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.
