The Surrender Of Power

I really don’t understand politicians. After four years of fighting to become Prime Minister, and destroying his own party in the process, some of Cameron’s first decisions are to devolve more powers to Holyrood and offer a referendum on devolving more powers to the Welsh Assembly. Of course he has no intentions on giving the country his promised referendum on the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty.

I would expect a Conservative Prime Minister to support the Union (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland I mean) and therefore oppose any further devolution of power from Westminster. If anything I’d expect a Conservative PM to claw some powers back with the long term aim of dismantling the two assemblies. By giving up more powers we will now have a situation whereby Scottish and Welsh MPs are not voting on UK matters but on English matters, which is unacceptable. England is the largest nation in the Union and for it to be disallowed a say in the smaller nations governance but for those same countries to be allowed a say in the governance of England is preposterous.

Inevitably the English will become angered and demand only English MPs sit in Westminster and Scottish and Welsh MPs sit in their respective parliaments. This is one short step from the two countries deciding to go it alone and leave the Union. At the moment there is no major appetite for that to happen but it seems David Cameron is doing all that he can to fuel that, just like his Labour predecessors.

For once it would be nice to have a Prime Minister who actually cared about the country, as opposed to pursuing his own party-political agendas.