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Old 25-04-2010, 12:11   #153
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Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 3

I see the SNP are starting legal action on the BBC over the televised debates.

They do highlight a major problem though, a number of things have been devolved to the Scottish Parliament, so English MPs have no say, yet the Scottish MPs at Westminster can vote on these equivalent issues in England / Wales. Not really surprising given how much of the cabinet are Scottish MPs though.

Scotland = 1/12th of the UK population, Wales = less than 1/20th. For sure BBC Scotland / BBC Wales would be good to host debates, and debates seem to be happening, there's one on Sky later today. On national TV at prime time I don't really see the value of it. SNP / PC are largely about more local issues, and their localities are less than 10% of the Union, while in the case of the SNP 80% or more of the debate would be irrelevant to the other over 90% of the population if they chose the agenda as those issues are devolved.

Give more devolution please so those of us outside of Scotland can even more totally ignore Salmond's incessant whining, he feels so hard done by he can explain to Scotland why services will have to be cut or taxes go up if separated.
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