Always a joy to hear from the @allthebestcast team. @maxshanly makes the point this week that constitutional change might be the only way out of the Brexit fiasco. soundcloud.com/novaramedia/al…
We *could* suspend Article 50 and launch a constitutional convention on the Irish model, running for 2 or 3 years. EU membership would be debated in the context of deepening political, economic and cultural democracy across the UK.
We can devise a confederal approach to the nations, toothy local and regional democracy in England, an end to the Oxbridge chumocracy, #mediareform, a public banking system, land reform - against a background of reinvestment outside of the financialised core.
Labour hasn't managed to recreate the traditional political education functions of the Party, much less the spaces for mutual education and empowerment that are needed. A convention would be chance to figure out in detail how we want to live together.
Active citizenship, underpinned by explicit political rights and institutions derived from those rights, is alien to most people in the UK. But it is the only thing that will save a Westminster government intent on radical change.
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