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Originally Posted by Richard the Lionheart
How does an organisation sell to the public the concept of an English parliament based on the Scottish model? The Scottish model is based on 129 representatives for 5 million people. An English parliament based on the Scottish model will presumably require 1290 representatives for 50 million people for a loss of 106 Westminster MPs, an overall increase of 1184 gravy train politicians.
Can't see the public going for that one.
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Oh Richard! You can do so much better than this! No, I'm not being at all sarky.
You know as well as I do that "an English parliament based on the Scottish model" doesn't automatically mean literally! You have a valid point about the number of MSPs - I've made it meself on a number of occasions - but the composition an English Parliament can be different. Indeed, I wouldn't want an English Parliament to be accommodated in the kind of 'bughutch' they expended £400million erecting in Holyrood! The only thing missing is a tartan fringe. Also, an English Parliament should have no less powers but, in reality, could have greater powers.
If you're going down this line, perhaps you ought to specify similar details about the parliament you envisage for an independent England, then everyone can have fun nit picking about those details.
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