The Conservative Party Manifesto
Here is an extract from the Conservative Party Manifesto:
And we will stop the practice of ‘double-jobbing’, whereby elected representatives sit in both Westminster and Stormont.
Labour have refused to address the so-called ‘West Lothian Question’: the unfair situation of Scottish MPs voting on matters which are devolved. A Conservative government will introduce new rules so that legislation referring specifically to England, or to England and Wales, cannot be enacted without the consent of MPs representing constituencies of those countries.
Without a hint of irony the 'double-jobbing' policy statement is immediately followed by their vague and ambiguous policy on the West Lothian Question, which entails asking MPs to 'double-job' as UK MPs in the House of Commons and English MPs in an England-only Committee.
Twats.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. King James Bible.
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In the Welsh Assembly a dual
In the Welsh Assembly a dual mandate can only be held until the following election i.e. if an Assembly member is elected as an MP, he or she has to stand down as an AM at the next Assembly election and vice versa so a dual mandate has lasted some two years at most.
I'm a bit surprised that the Conservatives have retained a reference to 'constitutional vandalism' in their manifesto. I thought they were converts to devolution.
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I've recently read "Fighting for Scotland" by Michael Forsyth, a collection of his speeches on Scotland and devolution from 1992 to 1995. It's a shame that it's not available on-line because it's hilarious. 'Constitutional vandalism' crops up many times, but that's one of the more flattering descriptions of what Labour and the Lib Dems were proposing. That the Tories saw fit to publish them in book form tends to suggest that Forsyth's views were well regarded.
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I've double-checked on the dual mandate business. Apparently it's a convention rather than a rule in Wales and Scotland not to hold a dual mandate past the following election. Technically legislation should apply to all three devolved institutions.
‘Constitutional vandalism’ may be an old favourite but it’s rather odd to move from vandalism in one paragraph to ‘Support for devolution’ in the next!
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