No Matter Who’s blog has picked up on a further step towards the abhorent EUssr.
Read, acknowledge, and join the campaign against Ken Clarke, Labour, the Lib Dems and anyone else who would allow England to become a part of EUrope.
Archive for September 4th, 2005
The following is a post I made to a blog discussing the need for an English Parliament from the Scot’s point of view. I have copied it here for information:
I don’t think the party politics of the English makes any difference to the necessity to have fair and equitable representation for the English. Non-English MPs not voting on English-only matters does go some way to reducing the problem, but does not solve it entirely.
The English need to be able to present potential legislation for their people. They need to be able to make executive decisions (as cabinet MPs do) without having to rely on hope to ensure that the cabinet MP is not Scottish (as in John Reid as Health minister or Gordon Brown as Chancellor).
Further, if people are voting in a General Election, they are voting for MPs to the UK parliament. Whether people accept it now or not, there is a difference to how people vote depending on where they are voting. In European elections I know Tories and Lib Dems who voted for UKIP, equally, I am sure people who voted SNP at General Elections, vote Lib or Lab at Scottish Parliament elections. Using assumption or extrapolating from other results is not the way to run a democratic country.
There is a political equivalent of the SNP and Plaid Cymru in England, but, because of the size of England, there is no realistic prospect of the EDP gaining enough votes. http://www.thecep.org.uk is the only way the English have of expressing their concerns and, as their support is growing, it is more and more obvious that people are concerned not only about the West Lothian question, but also about England as a nation.
I hope you will join me in supporting an English Parliament, by visiting the following link: Parliament for England.
Just in case any MPs (for they’ll surely be choosing the next Tory leader without ‘our’ input now) are tempted to believe Clarke’s hyperbole, I would just like to remind you what the EU does ‘for’ us:
Now, I see, the EU is wasting £70m on an advertising campaign to stop people smoking. As the NHS is doing a perfectly reasonable job of providing public health advice on this matter, it seems to be a perfectly wasteful way of spending my money. If anyone really doesn’t know that smoking is bad for you, or that there is help available by checking the internet (from a phone box if necessary), then there’s really no chance they’ll pay any attention to further adverts.
The David Davis for Leader blog, has an excellent post on the problems with Ken Clarke (and there are many). Let’s all hope that whoever the leader is, it isn’t him!
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