From The Sunday TimesMarch 30, 2008
Gordon Brown to launch Save the Union campaign
Britain's prime minister is preparing to marshall the great and good to fight the threat of Scottish independence
Jason Allardyce and Jonathan Oliver
GORDON Brown is to launch an unprecedented “Save the Union” campaign because he fears the march of Scottish nationalism is becoming unstoppable.
The prime minister told a strategy meeting of ministers at Downing Street that the United Kingdom could only be held together if pro-Union business leaders, academics and civic bodies acted now.
He also proposes to create a network of London-style mayors in English regions to appease mounting resentment against devolution south of the border.
So Gordon thinks that what we really, really need in England, to counter "mounting resentment" about devolution is more Mayors in the "English regions"?
No thanks Gordon, what we really, really need is democratic parity with Scotland and Wales - that means an English parliament where England's MPs can make English laws without influence from Scottish and Welsh MPs who are not elected by English voters. This is called democratic accountability - and we don't have it here in England.
Mayors in the regions do not address England's "mounting resentment" - and can't while England is ruled according to unelected MP's whims and the Barnett formula's inequitable distribution of England's taxes.
The article is here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article3647158.ece
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Stephen.
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