Comments on: Lib Dems: Devolution to Scotland should be matched with devolution within England

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:15:53 +0000

The latest comment, from A Carmichael, the Lib-Dem Shadow Scottish Secretary, suggests some new thinking is taking place unless he is out on a limb. He suggests that the English have to decide between regional assemblies and an English Parliament. I can’t make out whether he thinks the English are prevaricating or turning their noses up at both when, silly people, they must choose one or the other like the other sensible UK nations. As we would tell him, a chance would be a fine thing. I’ve asked the Lib-Dems to clarify. Don’t count on a meaningful reply.

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By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:50:24 +0000

The IPPR report shows that support for devolution to the so-called English regions has sunk while support for an English Parliament has grown steadily. The English Question is now becoming a live issue, to which the Labour party has no answer, the Liberal Democrats have no answer and the Tories can only offer a ‘pretendy’ answer of procedural changes at Westminister that would still leave Scots and Welsh MPs able to impose policies England to which their own compatriots are not subject. I suppose it would be too much to ask for a referendum?

By: Stephen Gash

Stephen Gash — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:11:51 +0000

The English don’t want to see England disappear and replaced with regions, only to see Scotland and Wales become independent at their liesure, leaving the English without a country, but ruled by Brussels.

However, this is exactly what the Liberal Democrats want. Afterall, their previous leader, the Scot Charles Kennedy, said to Scottish Liberal Democrats, that “regionalisation in England is moving at such a pace as to bring into question the existence of England itself”.

The Liberal Democrats are neither Liberal nor Democratic, well at least not where the English are concerned. Don’t vote for them good English folk.

By: David B. Wildgoose

David B. Wildgoose — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:40:29 +0000

I just wish they would stop pretending that “Regional Devolution” was anything to do with decentralising power rather than just the opposite.

“Regional” Government that takes its power from local Councils and its orders from Westminster is just the worst of all possible worlds.