Letter to Mp re English Parliament

Many thanks for your letter dated 15th March 2006. I apologise for the length of this letter in advance. Please do not think I am solely picking on you, I intend to hound the Conservative Party until someone in it grasps the reality of what is now the 21st Century.


Legislative Reform Bill No. 111

This needs fighting tooth and nail. We do not want any Dave ‘consensus’ Cameron nonsense on this issue. If it becomes law it could well make you superfluous as the Government will be able to change laws without reference to Parliament. In fact they will be able to abolish even the holding of General Elections. ‘Bandit’ Blair wants stopping on this one.


English Votes on English Matters

This proposal would be better than the current state of affairs but is in reality nearly unworkable.

Let us assume that Labour has a prick of conscience and they support this idea and it becomes law. Bear the following in mind:

St. Matthew ch.6; v.24 – NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS.

About 85% of Westminster’s time is now spent on English only Matters (EOM).

The proposal is for the Speaker to declare an item an EOM.

Currently the Speaker is a Scottish MP – let us assume he is impartial – if he declares an EOM presumably he will have to leave the Chamber and hand over to an English Deputy.

On that basis the current Speaker will be missing for about 85% of the Common’s business. So will he still get paid for NOT doing his job?

Let us say that an EOM is to do with English transport. The current Secretary of State is a Scottish MP. Does that mean he would be unable to introduce or speak about his own Bill?

If he cannot speak about his proposed legislation what use will he be as Secretary of State?

What about a Scottish person who represents an English Constituency – might he/she not end up being accused of being biased?

My objection to Gordon ‘I’m British now’ Brown becoming Prime Minister is that he will have no mandate from any electors to speak about Health, Education, Law & Order etc but the PM’s job is primarily to administer England. Presumably under EOM he would be excluded from the Commons on such occasions.


English Parliament.

Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, with the greatest respect, you, like the vast majority of the Conservative MPs seem to have acquired a set of blue-tinted nostalgia-inducing blinkers. The Conservatives appear to be obsessed with the Union – something that Labour effectively destroyed in 1999 when it set up the Scottish Parliament and Welsh National Assembly (soon to be up-graded).

You cannot have a UNION if members are treated in completely different ways and some have special privileges and the majority do not.

It is clear from Lord Falconer’s speech of 10th March that Devolution was created simply:

To stop Celtic votes drifting away from Labour to nationalistic parties.

To protect the Scots from ever having to suffer a Conservative Government.

To give Labour somewhere to govern if the Conservatives ever win a General Election.

The Conservative Party’s only hope of gaining power is with the overwhelming support of the people of England. At the last Election you gained – 16% of the vote in Scotland and 21% in Wales, as compared to 36% in England.

You have a long way to go to get your vote in the Celtic regions up to anywhere near that achieved in England. In Scotland you may well have to wait 70 years before the rabid anti-Thatcher electorate die out. Even if the Conservatives could get back to merely the 1992 position in Scotland it would need to increase its percentage of votes cast by 66% above the 2005 outcome. If that was achieved you would still only have 8 seats in Scotland (pro rata 1992 result) and 6 seats in Wales.

In order to form a UK Government under the present structure you need 324 MPs – giving the minimum possible majority of 2. That means you need 310 English MPs, making you fundamentally an English government/party. Should this glorious day ever happen however you will still NOT be governing Scotland or Wales as they have already been ‘hived-off’ by Labour just to cover such eventuality.

The Conservative Party has already said in the past it has no intentions of undoing Devolution. I have no doubt that the vacuous Dave ‘consensus’ Cameron, who wants to be great mates with everybody, is not going to go down the road to scrapping Devolution.

The recent antics of ‘Bandit’ Blair and his ‘scumbag’ party have confirmed to a huge slice of the electorate that all politicians are crooks, rogues and mountebanks. The threat to the Conservative Party’s hopes, as I see it, is therefore voter apathy or a switch to smaller parties like UKIP, BNP, or the Greens. Your best hope of Government is to get an English Parliament where you are more than likely to get a majority.