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SNP Tactical Voting: Cameron's Claim of Right act
David Cameron this week announced he would hold a referendum on anything that moves in Europe, Ben Bradshaw believes not having a referendum on electoral reform would be a "missed opportunity" and there have been a few referendums on gay marriage in the USA (with an unfortunate but wholly expected result in Maine).
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Will schools adopt the East Lothian answer? - Times Online
Engraved on the heart, or at least the election manifesto, of every Scottish politician, are the words that established the country’s state-run education system in 1872: “It cannot be too often repeated, that the theory of our school system [is] to supply every member of the community with the means of obtaining for our children, not only the elements of education, but such instructions as would fit them to pass to the burgh school, and thence to the University, or directly to the University from the parish school.”
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'Think of us as Scottish' plead under threat Royal Bank of Scotland workers in Berwick - Berwick Today
THE Royal Bank of Scotland is being urged to consider its Berwick branch as Scottish rather than English in a bid to prevent its closure.
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UK taxation and expenditure - politics.co.uk
Research into how UK tax revenue is spent reveals that it is the English taxpayer who is in effect the sole contributer to the UK treasury. The populations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are in reality non-paying recipients. The idea of the 'UK' taxpayer is a myth.
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Fabio is head over heels | The Sun |Sport|Football
FABIO CAPELLO has revealed he has fallen in love with our country as well as our national football team.
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I know where I'll be next St George's Day (or at least the day after) - Ed Kemp on Sports Marketing
St George’s Day has taken on a depressingly repetitive pattern
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David Cameron, welfare and constitutional literacy « Devolution Matters
Or was this just a statement of aspiration for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and a declaration of intent of what the Tories plan to do in England only? It was far from clear. Cameron’s language doesn’t clarify matters; he used ‘Britain’, ‘British’ or ‘Briton’ five times in the speech, but never mentioned ‘England’ at all.
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Little Man in a Toque » This Country, This England
“The purpose of the Department for Children, Schools and Families is to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up.”
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Complaint about BBC coverage of Britain’s new nuclear power stations; and reply regarding the One Show « Britology Watch
Clearly, the item was relevant to Britain only in one of the modern meanings of the word ‘Britain’, which is ‘England’. But the One Show is predicated on the lie that there is still just One Nation in political terms.
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England gets Collison, Scotland gets car-crash telly | guardian.co.uk
The English can whine about the Barnett formula all they want – but they don't know how lucky they are. Last night while English audiences being treated to the first episode of the much hyped and rather exciting-looking Collision, Scottish audiences were forcefed The Greatest Scot – part one of a week-long examination of championed Scottish inventors, warriors and celebrities (though oddly, Dougie Henshall, the Scottish star of Collision, did not made the shortlist).
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SNP brand Calman Commission tax plans a 'messy fudge' - Telegraph
A review of devolution that excluded independence at the outset has been branded by Scottish ministers “a messy fudge” that may be worse than the current arrangements.
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Major to tell MPs how to reform government - politics.co.uk
Former prime minister John Major has strongly implied he has run out of sympathy with Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system.
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Poll contains warning signs of a tiny Tory majority - Times Online
Perhaps it may not be so easy after all for David Cameron to win an overall Commons majority. The latest Populus poll for The Times, undertaken over the weekend, underlines the obstacles. Both main parties are down a point. The Tories are, at 39 per cent, at the lower end of their recent range, and Labour, on 29 per cent, at the upper end of theirs.
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Athletes will choose Scotland's games anthem - Times Online
Athletes representing Scotland at the Commonwealth Games are to decide which anthem is played when the nation's medal winners mount the victory podium in New Delhi next October.
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Guy Fawkes, protector of the English nation - Mail Online
I think that if the English really knew what Guy Fawkes was trying to achieve down in the cellars at Westminster, they would not be so keen on last night's bonfires.
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Exeter is a lovely place for the BNP, says actress Emma Thompson - Telegraph
Emma Thompson, the actress, has described Exeter as a place where BNP leader Nick Griffin "would feel very comfortable" because it has so few black faces.
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New Statesman - Is Labour heading for election meltdown?
Secondly, the election of a Conservative government could trigger Scottish independence with a referendum due to be held before the end of 2010. Of the 59 Westminster seats that would be automatically lost, 41 are Labour-held.
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The Retriever Weekly - Does Scotland deserve its independence from England?
Before coming to Scotland, I hadn't considered too much what the political climate in the UK is like. I figured I understood how the Westminster parliamentary system worked well enough to get by in conversation… Little did I know, political banter in Scotland is hoppin'!
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Scots ‘have been sold short by flawed Calman report’ - Herald Scotland | News | Politics
The limitations of the Calman Commission on increasing the powers of the Holyrood parliament have sold the Scottish people short and do not offer the electorate all the constitutional options, according to the SNP.
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The English still wind me up about moving down south, reveals Sir Alex Ferguson - The Daily Record
MANCHESTER United boss and Greatest Scot nominee Alex Ferguson says he still faces jibes about leaving Scotland to work down south - 23 years after moving.
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