CEP: Scottish PM and Scottish MPs impose regional committees upon England
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Friday, 14, Nov 2008 12:00
On Wednesday November 12th the votes of 33 Scottish MPs including the MP for Kirkaldy, Mr G. Brown the Prime Minister enabled him to impose regional committees of MPs on England against the umistakable and explicit wish ot the majority of English MPs. In the vote the great majority of English MPs voted against the measure. Brown got it carried by rallying his Scottish MPs. Speaking to a meeting of the Cheshire Branch of the CEP Michael Knowles, the county Campaign organiser said very bluntly: 'The time has come for this Scottish PM and his fellow Scottish MPs to keep their noses out of English affairs just as English MPs, now that Scotland has its own parliament, do not interfere, indeed cannot interfere, in Scotland's internal affairs'
'This vote is an example of the West Lothian Question at its very worst. It enables Gordon Brown to pursue his policy of balkanising England into competing regions. He appears determined to do everything in his power to deny to the English people any political and constitutional recognition and express of their English identity even though he was the driving force behind the establishment of a Scottish Parliament which achieved that same thing for his own Scotland.
It is totally hypocrtical, devious,unfair and shamefully anti-English for Mr Brown to use his office as Prime Minister to deny to England what he got for Scotland' said Mr Knowles
Contacts:
Scilla Cullen, CEP Chairman Tel: 01438833155
Since Scotland got its parliament there is no way English MPs can interfere in Scotland's internal affair. But Gordon Brown persists in denying the same degree of self rule to Englandhe regions are artifical EU constructs with no roots at all in English history and culture. They were rejected by a overwhelming 78% to 22% in the referendum in England's Nor th East in 2004. But Brown is trying to bring back the reginalis