Sunday trading hours/ Scottish mp's

So I'm sat there reading my AG magazine when i come to the news page.

There's an article entitled " Longer Sunday Trading Bid Scuppered ".

What it amounts to is that Scottish mp's have voted against changes to relax Sunday trading hours in England ! ! !

This is a direct quote from Raoul Curtis Machin of the Horticultural Trades Association....... " We are surprised and disappointed by the SNP. This is NOT an issue for Scotland, where no restrictions exist on Sunday trading ".

This is just an example of the arrogancy and two facedness of Scottish mp's who want their own devolution but still want to dictate what the English do and what happens in England.

It's about time tho practice was stopped altogether. Either kick them out of Westminster altogether or restrict what they can vote on.

 

I thought there were already plans to ignore Scotland on England only matters, and I thought those plans had already gone through.

 

And to think your leaders wanted to keep the " United Kingdom " only last year in the referendum and today the chancellor was going on about "being stronger together
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Heres an idea.......you get your westminster leaders to negotiate unlimited sunday trading laws on the condition you take all your nuclear submarines and weapons back south and keep them there.

 

Hi Wee Tam, you already have unlimited Sunday trading, that's the point of it all.

 

True but theres stuff we have that we dont want but its imposed on us from a government hundreds of miles away. I for example have lived through thatcher,major,blair,brown,and cameron none of which ive voted for .

We`ve both got to take the good with the bad or separate completely.

But on sunday trading laws im surprised you have such restrictions compared to us and i hope you get them lifted asap.

On a separate note ive always thought that sunday workers should be on time and a half minimum.

 

Weetam, you're a bit late. The people of Scotland voted. The issues you raise were discussed at great length in the months leading up to the referendum.

 

Yes they voted but they were lied to by the tory/libs and promises were immediately broken as soon as the result was out . Im no lover of the snp far from it and tend to hold all politicians / councillors / bankers in equal contempt.

 

Personally i'd move the nuclear deterrent south of the border anyway, its just not safe to spend money building a new version of trident, spending all that money and then Scotland goes independent.
As to Sunday trading, yep SNP getting involved just reinforces my view of what is going on politically.
We should move all important government instillations and defence out of Scotland, move the oil pipelines to come ashore south of the border and let the SNP get on with it.

 

How sick am I of all this English bashing Scotland and Visa versa. Surely with all that has been happening recently can't we in the UNITED KINGDOM turn our attentions to much more important matters than bitching at each other. You'd think we'd have more bile for the likes of ISIS but obviously not. I am at the stage of feeling ashamed to admitting I'm Scottish and with the way some South of The Border are going on I'm not exactly proud to be British either.

 

I'm sorry Silu if you think I'm " bashing Scotland " or " bitching ", it wasn't meant to come across like that, however as was said above by a fellow countryman of yours this is more a case of your mp's bashing England just because they can.

I only posted this thread in regard to Sunday trading hours, I didn't really want it to turn into an England/Scotland debate on anything other than that.

 

Well said @ARMANDII

 

Thats a good idea. ?

 

Our nuclear subs are in Scotland because Scotland is blessed with the right geography for them.

There's nowhere else on the mainland that has direct access to deep, open water, where subs can sneak in and out undetected. As far as defence is concerned, for the whole of the UK and indeed our allies, this is important. It means potential foes can never bequite certain where we are.