Wednesday, March 07, 2007
07/03/07 – THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF LABOUR
TELETEXT 322 MAR 01 21:19:32
Tory plan ‘threat to Wales’
Tory plans to block Welsh MPs from voting on English issues could lead to Wales having a “second class” status in the UK, Peter Hain has warned.
The Welsh Secretary accused the Tories of “opportunism” and warned the plans could lead to the break-up of the UK.
Separation from the UK would leave Wales “nigh on irrelevant” on the world stage, Mr Hain warned as he opened at St David’s Day Welsh affairs debate.
The Tory plans are simply adjusting the anomalous situation that labour created within Britain where Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are given home rule, and therefore, self determination where as England are still under the direct rule from the British parliament. This is either an appalling oversight or a magnificent piece of governmental manipulation.
Theory 1 – Appalling oversight – Working on the theory that Westminster is the English parliament, within which Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are permitted to send representatives. The oversight would be the fact that it was deemed not necessary because as the representatives of the ‘Celtic fringe’ withdrew from Westminster the parliament would revert to its original role as a parliament for the English.
Theory 2 – Appalling oversight – Labour are in a conundrum about what they want for the UK, either an Americanised federal system, or a centralised (on London) system which we have experienced for the previous 300 plus years. This indecisiveness has caused there to be a fundamental constitutional dilemma where England have not been attributed the same level of self-determination as the ‘Celtic fringe’, a discrepancies, which other political parties are attempting to rectify.
Theory 3 – Appalling oversight – there were growing calls in the ‘Celtic fringe’ for devolution, in order to protect yourself from a re-occurrence of Thatcher-esq policy impositions that are designed for the needs London and the South-east England and therefore grossly inadequate for the needs of the ‘Celtic fringe’
Theory 4 – Magnificent piece of governmental manipulation – for this you have to ask yourself why when considering, devolving the United Kingdom would you deliberately overlook England. For this purpose perhaps? To score political capital over the opposition that seek to redress this anomaly. So that they can secure a stranglehold over the ‘Celtic fringe’ as they are seemly fighting for the virtue of the respective nation.
Which ever one it was you have got to admire the audacity of Peter Hain saying that the Conservative plans could lead to the break-up of the UK. Surely devolution – devolving the UK into it’s constituency countries – was the thing that made the disintegration of the UK inevitable not giving self-determination to the English nation.
As for his comments that Wales will be “nigh on irrelevant” on the world stage, I question what he is basing this on, Ireland managed to manipulate its tax system in order for it to boom, Luxemburg, Belgium, Holland are similar either geographically or population wise and they are not insignificant, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, similarly are not irrelevant, not to mention Monaco, and every other tax haven that I can think of. Small countries as a rule of thumb punch above their weight in the world. It is narrow minded and simply alarmist to say that if you don’t vote Labour then the sky will fall. But in all things Welsh and separatist that is exactly how Labour reacts time and time again.
¶ 9:15 AM Tory plan ‘threat to Wales’
Tory plans to block Welsh MPs from voting on English issues could lead to Wales having a “second class” status in the UK, Peter Hain has warned.
The Welsh Secretary accused the Tories of “opportunism” and warned the plans could lead to the break-up of the UK.
Separation from the UK would leave Wales “nigh on irrelevant” on the world stage, Mr Hain warned as he opened at St David’s Day Welsh affairs debate.
The Tory plans are simply adjusting the anomalous situation that labour created within Britain where Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are given home rule, and therefore, self determination where as England are still under the direct rule from the British parliament. This is either an appalling oversight or a magnificent piece of governmental manipulation.
Theory 1 – Appalling oversight – Working on the theory that Westminster is the English parliament, within which Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are permitted to send representatives. The oversight would be the fact that it was deemed not necessary because as the representatives of the ‘Celtic fringe’ withdrew from Westminster the parliament would revert to its original role as a parliament for the English.
Theory 2 – Appalling oversight – Labour are in a conundrum about what they want for the UK, either an Americanised federal system, or a centralised (on London) system which we have experienced for the previous 300 plus years. This indecisiveness has caused there to be a fundamental constitutional dilemma where England have not been attributed the same level of self-determination as the ‘Celtic fringe’, a discrepancies, which other political parties are attempting to rectify.
Theory 3 – Appalling oversight – there were growing calls in the ‘Celtic fringe’ for devolution, in order to protect yourself from a re-occurrence of Thatcher-esq policy impositions that are designed for the needs London and the South-east England and therefore grossly inadequate for the needs of the ‘Celtic fringe’
Theory 4 – Magnificent piece of governmental manipulation – for this you have to ask yourself why when considering, devolving the United Kingdom would you deliberately overlook England. For this purpose perhaps? To score political capital over the opposition that seek to redress this anomaly. So that they can secure a stranglehold over the ‘Celtic fringe’ as they are seemly fighting for the virtue of the respective nation.
Which ever one it was you have got to admire the audacity of Peter Hain saying that the Conservative plans could lead to the break-up of the UK. Surely devolution – devolving the UK into it’s constituency countries – was the thing that made the disintegration of the UK inevitable not giving self-determination to the English nation.
As for his comments that Wales will be “nigh on irrelevant” on the world stage, I question what he is basing this on, Ireland managed to manipulate its tax system in order for it to boom, Luxemburg, Belgium, Holland are similar either geographically or population wise and they are not insignificant, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, similarly are not irrelevant, not to mention Monaco, and every other tax haven that I can think of. Small countries as a rule of thumb punch above their weight in the world. It is narrow minded and simply alarmist to say that if you don’t vote Labour then the sky will fall. But in all things Welsh and separatist that is exactly how Labour reacts time and time again.
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