Just sent this to my MP … 

Dear David,

Your Prime Minister signed the Scottish Claim of Right in which he pledged that the interests of Scottish people would be paramount in all his acts and deliberations.

Now that he is your British Prime Minister, the interests of all people in “Britain” should be paramount in all his acts and deliberations.

Asymmetric devolution, the continued existence of the Barnett Formula, persisting in allowing MPs elected in Scotland to vote on areas of legislation that have been devolved in their own constituencies, a commitment to the abolition of England by regionalisation, refusing to acknowledge that English people have a “sovereign right to determine the best form of government for themselves” (something else that was in the Scottish Claim of Right) – all these demonstrate Gordon Brown’s continued adherence to the principles of the Scottish Claim of Right.

Gordon Brown’s faux-Britishness is a sham.  He has pledged to put the interests of 5m people first and foremost in everything he does to the detriment of the other 55m and is standing by that pledge.  EDM266 calls on your Prime Minister to renounce the Scottish Claim of Right as it is clearly incompatible with his position as British Prime Minister.  The text is as follows:

That this House recognises that the Prime Minister is a signatory to the Scottish Claim of Right in which he declared and pledged that in all his actions and deliberations the interests of the Scottish people `shall be paramount’; believes that by declaring that the interests of the Scottish people should come first he has committed himself to discriminating against the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland; considers this to be incompatible with being the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in which office the interests of all UK people should be equal; and calls on him publicly to disassociate himself from and withdraw from the Scottish Claim of Right.

As an MP elected in England elected to represent the interests of your constituents rather than your party, I would like you to sign EDM266 and reflect what I believe will be the majority view of your constituents; that Gordon Brown’s pledge to put Scottish interests first and foremost in all his acts and deliberations is incompatible with his job as British Prime Minister and discriminatory against the other 55m people of the UK that he has pledged to treat as less important, second-class citizens.

Stuart

p.s. Once again, I ask that you conserve resources, save money and do your bit for the environment by replying to me by email and not by post.

EDM266 can be found here.

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