Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage yesterday slammed Labour party plans to deny English people the same rights as those enjoyed by Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish voters. While the Conservative party has pledged to deliver English Votes for English Laws; and will force a vote on this by the end of November; in the House of Commons yesterday representing Labour Sadiq Khan attempted to claim there was no popular demand for English-only votes.
The local MP hotly contested this, saying that "I represent a constituency in the South of England, and while he keeps talking about this as...something coming down from Westminster, and there being no requirement for it...I get letters about this every day, every week; English people want English votes."
Speaking outside the House of Commons chamber Caroline said, "English people just want basic fairness in the political system. All they want is a fair deal for England in which their voices carry the same weight as those of people in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It is unbelievable that the Labour party are trying to block this; yet this is sadly predictably from a party that just doesn't trust people in England. They don't trust voters with equal constituency sizes, they won't allow people a say on Europe, and now they won't even give voters in England the same rights as those of people in every other part of the UK. They're out of touch with English people, and rather than trusting us they want to rig the system and sneak into Government via the back door."
