The public are like politicians

By Ben Page | 24 September 2014
  • Ben Page

The problem with the public is that they are like politicians: they don’t agree.

After last week’s excitement over whether the United Kingdom was going to split apart, we now have an argument about what sort of federalism is going to keep it together – and what will work most fairly for the four different countries.

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