Should England have it's own Parliament?

Answer 1

Yes, it should,without a doubt!!!!! Despite widespread support for an English Parliament, the people of England are being denied the opportunity to express their preference in a referendum. Instead, they are being manipulated and cajoled by the UK government into accepting Regional Assemblies on a take it or leave it basis. These Assemblies are totally unelected!! It is nothing less than outrageous denial of democracy. Is it any surprise that the electorate feel disillusioned with the political system.
The people of England should be given the same opportunity as the people of Scotland to opt for a Parliament of their own. How can any political party that claims to uphold fairness and democracy deny the people of England their right to choose their system of government??????.Because its Governed by Scots, that's why!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Unfortunately. Yes. No sensible person can advocate a Parliament for Scotland and an Assembly for wales while denying England the same rights (and what does that say about our government). It is discrimination plain and simple. English MPs get little say about what goes on in in Scotland but the Scots get as much as a say about England as any Englishman. We have to get one in the interests of fairness. It's giving us less rights than our fellow Brits in Scotland and Wales. You could not discriminate against any other group, other than the English, without being called a racist.

Unfortunately, we're not likely to get one under Labour. Tony Blair himself said 'There is no such country as England'. Also the Tories would have a majority in England alone, labour relies on Scotland and wales, and TB couldn't have that could he?

But, a much better course of action would be to remove the Welsh and Scottish Parliaments and assemblies. Devolution does not strengthen the union. But I understand this is pretty much impossible now. Whose idea was it in the first place? Because it was a bloody stupid one with no actual merits apart from appeasing the Anglophobic part of Scotland.

Answer 3

Not unless the UK Parliament is to be abolished and all power devolved. Failing that, we should get rid of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. There is no justification for those areas having a semi-autonomous government when England does not.

Answer 4

Should it? Yes

Not because Wales and Scotland have their own.. they're not really parliaments anyway.. a pariament without any powers?? come on get real.

Anyway while it is called the British Pariament it is biased towards England anyway.. no not sour grapes... it stands to reason that the government will pander to the english because of the size of the population.. population = votes etc..

Answer 5

No, we have the House of Commons and house of Lords. Maybe we could scrap the Lords and make it a english Parliament and then cut the number of MP's in the UK parliament so everyone has a seat at least - better still cut them to around 250. then cut bureaucrats. Then put CCTV cameras in their offices so we can see what they are up to.

Answer 6

As a result of the other UK countries having their own parliaments, it kinda does, although most of Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland's funding still comes from London.

Simple answer yes but could you live with your conscience at the death of 10 million non-English brits?

Answer 7

This is a good question and one which has caused much debate in the UK during the 10 years, but in my veiw no. England already has regional government offices, and borough/county, town/parish, unitary or metropolitan councils, these are enough with the UK parliament at the top of the stack.

Answer 8

Should England have its own independant parliament? If this came to be then it would end the Union, which, ultimately, is at the heart of your question. In my opinon, we must combat the disparity, otherwise, effectively there is no Union anyway. Therefore, unless we address the imbalance (in healthcare, tuition fees, representation and etc.) then I would argue for English independance.

Answer 9

No, England should not have its own parliament, because unification is more important than separation, specially in this difficulty time our world is experiencing. As the name tells it all "United Kingdom" is more stronger and suitable name to any civilised people.
For example United Stated America is a lot bigger than United Kingdom, but they are well administrated and at the same time they have one football team and they all support their own single team,
I don't understand why England needs to have its own parliament. Instead we should try to bring the others (wells, Scotland and northern Ireland) to be come more like England.
this is not time to think about separate parliament, this is the time to think about more centralised government and more unified society.Not only in the UK, but actually we need to think more unification about the whole Europe. it is about the continent today not about nations. the more you are unified the more you make safer your nation or your continent.
We have bigger problem out there right now, even though this difficulties was there log time a go way before 9/11, it was not as known as it is now, so we need to be like one family in the same roof, because the challenge we are facing is million times bigger than the world had in the second world war.
To conclude my opinion, i think we must think more than ever before about unification than separation.
thanks for question, by the way, very good question.

Answer 10

What you really want to know is should Wales, and N. Ireland have their own parliament... I say yes... let them look after themselves and stop blaming everything on London.
And Scotland should be completely seperated too.