The West Lothian Question or more specifically whether or not SNP MPs should be allowed to vote on matters that affect only the English people comes into focus again. There are a number of very obvious points. Factoid: For the Labour Party this is a sacred cow. Without Labour MPs from the Scottish region (and here I am using Labour…
Category: This makes me mad
Proud?
Someone once said,’The British Empire will defend itself to the very last Scottish soldier’. This is just one of a multitude of insults levelled against our cousins. OK, just a bit of satire, but there is more than a grain of truth in some of the insults [http://www.insults.net/html/world/england.html]. Remembrance Sunday brought this home, when the BBC presented the list of…
Hypocrisy Sir
I like it when someone shares my point of view. Actually, and perhaps I am maturing, but I also like when someone challenges me with a different point of view – what an opportunity to learn something new. But I hate ambivalence, double standards, two-faced people. Far too many politicians fit that bill. In fact, for politicians it is almost…
Purdah me, Sir
I thought I had heard it all when Osborne announced new powers for Scotland agreed across the 3 main parties, OK the 2 plus LibDems. Bearing in mind many voters in Scotland have already sent in their postal votes. Now just supposing someone posted a NO vote then when they heard this latest piece of deception they would have seen…