Anything devolution has done to benefit Scotland?

thick as mince vinny tells us Britain is a democracy one minute, but wants to abolish a democratically voted for institution , which had three quarters of Scots voting in support of , on his own personal whim.

I think vinny doesn't understand the meaning of the word democracy. or perhaps it's akin to Putins. will you send in the tanks vinny if we dont abolish Holyrood?


psss .Vinny. Scotland Northern Ireland and Wales already have pr. You need to be starting a thread on the English forum for your country to catch up with the rest of us. just saying.

the English have 85 % of the representation in parliament , collect everyones taxes and redistribute a few baubles to the Celtic fringe , while scotland cant even control its own energy sector , but the English are the victims. this is what you are up against in these islands , nut jobs like this.

The de facto English parliament can literally do as it pleases. It could abolish devolution tomorrow , or grant england independence from the uk and end the union . One wonders why these victims never exercise their power and do so.

lets hold a European wide referendum on abolishing Westminster. Tell everyone what a waste of money it is , with its over the top 650 commons mps , and the House of Lords , with its 26 Church of England bishops on a tiny little island , which has the second biggest legislature in the world.

replace it with Brussels

I think you can answer that. If Scotland were a drain on the UK's coffers, Westminster would deliver independence on a silver platter. But the Scots, who comprise only about 12% of the UK population, are sitting on natural asset resources valued at around 30-34% of the total UK annual value, not so? I'm guessing that is something Westminster doesn't want to pass up.

That’s quite something that you remember all of that. I should be congratulating you here on your powers of recall but instead I feel that I need to suggest that you seek medical help as your memory and your mind could well be beginning to let you down. Other than the fact that I used the Soapy Souter moniker for the short period (12 months only) that I was on the old forum, not a single detail that you relate about me above is true or anywhere close to the truth. 

I do not keep deflecting. I have explained where the answers to your original points are and, where there are no such answers, I have explained that is because I will not rise to your cheap chicanery by responding with anything other than unbridled contempt.

What mythical rules do I waffle on about that don’t exist and what new rules have I made up on the hop to constrain democracy?

the kingdom of great Britain , and ireland was a part of it. it wasnt a country .it was a multi national kingdom , with a legislature in London , and a colonial legislature in Dublin. Scotland didnt cease to exist. Wales ceased to exist legally as a country in the 16th century as I explained ,with a series of laws enacted which abolished Wales , made it part of england , and ended the old welsh legal system of hywel da. Then individuals representing the welsh were admitted to the former English only  parliament. 

 It was simply re arranging the deckchairs as the power of the monarchy , the dual monarchy , which england thought they could use to control scotland , waned , so they needed the political representation sent to Westminster to curb the threat of Scotlands parliament leaving the kingdom which was created in 1603. not 1707.

 Do try and keep up.  


another one like vinny who knows nothing about his own multi national state, yet rants deliriously about it incessantly. Are you now trying to tell me the English king was not king of ireland pre 1603? Ireland was a kingdom of the English crown , ruled by the English crown via its colonial parliament , since the Tudor times , and like scotland ,when the power of. the crown waned , they bribed the irish colonial lords into union in 1801 to maintain Englands power over Ireland. re arranging the deck chairs.

 So I repeat , there has never in history been a country called great Britain. It is a geographical name , like Scandinavia , or Iberia , an island . always throughout history multi national multi ethnic , as far back as scholastic research can penetrate over two thousand years. 

 

It's rather telling that no devolved government has ever been able to run a budget surplus despite assistance from the Barnett formula.