If Scotland and Wales have their own Parliaments

[FabIsGoingToGetFit]

Why are they interfering in England's election?

Because Englands election affects us too.

Phrase the question differently:

Why don't England have their own Parliament as well and then have a UK-wide house made up from all of them?

Because we have an Assembly (not a full Parliament) which has limited powers eg education, health etc, but other policies such as taxation, pensions etc are still decided by Westminster.

(that BTW was my best shot at a polite and informative answer )

Interfering wasn't the word I meant but I was posting quickly.

I am not being arsey YYM, I am genuinely interested and don't understand. That okay?

UK election i believe...

Sorry cross-posted. thought you were being arsey

Well you heard it here Scottish & Welsh folks. We are interfering in an ENGLISH election. It is certainly the impression an alien would have if they are watching the Election debates from planet ZOG.

Scottish and Welsh voters - you know what to do!

Anastasia makes a good point.

It would make far more sense for England to be devolved too, and then have a kind of "parent" UK parliament.

But IME a lot of English people think that Westminster is just "theirs".

Downside of devoloution though is that you have to vote twice as often. So double the election door knocking and flyers!

Thank you helyg, even if you did appear to want to be rude.

Not all of us know everything about politics.

Funny for not being arsey, your reply to me seems it too.

But yes because it is a UK election, i don't see why England can't have something similar to Wales and Scotland, but it's not for me to campaign for it.

And what about Northern Ireland?

OFGS no need to be so stroppy.

Wales and Scotland are countries in their own right and have their own Parliaments I don't think it is unreasonable to ask why they are involved in this election!

Becasue it's not "England"'s election: Westminster still rules the UK and "allows" the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly to do run some but not all of their own affairs.

SOme of us woud be more than happy to leave the English to get on with things, if they let run our own affairs indepednetly . And that would include giving us the oil revenues that have kept the UK afloat for the last 20-30 years.

If you are genuinely interested in the differences in devolved powers:

NI Assembly and Welsh Assembly are both Assemblies with very limited powers

Scottish Parliament is a proper Parliament but does not control everything.

I'm all for education

Thank you for that prettybird. I did not know that.

LOL @ Ms Stroppy moaning about me being stroppy!

Maybe some of us are coming across as stroppy as we are fed up with certian people thinking the world revolves around them.

people refers to plural, rather than just you Fab.

That looked like it was aimed just at you and it wasn't.

Short answer: Because a lot of what happens in Wales and Scotland is decided in Westminster.

What I object to is the Scottish and Welsh MPs being able to vote in the Commons on purely English matters.

For example tuition fees. Scottish MPs voted to keep tuition fees for English students while voting to scrap them for Scottish students in their own Parliament. Very wrong IMO.

Prettybird - I am all for devolution, but I think you will find that the oil revenues just about pay for the additional per capita revenue that Scotland get from Westminister, so don't bank on Scotland suddenly being awash with cash.

it's an English election?
oh. I wasn't aware of that.

Are the Labour Party, Lib Dems and Tories English parties? Why have they put things through my door then

I agree Alibaba, but surely if England campaigned for devoloution you'd get it too? It took decades of campaigning to get it in Wales, it wasn't something that just happened overnight.

Although to be fair where we have Plaid Cymru you have the BNP...

SNP MPs do not vote on England only matters.
Where did you get that piece of nonsense about the oil revenues? They are enormous and have kept the whole UK afloat for years. Being based on the price per barrel they, of course, rise every time the price of oil goes up. The UK treasury plays its cards very close to its chest iro oil revenues, licences, etc.

I do not know how to do links but try this site for up to date figures on oil and economy:

www.oilofscotland.org/scottish_north_sea_oil.html

here is the link

helyg - I don't know whether it requires devolution, after all if Scotland, Wales and NI were fully devolved then there would be no need for another 'English' parliament because there would just be Westminister. I am wary of the extra opportunity for cost and waste that another parliament in England would create.

I don't see why it isn't a fairly simple matter to simply exclude Scottish, Welsh and NI MPs from certain votes. The cynic in me says that it is because Labour have so many Scottish MPs....