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How Constitutional Tinkering Left Britain at the Mercy of Unintended Consequences
27 January, 2014
by Andrew Alexander
If you had to identify the decisions made by the Blair government and the Coalition that will have the largest impact on the nature of British life over the next two centuries, what would you choose?
Depending on your political orientation, I imagine the list would look something like this: the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the immense accumulation of public debt under both, the introduction and subsequent escalation of tuition fees and the end to the principle of free tertiary education, the dramatically altered approach to civil liberties in the face of an escalating terrorist threat, the changing shape of public spending under austerity, the refusal to join the euro or to construct a policy towards the European Union which pays the slightest heed to continence or sense.
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27 January, 2014
by Andrew Alexander
If you had to identify the decisions made by the Blair government and the Coalition that will have the largest impact on the nature of British life over the next two centuries, what would you choose?
Depending on your political orientation, I imagine the list would look something like this: the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the immense accumulation of public debt under both, the introduction and subsequent escalation of tuition fees and the end to the principle of free tertiary education, the dramatically altered approach to civil liberties in the face of an escalating terrorist threat, the changing shape of public spending under austerity, the refusal to join the euro or to construct a policy towards the European Union which pays the slightest heed to continence or sense.
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