Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

The 'Scottish play' will be a GE boost for Cameron. He has said that he wants increased powers for Scotland to be matched by the same new powers for an English only assembly and all to be done in the same timetable. The same applies to Wales and NI. This removes 41 Scottish Labour and 11 Liberal and 6 SNP MPs plus those for Wales (mainly Labour) and NI. As you might expect Milibland is not happy. His reply is that there should be 'discussions'.

This adds up to another unique selling point for the Conservatives. Not only has he promised a referendum on the EU, but he can offer the English, Scottish, Welsh and NI electorate further powers within their countries while excluding MPs from other areas. A vote for Labour will just get a discussion and no change.

All that adds up to a Labour dominated Wales and an England and NI dominated by Conservatives. All our key legislation and tax powers will be decided by Conservative governments. It is a move towards a federal UK, which is a long term policy of the Libs. Each region will be self governing similar to US states and an umbrella federal government tying it all together.

The timetable for all this is considerable due to constitutional changes, so Scotland has been stitched up and can expect new powers no time soon.

cynic
Did you go anywhere nice for the birthday celebs?

I had an odd email yesterday from a source unknown to me. It was an offer of work. I only work occasionally these days although I have been considering increasing that due to boredom at times. The offer was to work for a wine distributor. I don't know the details yet as the email came quite late. I know it is in London, but not what is involved. It has me intrigued as I like the wine trade.

The Birth of the Tory banana republic.

Open season on Scottish loonies.

Fred surely the Lib/Dems will vote with labour and stop the crook Camoron getting away with Hays infered tory England.

in a seriously smart hotel where Beloved has always wanted to stay
en famille this morning (little cookery course +lunch) and posh dinner this evening
en famille tomorrow morning for breakfast followed by a sort of treasure hunt in 2 teams and then a nice lunch together ....... then home

very glad indeed that i've probably already paid half upfront

so it's "crook cameron" preceded by "gold robber brown", preceded by "crook and war criminal blair", preceded by "industrial and social rapist thatcher" and so on and so forth back through history

don't be so stupid and pathetic!

Ohhh shut up cynic and get back to your treasure hunt.

Cameron In The DO DO.......

Across the political spectrum, politicians said Cameron had opened up a question that will be hard to solve quickly because of partisan political differences and could hand an electoral gift to populists such as the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP). Such wrangling also risks political paralysis.

Failure to deliver greater powers to English MPs could leave Cameron vulnerable to the electoral threat of UKIP, whose leader Nigel Farage promised to champion English voters.

"CRUMBS OF CHANGE"

So far, much of the criticism has come from Cameron's own MPs, who have already begun to complain that his promises to Scots are too generous and his pledges to England too limited and hard to deliver.

"The chaotic manner in which the 'No' vote was won has undermined the strong and strong and resilient United Kingdom on which we all depend," Owen Paterson, a Conservative lawmaker and a former minister, said in a statement.

"Such a lopsided constitutional settlement cannot last; it is already causing real anger across England. If not resolved fairly for all the constituent parts of the UK for the long term, it will fall apart."

Conservative lawmaker Andrew Percy said Cameron's proposal to allow only parliamentarians from English constituencies to vote on English matters was welcome, but wasn't enough.

"Now it's England's turn for a say and we won't settle with being fobbed off with a few crumbs of change," he said. "That means a proper conversation about an English Parliament, English Executive and English First Minister."

Boris Johnson, the mayor of London and a potential successor to Cameron as leader of the Conservative party, said Cameron's promise to maintain Scotland's current funding deal - which means Scots get substantially more government money spent on them per head than the English - was "slightly reckless" and shouldn't be honoured in its current form.

Rob Wood, Chief UK Economist at investment bank Berenberg, said in a research note there was "likely to be a backlash from MPs (members of parliament) against particularly Prime Minister Cameron for guaranteeing generous funding and more powers for Scotland without consulting parliament.

"The same may be true for non-Scottish voters. That brings risks with it," he said.

(Reporting by William James and Kylie MacLellan; Additional reporting by William Schomberg; Writing by Andrew Osborn; Editing by Peter Graff)

The 2010 GE result without Scottish MPs was

Tory: 306 seats; Labour: 217 seats; Lib Dem: 46 seats

If you ignore Welsh MP - Labour 26, Conservative 8, Liberal 3, Plaid Cymru 3

then you get

Tory 298, Labour 191, Lib 43

GF,

I think Cameron is a gerrymandering Spiv.

I think the majority of the UK and certainly EU think of him as a self advancing liar only interested in furthering himself and those his own ilk.

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The proposals he seems to be advancing have not been mandated and will not be acceptable to his own party leave alone the Libs and Labour.

He is posturing again for party political reasons and cannot hope to get the measures through parliament.

I think he is lying or u-turning again and is becoming more and more an embarrassment to his own party of con merchants, but seems to appeal to the Hazeone.

There will be an effect on Scottish labour party and membership will disperse to a certain degree to the minor parties, but would expect that the effect on Labour in the rest of the UK will be to make them more antagonistic to the Conning/tories and encourage them to turn out and vote Labour.

Guess work, but I see after the chaos that Cameron is producing it is likely to happen.

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Manuel,

Post 46008.

It appears to me, the difference between Brown and the others, he didn't take the actions he did, for his own personal gain, or those of his "friends".

There are interesting possibilities for a Lab government. They might win an election and be unable to pass the budget due to being in a minority in an English assembly. Having read several papers today with correspondents who have spoken to senior Labour members, it seems that they are in quite a panic, especially with the Lab conference starting today.

fred - great shame about your permanently dyspepsic and jaundiced views, but i don't think any prime minister in this country for at least the last century and more has ever done other than endeavoured to do his best for the country

history, with the infallible benefit of hindsight, may sometimes make harsher judgement

I heard a very good comment today.

"If voting changed anything important, it would have been stopped a long time ago".

Manuel,

For the majority of PMs your statement may be true, but that leaves those with blinkered view about what is best for the country and by what is best for their "own".

Some were self deceiving and plausible, the others who I think are in the same ilk as I consider Cameron to be, are aware of the effects of their decisions and are self serving and are chancers.

I would place Blair in the former group and even consider him to be delusional.

Possibly, for me, the least delusional would have been MacMillan, Major, Wilson and Atlee and possibly Heath.

But according to your character you make your choices.

hmm! i choose to disagree but then i am not half as cynical as you

as i wrote previously, history has infallible hindsight, but the individual at the time will almost certainly have acted in good faith in what (s)he saw as the best interests of the country

Salmond already saying camoron as reneged on his promise.

Trouble for the tories.

The genie is out of the bottle....




You say YES to English votes for English laws: MoS poll shows fury over handouts to Scots

Two in three English voters say MPs in Scottish seats should be banned from voting on English laws at Westminster

A mere one in five oppose the move, which would see home rule powers handed to Scotland matched in England

A total of 70 per cent say decision to hand powers to Scots was made during a 'panic', and only 16 per cent disagree

The majority of English voters want their own referendum before more of their cash is transferred to Edinburgh

One in five English voters say Andy Murray’s support for independence means they are less likely to support him



By Simon Walters for The Mail on Sunday

Published: 22:28, 20 September 2014 | Updated: 08:12, 21 September 2014








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