Comments on: English Votes on English Matters http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/ English, Rationalist and Liberal Conservative Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Gav http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3702 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:35:32 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3702 Good idea, I shall! Good idea, I shall!

]]> by: Toque http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3701 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:23:55 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3701 I think you have misinterpreted what Darling is saying. Although asymmetrical devolution has created two classes of MPs - those that can vote on the health and education systems of their constituents, and those that can't - they all have equal voting privileges in the House of Commons, and in that respect they are all equal. That is the very principle on which our Parliamentary democracy operates - a principle that will be violated by EVoEM - and it is an objection to that principle by Thurso that Darling is agreeing with. Darling is arguing to keep the equal voting privileges - equality amongst members - of Westminster MPs but I don't think that he cares about constitutional equality of the voters that returned those members to the House, the ability of his Party to govern rests upon that very inequality. Still, it would be worth contacting him to ask for a clarification. I think you have misinterpreted what Darling is saying. Although asymmetrical devolution has created two classes of MPs - those that can vote on the health and education systems of their constituents, and those that can’t - they all have equal voting privileges in the House of Commons, and in that respect they are all equal. That is the very principle on which our Parliamentary democracy operates - a principle that will be violated by EVoEM - and it is an objection to that principle by Thurso that Darling is agreeing with.

Darling is arguing to keep the equal voting privileges - equality amongst members - of Westminster MPs but I don’t think that he cares about constitutional equality of the voters that returned those members to the House, the ability of his Party to govern rests upon that very inequality.

Still, it would be worth contacting him to ask for a clarification.

]]> by: Gav http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3696 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:44:11 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3696 Quite agree Jim. www.thecep.org.uk Quite agree Jim.

www.thecep.org.uk

]]> by: jim gash http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3519 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:03:17 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3519 I thought that in a true democracy the one man one vote held fast but with the West Lothian Question One vote in Edinburgh and one in London = 2 votes. The people of England should have there own parliament. England is the only country in the western world without a government. Maybe when the good people of Iraq have sorted themselves out, they could come and invade England and establish a democracy here. I thought that in a true democracy the one man one vote held fast but with the West Lothian Question One vote in Edinburgh and one in London = 2 votes. The people of England should have there own parliament. England is the only country in the western world without a government.
Maybe when the good people of Iraq have sorted themselves out, they could come and invade England and establish a democracy here.

]]> by: jim gash http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3518 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:56:41 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/03/04/english-votes-on-english-matters-2/#comment-3518 I thought that in a true Democracy. The one man one vote held fast. With the West Lothian Question just proves me wrong. One vote over the border and one vote in London. To me that = 2 votes. The people in England need their own parliament. England is the only country in the Western World without a government. Maybe when the people of Iraq have sorted themselves out they could come and invade England and establish a democacy for us. I thought that in a true Democracy. The one man one vote held fast. With the West Lothian Question just proves me wrong.
One vote over the border and one vote in London. To me that = 2 votes. The people in England need their own parliament. England is the only country in the Western World without a government.
Maybe when the people of Iraq have sorted themselves out they could come and invade England and establish a democacy for us.

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