Delighted to see citizens' initiatives being mentioned in Subrosa, an established blog but one new to me (and for that, thanks to Richard North's Referism Blogs list).
By way of explanation, the list to the right of "Some Referism Blogs" originally contained the first hundred Richard listed. The "Some" doesn't indicate any independent creativity on my part. If I chance to look at a blog because there's been a recent post when I happened to pop in, I will delete it from my list if it doesn't happen to interest me.
So it's no longer the full official list, and I'm still not convinced by referism anyway. Back to that later, maybe this weekend.
Meanwhile, the idea of citizens' initiatives is thought provoking. One problem: the proliferation of anti-EU petitions shows what happens when the ego's can't agree to co-operate. They stamp their feet and sulk because the petition wasn't their own, and then off they go and start another one. To some politicians it's more important to have their own name prominent than to get things done. (Nigel and Dan, anyone?)
Meanwhile, this is as good a time as any to say public thanks to Richard North for putting more bloggers in touch with each other, and hopefully each other's readers.
That won't stop me disagreeing with him. But then he wouldn't want it any other way.
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That won't stop me disagreeing with him. But then he wouldn't want it any other way.
Good lord - can you imagine how dull life would be if we all agreed with each other??
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