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Originally Posted by scarletpeaches
Britain, not England, seeing as this was down to the British PM...
...although, of course, the Scots ministers weren't asked their opinion, God forbid.
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Just to make this absolutely clear -
I said the above because this vote took place at WESTMINSTER. Westminster is the British parliament, which is supposed to govern British affairs, not just English. Scots MPs weren't even asked to vote on something that affected them and as was already quite correctly said, for as long as Scotland is still part of Britain, Scotland will send MPs to Westminster.
This country doesn't have its own parliament, it has an assembly, which isn't quite the same thing.
As for the "Tony Blair is a Scot" argument - so what? He's the Prime Minister of the British government, therefore, he's the British PM - isn't Scotland, his birthplace, still part of Britain? Being born in Scotland doesn't negate his 'British' nationality. If it were up to me, we'd have a separate parliament and government of our own - none of this kiddy-on assembly wank that doesn't really do much except proliferate bureaucracy.