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Subject: British Dominance in Blend of Parliaments

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Paddy (Scotland)

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Date Posted: 12:58:38 12/01/04 Wed
In reply to: Ian (Australia) 's message, "Adjusted party figures" on 23:11:58 11/30/04 Tue

In such an arrangement, it is good to see that British parties seeking power would have to seek alliances overseas in order to guarantee a majority. These loose alliances would swiftly evolve into stronger ties - perhaps even total merging of essentially similar parties. This need to form a majority would actually give a lot of deciding power to the Dominions.

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 13:56:21 12/01/04 Wed

But I still think that, initially, in the absence of pan-CANZUK political parties, the thing would only be held together by magnanimity on the part of British, and more particularly English, politicians. "Magnanimity is not seldom the truest wisdom, and great empires and little minds go ill together", and all that jazz. In the same way, the Anglo-Scottish union is held together, in many cases, by the English biting their tongues and letting a few unfair things slide. I realise, too, that the same is true in Scotland, especially when there is a Tory government in the UK for which only 20% of Scots have voted.

Obviously, in federation there will be a transition stage: the important thing is, during this period, to have suffient feelings of goodwill, as Edmund Burke pointed out, so that there is no outcry in Britain when the New Zealand Green Party uses its alliance with whichever coalition is in power to force the Derbyshire Dales or the Grampians to be covered with bloody windfarms. People must believe that Commonwealth Federation is worth a few minor inconveniences.

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