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Do the Welsh hate the English?
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Yes I know the powers of the Welsh assembly and the N.I isn't currently operating but it's their own fault.
I do NOT want Welsh, Scottish nor N.I MP's voting on legislation that affects England.
Why is it their own fault?
No voting on anything that effects England at all? Not even UK things?
No Welsh Scottish and N.I MP should be allowed to vote on legislation that will ONLY affect English. If it's legilsation for the whole of the UK such as tax or defence then of course all MP's should be allowed to vote.
Where is the justice when Scottish MP's vote for their domestic issues at home without any English interfearance when Scottish MP's can vote for Foundation hospitals and top up fees on the English when they voted against that measure in their country? What do you say about that?
Only English MP's to vote on English issues.
Only Welsh MP's to vote on Welsh issues.
Only N.I MP's to vote on N.I issues.
Only Scottish Mp's to vote on Scottish issues.
The U.K parliament should reserve all the powers of the Uk as a whole such as defence and the economy.
Isn't this simple?
Do you have any clue as to how complicated the Northern Ireland peace process is? The Ireland conflict has been going on almost 100 years and you think it is able to be stopped easily? How would you do this?
Also there isnt conflict in Wales, so how can you blame the Welsh on not having power in their assembly?
Fair enough.
Would you be saying this if was the reverse throughout the 1980s and 1990s when Scotland and Wales were having laws they didnt vote for imposed on them by England?
I wouldnt have thought you would have advocated a partial break up of the UK.
I understand the problems in N.I and I also understand they can't be resolved over night but they have been trying to resolve these problems for years and years and yet there is dead lock but this isn't my point. Someone complained about N.I been ruled from London but my answer to this is that it's not my problem since they have failed to sort their differences therefore a assembly won't be granted and direct rule will apply.
I haven't blamed the Welsh for not having legislative devolution. Read what I write.
Go read my others posts they will answer this one.
Of course not. I just don't like seeing MP's other than English MP's voting on issues that affect England only.
Mind you, after hundreds of years of English rule, Welsh and Scots have every right to be chippy. And if anyone wonders, no, I'm not going to support England in the World Cup. Partly because they're going to get thrashed by Germany anyway.
Not getting at you but, for the Scots at least, it's way more complex. The Scots where only sporadically under English rule and, even then, it was only a fairly small percentage. The first king of Britain was Scottish after all. The apparent cause for the frankly foolhardy resentment starts 1707 and finishes 1746.
1707, the Scottish parliament is dissolved, which stops the country going bankrupt but the Scots blame the English for the country going bankrupt, which is odd because the Spanish and the Scots themselves are really the ones at fault.
Then the highland clearances start. That's where the real resentment steems from, as far as I can gather. It's all fucking stupid quite frankly.
To use it all as a source of resentment is pointless and that's why I said that bearing a grudge was "fucking stupid quite frankly".
Fair enough.
Fair enough. Although technically, they arent countries, they're nations.
The appliance of science ! ! !
Yeah, yeah, thats really...cool..
Anyways, didn't the Stereophonics sing, "As long as we beat the English we don't care"?
Yup!
And quite right he is too. :yes:
(jk!)
Actually we are, even the Prime Ministers website says so. We are known as Constituent Countries.
conquered ...defeated nations always moan and groan for hundreds of years ...get over it!
you pay your taxes to england and luckily for the welsh as it would have nothing ...absolutely nothing without the english.
1. Hated the English, avoided eye contact, unfriendley, stared at us as if we shouldnt be there.
2. Very friendly, had a love-hate thing. Was mainly banter, very nice people
I guess it the same everywhere
For a moment, I'm actually glad Labour is the main party in Wales. All the others would be so much worse!
The English (or British) government, yeah sure. And who can't blame them?
The English have a bad image in many places abroad where British resorts are to be found- and that's no surprise either. But other than that I don't think anyone hates the English at all... on the contrary in fact.
Noone hates the English.
There's just a significant minority that give everyone else a bad name. That's the way it goes.
Hope that sums it up, you wankers