We need something that is new and different in substance'. For a related article in the Global Ideas Bank, see 480 town halls for London Britain is the laggard of the 1990s. Whereas the rest of the EC is deeply rooted in regionalism, we have taken the opposite course.
Local government recedes and central government gets ever more powerful and repressive.
Everything turns on originality. Without it, by definition, we go round in circles. So it is that while we race for the 21st century in technology, we do so with political institutions born and bred of the 19th century and earlier. In consequence, millions suffer. It will then be imperative that others are ready with alternatives.