Does anyone think that England should have its own Parliament?

Question

We have Scottish MPs in Westminister who can have a say on English affairs yet not the other way round . Also it would put a stop to the Euro Fedaralists who want to abolish England all together and create regional assemblies. So i say a English Parliament for a independent England outside of the EU.

Answer 1

England has had its own parliament for 1,000 years. The three other nations only ever got about 15% of the MPs, so the English 85% could win any vote they liked.

Answer 2

The English have always had their own parliament - its at Westminster. Its just that over the centuries it has become the UK parliament - in part mainly because Scotland lost its parliament. My race, the Welsh, never had a parliament - we make do with the English one at Westminster and have an Assembly in Wales, which is not a parliament. The English cannot separate themselves from Wales nor the Welsh from England. Sorry, we're stuck in a lovers' embrace for all eternity. Even though some may think the Welsh want independence, it is not actually true and if put to a referendum in Wales, would result in a slap in the face for the nationalists.

My dad was right in that he argued that since the English pay the bills, we'd better go along with them. I think it's the best policy and one which has worked well for many centuries.

If England wants a separate English parliament, it's going to have to have the Welsh tag along, as it were.

Answer 3

Of course England should have a Parliament, but the likes of the Labour party will not give us one because that would make England a Conservative stronghold. At present the Labour government can make the English pay for everything and get little in return, not that the Welsh and Scots do not have to pay tuition fees, long term care or prescription charges to name but a few.

Answer 4

The assumption here is that the UK Parliament has the soveriegn right to exercise power over people in the UK in the first place?

Since, it neither offers a properly constituted democratic participation of the electorate, nor consults the British people on matters of national import, the basis on which it proceeds to govern the affairs of State is dubiously similar to an oligarch.

To answer this question, it would be nice to think that we have a properly constituted Parliament in the first place.

As it stands. It is a usurper of public sovereignty.

Answer 5

Yes as a Scot I don't see why you shouldn't I think it makes a lot of sense. It should have the same reserved powers as the other Assemblies/Parliaments and the Westminster parliament should be for non reserved matters for the whole of the UK. I also think we should get out of the EU, I'm sure a lot of the legislation seemed to make sense when they came up and the core Freedoms are good but a lot of them are why do we need legislation for that.

Answer 6

We already have a parliament for England, as part of the United Kingdom. Scotland and Wales have their own Assemblies and yet their MP's can still vote on issues only affecting England. That has to be wrong.

Answer 7

If we did, you know what would happen....

The Parliament building would be projected to cost a ridiculous amount of money. It would then come in late and three times over budget. Running costs would also be prohibitive.

The English would then have to vote for another set of MPs, when they don't particularly care for the lot they voted in elsewhere. Attendances at the polls would slump.

Meanwhile these new MPs would demand ridiculously large salaries. No-one will care what they say or do unless there's a juicy sex scandal. Who cares about the Scottish and Welsh assemblies at the moment?

Let's leave well alone and let the Scots run our country for us.

Answer 8

we've already have been given one (it relatively is why something of the united kingdom want their own). the project is in spite of if MPs from different components of the united kingdom must be allowed to sit down down in the English Parliament whilst they have finished legislative powers of their own international places. i could vote against devolution myself, have been I ever to get the possibility. The Scottish and Welsh 'experiments' would besides settle for a raffle, yet faster or later i could think of that the international places ought to devolve completely, if the final public in the two united states of america vote for that. The Union is barely 207 years previous besides - even the U. S. is older than that, and we brag approximately being a venerable united states of america!

Answer 9

Oh yes! Scotland and Wales want to be self governing - I say let them get on with it! We in England should be campaigning for devolution in England. Think of the massive saving we make - our taxes would be used in England instead of going to Wales and Scotland. Lets see how happy they would be if that were to happen. The problem is they want their cake and eat it. The other good thing that would come about from devolution for England is that we would get rid of all the Scots in the Labour party who are "ruling" our country!!!!!

Answer 10

England has its own Parliament, for the history of the United Kingdom for the last thousand years has been predominantly the history of the English.

However, we have MP's in Europe, who have a say on the affairs of Greeks, its a bit late to wave the xenophobic flags, we sold our sovereignty long ago. It does not matter if we are an independent little country attached to America, or part of Europe, or even part of the old commonwealth, as long as we belong to one big club. The problem is that we are members of lots of big clubs, with no real say in any of them, apart from the payment of our membership fees.