Re: The West Lothian Question- The Tory proposals are no answer

On 2008-07-04 05:35:46 +0100, Robert Henderson 
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> said:

> In message <2008070400332075249-thecroft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Andrew 
> <thecroft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>> than dissolving the Union altogether) is for  England to have its own
>>>> Parliament, just as Scotland does. Ideally it  could be based away
from 
>>>> London. Westminister is the UK Parliament, and  creating 2 cl***** of

>>>> representative there would, I think, be corrosive  to its
>>>   Simple solution: exclude all non-English seat MPs from the Commons 
>>> and  that becomes the English parliament once more. The members of the

>>> four  national parliaments then sit in the federal parliament. The 
>>> Lords  would be abolished. RH
>> 
>> As long as we didn't have to subsidise your English parliament, that 
>> would be fine. So, where do you fancy siting the federal parliament? 
>> (Clue - not Westminister).
>> 
> 
> Give the Celts a choice between each building with their own money an 
> assembly big enough to take the members  and rotate the parliament or 
> use the House of Lords. RH

So where does the English parliament sit? In the Westminister buildings 
we've contributed to? Using the equipment we've contributed to? I don't 
think so. Typical English though - "what's mine is mine and what's 
yours is mine too".