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brexit in itself won't fix inequality, but brexit in itself is one step closer to a more direct form of democracy, the decentralisation of power
mouldy-wart-
Interesting! So Brexit is going to change how our democracy works in the UK? How? What is this more direct form of democracy of which you speak? Are you talking about voting from home on government provided iPads? Please go on.
You know we already have a fully democratic government here right? Which is widely respected around the world because we invented it?
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brexit in itself won't fix inequality, but brexit in itself is one step closer to a more direct form of democracy, the decentralisation of power
And you're objecting to an attempt to ensure that the power to invoke Article 50 is placed in the hands of the House of Commons, a democratically-elected representative body, rather than the PM, who was elected as one of two candidates only by Conservative MPs, and who got the job by default when the other contender withdrew?
It's like raaaiiiiiiiiiin...
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This decentralised power that you talk of, I'm interested to hear more about this. From what I can tell about brexit, with it's mantra of #takebackcontrol, is that it will take some of the power that is currently held in Brussels and will place it in Westminster. As Westminster already holds all of the other similar power, that rather suggests that it is being centralised. In Westminster.
So I'm quite interested to know that if we're going to have decentralised power, which bits of power currently, or anticipated to be, held by Westminster is going to be moved elsewhere? Where is it going to go? Who is going to hold it? And with more direct democracy, how will we, the voters, be able to have a say in it?
I've asked this of a couple of people who have trumpted about "decentralised power" but nobody seems to know so I think that this is something that would be very useful to share.
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The_Seldom_Killer
Is it true? You tell us, you raised the point in the first place. Obviously the Morgan Stanley's and the Goldman's only care about making money, but the economy doing well also improves the standard of living for majority of people in the UK.
I agree that there is a big problem with relative inequality but you think Brexit is going to fix that? How exactly? The relative inequality in Britain is a result of our own policies not EU ones - EU money actually goes to the areas that are less prosperous.
What stance are you taking exactly? I'm confused.