Peter Hain, Northern Ireland and Welsh Secretary and prize bigot, has got his knickers in a twist over Tory plans to stop MP’s that don’t represent English cosntituencies from interfering in English-only legislation.
The bigot supports the Labour Stazi policy of anti-English apartheid and minority rule and sees no problem with him being able to vote on matters entirely restricted to England when he can’t vote on those same matters in his own constituency.
Hain is a firm believer in devolution … but only for Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. He thinks that the Tories policy of English Votes on English Matters (EVoEM) will break up the union … but stopping English MP’s from voting on devolved matters in the rest of the UK won’t. He also thinks that stopping MP’s not elected in England from voting on English-only matters will create second-class British MP’s … but stopping English MP’s from doing the reverse hasn’t. He believes it is his “right” to vote on English-only legislation … but not to vote on devolved matters outside of England.
The only thing consistent about the bigot‘s arguments is that they are consistently inconsistent.
Well put sir, in their blinkered ideological blindness, Labour just cannot see the wood for the trees.
EVoEM is not, as yourself and many have pointed out, the real answer, but is a step in the right direction in terms of evening out an asymmetric devolution settlement.
The Tories are not going to go back on this or put it on the back burner once (if ever) they get back in, it is mainsteam party thinking.
Yet another politician who is not concerned about the average joe. He is only concerned for himself and how much power / money he can get.
Heaven forbid that the English actually get fair parity on voting matters and stop ‘foreigners’ running their own country. Something as dastardly as that might reduce the amount of power / money he’s used and that just won’t do will it?
Excellent site Wonko!
EVoEM is ridiculous but it will serve a purpose – it will fail, going back will be unacceptable and so an English Parliament must be created.
Hain is a particularly nasty piece of work. He would sell his granny if he thought it would further his career and he certainly wouldn’t think twice about screwing over 50m English people to get where he wants to be.