Independence: Do the English feel left out?

[weeschmoo]

I doubt it as England is always more conservative and Scotland more socialist. So free prescriptions will be further away than ever after independence...

On the other hand, England won't be having the expense of propping up McVenzuala and the welfare paradise that is Glasgow,So free prescriptions again would be feasible. Wales is another socialist basket case of an economy, their section of the NHS facing bankruptcy,with welsh patients relocating to England for treatment, so more likely that Wales and Scotland will have to face the music and finance their NHS properly without English subsidy.

The genie is out of the bottle now, calls for an English parliament will only get stronger henceforth.

[Ezagood]

They have interfered more than enough in more than enough countries over the years. It is time the English MP's concentrated more on their own situation and affairs and worried less about other countries. God knows they have helped Ireland quite enough thank you very much over the centuries! I am not sure we could actually have survived more help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But seriously it is about time the English Members of Parliament concentrated on purely English matters and problems. Before we know it there is a real risk that they will have voted themselves out of the EU! There is line of thought out there that says that they only went into the EEC as it then was to wreck it and make in unmanageable in the first place! The EU however managed to do that all by itself with little or no help from anyone!

Yes i'm sure all them claiming to be irish while sitting on there fat holes and claiming British dole money every 2 weeks, Disability allowance payments(DLA) every week, free car every 3 years on DLA Free car Insurance and free road tax would love to be released from the shackles of that benefit the British government give them.

[Curvaceous Kate]

So with the 40 odd Scottish MPs gone from Westminster, the remaining MPs will be able to vote on purely English and Welsh affairs. Given the imbalance in populations and representation between England and Wales, it seems only fair to allow the Welsh their own assembly in Cardiff.

Remind me why all the main English parties are arguing in favour of retaining the Union????

Reminds me that when I was in uni in the north of England in the 90's, there was talk then of a northern England regional assembly, to meet in York or Durham. Pity it never got off the ground.... May be we could have another regional assembly for the south west too, with special additional autonomy granted to Cornwall. The list goes on, personally I think Rutland should be granted its own assembly too; a very special corner of England.

No, it's all going to be great, as Dee from Benefit Street is going to be an MP. http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...te-dee-4187393 Then we'll have a good mix of MP's that are clueless about living on the bread line and one that knows how to play it like a violin.

Life in England will be sweet!