caffeine writes:
Personally, I wouldn't consider any of them foreign, but you don't have to be foreign to want your own country. The Irish don't seem foreign either.
Yeah, that's what I thought. I imagine there is a limit to how foreign somebody can appear if they speak the same language. It's funny that the Irish don't seem foreign, because here in Ireland most would consider people from the UK as foreign. Of course the term is so ambiguous.
caffeine writes:
All that's really necessary is to change the law so that Scottish and Irish MPs can't vote on legislation which only applies to England and Wales. This would only need a bill about a paragraph long, and is impossible to rationally argue against, so it frustrates me no end that it hasn't been done.
Do any of the major parties have a stance on this issue?
Also has it affected legislation before? Not that that makes it any less valid as a suggestion, but just curious.
Related to what Straggler was talking about, the British elections get a lot of coverage over here. In fact in terms of television and radio, I'd say it would equal (surpass?) the coverage of the American elections.
As for my own opinions of the parties, I know their policies roughly, but I don't really have a feeling for them. That is, I'm not familiar enough with their history to have an intuition about them.
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