The Guardian declares for an English Parliament

Honest, George Monbiot (for it is he...) says you don't have to be an English nationalist (BBC translation = narrow minded fascist scumbag, silly) to be for an English Parliament. Now this is important, because George's opinion matters to (self appointed) intellectual thinkers in Islington (even though he now lives in Wales and has gone native) and they may have noticed the democratic deficit that exists in England where Scottish MPs can vote on English affairs without any exposure to English votes. Now this was bloody obvious to us people who think of ourselves as English but invisible in Islington. (hope you are keeping up here, proper Islington media folk would never say they were English, yuk) so we have to be happy that George has vocalised what we already knew!

Hard to believe?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/19/letters-devolution

The promised land? Only if we keep up the pressure and demand a proper democratic solution to the English question.

Council Tax Frozen for '09 - Hooray!

If you are Scottish, but not for the English, surprisingly this story doesn't get a mention on the Labour controlled media (err, BBC..) but yes people, Scots won't be paying any more Council Tax this year.

Great if you're Scottish, shit if you're an English taxpayer exhausted from rescuing Gordon's Scottish banks with a tax burden that will last for generations.

Of course I'm making this up? Well not according to:

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Council-tax-freeze-across-Scotland.3781358.jp

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493968/Now-English-taxpayers-pay-council-tax-freeze-Scotland.html

not to mention:

http://news.scotsman.com/politics/More-transparency-could-result-from.4994828.jp

So sleep easy, you are doing your bit through the Barnett Formula to keep Scotland happy.

makes you feel good doesn't it?

Waddya mean NO!