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Cut Scotland loose – then we’ll have a fair voting system - The Times
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So you think the scots voting on england is fair but england can't vote on Scotland?
They have already cut loose, just that some idiots still let them vote on our afairs and government.
All MP's have an equal vote on the UK budget, which is ultimately the most important domestic vote.US housing: it's not a bubble
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kennyboy66 wrote: »All MP's have an equal vote on the UK budget, which is ultimately the most important domestic vote.
If they want UK rule take it and dissolve your own parliment, if that truly is the most important why do scotland have it's own parliment.
In the mean time we are glad you voted for your students to be better off than ours (and voting against our students getting the same), and that you don't pay perscriptions and we do, or eye test etc, etc.
Scotish parliment is full of double standards, but what do you expect when you let a country vote for laws on the main land but they wont let the mainland vote on theirs.0 -
If they want UK rule take it and dissolve your own parliment, if that truly is the most important why do scotland have it's own parliment.
In the mean time we are glad you voted for your students to be better off than ours (and voting against our students getting the same), and that you don't pay perscriptions and we do, or eye test etc, etc.
Scotish parliment is full of double standards, but what do you expect when you let a country vote for laws on the main land but they wont let the mainland vote on theirs.
Last time I looked, Scotland was part of the mainland.
Scotlands parliament is to deal with devolved powers, just like to a lesser extent the Welsh Assembly does, followed by the London mayor, followed by Local Goverment.
It is the UK parliament that sets the budget for Scotland. What they do with the money is up to them.
Devolving powers to local people should normally be a good thing.
Unless of course you want every decision to be taken by someone in Whitehall.US housing: it's not a bubble
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kennyboy66 wrote: »It is the UK parliament that sets the budget for Scotland. What they do with the money is up to them.
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kennyboy66 wrote: »
It is the UK parliament that sets the budget for Scotland. What they do with the money is up to them.
Devolving powers to local people should normally be a good thing.
I agree, and that is why England should have a Tory party in place with a majority of 63 seats.;)
PS a lot of Scotland by area is not mainland.:) (but it is a company term when shipping, england generally is refered to as mainland0 -
inspector_monkfish wrote: »they spend it all on Deep Fat Fryers, Mars Bars and McEwans lager mainly
That's very unfair, a lot of the Scots also have a traditional Scottish breakfast salad too (left over cold chips from the previous evening)Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
So you think the scots voting on england is fair but england can't vote on Scotland?
They have already cut loose, just that some idiots still let them vote on our afairs and government.
The obvious answer is English devolution, either England as a whole or with regional government. There is already partial devolution for London.
Westminster is the UK parliament, not the English one.Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J. K. Galbraith0 -
Sir_Humphrey wrote: »So someone is suggesting destroying Britain to give the Tories power. And they say the Lib Dems are unprincipled!
Nuts!
If the English don't want the Scotch and the Scotch don't want the English there seems little point in fighting to keep it together. It seems unlikely that if they split that a war will ensue, the only (very) difficult bit would be splitting the assets and liabilities.0 -
inspector_monkfish wrote: »they spend it all on Deep Fat Fryers, Mars Bars and McEwans lager mainly
You forgot Irn-Bru.
Keeping Glasgow dentists in Saabs since 1901.0 -
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