“Without a common ethnicity or a single overarching religious system, we need a new national story to tell us who we are”

Oh..right..so – this #’national’ story is going to go along the same lines as – previously – race ‘solidarity’ and religion ‘solidarity’ ?

OOH now I really can’t wait for it. Centuries of trying those other 2 out – and look, now, we have to spend all our time battling racism and religious supremacy. Oh but they were started off with the best possible intentions. Oh, wait, so is this round.

again, we dont seem to be learning very much from history.

Otherwise, it doesn’t really mean very much. Its all really vague, you know.

Hmm, well if that’s so – vague as it is – its getting rather worrying now. All we need next is the MCB saying yes, they are in favour of this covenant/code and who knows what we will end up with.

I think sunny, you will find that if you read the Life in the UK Citizenship Test handbook, they ( on behalf of the government) claim that they are VERY CLEAR about the rights and responsibilities of a UK Citizen. Perhaps you should look into it. I hear a lot from people who are born citizens, that because all this isn’t “communicated” to them in the same way it is to “new” citizens, they are somewhat confused. Some have even said they would like to take this test/read the handbook at least.

Since people seem to be confused about their rights and responsibilities – and to start with – probably don’t have a clue about Parliament, who can vote in the UK, devolved administrations etc. – perhaps they need to be given this information through a course or something.

It wouldn’t be easy – esp as EU law now supercedes UK law. Really worth reading to understand some of the issues.

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=4&EventId=534