Wednesday 4 February 2015

English Votes, Indeed

If the SNP is as far ahead as today's Ashcroft poll of Scotland suggests, then how well must Labour be doing to be consistently either tied (which would still deliver an overall majority) or ahead in the United Kingdom-wide polls?

All SNP MPs would in any case have to line up in the Ed Miliband for Prime Minister column. Like Plaid Cymru, the Greens, the SDLP, and probably also the DUP, they could never go home if they had kept David Cameron in.

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  1. With the SNP controlling Scotland after the Labour wipeout, failure to deliver English votes for English laws will mean the SNP holding a veto over the English and using the power of their bloc vote as political blackmail to get what they want from Westminster.

    Hague's plan is a sham; the only solution is for any law only applicable in England to require a majority of English MPs to pass.

    Students ought to know that would have meant no English-only tuition fees.

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    1. You already can't pass anything without the majority of English MPs. Basic arithmetic.

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