Debate

Balls promised that this was an area the government would tackle. We are happy to see the emphasis the Government is placing on the wider family, recognising the important role of the whole family not just parents and children. Perhaps this is what’s wrong with the country. We are too distracted by which party we associate ourselves with to compromise on important issues. As the political debate broadcasts to a UK-wide audience, questions on purely local issues will not be chosen unless they raise matters of genuine national interest. There are other nationalists for whom the existence of Welsh nationality is, in itself, sufficient argument to justify full Welsh autonomy, or, indeed, to require such autonomy. No one of them alone is enough, and the combination of them can and does vary from area to area, and from individual to individual. The world is very different from previous times, when information was less freely available, he noted. Instead of engaging in political theater, they could better use their resources by taking the time to understand the arguments of gay marriage opponents and developing counter-arguments. The mythology must be maintained that all Arabs are always on the same side and that all Muslims are always on the same side.