by Michael Portillo

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I can't believe we've had Gordon Brown as prime minister for some time now, in this extraordinary situation where he makes laws for the English but they don't have consequences on the whole for his constituents, and has there been any debate in Parliament? I thought when that happened the Conservatives would stop altogether and say 'we can't go on like this, this is impossible', that they would make it impossible for another member of Parliament from Scotland to be prime minister. But they haven't done that at all. They've taken it like lambs.

Dinner with Portillo - Why Should We Care About Scottish Independence? BBC4, 15th Sept 2009

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I have a feeling that people in Scotland are beginning to realise that the English don't care very much, and that one of the attractions of Scottish nationalism was that the English would be very very peeved about it, and now they're beginning to realise that the English aren't peeved and they're beginning to panic that if the English aren't peeved it might not be a very good idea.

Dinner with Portillo - Why Should We Care About Scottish Independence? BBC4, 15th Sept 2009

On the Record

If I was an English person living in England I would be severely frustrated at the lack of democracy. I don’t believe that Welsh MPs in Westminster should have a vote on issues that only affect England. There’s a massive democratic deficit in England. In fact a lot of campaigns are coming to Plaid asking us how we’ve done it. It’s very encouraging to see lots of campaigns emerging for an English parliament and we wholeheartedly support that. If you think of top-up fees, when that was decided in Westminster it was votes from Welsh MPs that made sure that English students had to pay top-up fees. A few months later the Assembly voted against them.

Gair Rhydd, Issue 911, November 2009

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