English votes for English policies is very difficult to achieve within our current constitution. It is not going to be a quick fix.
There is a link to a Guardian report on this issue below. I know many may not accept on principle anything written there, but it does give an indication of the problems facing such legislation.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/english-votes-english-laws-absurdity-separatist
From the Telegraph, as you would expect a more positive spin but it still outlines the main issues and the main snag- how do you decide which policies genuinely affect only England?
English votes for English policies is very difficult to achieve within our current constitution. It is not going to be a quick fix.
There is a link to a Guardian report on this issue below. I know many may not accept on principle anything written there, but it does give an indication of the problems facing such legislation.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/english-votes-english-laws-absurdity-separatist
From the Telegraph, as you would expect a more positive spin but it still outlines the main issues and the main snag- how do you decide which policies genuinely affect only England?
Indeed many questions for a majority government of that’s what we get. It will be interesting to see how Cameron operates without his hands being tied.
It may well be that he is more tied up by a small majority of his own than in a coalition where the LibDems bent over backwards in most areas to keep him sweet and he can’t use the threat of his ‘partners’ not accepting loony policies to hold his own troops back like he could before. Again, I do hope so.
Indeed many questions for a majority government of that’s what we get. It will be interesting to see how Cameron operates without his hands being tied.
It may well be that he is more tied up by a small majority of his own than in a coalition where the LibDems bent over backwards in most areas to keep him sweet and he can’t use the threat of his ‘partners’ not accepting loony policies to hold his own troops back like he could before. Again, I do hope so.
More importantly, will the legal ‘ring fencing’ of foreign aid be repealed ?
I doubt it as it was a Dave pledge, not a Lib Dem one. We can but hope it survives. OK, I hope it survives.
More importantly, will the legal ‘ring fencing’ of foreign aid be repealed ?
I doubt it as it was a Dave pledge, not a Lib Dem one. We can but hope it survives. OK, I hope it survives.
Deeply disapointing result, with one notable exception (or two if you include Ed Balls) but not surprising in the light of the negative campaigns from all and sundry. Well, I’ll just have to lump it won’t I and really hope Dave does put the country as a whole at the heart of his policies as he said this morning, but has that really happened in the past five years? Here’s hoping a paper thin majority with some awkward b**tards in his own ranks will mean the most ill thought through policies in their manefesto will get toned down.
Deeply disapointing result, with one notable exception (or two if you include Ed Balls) but not surprising in the light of the negative campaigns from all and sundry. Well, I’ll just have to lump it won’t I and really hope Dave does put the country as a whole at the heart of his policies as he said this morning, but has that really happened in the past five years? Here’s hoping a paper thin majority with some awkward b**tards in his own ranks will mean the most ill thought through policies in their manefesto will get toned down.
If that is true, it is no doubt true of those from the other parties.
If the comments section of the Daily Telegraph are typical, that is certainly the case for their readership whichever parties they support. I am shocked every day by what I find lurking there. The comments that are expressed in the Indy and Grauniad that are a bit dodgy are usually by people who talk about lefties so are probably not labour supporters, but I may be wrong. Racism is not confined to right wingers
Where have the postal ballot papers not appeared? I can’t find any thing on this after a quick rummage round the usual sources on the web other than the Ex-Pat ones.
If that is true, it is no doubt true of those from the other parties.
If the comments section of the Daily Telegraph are typical, that is certainly the case for their readership whichever parties they support. I am shocked every day by what I find lurking there. The comments that are expressed in the Indy and Grauniad that are a bit dodgy are usually by people who talk about lefties so are probably not labour supporters, but I may be wrong. Racism is not confined to right wingers
Where have the postal ballot papers not appeared? I can’t find any thing on this after a quick rummage round the usual sources on the web other than the Ex-Pat ones.
On the available evidence, I would tend to agree that Nige himself, personally, is not racist. However, a significant percentage (but by no means all certainly fewer than half) of the rest of his supporters as seen in the press comments sections on websites (of all persuasions), on balance would qualify as racist.
Edit: since I don’t know any UKIP supporters personally, unless of course they are soft kippers and aren’t owning up, I have no direct evidence to draw on to reinforce or refute this position
On the available evidence, I would tend to agree that Nige himself, personally, is not racist. However, a significant percentage (but by no means all certainly fewer than half) of the rest of his supporters as seen in the press comments sections on websites (of all persuasions), on balance would qualify as racist.
Edit: since I don’t know any UKIP supporters personally, unless of course they are soft kippers and aren’t owning up, I have no direct evidence to draw on to reinforce or refute this position
Cheeky article? Didn’t IDS say that voting for UKIP and Nigel is like writing Britains suicide note? Bit OTT I would say, but the odious IDS has a habit of being blinkered in his approach when he ‘believes’ what he says to be truth in the face of good reliable evidence to the contrary.
I note that there was also an article suggesting which 26 seats UKIP voters should vote tory to prevent Ed being PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11582796/The-26-seats-where-a-vote-for-Ukip-could-make-Ed-Miliband-prime-minister.html
So the Telegraph is quite willing to take UKIP’s cash and then have at least two very negative articles about the party in the same edition. Strange, that didn’t happen with HSBC earlier in the year. Double standards at the Telegraph?
Cheeky article? Didn’t IDS say that voting for UKIP and Nigel is like writing Britains suicide note? Bit OTT I would say, but the odious IDS has a habit of being blinkered in his approach when he ‘believes’ what he says to be truth in the face of good reliable evidence to the contrary.
I note that there was also an article suggesting which 26 seats UKIP voters should vote tory to prevent Ed being PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11582796/The-26-seats-where-a-vote-for-Ukip-could-make-Ed-Miliband-prime-minister.html
So the Telegraph is quite willing to take UKIP’s cash and then have at least two very negative articles about the party in the same edition. Strange, that didn’t happen with HSBC earlier in the year. Double standards at the Telegraph?
Mike, the Times is a murdoch paper, they would no more support the Labour party than the greens since Ed took a stand against Rupert a couple of years ago. The Times did come out in support of labour in 2001 & 2005. He apparently came over to the UK to put some ‘backbone’ into News Corp’s coverage a couple of months ago.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/election-2015-murdoch-tells-sun-future-company-depends-stopping-miliband-becoming-pm-1497507