It`s in the details
December 20, 2006 by Ken
Filed under The British Constitution
The presiding officer of the Welsh assembly has said that devolution in
Lord Elis-Thomas said giving people in
“There should be a proper English parliament, and that could be arranged very easily if the Commons sat on a Tuesday or Wednesday as an English parliament.”
So we are to be allowed a proper English parliament which would sit for one day a week with dual MPs, that is English members of the British parliament also sitting as members of an English Parliament.
Lord Elis-Thomas is in line with the thinking of John Redwood who also favours a part time English parliament this from Mr Redwoods new Blog
“My view is that all of us elected to the
I do not see how it can be considered in any way balanced for
If they want to make it balanced then both the Scottish parliament and the Welsh assembly should be dissolved and then we could all have dual role MPs and separate days for Scottish Welsh English and British business it would also have the added benefit of saving vast sums of money.
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