ARMCHAIR ACTIVISTS in the Yorkshire Post‏

Brilliant job, everyone. Well done once agaiin.

Article here.

We don't have a truly United Kingdom any more

From: Lynda Greene, Trent Close, Burscough, Lancashire.

I DO not accept that the Union needs to be preserved "at all costs", as argued by Mark Stuart (Yorkshire Post, August 1). At the moment, the only people paying the costs are the English. In fact, the only people obliged to be British are the English. We do not have a United Kingdom any more. We have Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and a country that this government has been striving to reduce to regions. It is time for England to get the equality and recognition it deserves. We need an English Parliament and an end to the grossly unfair Barnett formula.
If this cannot be achieved without a break up of the Union, then so be it.

From: Roger Prescott, Fore Street, Plympton, Plymouth.

TO preserve the undemocratic and constitutionally flawed Union, Mark Stuart spouts more Unionist drivel masquerading as cogent argument. He wants the Scots to be in charge of their own money and less able to blame London for an alleged lack of funding. However, they are already in charge of their over-generous slice of the Union money pie through the anachronistic Barnett Formula. The Scots can also raise taxes to pay for better, or additional services, but, of course, they have never done this. The Conservative Party may be forced by events to change its mind about the Union, and David Cameron had better watch his step. Do the English want another half-Scot in charge who, from his previous utterances, particularly when he is in Scotland, is so obviously anti-English? What England needs is to establish an English Parliament for the furtherance of the English people. An uphill task considering the Celtic mafia at Westminster and in the media, but it must and will happen.

From: D Grant, Woodfield Road, Burbage, Leicester.

IF the Union of the UK is to continue, we must have fairness for all within it. Mark Stuart's views are out of date and his solutions needlessly complex. Let Scotland and Wales have completely independent powers and let England have the same. This means our own English Parliament (no extra MPs, just those who now sit for English seats) and a Federal Assembly if and when needed. Taxation from those who will spend it, not from England to the others. Sounds fair to me. How about your readers?



Cheers to Dee.
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