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Originally Posted by Britannist
Useful to learn of this, Cassie - thank you.
Didn't Commons Speaker Michael Martin do all he could to stop a pro-England march going past the Commons last Spring (a march marking the Anniversary of the UK and the fact that there has been no English Parliament since the formation of the Union of the UK)?
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Yes he did, the thing!
I know I keep batting on about the under-representation of England and the English, but the Electoral Commission is another case in point:
Chairman - Sam Younger (Scot)
Commissioner - John McCormick (Scot) replaced Sir Cameron McIntosh (Scot) on 19 Jan 2008
Commissioner - Ian Kelsall (Welsh) replaced Glyn Mathias (Welsh) on 19 Jan 2008
Commissioner - Karamjit Singh (British?) Northern Ireland background
Commissioner - Max Caller (British?) 'the new Chair of the Boundary Committee for England' according to the EC
Commissioner - Henrietta Campbell (Scot?) Northern Ireland background
The EC has now set up a 'regional presence in England' and 'devolved offices in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland'. This is to say, it now has the following appointments:
Head of Scotland Office (for 3.9 million voters)
Head of Wales Office (for 2.2 million voters)
Head of Northern Ireland Office (for 1.1 million voters)
Head of English Regions Office (for 36.9 million voters)
One 'Head of Office' to deal with 36.9 million voters in England but three such Heads to deal with 7.2 million voters in the provinces!
Note the avoidance of using the name of England!
All this against a background of:
Prime Minister - a Scot
Chancellor of the Exchequer - a Scot
Chairman of the Commons Finance Committee - a Scot
Chairman of the Financial Services Authority - a Scot.
Who would imagine that Scots account for 8.3% of Great Britain's population and the English some 83.3%?
This talk of widespread and persistent discrimination against the English is pure imagination!
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