An exercise in demolition.
Why have our leaders not echoed her condemnation of it?
“…When the lights come on at four/At the end of another year…”
Jim Murphy’s performance. The SNP’s new members. Salmond’s demands. Turnout. And the new devolution proposals.
Whether English votes for English laws gets through the Commons or not, we need a constitutional convention to give wider reform legitimacy.
The Smith Commission’s proposals suggest that Scotland’s referendum hasn’t settled the independence debate for a generation – as unionists hoped.
European Unionists know that know that only an eventual deepening of our commitment, including, above all, joining the euro, will secure our membership.
The Conservatives are stronger in the new towns, weaker in some some suburbs and more concentrated in the South-East – the cause and effect of changes in the party.
Perhaps. But it’s hard to see where a significant Tory breakthrough is going to come from in time for next May.
Britain needs a constitutional convention – and a federal solution.
Also: The Union’s treatment at this year’s party conference; the Welsh Conservatives won’t be following the Scots to a new logo; I’m on the wireless.
“London remains the capital of the United Kingdom and will remain so for our lifetimes. You have permission to purr.”
In the form of the harder option that bars MP with Scottish seats from voting on English business altogether.
If, once the overall budget has been set by the UK Parliament, MSPs take decisions on the NHS in Scotland, shouldn’t English MPs alone do the same for England?