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Regional devolution is a Labour party tactic to deflect from the West Lothian question & to try & gloss over it's blatant self interest. Miliband talks of the political class & Westminster elite not working for the people, yet he is doing exactly that by denying the English the same as the Scots in order to keep at least 40 Labour MP's in Westminster.
he knows that the domino effect of England & then perhaps the Weslh following Scotland will decimate the Labour party. Self interest before democracy.'"
What difference would regional devolution actually make? On what basis do you belive it's either democratically or intellectually acceptable for Scottish MP's to vote on matters that are nothing to do with the Scots?
The Labour activists pushing this are not doing so to benefit anyone but themselves.
As shown with the complete rejection of the suggested North East assembly, there is no appetite anywhere for this.
The No campaign who said Scotland going independent would create a race to the bottom if control of business rates & taxes were handed over are now proposing exactly the same for egions. How would the same thing not happen between the regions?
It's all a sham to try and make sure Labour retain as much control as possible and maintain the anti democratic West Lothian situation. They don't want an English Parliament because it's not goof for them.
The English should have the same democratic representation as anyone else, and if Labour policies aren't popular enough for them to win a majority in an English Parliament, well they will have to create policies that are.
