, Independence Referendum, Labour, Opposition, Populism, Rhetoric, Security, U.S., United Kingdom
In trying to puzzle through the populism animating the right and left after the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2015 European migrant crisis, we can draw a worrying parallel between the UK referenda and social and economic populism in the US. As in the US presidential race, the UK’s Remain/Leave debate is complex: it […]
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Posted in Europe, UK News, US, World
Posted on May 2, 2015. Tags: Alex Salmond, British, Conservatives, David Cameron, DUP, Ed Milliband, Election, Independence Referendum, Labour, Legitimacy, Nick Clegg, Nicola Sturgeon, Politics, Scotland, Scottish independence, Tories, UK, UKIP, Unionism, United Kingdom, Vernon Bogdanor, Westminster
The Conservative party has this week been briefing about the possibility of a Labour government supported by the SNP leading to a constitutional crisis. However, this crisis may be largely of their own making. Polls currently suggest that the Conservatives will be the largest party in Westminster, both in terms of vote share and seats, […]
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Posted in UK News, World
Posted on September 7, 2014. Tags: Alex Salmond, David Cameron, Independence Referendum, Scotland, Scottish independence, SNP, United Kingdom
Will Hutton has probably been the most influential writer on the British constitutional state over the last two decades. Last night he issued a call to arms arguing that the party leaders at Westminster have just 10 days to announce a constitutional settlement to ‘save the Union’. Personally I think it’s a bit late in the day for […]
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Posted in Scottish Independence, World
Posted on September 16, 2014. Tags: Alex Salmond, England, European Union, Independence Referendum, Nationalism, Scotland, Scottish independence
I’m voting ‘No’ this Thursday. I’ve been leaning ‘Yes’ for a while, but as the referendum approaches I’ve found myself changing my mind. There are real potential benefits to a ‘Yes’ vote: I believe that a parliament based on proportional representation will give us better (though more boring) governance over the long term and more accurately […]
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Posted in Europe, Scottish Independence, World
Posted on December 28, 2014. Tags: Craig Murray, Independence Referendum, SNP, Social Justice
After the brave new world rhetoric and the endless claims about social justice from the SNP, I’m unclear how any of the Party’s new membership intake can be encouraged by the treatment of prospective SNP parliamentary candidate and former UK ambassador, Craig Murray. Read here for Murray’s reasoned and eloquent account of his treatment by the SNP […]
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Posted in Scottish Independence, World