The Governance of Britain - consultation

Originally posted @ 11:45 pm, Wed 9th Jul 2008

Attended a consultation hosted by Michael Wills, Minister from Ministry of Justice, in Nottingham on Wednesday.

I was in a group that discussed Britain’s values.

Our group could see a value in agreeing a set of values, most probably drawing upon those taught at school and used in citizenship ceremonies.

But suspect it will be harder to adopt anything other than a very generic set of values, because some values soon become a matter of political disagreement.

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POSTSCRIPT

The group discussion was quite light-hearted.

One expression of Britain's values was mentioned - in the first part of George Orwell's "The Lion and The Unicorn" written during the Second World War - and that turns out to be quite an English perspective.