Letter to Glasgow herald

Ian Macwhirter’s article (May 3rd) was very interesting. However, I do not agree with him when he says: ‘no sign of Middle England is unhappy with the devolution settlement, or that it wants its own separate parliament. All evidence is that English people feel no animosity towards Scots.’

Well, there are plenty of rumblings. As he is no doubt aware, in democracies the majority are usually silent, its minorities who agitate and thereby get their way. We in England are basically law abiding and are probably the most tolerant people on Earth so we rarely give a public display of our true feelings. Be assured, animosity towards every public office seemingly being filled by Scots is growing down here south of the border, we are just too polite to take to the streets.

Labour has managed to get away with their con-trick on the English, in part, because of our adherence to the rule of law and, in part, because a surprisingly high proportion of the people still do not realise that Tony Blair is Scottish. The dour, miserable, Gordon Brown is however patently Scottish, Menzies Campbell obviously a Scot, so expect the antipathy to grow if they, God forbid, end up running the UK as neither has any mandate to administer England.