Whatever happened to English votes for English laws?
Robert Henderson
Letter to Telegraph 2 6 2010
Sir,
Norman Barnes (letters 2 June) asks if Danny Alexander's appointment as
Chief Secretary signals the dropping of Cameron's promise of English
votes for English laws?
I fear that the policy has been dropped. There was no mention of it
during the leaders' TV debates and emails I sent to Cameron and Clegg
after the formation of the coalition asking for confirmation that the
policy was now coalition policy have been met with a stony silence.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
Emails sent to Cameron and Clegg
18 5 2010
Dear Mr Cameron,
For several years you have been promising "English votes on English
laws". I can find no reference to this in the coalition agreement.
Please let me know what your present position is.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
20 5 2010
Dear Mr Clegg,
David Cameron promised "English votes on English laws". I can find no
reference to this in the coalition agreement. Please let me know the
coalition's position on this matter.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
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Robert Henderson
Personal website: http://www.anywhere.demon.co.uk
charlie6
wrote:
Dear Robert
Many thanks for your letter. You will appreciate that
as you do not live in my constituency I would not normally reply. In
you case however I have made an exception. As you know in modern
Britain we have something called pro-active Policing and we refer
difficult questions to them.
To be quite honest with you pro-active Policing is a bit of a
euphemism for what actually happens, we have recruited some twenty or
so thousand thugs who drive around in cars we have seized from those
people who were not rich enough to pay their tax. Some of those
gentleman will sit in front of your house and try to answer your
questions sometimes at inconvenient times like in the middle of the
night. Sometimes they might even walk to the shops and remind you on
the way of how easy it is to trip over a paving stone. Occasionally if
we really want to help you and in difficult cases we will send or
aviation departments helicopter to hover over your house at 30 ft and
three in the morning you will find this really helpful.
As a further measure we could always get one of our Officers to put in
an intelligence report claiming you are a paedophile - please do not
hesitate to contact me further if in six months time you are still
dissatisfied with our response.
with best wishes
and kind regards
HardySpicer
wrote:
Dear Robert
fuck off you *nglish Prat.
The minister.