THE NEED FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT

 

David Cameron and the Tories are making much of the prospect of the Labour Party getting into power as a result of support from SNP MPs, that number likely to be far higher than before due to the SNP surge.

Cameron and the Tories have been fully aware of the West Lothian Question for very many years. The SNP surge changes little; what it does do is make the problem more blatant. The Labour/SNP spat is nothing more than an internal socialist rearrangement.

Cameron blundered into the Scottish independence referendum, blundered into offering all sorts of goodies to try and win that referendum at the last minute, and has failed to settle the issue. He stood outside Downing Street to tell the world that the England must have its own devolution and that there would be English votes for English laws – and yet has done nothing. The Tories, as usual, have contented themselves in talking about doing something. Cameron has lately been prattling about a 'Carlisle Principle'. Were he genuinely concerned, rather than just electioneering, then he would have embraced the need for an English Parliament. What matters is the principle that all the countries of Britain are governed equally.

The fact is that the Tories are hostile to the English for politically correct reasons and they decided that it would be a good tactic to let the Scottish MPs continue to come trooping down to England as they thought it would give them an election issue they could attack Labour with.

This is disgraceful and the consequences of it could well be fatal both to the Tory hopes of forming another coalition and, far more importantly, to the existence of the United Kingdom.