As Brian, O’Neill, Mick, Dewi and others have posted, there has been a lot of public debate in recent weeks about the state of the Union. Attention has largely been centred around the strength of Scotland’s links with the rest of its island and whether the Scottish Conservatives should go it alone.
The Guardian has been running a Dis-united Kingdom series this month. Mick and I participated in an online debate (that was dominated by Scotland and Cornwall) last week and the latest Guardian Focus podcast is worth a listen as it surveyed opinion from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
Young Unionists are running a debate asking Full Federation of UK Political Conservatism: Is Murdo Fraser Right? in QUB Student’s Union on Tuesday 18 October at 7.30pm to look at
the merits of formally federating political conservatism across the 4 countries of the United Kingdom. The event is in the context of the current Scottish Conservative Party leadership contest and Murdo Fraser’s proposals to reconstitute the Scottish Conservative Party as a new renamed and independent party. Discussion will consider the Ulster Unionist Party’s potential position within this following the reestablishment of formal linkages to the Conservative Party in 2010.
Chaired by Mike Nesbitt MLA, there will be contributions from people
Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, reports from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, academic and political events and conferences. He delivers social media training/coaching; produces podcasts and radio programmes; is a FactCheckNI director; a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland; and a member of the Corrymeela Community.
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