Democracy - Yeah Right!

There is a massive constitutional problem in Britain, it has been swept under the carpet by government, but it is a national disgrace, and one that calls into question the legitimacy of Gordon Brown to hold the office of Prime Minister (and the legitimacy of Gordon Brown hehehe).

So what's my beef with the Scotch Git ™? Well it's very simple, it's the West Lothian Question.

For those unfamilliar with this, this is what it means;

Scotland has a devolved Parliament which makes decisions on some areas of Scottish life. Westminster MP's no longer have a say in these aspects, such as prescription charges, university tution fees and many other domestic issues. So the Scots have MSP's (Members od the Scottish Parliament) who represent them in their parliament in these matters. However, they also have MP's in Westminster who represent them in National Government. So if the government wanted to bring in University tution fees in England and Wales, they wheeled in their Scottish constituency MP's to vote for it.

Therefore residents of Scotland get to decide for themselves and then get the right to arbitarilly choose something different for the English.

Gordon Brown's children will be entitled to free University education, but he has decided that the vast majority of British students shouldn't be entitled to this and has used the votes of those who have no right to have any say in the matter, to get it through.

While these sort of issues exist, the people of England are being treated as second class citizens, and in no other country would this be tolerated. It would be like the people of New York voting to abolish sales tax, but then voting to have the tax raised to 20% in Vermont, it makes a nonsense of our democracy.