My own conviction is that it is only by local parliaments and local executives in each of the the three kingdoms that we can settle home rule at all. Scotch home rule involves English home rule [but] not one in a thousand Englishmen has even grasped the idea of having a local [English] parliament as apart from the common imperial parliament, so that Scotch home rule must wait until the sluggish mind of John Bull is educated up to that point.