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[url]http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/19/labour-ed-miliband-constitutional-convention[/url]
[quote]Labour has countered David Cameron's plan for English MPs only to vote on English issues in the Commons by saying Ed Miliband will convene a constitutional convention to discuss the future of devolution and power at Westminster.
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The convention will be a form of semi-representative assembly going beyond elected MPs.
It would begin before the next election with every nation and region in the country engaged in dialogue with the people about how power needs to be dispersed, not just in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but in England too.
The Labour proposal is that these debates will bring together MPs and councillors with ordinary citizens.
Each region will produce a report outlining a series of recommendations, covering for example: how sub-national devolution can be strengthened; how the regions can be given more of a voice in our political system; and how we can give further voice to regional and national culture and identity.
This would be followed in autumn 2015 with a constitutional convention to determine the UK-wide implications of devolution and to bring these recommendations together.
It will discuss the shape and extent of English devolution and what reforms are needed in Westminster, as well as the case for a regionally representative Senate or for codifying the constitution.
Any recommendations would be debated by parliament.[/quote]
This just seems like an overly complicated solution to a fairly simple problem, I don't see anything wrong with just making it so that Only English MPs can vote on English issues.
[QUOTE=The mouse;46025450]This just seems like an overly complicated solution to a fairly simple problem, I don't see anything wrong with just making it so that Only English MPs can vote on English issues.[/QUOTE]
What about the problem of governments having majorities for some things and not for others?
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