Dear Gordon Brown,
Your article in the Telegraph today that desperately clings to the notion of a Union is just hot air masked as a newspaper column. Your inability to understand the feelings of the general public are trumped only by your blinkered view of how the British Isles should be run.
Of course there are some issues that warrant a union-wide approach. Your chosen examples of terrorism and climate change are fair enough, but there is no reason why these issues cannot be addressed by England, Scotland and Wales in more independent capacities. If an issue is that serious, representatives from each country have every reason to work together without the need for an explicit ‘Union’. I nearly fell off my chair when you suggested that our “shared values” can be seen in “the popularity of our common institutions from the NHS [to] the BBC”, both of which in my opinion needs to be taken out of state control and handed over to independent providers to improve their quality and sustainability in the long term - talk about being out of touch! To further claim that “tolerance” is a shared value across the Union is hilarious, seeing as the Scots and Welsh absolutely hate the English and have done for centuries.
I’d much prefer it if you were honest about all this. You need Scotland to keep Labour in power, so you will resist any attempt to weaken the influence of Scottish votes on your position or on the future of Britain. My message to you is a simple one - give us an English Parliament, get Scottish MPs out of Westminster, and let each country raise its own money and spend it.
Yours sincerely,
A.Tory
5 responses so far ↓
hotspur // March 25, 2008 at 10:59 am
My comments was along the line of, if supermarket chains refuse to use the English flag on English produce because the they would not be able to sell it in Scotland, Gordon can stick his union.
Letters From A Tory // March 25, 2008 at 11:45 am
Brown will do everything he can to pretend that the animosity towards the English doesn’t exist, as Scotland is the only reason that the Labour Party are remotely relevant in Parliament.
Even banning Scottish politicians from voting on English matters would do some serious -damage to Labour’s ability to control the House of Commons.
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Tin Drummer // March 31, 2008 at 12:24 pm
No, no, no, you just don’t get it. Devolution to Scotland _strengthens_ the union, because it’s supposed to give the people of Scotland a permenant sense of gratitude to Labour and hence Britain, as to the New Labour mind the two are part of one whole. That it hasn’t worked is irrelevant. Devolution to England would _undermine_ the union because it would let those ghastly Tories in, which, to the Labour mind, is tantamount to xenophobia, racism, little Englanderism, middle Englandism, and all the other made up complaints about England that have been hovering around Labour since or probably before Jack Straw talked his crap about the English being a very aggressive, violent people, in 2000.
Letters From A Tory // March 31, 2008 at 12:42 pm
My sincerest apologies.
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