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- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.
- Membership
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- Nov 07, 2020
A smaller-size party and parliamentary membership does not necessarily equate to lesser demands; if anything, the opposite can be the case.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns - despite it being a pivotal personal concern and despite seeing it as something of a litmus test for liberal democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020