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Originally Posted by rjt
The problem is UKIP has already stood on a platform of abolition of the Scotish and Welsh bodies and it was descively regected in the last elections to those bodies.
The Abolition of the Northern Ireland Assembly would meanr rewriting the Good Friday Agreement!! Good luck with that one.
The question that remains to be answered is how to get a fair settlement for England and I am afraid UKIP are stil not facing up to this.
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UKIP proposes that the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament be abolished with MPs from the House of Commons who represent Welsh and Scottish constituents do the job at less cost by meeting regularly in different parts of Wales and Scotland to deliberate on Scottish/Welsh matters. In their absence from the House of Commons English constituency MPs would deal with specifically English matters.
All the parts of Great Britain would be governed in the same way at less cost than at present and legislation would be debated and voted on in all parts of Great Britain by the same people who sit in the Union (i.e. UK) Parliament (the House of Commons).
UKIP not getting a large vote in Scotland or Wales at the last General Election does not mean that the people of Scotland and Wales disagree with the party's policy on devolution and on answering 'the English Question'.
I would expect that that the UKIP proposals would generate much interest if they 'went mainstream' in Scottish and Welsh politics and could, one day, be put to the Scottish and Welsh people in a referendum.