A view from Gloucestershire regarding Westminster's plot to foist piecemeal devolution on England. This letter was published in the Western Daily Press on January 9th.
England needs MPs to speak up for us.
English devolution is a political decision to be made by England’s electorate alone and not by David Cameron nor Westminster’s self-indulging “UK” main parties”.
By stealth Westminster seems intent on foisting devolution piecemeal on England’s cities and regions without consulting England’s electorate.
England’s inhabitants and their 530 English MPs, must totally resist Westminster’s proposals at all costs.
When devolution was proposed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1997 each national electorate was consulted and devolution granted in 1999.
Governments in Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and Stormont with a total of 297 politicians, all affiliated to their country’s national parties, govern in the national interests of their own country. So it must be in England whose long suffering 53 million people denied self-governance have no political champions looking after the national interests of this country and its people.
Only when England’s MPs (and MEPs) are affiliated to national English Labour, English Conservative , English Democrat parties etc. will our country become a real democracy.
R A Hopkins
Leckhampton, Gloucestershire
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