Scottish MPs are good-fer-nuffin layabouts

Or soon could be according to Channel Four's Gary Gibbon:

If Alex Salmond gets his way, Scotland could have a referendum at the end of this current term in Holyrood and it could result in Scotland going for a heightened form of devolution – “devolution max” or “devo max” as it’s being called.

So many powers would’ve been transferred to Scotland that the case for whipping away powers over English politics from Scottish MPs would be “unarguable”, one senior Labour source worries. What would that mean for Labour’s chances of forming a majority government in Westminster in the future? “Curtains”, was the word used to me.

Back in 2006, the then Lord Chancellor suggested that if Welsh MPs were to stop voting on English matters they would only be at Westminster for half a day a week. Mind you, Charles Falconer is an idiot or a liar, as evidenced by his 2006 claim that there "is no demand at all for devolution to England or the English MPs only being able to vote on English issues", so let's err on the side of caution and say that Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs would have to be at Westminster one day a week.

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