HOUSE OF THE COMMONERS OF THE ISLES LIVERPOOL

Chris Patten The BBC Trust London cc Enda Kenny TD David Cameron MP Louise Ellman MP Alex Salmond MSP Carwyn Jones MWA Peter Robinson MLA Chris Burns, BBC Radio Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian Peter Oborne, The Daily Telegraph Stuart Prebble, Storyvault Films Andrew Kidd, The Aitken Alexander Literary Agency Deborah Rogers, The Rogers Coleridge White Literary Agency 31st August 2013

Dear Lord Patten I write further to my letters of 10th November 2012 to you and of 6th July 2013 to Helen Boaden to inform you that it seems that the proposal for the establishment throughout the British Isles as a whole of a Federal Republic of the British Isles may now have the support of Governments of all persuasions throughout the islands. They are simply having difficulty saying so. Happily, however, they also have no difficulty with my saying so on their behalf, and I write now therefore to ask if the BBC will accord me the opportunity of doing so. The continuing failure of the present Parliament for the British to consider and give its judgement on the proposal confirms both the present Parliament and present Government for the British not as institutions of British device but of English device and as Stuart Prebble observed in his report the orthodoxy presently diminishing and enfeebling the political discourse of the British is something that needs to be addressed. Moreover, as the present Parliament for the British indicated in its judgement on the response to the situation in Syria in the democratic world the effective initiatives are the ones that require no force. Yours sincerely

Richard Ede