Why Brown should not be Prime Minister

Sent to all Shropshire Newspapers

The Labour Party appears to be manoeuvring to merely slot Gordon Brown into the Prime Minister’s job. My guess is this will take place after May 2007 when Tony Blair has done 10 years.

Due to the utter shambles that they created, Devolution is starting to come back to haunt Labour. People are at last questioning how another Scot can ever be Prime Minister, although they are, of course, being labelled racists. Brown, obviously concerned, is running round preaching to the English how great it is to be British, but he would never dream of going to Scotland or Wales to deliver the same message.

The objections to Brown are not his ethnicity but his constituency. Scotsman Blair represents an English constituency so has been elected to talk about English matters. Brown however represents a Scottish constituency so therefore has no mandate from English people. (Incidentally no English person represents a Scottish constituency in either the Westminster or Edinburgh parliaments.)

The Westminster parliament spends 85% of its time dealing with England only issues, no time at all on internal Scottish matters. So how can you have a Prime Minister, unelected by the English, who will be spending most of his time administering England?

It is time that the people of England woke up to the shoddy way in which they and their country have been treated, and are about to be stitched-up again.

Yours faithfully,
Edward Higginbottom
Co-ordinator, Shropshire Branch of the Campaign for an English Parliament