Viewing the "Letters" columns. Devolution in the UK; "We poor saps the English are just the mugs who pay for it."

I came across a letter, from a Peter Burns, which was published in the Bath Chronicle on 25th January this year.  Although I am not familiar with the views on devolution held by Wera Hobhouse, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bath, I fully sympathise with the tone of Mr. Burns' comments.

We supposedly live in a United Kingdom where one would assume all are treated equally, but we are not!

I reproduce Mr. Burns' letter below.

We English are treated as second class.

We read many reports in the Chronicle from our MP Wera Hobhouse, especially on her blatant anti-Brexit views, but when does Ms Hobhouse ever mention us poor downtrodden English? 

The rest of the UK has forms of devolution; we poor saps the English are just the mugs who pay for it.

Why is it fair that English university students have to burden themselves with huge debt and the Scottish student gets away with it (excuse the pun) scotfree? If we are a United Kingdom of equals, how can this be? Ms Hobhouse is an English MP and never once have I heard her mention the rights of us English. Does Ms Hobhouse consider we English have any rights? Or is she one of those MPs who considers herself to be a member of parliament for the whole of the United Kingdom?

Thereby lies the anomaly; we English have no representative body to represent our interests yet English wealth predominantly gives the Scots the opportunity for their own parliament to give such perks as free university education and free prescriptions. This is simply not fair. What is Ms Hobhouse’s view on we English being second-class citizens and what is the Liberal Democrat policy on bringing England equal status with the rest of the United Kingdom?

Peter Burns, Lower Weston.