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the decision of the Scottish voters will effectively destroy the United Kingdom, and instead create something he calls a United Kingdoms of Independent Nations, but does not see by his own argument that the rest of us should also have a voice, as it is very much affecting us and our nation.

Details of a report from the Tory democracy taskforce set up by David Cameron and chaired by Ken Clarke have been revealed to the press, the Telegraph’s Philip Johnson looks at the main suggestions regarding the West Lothian Question and argues that an English Parliament is unacceptable because it would damage the Union, [...]

Recently there have been a few articles emanating from Conservative circles with regard to the
Parliamentary sovereignty means that law is made, and if necessary unmade, by elected Members, who are democratically accountable to the people.
balance of power between Parliament and the judges. This trickle of comment from conservatives is in all probability in order to [...]

Apparently according to some the The English are to blame for Scottish nationalism it our fault that they want independence.

Whilst the Freedom and Whisky Blog argues the avoidance of the word England in Scotland has been one of the main contributors to the growing desire for independence in Scotland, there [...]

Possibly foolhardy but you cannot dispute the chupaz of one Europhile, a certain J D Bovington, Horsforth has issued a challenge to EUsceptics.

He wrote in the Yorkshire Evening Standard apparently for the umpteenth time I challenge eurosceptics to state which new sovereign power is being transferred exclusively to the EU. There is no [...]

The British Prime Minister waxing lyrical about a United Kingdom, in the Telegraph perhaps he and his party should have thought about that before they constructed this asymmetrical mess of the British constitution.

But when secessionist forces are loudly at work it is not the time for silence and [...]

The short answer is because the Labour party would loose influence over England because they would never gain a majority in an English Parliament. And it would make Westminster even more redundant that it already is, if that were possible.
But Helen Goodman decided to opt for the longer answer in her reply to a [...]

Reports in local press in the North East and South West suggest that the Regional Assemblies – which are deeply unpopular in those euroregions – will be disbanded and their responsibilities and budgets transferred back to local authorities.

The Regional Development Agencies (RDA) are then likely to become the single biggest body responsible for the [...]

Alan Cochrane writing in the Telegraph says it is “good to hear the Tory leader reject the populist appeal of English nationalism.”
I find it rather odd that when writing about the elections to the Scottish Parliament it is somehow the English which are to blame for the present mess the Scottish raj which is controlling [...]

The only control our Parliament has over EU legislation comes from the European scrutiny committees in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and the only weapon those committees have in their armoury to stop the executive simply agreeing to anything in this country’s name is something known as a scrutiny reserve.

I said I was going to post on Jonathan Freedland article in the Guardian about the reform of the House of Lords, I do not intend to actually comment on Freedland`s article, except to say he is suggesting a fully elected house and use that as a springboard for my own thoughts. Although many belive [...]

The Act of Union between England and Scotland was a Treaty and a Treaty that was ratified. Article 11 of the Treaty of Union 1707 embodies the substance of the Act of Settlement of 1701. If the Union is destroyed it affects all the Members of the Commonwealth. There would also be no British Government because there would be no United Kingdom of Great Britain left. All this put in jeopardy because a Government is afraid of a challenge?

Is the SNP offering something to Scottish electors that is not within the powers of the Scottish parliament.
Rodney Brazier Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Manchester in the Times
Sir, How could the SNP, if it had power in the Scottish Parliament, legally hold a referendum on independence? Under the Scotland Act “the Union of [...]

Dennis the Bloody menace MacShame writing in the Independent is a calling for a celebration of the both the Acts of union 1707 and the Treaty of Rome, he say that the both of theses two acts of unions have altered profoundly the nature of our nation-state.
Three hundred years ago England and Scotland [...]

We should recognise a hierarchy of Acts of Parliament: as it were “ordinary” statutes and “constitutional” statutes. The two categories must be distinguished on a principled basis. In my opinion a constitutional statute is one which (a) conditions the legal relationship between citizen and State in some general, overarching manner, or (b) enlarges or diminishes the scope of what we would now regard as fundamental constitutional rights. (a) and (b) are of necessity closely related: it is difficult to think of an instance of (a) that is not also an instance of (b). The special status of constitutional statutes follows the special status of constitutional rights. Examples are the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights 1689, the Act of Union, the Reform Acts which distributed and enlarged the franchise, the HRA, the Scotland Act 1998 and the Government of Wales Act 1998.”

Faced as we are with the prospect of the SNP wining the Scottish Parliamentary elections next year and then calling a referendum on Scottish independence, it is amusing that some commentators do not seem to understand that this would be the cause of the break up of the United Kingdom. David Clark a former Labour [...]

The presiding officer of the Welsh assembly has said that devolution in England would help deliver a “United Kingdom in a united Europe.”
Lord Elis-Thomas said giving people in England a similar say in their domestic affairs would help achieve a more secure constitutional settlement.

“There should be a proper English parliament, and that [...]

The Scotsman seems to be conducting a series of article on Scottish independence, today it looks at the Border Issue. Pensions and Benefits, Financial Services and Tax.
On the border issue, I cannot see that there would need be a border between Scotland and the England, for as long as the residual part of the [...]

Scottish National MP Angus MacNeil writing in the Telegraph says;
“This week Labour, Tories and the Lib Dems have taken great delight in telling the Scots that they are subsidised by over £11 billion”
Although he argues that this figure is disputed by the independence movement in Scotland, he does not offer any evidence to [...]

From Little Man in a Toque a letter to Sir Menzies Campbell who has only ever had one email on the West Lothian Question.
westminster_office@mingcampbell.org.uk

Who says
the English do not want their own parliament
that the English don’t want another layer of government
that an English parliament would put the English off politics

As the e-mal explains [...]