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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [qb]I'm sorry, but devolution is bullshit unless their is pairty in all parts of the UK. People may have stopped talking about it but the West Lothian Question still exists. This may sound like a whingy gripe, but it is not fair.[/qb][/QUOTE]I agree that there has yet to be a good answer to the West Lothian Question and perhaps some kind of reform is needed to reach that answer, but I'm pretty sure that whatever solution might exist isn't to be found in taking swipes at Scottish Prime Ministers. Especially when you consider that of the lst two Scottish PMs one of them was elected by an English constituency. I do have to say though, that I don't agree with the contention that a Lib-Lab coalition would be at odds with the results of the election. More people voted for a centre-left party than voted for a centre-right. I'm less than comfortable with the fact that Clegg feels he can ignore the constitutional convention that a sitting PM gets first go at forming a government in the event of a hung parliament - it's not for him to decide who to speak to first, that's not how the system has worked in the past and it's not for him to abuse his position and decide that's how it's going to work this time around. Clegg's position on this is contradictory, to say the least - you can't spend an entire election campaign complaining that first past the post is a broken system, doesn't work, needs to be replaced blah blah blah, and then when the FPTP system returns an inconclusive verdict, suddenly claim that the Conservatives have the first right to form a government because they won most seats under FPTP! I'm fine with someone thinking a system is broken and needs replacing - I'm less fine with someone thinking that and then suddenly acting as if the system has handed them a signed note from God Almighty telling them they can run roughshod over the way things are done. Give it 9 months to a year, and we'll be back at the polls because there is no way that the Conservatives - who enjoy support from a minority of the electorate - will endorse a change to the voting system that will put them out of power forever. If Clegg gets won over and helps the Tories into power, he and his party deserve to get ground into the dust at every election from here to doomsday and back again. And yes, I still laugh at "hung" parliament. :-) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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