England should demand EU membership "cease to apply" on Scots' independence

The debate upon which I blogged this time yesterday on Scotland's EU status following a "Yes" to independence in a referendum, continues to grab headlines this morning, see this from the Irish Times linked here.

There was a huge question mark hanging over the legitimacy of a Scottish only vote on this question long before the EU question arose. The situation has become ever more complex following the involvement of EU legal experts, the House of Lords and Commission President Barosso's letter, see here.

As my first posting to IBTimes, linked here, which will be repeated on this blog over the coming weekend makes clear, the financial disputes between Member States of the Eratz Union are worsening. That post mentions French allegations regarding "scandalous" fund transfers across their border with Luxembourg, such disputes, as austerity worsens, are alone likely to bring matters to a head.

Fake goodwill among the players is now clearly fraying at the edges, the mockery of "family" fostered by the EU is fading fast. If Scotland is given a "Get out of the Eratz Union for free card" then England should have one too!

Scotland and England

The Daily Telegraph has a rather amazing report that suggests Cameron's Conservatives may have found a ruse which they hope will bury the West Lothian question. As could have been expected it is a complete Dog's Dinner. I have added my own comment, which is repeated below as the Telegraph has taken to ignoring comments that might throw Cameron's Conservatives in a remotely realistic light. The column titled "At last, an answer to the English question" by Philip Johnston, is linked here. David Cameron made it perfectly clear he would refuse to address the Scottish anomalies, such as the Barnett formula, in his first interview with Andrew Marr, he stated: "I’m a Cameron, there is quite a lot of Scottish blood flowing through these veins." The headline news today that Britain's banks (many Scots' controlled) will be handed another 50 billion pounds of our devalued money means it is not just our democracy and parliament that has now been destroyed. Will any English politician now demand Brown offers an explanation as to why he required Mervyn King on appointment as Governor of the Bank of ENGLAND to remove house prices from the chief inflation index, for that must be the cause of this debacle, i.e. it was avoidable and Brown is culpable.