NOW that David Cameron has apologised to the Scots for implementing the Poll Tax one year earlier in Scotland than in England, can we English now expect an apology from the Scots Tony Blair and Gordon Blair for the following anti- English legislation?
More taxpayers' money is spent educating a Scottish child than an English child.
Students in England have to pay tuition fees. Students in Scotland do not.
Elderly people in Scotland get long term care for free. The English have to sell their homes in order to pay for it. The Scots get anti-cancer drugs denied the English.
The anti-English Barnett Formula is still on the statute book. Although the government try to keep this information hidden from English voters, the Barnett Formula states that English taxpayers pay more tax than a Scottish taxpayer, yet more taxpayers' money is spent on Scots per head of population than is spent on their English counterparts. Put simply this means the Scots pay less tax than the English but have more spent on them.
The Scots have their own independent parliament where Scots can pass their own laws without any interference from the English.
Yet Scottish MPs can come to the Westminster Parliament and vote for laws which only affect the English.
Not only do the Scots have their own independent parliament; they also have their own special minister in the Cabinet. Again this is something denied the English.
There is also a marked anti-English bias in government. The Prime Minister is a Scot. He was born in Edinburgh and educated at the top Scottish public school, Fettes. Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, is a Scot. John Reid, the Home Secretary, is a Scot. The Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is Welsh. The Speaker, Michael Martin, is a Scot.
It is as if there is a glass ceiling within the Labour party preventing an English person becoming leader. Of the last three Labour leaders two have been Scots, Blair and John Smith and the other was Welsh, Neil Kinnock.
Is any member of the Labour Party prepared to apologise for this anti-English bias?
BEVERLEY KNIGHT, London.
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