Difference in leaders quite clear
Wednesday 18th April 2007, 9:20AM BST.
How come I have to pay £6.85 for my prescription when my Welsh neighbours get their prescriptions for free?
Why, it’s because they have their own parliament, but we English are governed by the UK parliament at Westminster, where Scots ministers, elected in Scotland, but having no say in the Scottish parliament, help dictate policy for a government that wasn’t re-elected by English voters.
Whatever happened to diversity and equality?
England may not have its own parliament because the EU wants it split into 13 self- governing regions, devoid of a national identity.
So, until then, we shall just have to continue paying through the nose for failing services while our neighbours in the EU take us for the mugs that we are and our nearer neighbours enjoy good self-government.
R Jenkins, Telford
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There are many issues whereby England is treatd as second rate compared to the Welsh and Scots, prescriptions, Univesity funding, Scottish MP’s voting on English & welsh matters differently to when they vote on the same issue in Scotland. Scotland, Wales & Iealnd receive far higher per head funding from the Government than England.
Lets vote out this Government and correct the injustice that the English face, and make the Scottish and the Welsh realise that they are being bribed to vote Labour at the expense of the English.
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Syd your sentiments are valid …. but the question must be asked …. Why did these Jokers get voted in for not one, not two but Three terms and if the Status Quo remains will get in for a Fourth. The people of this Country will have to Wake Up and realise that their Future lies in there own Hands …. Would do Well to hearken to a Pearl of Wisdom from G K Chesterton:………….
“Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.
For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.”………..
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As a patient from Wales, I can well understand the feelings of people on the English side of the border, regarding free prescriptions but the health boards in Wales are in a very poor financial state, the free prescriptions come just before the elections in Wales, on the 3rd of May. If you live in a non labour area of Wales you see the proposed closure of schools and hospitals but new hospitals and schools are being built in the labour area, if that situation is not communism I fail to see any other reason for it, you vote labour or loose your infrastructure!
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