‘The Nasty Party’ used to be a term applied to the Tories. This is most emphatically no longer the case.
Putting aside historical issues for a moment and looking at recent weeks:
Kathz wrote about an issue (mirror) which I noted, but did not post about until now. That is of Labour playing nasty in Crewe.
The [...]
A ‘new campaign’ for an English Parliament is being launched at Westminster in a meeting which took place this afternoon by the English Constitutional Convention.
The old cliches about this ‘inevitably leading to a breakup of the Uk’ are being trotted out (this time there’s the claim that the parliament would want to handle foreign affairs [...]
I’ve received a reply from my letter regarding the West Lothian Question
Thank you for your letter dated 9 July 2006, regarding the establishment of an English Parliament. Your letter has been passed to the Constitution Directorate as the lead area on devolution matters.
In relation to your first question, the Government’s devolution policies were designed to [...]
Via Toque we see that in a Mori poll, 41% of people favoured an English parliament. This sounds like 59% don’t, but not so:
41 per cent said they favoured an English Parliament ‘with similar law-making powers to the Scottish Parliament’ and Only 32 per cent said they were happy with an unchanged House of Commons.
Source: [...]
So, it’s time for the world cup to start, and everywhere is adorned with England flags, the St. George Cross.
This is fine and dandy, nothing wrong with that. Reclaim the flag from the far right and all that. The flag-waving even provoked a debate on the West Lothian question on Newsnight (though the Scot MP [...]
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