May 05 2007
Scotland - the haggling begins
I think England is going to get heartily sick of Scottish politicians dominating our airwaves, squabbling over who is going to grab the spoils of office in their devolved Parliament and gain the right to spend all the money the Union votes them.
Whether Salmond ends up as First Minister or not, the endless wrangling and wriggling as the parties try to outmaneouvre each other and gradually ditch their promises to the electors will do two things. It will recruit more English nationalists, fed up with it all, and will turn many more people off oddball electoral experiments that confuse electors and muddle the message voters were trying to send to the government.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
It is about time the conservatives adopted English nationalism. That is where your heartland is. Let the conservatives join with the SNP to deliver Scotland its freedom and give us all a fresh start for the 21st century.
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Sir
Why are you engaged in politics? Is it for the good of the nation and ALL its people? Please take out some time to read this relatively lengthy article. And just think about it, that’s all I ask. We have so much in common with Japan - an island nation off the North-West coast, and another off the South-East coast of the Eurasian land mass. There is no good reason why we can’t learn from Japan.
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue23/Locke23.htm
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The culmination of this mess is that come this Wednesday Scotland is likely to have a left wing, nationalist First Minister. While every opinion poll shows (even when support for the SNP was at its peak) that in reality the vast majority of the Scottish population are opposed to separation. The root cause of all this goes back to the original meddling by Labour which led to devolution….
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