Adrian Auer-Hudson, MIMIS wrote:

On Jan 10, 11:16�am, Mizter T wrote:
On 10 Jan, 18:23, "Adrian Auer-Hudson, MIMIS"
wrote:

On Jan 8, 12:26 pm, James Farrar wrote:

(snip)

In which case, you would get your chance to have your say in the
referendum that is proposed!

Is this serious. I must mention this to my brother in Canada. I do
hope he, and his spouse, have remained on the Monmouthshire Electoral
Role.

Adrian

It's as serious as the idea that the English Democrats party might get
in to power so they'd have the power to actually call such a
referendum...

Well that's alright then, no cause for concern.

The truth is that whilst a pretty small number of people get very
exercised by notions of a perceived democratic deficit in England, for
the vast majority of the public it simply isn't an issue whatsoever.

IMO what is a shame is the lack of elected regional assemblies in
England. The North East had a referendum in 2004 on whether they'd be
the first region to set up an elected assembly and unfortunately voted
against it - so the whole idea of regional assemblies isn't really on
the table, not at the moment at least. Though I've a feeling that the
idea might surface again at some point in the future - but not for
many (many) years yet.

(Arguably the arrangements for governance in Greater London have some
similarities to the proposed regional assemblies - but in London, the
elected Assembly has an oversight role whilst it is the separately
elected Mayor who is clearly in charge of the Greater London
Authority.)


pedant
I presume your brother is on the Electoral Roll as opposed to being a
returning officer or having some other role in the electoral system in
Monmouthshire.
/pedant-

Electoral Roll, point taken.


Now I feel like a proper petty pedant!