Well this is clearly absolute nonsense.
I’ve lost some of my motivation to resolve the ‘English problem’ because I have realised when talking to normal people that there are more important things in their priority lists (like high taxes and, for them, other perceived ills).
But when the government refuses to answer the question put forward in a perfectly reasonable petition it is asking for my ire.
Consider this sentence from their response: “People in the UK share common citizenship rights, which express in political, legal and social terms what it means to be from the UK.”
Since when exactly? Since 1998 Scottish and Welsh citizens have gained immeasurably in the form of free (read: paid for by English tax payers) prescriptions, free bus travel (genuinely free, unlike the Whitehall imposed version in England which comes out of English Council tax payer’s pockets, the Scottish version is paid for by the Barnet formula), free nursing home care and free university education to name the key items.
See their response here.
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