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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The Telegraph reports on the West Lothian Question today.
Growing anger in England over the power that Scottish MPs wield at Westminster could destroy the 1998 devolution settlement, a powerful Commons committee said yesterday.
Well there's a thing! The Commons may, after all, have an inkling of what the electorate feel!
A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph in 2004 found that 67 per cent of people believed Scottish MPs should not be able to vote on matters affecting only England and Wales.

Only 67%? Were the rest out claiming benefits?
Resentment at the powers the Scots exercise over English affairs is compounded, many MPs say, by claims that English taxpayers subsidise people in Scotland because the country is thinly populated, making services more expensive to run.

No HOLD ON ! What do you mean CLAIMS that the English taxpayer subsidises Scotland. This isn't a CLAIM it's an outright fact.

Gorse Fox, as he has expressed before, believes in fair play. He loves Scotland. He loves the Scots. But fair is fair, he doesn't want to pay for their kids' University Fees or the care of their elderly people whilst our governement insists we pay for our own

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