Originally Posted by cassie

It won't wash! Why should the fifty million people of England have less favourable treatment in this (as in other matters) than the other ten million in other parts of the UK which have three 'parliaments' between them?

There are 129 MSPs in the Scottish assembly. An English Parliament similarly constituted would amount to over 1,290 members of an English Parliament, not taking account of the AMs in Wales and members of the NI Assembly. I am not advocating an English Parliament of 1,500 members or more, but cite these figures to illustrate the difference in treatment.

The UKIP policy conveniently skips over these aspects, and very often its proponents are not English and omit to say so.

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."