Posted on 09/21/2014 6:57:09 AM PDT by mac_truck
Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, warns of a "travesty of democracy" if Scottish MPs are allowed to have a say over English laws
A senior Cabinet minister tells Scottish Labour MPs to get off his territory, in a dramatic escalation of the battle for the future of British democracy.
Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, accuses Labour of seeking to erase England from the map of the United Kingdom as he declares that Scottish MPs should be banned from voting on his legal reforms.
Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Grayling says the constitutional shake-up after the Scottish independence referendum must deliver a new deal for England. English MPs alone must have the final say over English laws, he says.
The Scottish parliament should not receive more powers over tax, welfare and spending while Scottish MPs can still “shape the destiny” of the NHS, education and justice systems in England and force “socialist policies” on their southern neighbours.
“That would be a travesty of democracy, and would be regarded with fury by the English,” Mr Grayling warns.
“In Scotland justice is wholly devolved. As Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor, I have virtually no role there. But Scottish MPs today can still vote on my proposals to toughen the justice system in England and Wales. That clearly cannot continue.”
Mr Grayling’s intervention follows a promise by David Cameron to give England more power over its own affairs, a move widely supported by Conservatives and seen as popular with voters.
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Re: Scotland v. England...the fat lady has not yet sung.
He’s right.
Yes, he is.
I don’t know one fellow Scot who supports the West Lothian question ie why Scots, Welsh and NI vote on English issues. It should have been stopped when the Scots parliament returned in 1999.
Aye to that and how did Scotland get overrun by Leftists in the first place?
About time they did.
I can’t access The Telegraph because I’m
“over my limit.” Is there any way to get around that?
Usually newspapers websites will use cookies if they want to let you read a limited number of articles. You can deleted your cookies from the telegraph or if you are using a browsers like Google Chrome or Opera with an “incognito” (google) or “private” (Opera) browsing mode (that ignores and doesn’t store cookies or history) you can try opening the link in that. For the NYtimes the later method worked for me.
I was also told that you can go to settings on your browser. Hit privacy and security. Hit delete or clear cookies.
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