PaulRogan

The Tories nationally are now proposing a ‘Grand Committee for England' in response to the above question. Well, does that address the inequalities within the United Kingdom for England? That's another question and Nick Robinson's blog contains some interesting commentary and views, link follows-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2007/10/question_of_sco.html

I understood New Labour's Harriet Harmen to say in a recent interview in response to the Tory proposal; it is not right to break up the United Kingdom. But hasn't it already been broken up by the Blair/Brown/Prescott trio's devolution of Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland? That just left England to be broken up in the next and final stage of Euro Regional integration.

England is still a Country, a Nation and the only question for me is, "will our People rise up to defend her?"

On the ‘Brighouse Question' will local Tories accept an extrapolation of the same national proposal and agree to setting up a Committee for the Greater Brighouse Area? (Same sauce for goose and gander). All we have at present is a proposal for a toothless body for the entire lower valley. 'Typical' & 'Fudge' are the two words which spring to my mind, in response to the Tories solutions to both ‘West Lothian' and ‘Brighouse' questions.

By the way. extra and more expensive tiers of Government, either locally or nationally form no part of the English Democrats solutions to New Labour's Euro mess or Tory fudges. Want to know more? Send me an email.