Should Scottish Mps Be Sent Home After A "yes" Vote?

[venator]

The West Lothian Question has been around for years, but it would be a game changer if the Scots get back behind Hadrian's wall!

The UK Labour Party would lose about 59 MPs, making it unelectable

Good for the country, imho, as they have maxed out the UK credit card twice in my memory, and show no prospect of change while depending on Trade Union support.

any comments?

3 balls a penny...

[jeffa]

Here we go again! Why do people:

a) think Hadrian's wall has ever been the border between England and Scotland?

b) think that Scotland being independent would make any difference to election results?

[wolf63]

I don't know anyone with 3 balls

I am Scottish
I live in Scotland
You can keep them

[DTCwordfan]

An erection would be needed. Hard to think about this happening.

[woofgang]

I think if Scotland gains its independence then Scots who live in Scotland should be barred from being members of the English parliament. A Scot who has made his or her home in England remains acceptable.

[Calibax]

@jeffa
a) Probably no-one does. The wall has just become a shorthand metaphor for the border.
b) How could you not think that the Labour Party having 50+ fewer MPs at every future election would not affect the make of the (remaining) UK parliament?

[wolf63]

My brother stays south of the border down Nottingham way - please don't send him back.

[DTCwordfan]

Woofgang, I would challenge Scots living in England - that isn't how the EEC works. If they hold a new UK passport, then okay. If they hold a Scottish one, they don't get the right to vote in the new UK, only at home. This is no different to when I lived in NL, B, F, and DK, I had no right to vote in their elections but could vote in the UK as an overseas.

Personally, I think that this is wrong and should change across the EU - you should have the right to vote in the country where you pay income tax - 'no taxation without representation' and all that.

[venator]

Thanks for the light hearted comments!

The fact is that Scotland, as a separate Nation will not elect MPs to Westminster, yet nobody seems to have noticed.

Media URL: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/02/what-happens-scottish-mps-if-scotland-votes-yes
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[jeffa]

"How could you not think that the Labour Party having 50+ fewer MPs at every future election would not affect the make of the (remaining) UK parliament?"

Because I can count! It's just maths.

If you take every general election since the end of the Second World War, the party with the greatest number of seats would have been different in just two of them and, of those two, the parliaments they elected sat for a combined total of just 26 months.

This really does seem to be beyond everyone's comprehension, yet it really is just maths!

[venator]

DTC - I like the idea of a vote dependent on paying income tax. We'd disenfranchise a vast legion of fiddlers and neer-do-wells. Half of Parliament, probably...

[venator]

Think of the Scottish leaders - Blair & Brown, for instance. Scotland would have declared war and Brown could have ruined the Scottish economy.