Englishness

[scooterscot]

Yup, I did. Then again I have 4 small kids and the boiler to service.

I used to call Fridays "Space hopper day" as I didn't need the return flight, I could have just bounced home.

Move the kids and the old dear out to Germany, you know it makes sense.

[suityou01]

Move the kids and the old dear out to Germany, you know it makes sense.

Actually, it does.

Kids are in school, have friends etc etc.

Wife has friends etc etc.

Not a flyer sadly.

I have looked up my new German friends and am trying to organise a trip to the Weinachtsmarkt in Dortmund though.

[amcdonald]

Residents of Scotland have no representation in Westminster. And for that matter neither do people in the north of England. Scotland is more than capable of managing it's own affairs.

On an individual level, the focus of this thread, it matters not in Scotland where you came from but only to a small narrow minded minority.

So the scottish MPs in westminster they have no representation in westminster

[amcdonald]

Yup, I did. Then again I have 4 small kids and the boiler to service.

That's not a nice way to describe your wife!

[suityou01]

That's not a nice way to describe your wife!

[scooterscot]

So the scottish MPs in westminster they have no representation in westminster

If those MP's are Scottish then I'm Thai. That defector Danny Alexander for example, Londoner through n through.

[bless 'em all]

If those MP's are Scottish then I'm Thai. That defector Danny Alexander for example, Londoner through n through.

Baroness Blatch My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that reply. Perhaps I may remind the noble Lord that before devolution Scotland was overrepresented in terms of the number of MPs per head of population but that this has been especially so since devolution. Will the noble Lord say something about the timescale—the definitive point at which a decision will be taken to reduce the number, and the procedures which will have to be undertaken to give effect to the provisions of primary legislation?

Ahem

[Mich the Tester]

If those MP's are Scottish then I'm Thai. That defector Danny Alexander for example, Londoner through n through.

What would make somebody 'Scottish' if someone who was born in Edinburgh, grew up in the Hebrides and Fort William and elected to parliament by the people of Inverness isn't Scottish in your eyes?

[bless 'em all]

What would make somebody 'Scottish' if someone who was born in Edinburgh, grew up in the Hebrides and Fort William and elected to parliament by the people of Inverness isn't Scottish in your eyes?

They have to feel down-trodden and resentful?

[DirtyDog]

What would make somebody 'Scottish' if someone who was born in Edinburgh, grew up in the Hebrides and Fort William and elected to parliament by the people of Inverness isn't Scottish in your eyes?

And is ginger!