[ntluser]

Having an English Parliament is as big a waste of money as the creation of all the other devolved parliaments.

It would have been simpler and cheaper if we had English MPs taking the lead on English issues, Scottish MPs leading on Scottish issues, Welsh MPs leading on Welsh issues and Ulster MPs leading on Ulster issues. UK wide issues would involve all MPs.

The money spent building the parliament buildings could have been better spent on dealing with the issues that each nation has identified.

Devolved parliaments are a recipe for a disunited UK.

The problem is similar to the formation of the EU.

In the past Foreign secretaries and their departments negotiated trade deals with other countries.

Now we have the massive and highly expensive EU parliament and infrastructure plus meetings of EU leaders to do the same job.

If we had left things as they were, the money wasted setting up and maintaining the EU could have been spent on actual issues identified by national parliaments.