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New 'veto' announced for English MPs - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33351688

There's clearly strong arguments for it, but the hypocrisy will be hanging out of it the next time a majority is needed on a vote, for instance.

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Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:07 pm
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pcernie wrote:
New 'veto' announced for English MPs - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33351688

There's clearly strong arguments for it, but the hypocrisy will be hanging out of it the next time a majority is needed on a vote, for instance.


There's a strong argument for a comprehensive review of the democratic process across the whole of the UK but this isn't doing that. It's just adding more rules on top of an already broken system and not surprisingly will have the effect of making the Tories even stronger in Westminster. This really is just pushing Scotland further towards the UK exit door.
I would much rather see the establishment of a proper, separate English parliament along the same lines as the Scottish one and the formation of a true UK parliament along a federal model this system to replace both the Commons and the Lords. I'm not however going to be holding my breath as it's not in this governments interests to be so bold as they're doing rather nicely out of the broken system we've got

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davrosG5 wrote:
There's a strong argument for a comprehensive review of the democratic process across the whole of the UK but this isn't doing that.

True, but turkeys, christmas etc.


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