Re: Reported in The Register yesterday the beheading man jailed.

<joseph.hutcheon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> JohnJ wrote:
>
>> Welsh Witch <ww@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> WROTE:
>>
>> >Which has got to lead to the furious question why is Gorden Brown the
>> >SCOT
>> >one of those who have their OWN parliament at enormous expense coming
>> >her
>> >to be OUR prime minister.
>>
>> Well, if he does succeed Tony Blair, he will actually be prime
>> minister of the UK, which of course includes Scotland!
>
> However, although Scots MPs can influence much of what happens in
> England, English MPs cannot influence what happens in Scotland.

That's a partial truth. The Scottish parliament is not a sovereign
parliament and has no right to make decisions reserved for the national
level. The Scottish Parliament cannot vote to legalise cannabis or for
nuclear disarmament applying only to Scotland for example. It is like a
state assembly in the US or Canada. That is not to say that the West Lothian
question is not real but English MPs *DO* have influence over what happens
in Scotland, and so they should have, and Scottish MPs do and should have
influence on what happens in England. The problem is the discrepancy between
what areas each has influence on, but Westminster is the parliament for the
United Kingdom, which has deemed to devolve it's powers in Scotland, Wales,
Northern Ireland and London, no different in principle to the way powers are
devolved to local councils throughout the country.

> Either
> give Scotland independence and disbar Scottish MPs from sitting in
> Parliament, or set up an English parliament in which Scottish MPs
> cannot sit.
>


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