WHO remembers David Cameron’s ‘English votes for English laws’ (EVEL)?
It was a joke when it was announced and one year later it is a farce.
The House of Commons assembles, as it did on December 2, as a grand committee and after a short discussion which is usually dominated by the Scottish nationalists, decides there is nothing to vote on and dissolves the grand committee until the next time it is convened.
What a pointless exercise.
EVEL was intended as a sop to those calling for an all-England parliament, which no UK government could agree to, beause it would destabilise the union.
The English/Aenglisc should be given their parliament in Leeds and we Saxish/Seaxisc should be given our parliament in Bristol/Brycgstow.
Robert Craig, The Saxish Home Rule League.
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