Brown's measures to reform parliament are fatally misdirected

'Gordon Brown has appointed Tony Wright MP, one of Parliament's major advocates of reform, to chair a quick all-party inquiry into reform of parliamentary procedure but he has ensured that Wright does not address the most glaring distortion and corruption of all in our democratic process. Tony Wright and his committee will not address the West Lothian Question'. That is the message to the CEP membership sent out by Mrs Veronica Newman, secretary of the Campaign, its organiser in the county of Wiltshire.
'In the words of the members of the Justice Committee of MPs in their very recent Report (May 22nd) into 'Devolution a Decade on'
"England is subject to Ministers and MPs who do not represent England and whose constituents come under devolved governments' (page 84. para 27)
'Scottish MPs such as Gordon Brown legislate for every area of English life inclusive of health, transport, education, the legal system, the prison service, social services, local government and so on. In not one of those areas of governance is Mr Brown and his fellow Scottish MPs accountable to the electorate of their constituencies because no legislation they make in those areas applies to their constituents, to their electors. Neither is he and his fellow Scots accountable in an election to any English elector because he and they represent Scottish seats and only Scottish seats..
'There is no greater distortion of England's ancient democratic system of government. And Tony Wright MP for Cannock in Staffordshire, lying at the very heart of England, will not even address it. Whether Wright is aware of this distortion and injustice is unknown. But whether he is or isn't, he just will not address it. It is a grotesque injustice to the people of England'.
Michael Knowles
We must not forget that it is the British that are denying England its political recognition, the British MPs we have sent to parliament to represent England, it is these who are to blame. Until we have our own English MPs not British MPs representing England nothing is going to change.