David Cameron has proposed a 'United Kingdom sovereignty bill', which he said would ensure the ultimate sovereignty of the British parliament
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FT on 4th Nov 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
David Cameron has the power to kill the Lisbon Treaty "stone dead", the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party has said.
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ePolitix on 5th Sep 2008 (via epolitix.com)
Man in a Shed: The United Kingdom Sovereignty Bill (2010) - solution to the Lisbon ratified issue Just heard David Cameron's announcement at 4pm and there's a lot I like there, and even the UK Sovereignty Bill like the one I suggested a month ago. ( OK its probably coincidence - but still ... ).
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ManInAShed on 4th Nov 2009 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Carrying a vote of No Confidence after defeat on a major issue in the Commons is the standard way of forcing the relinquishing of power by a prime minister in the United Kingdom Parliament. Canada, whose parliamentary democracy is modelled on that of the United Kingdom, has just had its Parliament prorogued by the Governor-General who represents the Head of State Queen Elizabeth II. This has been ...
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AngelsInMarble on 4th Dec 2008 (via hatfieldgirl.blogspot.com)
David Cameron's endorsement of plans to limit the power of Scottish MPs at Westminster has been derided as a shopping trip for easy votes in Middle England that undermines the Conservative commitment to a United Kingdom.
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TheHerald on 16th Feb 2009 (via theherald.co.uk)
No, not the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.I mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Actually, that's not what I mean.What we want is the United Kingdom of Ireland and Great Britain.Capital to be Dublin. Finance Minister to be Irish.
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FreedomAndWhiskey on 10th Dec 2009 (via freedomandwhisky.blogspot.com)
Today David Cameron is addressing the Ulster Unionists annual conference in Belfast. In a speech he is due to deliver to delegates Cameron is expected to explicitly outline his commitment to ‘the United Kingdom’ rather than just England. Cameron will say that he is ‘no little Englander’ and he is determined to be a Prime
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BUCF on 6th Dec 2008 (via bucf.wordpress.com)
Per David Cameron: "I want to win the next election outright. I recognise that even if in doing that we don't have a majority in Scotland I will work with anyone in Scotland, whoever the First Minister is, whoever wants to keep the Union together, to make sure that the Government in Westminster governs in the interests of the whole of the United Kingdom." Am I reading too much into this or is...
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SNPTacticalVoting on 30th Sep 2008 (via snptacticalvoting.blogspot.com)
Gerry Hassan has given Gordon Brown a right good savaging over at Our Kingdom: As any schoolchild should know the United Kingdom is not a nation, but a state made up of four nations. The United Kingdom is a “nationless state”. Does not this basic failure to understand the UK tell us something about Brown and
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LittleManInAToque on 26th Feb 2009 (via toque.co.uk)
The Scottish Parliament will today symbolically vote in favour of leaving the United Kingdom despite opposition parties accusing Alex Salmond of trying to engineer a "grubby little fix" instead of a fair referendum.
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Telegraph on 12th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
"This is also not a debate, as has been falsely claimed, about extending laws which apply in one part of the United Kingdom to another." Iris Robinson on the extending of a law (the 1967 Abortion Act) which applies in one part of the United Kingdom to another. Unfortunately as the Guardian is reporting this morning, it looks very unlikely that a debate, never mind vote, will even be held on the su...
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APintofUnionistLite on 22nd Oct 2008 (via unionistlite.blogspot.com)