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Interesting point you make there about England not being a country. If the UK is a country then, by default, England cannot be. However, this is not my understanding. A quick google search gives me this: "The UK – a sovereign state that includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...

The agenda hijacked by a 'nationalist' party. Whatever next? ??? Just listening to R5's Brazil correspondent discussing how the supporters of the right wing prat president who lost his election recently are hijacking the Brazil shirt as they petition the army to mount a coup to prevent the non...

I am genuinely shocked. You? A typo? o_O I'm going to have to have a sit down. :lolol: :wink:

Not following you there. I didn't say Scotland is a county (not even as a typo as far as I can see). Not sure how rebranding a country as a county gives it powers it didn't have.

Differences of opinion are not allo....oh, hang on. Call me parochial, but at the end of the day, I'm only interested in whether Joxit makes it more or less likely that the tory hegemony in England will continue. All the while the SNP get all the Scottish seats in England's parliament, it...

No.

Are you referring to Blair and Brown? If so, I agree. Devolution makes sense only if it is the start of a journey to independence, which is why I opposed it (as proposed and executed) on a nation basis (and, to boot, excluding England from the fun, with no English parliament as such). If England...

We had two referenda on being in the common market. The common market changed to be the EU while we were in it. Our politicians were too disengaged to oppose this, not bothering to send people to committees, and the nation sleepwalked into another place. Then some of the MPs flounced and then...

Basically, the English. I'm English, not UKish. Having other countries (Wales, Scotland) have seats in the English parliament is daft, but I can tolerate it if it makes them feel part of something (the UK).

Referendum isn't the appropriate way of doing things. There is no consensus on how soon a referendum can be rerun, and that's because a referendum is just a trick to force (or stop) change by leaders too weak or useless to have an informed position from which to act. The right method is to...

But Scotland is a country, whereas Cornwall isn't.

If I were a jock living in Scotland I'd back labour. All voting SNP does is help keep the tories in power. And before the PR gang appears, having PR would give the SNP fewer seats not more because the number of seats they get in Scotland is disproportionate to their share of the vote. And with...