IN March 1989 Gordon Brown signed the ‘Scottish Claim of Right’. It was a pledge made by 132 Scottish MPs and MEPs ‘to make the interests of the people of Scotland paramount in everything they said and did’.
The question that has to be investigated now, the National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament has stated in its most recent circular to its membership, “is whether that pledge lay behind his cocktail party proposal to Lloyds Bank, and the encouragement and assistance he gave it to take over HBOS when HBOS was on the verge of collapse.” The Lloyds deal saved thousands of jobs in the Edinburgh and Fife area, which contains Gordon Brown’s Kirkcaldy constituency. The deal included a suspension of normal competition rules and it guaranteed a priority to keep jobs for Scottish employees.
The vast majority of Lloyds’ employees are in England. And now we know that the merger has brought huge losses to Lloyds, which threatens its English workforce.’
And now we are informed that the Ministry of Defence, in order to make savings, has transferred the work on two MoD aircraft carriers from Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and Tyneside to the Clyde and Rosyth, effecting 500 English workers.
Rosyth is in Fife. Many of the Rosyth workforce are from Mr Brown’s constituency. A&P Tyne of Jarrow and McNulty Offshore of South Shields, when they secured the contract to build the new carriers, looked on the deal as a rebirth of shipbuilding on the Tyne.
So the question which now has to be asked of Gordon Brown is if he has one policy for England and another for Scotland? It’s certainly is starting to look that way.
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Why does the argument for an English parliament (a) neglect the equally or more important need for an English government as well, and (b) involve this constant animus against Scotland?
And btw discrimination against the English (whether real or imaginary) can't possibly be racism. The English are not a race. Charges of racism shouldn't be scattered around like confetti, especially when they misuse the word.
Answer to BrianB
a) An English Parliament would have its own English governing body just like our other nations
b)The Prime Minister is a Scot and was elected to parliament by Scotland and the Scottish people, and he also signed a 'Scottish Claim of Right'vowing an oath to put the interests of Scotland before any other nation. Anything Scotland gets or gains and England does not is because of his power over England and we have a right to attack him and Scotland who are fighting to be independent.
c) 'The English are a race, confirmed in law', but the government hide this fact from the public.
Stano
Sorry, Stano, but you simply confirm the unfortunate impression that some ardent campaigners for an English parliament are vehemently anti-Scottish: whereas those of us who want an English parliament and government as part of a new fully federal United Kingdom see it as a way of strengthening the union with Scotland which we regard as a valued, indispensable part of our country. Gordon Brown may have been elected to the national parliament by Scots, but voters all over the UK elected the Labour Party to government and party members all over the UK elected Gordon Brown to be its leader, and therefore our prime minister.
As for the question of race: the English simply aren't a race ("each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics" -- Compact Oxford English Dictionary) and discrimination against the English, if it existed, couldn't possibly be described as racism.
Brian
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