The day after ”The Edinburgh Agreement” was signed there was no mass public celebrations reported in any Scottish city, town or village. Come to think of it there was no celebrations at all apart from inside the security cordon of the signing itself - populated by the same devo parties, payroll and client base that has brought you a nation in ruins.

The Edinburgh Agreement's purpose is to remove the elector's power ( the referendum prevents election) to choose their MP (and preferred manifesto) and further dis -integrate the United Kingdom.

HOL pushing for UK CC to codify a federal constitution. The main speakers being the well paid former MP’s/MSP’s who voted for legislative devolution in the first place. PS your paying again!

The Conservative Party’s choice of the ICC in Birmingham rather than a larger venue is an attempt to hide the decline in it’s membership (the same applies to Labour). Devolution remains a conduit to provide public money to parties that cannot get it through popular privat membership contributions.

September 1997 - under the cover of the devolution referendum in Scotland the Conservative Party renounced it's belief (held over centuries) in the Union through a unified, integral and common union Parliament. 

The Conservative Party supports the legislative division of the nation and uncommon representation in the House of Commons.

Put the Union first? They cannot even put the Union Flag on their podium. Miliband “You know there is no more important area of our common life than the United Kingdom itself” (speech 7300 words – words on Union 236)

The nation is in ruins and the payroll and client base in the hall clap as Miliband refers to “You know there is no more important area of our common life than the United Kingdom itself” (speech 7300 words – words on Union 236) and “I care as much about a young person unemployed in Motherwell as I do about a young person unemployed here in Manchester. We have common bonds, we have deep bonds with each other.”

Not common or deep enough to have a common vote in Motherwell and Manchester.

The Federal Labour Party (the old Labour Party was closed down last year - see Labour Conference and special Labour Conference Scotland 2011) supports the territorial, electoral and institutional division of the United Kingdom through legislative devolution. This includes the systematic break up of the NHS and it’s replacement by devolved health services in the devolved territories.

Legislative devolution provides the political cover (including a fictional mandate) for the proposed separation referendum. So long as legislative devolution remains on the statute book the division of the United Kingdom will continue. Only removal of the legislative devolution provisions (replaced by administrative devolution) and introduction of a Common Representation Act can restore equitable, stable and durable government across the United Kingdom.

 Michael Moore gives monologue while the disintegration of the Union does not even merit a party debate.

 Michael Moore remains on the run from a By Election Challenge.

 The Scotsman today 25/09/12 reports a Scotland Office spokesman:

“It’s looking pretty good,” he said. “We have made a lot of progress. “Now the officials will draft [the package] along the lines that we have discussed and then we will start talking about the specific terminology rather than the high principle stuff.

The removal of the electorate’s power by the use of a referendum mechanism and the integrity of the United Kingdom are matters of high principal, parliamentary government and the rule of law.

"It's time to crack on. Time is pressing. The sooner we can get the process issues out of the way and get on to the 'great debate' itself, the better for everyone, and the less damaging the uncertainty will be for people and businesses alike." Michael Moore MP 30 August 2012

Michael Moore says he wants a “great debate” on Scottish separation from the United Kingdom but he does not want electors in his constituency or the other 58 constituencies in Scotland to decide the matter in an election

.Michael Moore is still on the run from parliamentary democracy.

Michael Moore wants a “Great Debate” but has “nothing to add”. So much for parliamentary democracy and power of the elector

Challenged to a by-election on the Union instead of a referendum, the Scot Sec replied no - “nothing further to add” – he refuses to explain his reason for opposing parliamentary democracy and putting the elector first.

Follow the By-Election Challenge at commonrepresentation.org.uk

TANKERNESS RUNS AGROUND

Lord Tankerness is legally wrong when on BBC Newsnight 21^st Aug 2012 he asserted that the “Scottish Government” had a mandate to hold a referendum on theUnion as a consequence of the Scottish Parliament election held on Thu 5th May 2011.

On 5th May 2011 the Scotland Act 1998 was in force and that legislation explicitly prevents the Scottish Parliament

from being competent on the matter of theUnion.

Note

Lord Tankerness is Her Majesty's Advocate General forScotlandwhose duty it is to advise the Crown and UK Government on Scots law.

 The proposed Scottish referendum may not occur at all – according to the latest Scot Sec reply to his by-election challenge it is only the “Scottish Government” that is committed to hold a referendum on theUnion: 

“It is the Scottish Government who have committed to hold a referendum on Scottish independence.”

PS – 8 months since Cameron opened this can and still no green paper or white paper or Bill or Act.

As The Guilty (Conservative and Labour) venture out again to play in the proposed Scottish Referendum debacle the nation is in moral, political and economic ruins.

The repeal of legislative devolution and the introduction of a common vote across all constituencies in the United Kingdom will unite and strengthen the nation.

Challenged to explain why he is against election but supports a referendum, Mr Moore has stated that he has "nothing further to add". Full text at commonrepresentatiton.org.uk

Michael Moore MP in new challenge to explain his opposition to election. Text at commonrepresentation.org.uk

Proposed HOL reform will create a three way representational, institutional and territorial conflict in England (HOC, EU and proposed new HOL/Senate). In the devolved territories this will be a four way conflict including the devolved structures. 

The electorate cannot be represented in two places at the same time. commonrepresentation.org.uk

commonrepresentation now provides for debate in it's blog facility. Parliamentary democracy requires free debate not least on devolution and the other attacks on our constitution.

The referendum mechanism is being deployed by both Conservative and Labour parties across a range of policies in an to attempt to avoid parliamentary accountability.

Both parties agree that parliamentary election’s in the United Kingdom should be avoided and reduced and have legislated to that effect. The referendum mechanism ensures:  

No election takes place,

No one is elected,

No government is removed or replaced,

No other parties can put their manifesto to the electorate for approval,

No MP is held to account by the electorate.

Mr Darling wants a vote (but not an election)

As MP for Edinburgh South West, he can resign and call a by- election on the Union.

Here it comes - the Conservative and Labour superstar cast list: Blair, Major, Cameron, Brown, Darling and Kennedy etc (you can guess the rest).  

Here they come for their last (publically funded) song and dance on the national stage before they get out. 

Peter Mandelson has said "‘the era of pure representative government is coming slowly to an end’.

Across the devolved structures MSP’s, MLA’s and AM’s are now replaced on a regular basis without election. Out of 297 devolved legislators only 113 are

directly elected while 184 are party appointed (by party list).

In our British Parliament, which has been composed by the means of election for centuries, it is now proposed to replace parliamentary election with referendum.

In Scotland over four million electors will be locked out of parliamentary democracy.

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While the United Kingdom disintegrates economically, socially and politically the Conservative and Labour parties prefer to sow further doubt and decay by creating a (still illegal) referendum on the Union rather than assert national unity.

Unless the referendum proposal is stopped it will create further division and waste. 

The Union was decided at the 2010 General Election. 59/59 constituencies in Scotland sent their MP to be part of the Union Parliament. The 2011 Scottish Parliamentary election did not by law cover the matter of the Union.

The Scotland Act 2012 delegates power to the Scottish Parliament to create a new income tax. The British Treasury tax pool will now be divided into two new tax registers: Scottish and non-Scottish taxpayers (based on the official recorded principal location of residence). PAYE employees and pensioners will be issued with new tax codes to differentiate.

This will further divide the UK, waste resources and create further complexity and legal dispute inside the tax system.

The Scotland Act 2012 is the next step towards the complete disintegration of the United Kingdom.

commonrepresentation.org.uk opposes this Act and supports a policy of common representation and common taxation.

In January 2012, Mr Cameron called for a “fair, legal and decisive” decision on Scotland’s representation or non-representation in the Union Parliament.

Such a decision has already taken place.

On the matter of the Union, the General Election of May 2010 provided a “fair, legal and decisive” decision. The electorate in 59/59 constituencies in Scotland sent their MP’s (including 6 SNP) to go and sit in the Union Parliament – in other words to be part of the whole.

The 2011 devolved Scottish Parliament election outcome did not alter the 2010 General Election decision. While the Scottish Parliament is entitled by law to legislate on matters such as Health and Education policy it is not entitled by law to legislate on the matter of the Union.

No referendum is required. The electors make their decision in the General Election.

The latest trap set for electors who do believe in the unity of the United Kingdom is the newly launched ”Conservative Friends of The Union”.

Set up by the Conservative Party in Scotland it is an attempt to remove from the collective memory the Party’s abandonment of the Union Parliament as an integral, equitable and unitary system in September 1997.

Mr Cameron said today at the Conservative Party Conference in Scotland “At the last election, Alex Salmond asked for a mandate for a vote on independence. He won that election. He got his mandate” - this is not the legal position.

The SNP did win a majority on delegated matters in Scotland such as the NHS and education but explicity not on the matter of the Union. Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998 excludes the Union from the range of delegated matters that electors voted on in the Scottish Parliament election in May 2011. General Election decides the Union not referendum. 

Devo Plus Devo Max Devo Super Max Devo Mega Max - It's all the same: division and an uncommon vote in a common Parliament.

Latest details of By Election Challenge available at commonrepresentation.org.uk

Michael Moore MP Challenge is published on commonrepresentation.org.uk

Scottish Secretary By-Election Challenge

Michael Moore Secretary of State for Scotland has been challenged to resign his Borders seat and create a by-election instead of a referendum on the matter of the Union. 

More to follow

MP Challenged to resign and call by election not referendum - more to follow

 To date - not one MP in Scotland has spoken out against a referendum on the Union. 

The 59 MP’s sit in the Union Parliament (and draw money from the British public purse for doing so) only because they were elected in their constituency on a commitment that they would go and be part of the Union.

Mr Cameron has now invented a West Lothian Question Commission - to find an answer to it. It will cost taxpayers money so to save a waste of public money here it is for free – repeal legislative devolution and introduce a Common Representation Act. The technical name for the WLQ is uncommon representation – an elector in Cardiff has more power in their vote than an elector in Newcastle – uncommon representation is not durable in our common parliament.

Through the 1970s and 1980s anti-devolution politicians warned that legislative devolution would lead to political conflict and potential separation. William Ross, Enoch Powell and Tam Dalyell and others spoke out in support of a unitary parliamentary system of government. Today the evidence before all of us proves they were right.

 
The general election of 2010 saw 59/59 constituencies in Scotland sent an MP to the Union Parliament (to be part of the Union)
 
Only a general election can allow the electorate to reconsider (by voting between one candidate and another) their decision of 2010. A referendum is a denial of the electors parliamentary authority and opens the question – by what authority do the 650 MP’s today sit and legislate in the House of commons if it is a referendum that now determines membership and authority to make laws?
 
The electors of Witney or Doncaster North have not had a referendum to determine wether their MP should (or not) sit in the House of Commons.
 
If Mr Cameron "supports the Union so strongly " then he and only he can call a General Election and allow electors to exercise their authority and reconsider their decision of 2010.

In the 2010 General Election 59/59 constituencies in Scotland voted to be represented in the United Kingdom Parliament. If the government now wants the electorate in those constituencies to reconsider their 2010 decision then the only parliamentary way to do it is to call another general election and allow electors to choose between on candidate and another - It is called Parliamentary democracy.

British taxpayers are to pay for the Welsh Assembly to increase it’s unit in London.

Estimated rent is £50 per square foot per year = £150,000.

BBC Reports: “They say an office of 3,000 square feet would allow space for around 20 people, including a boardroom and reception area.”

JOHANN LAMONT MSP claimed:

“The SNP have won the right to hold a referendum on Scotland leaving the United Kingdom.” 

The 1998 Scotland Act makes it explicit that the Scottish Parliament has no authority to hold a referendum on the Union.

The European Union is an important dimension (status/money) of the devolved structures. Common Representation campaign supports the repeal of 1972 European Communities Act. We must return to the open sea.

The break up of the Conservative and Labour parties into federal models - although the United Kingdom is not a federal state (it remains politically, constitutionally and legally a Parliamentary Union)  - has paved the way for both parties to move to the next step in the disintegration of the United Kingdom – the push for an English Parliament. Labour MP Frank Field has laid a parliamentary motion to explore such a structure (Early Day Motion 2426). commonrepresentation.org.uk opposes legislative devolution in any part of the United Kingdom.

Devolution Gravytrain:
 
£244M For Devolved Politicians Salaries.
 
A new report by commonrepresentation.org.uk highlights that the 297 devolved politicians cost the British taxpayer over £60 million per year in basic salaries alone.
 
This amounts to over £244million over a four year period. This figure does not include any other item of devolved expenditure (salary enhancements, expenses, offices or official car fleets etc). £244m could provide: police on the streets or welfare for the elderly across the United Kingdom.

 
The report also highlights the four tier voting system in the UK and the multiplication of politicians representing a single elector (15 in Scotland - not including local government).

For further info please see Report 1 at commonrepresentation.org.uk

In September 1997 the Conservative Party replaced it’s policy on the Union (Unionist) with a new policy (Devolutionist).

14 years later devolution is not only breaking apart the Union it is breaking the political parties that voted for it in the first place. In Scotland it is proposed by the Conservative Deputy Leader that the party be disbanded. (to be decided on November 4^th 2011). In Wales Conservative leaders now call for the party to change it’s name and be “wholly and solely based in Wales”. The Conservative Party is paying the price for it's decision 14 years ago.

Mr Miliband said this morning "We have not just a shared history but I think a common bond.” We have a common bond and a common Parliament but he still refuses to support common representation across the United Kingdom. For 12 years electors in English constituencies have had less power in their vote than other electors across the UK as a result of devolution.

The Labour conference has voted to accept the decision of the membership in Scotland later this month should it decide to elect it's own leader and organise itself on a Scottish Parliamentary constituency format. The parties are moving to a federal model. This like the Conservative break up in Scotland and Wales is the political plates shifting as a result of devolution.