I’ve said before that I have had little sympathy for English people who complain about the West Lothian Question following the NE England referendum. They had a golden chance there, and it was wasted. Unfortunately, setting up assemblies seems to be the best solution on the West Lothian Question.

By the way, I fit better under ‘UK Scottish’ in your blogroll.

first visit to blog, found it via stuart

as for W lothian thing, might be good idea as scottish health service is actually doing worse since devolution, also agree about voting, but possible that English voters might not want devolution.

after all they rejected the assembly North East or as Labour put it, “they rejected a assembly they vote for”.

What you say is true in theory, but it’s quite different in practice. I mean, when John Reid was Health Secretary he introduced Foundation Hospitals in England but not in Scotland. Because of Parliamentary Sovereignty he could have introduced them in Scotland But he didn’t — not because he thought they weren’t a good idea for Scotland, but because it would have caused a constitutional crisis far bigger than the West Lothian Question.

The Cabinet minister situation is an interesting one. However, this is again something that devolution has not changed. The pre-1998 situation was the same. And also we have the Lord Chancellor, a not insignificant personage, who is answerable to absolutely no constituents anywhere (the same could be said for the very large number of ministers in the Lords).