A good man (let me know if you’d like to be credited) has pointed out this story about Scottish help for people struggling with their mortgages.

As always the treatment of the Scots by their Parliament is better than the treatment by the British of the English. There’s probably a financial reason that this couldn’t be promised across the whole UK and that financial reason is known as the Barnett Formula. This formula means that a proportion of all taxes paid in England goes to the sole benefit of people in the UK not living in England.

The UK is wobbling. The British Parliament in London doesn’t want you to know about this wobble, but the political structures in place currently should be clear enough evidence if any were needed. Why else would money be being spent in the non-English parts of the Union if not to placate their separatist ways?

But, you may say, Scotland is vastly rural and sparsely populated, they need more money spent per head in order to pay for all the open space. Perhaps, but the amount spent in all areas is more than is spent in England. And English spending is decided, in any case, by Scottish MPs whose own affairs are handled by members of the Scottish Parliament, so who should the English complain to?

Well bitter experience has taught me and many others like me that British MPs whether representing English constituencies or not, pretend not to understand the problem. The situation, as they see it (I assume), is better for them as it keeps them in the driving seat.

The Conservatives, it must be accepted, do have a policy in place (English Votes on English Matters) but it is so full of holes that it will not work, and if it works in any way, it won’t work for the English voters.

Unionists tell me that Scotland does not want independence, but I think it quickly would if the bribe it was receiving from (no-more-wealthy) English tax payers was stopped. It is time English MPs listened to the English electorate and accepted that we do not like being governed in a non-equal way.