Now   there's something else that's important here and it's something, it's an aspect of erm of federalism that people very often er fail to grasp erm  we live in a, a small and densely populated island er and we have a political structure and a party system which is highly centralized and which places er great emphasis on the question of party discipline and loyalty  and er these centralized party structures control er the conduct of political business in the, in the parliament and, and in cabinet and there is essentially no political life outside of that.