What about England?
I didn’t listen to PMQ’s today as it has a tendency to ruin my whole day. But I read about it on the Calling England blog.
Graham Brady the Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale asked the following question:
Why should my constituents pay more tax so that the Prime Minister’s can have their council tax frozen?
Brown’s reply:
The purpose of devolution, whether to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or London, is to allow those people in those areas who are represented to make the decisions that affect their lives. If they make these decisions by doing one thing, it is at the cost of their ability to do other things.
And that was that and onto the next question. No shouts of “what about England?” or “what about the Barnett Formula?” It was a good question to ask but a disgraceful non answer and the house has once again shown it’s contempt for the people of England by not pulling Brown up on it.
There’s a recording of PMQ’s on the BBC news website (for a while anyway) and the question is asked at 16 mins 50 seconds in.
If you care about England it’ll have your blood boiling.
There’s a transcript on Hansard too.
Tags: brown is shit, devolution, pmq's
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:41 am
What astounds me is the crass ignorance of these people. Thick as pigshit the bloody lot of them…. and if these parliamentarians are the creme de la creme of our thinking classes then it is no wonder this country is in such a bloody mess. During yesterday’s PMQs, Rosie Cooper, my uber porkily crappola MP wobbled up to ask a suitably asinine question to the great leader. Apparently, the great one eyed pillock was meeting and greeting carefully selected party psychophants in my neck of the woods last week….
It was kept extremely quiet – so as not to provoke any anti-Brown protest. So much for Brown’s much vaunted ‘meet and greet’ programme.