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	Report on East Lothian by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland
		East Lothian Council commented that, while it was sympathetic towards the proposal, it would not wish to change the boundary because of the adverse impact on electoral parity.
		East Lothian Council was asked to make copies of the electoral ward boundary descriptions, electoral statistics and illustrative maps available for inspection at their offices.
		East Lothian Council was consulted and concluded that including the whole of Port Seton within Ward 9 would have involved the transfer of a substantial number of electors from Ward 10, thereby creating unacceptably high divergence from electoral parity in both wards.
	www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk /reports/eastlothian.htm (2394 words)

	Arthur Balfour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The eldest son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame, East Lothian, Scotland, and of Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil, Arthur Balfour was born at Whittingehame.
		In Parliament he resisted any overtures to the Irish Parliamentary Party on Home Rule, and was active in encouraging Unionist militancy in Ireland.
		During the illness of Lord Salisbury in 1898, and again in Lord Salisbury's absence abroad, he was in charge of the Foreign Office, and it was his job to conduct the critical negotiations with Russia on the question of railways in North China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Balfour (2018 words)

	Scottish Affairs, D.McCrone, Polls 1999-00 (online article)
		As far as voting intentions for a Scottish parliament were concerned, Labour was marginally ahead of its nearest challengers, the SNP, for much of the year, with the exception of March/April, and ended up in May with a putative 55 seats to 42 for the SNP.
		The ICM poll confirmed the liberal stance of both the Scottish population as well as Catholics, with 66% happy for the law on abortion to remain as it is (62% of Catholics), and 81% agreeing that contraceptive advice should be given to children under the age of 16 (76% of Catholics).
		As a prelude to Mike Watson's introduction of a law in the Scottish Parliament to ban fox-hunting, hare coursing and hunting with terriers, MORI carried a poll in March 2000 of 991 respondents.
	www.scottishaffairs.org /onlinepub/sa/mccrone_1999-00polls.html (2410 words)

	soc.culture.scottish FAQ - allanswers.org
		About the authors: Bernard Crick, founding secretary of the Study of Parliament group in 1963 and author of The Reform of Parliament (1963) and of In Defence of Politics, is Emeritus Professor of Politics, London University and an Honorary Fellow of the Politics Department of the University of Edinburgh.
		Scottish Nationalisn is not based on history it is conceived on the hopes of the future.
		Scottish businesses in particular, rather than having a Scottish address are forced to use either a "UK" version, or an international one which might already be in use by a different company elsewhere in the world.
	www.allanswers.org /travel/cultures/scottish/scottish-faq-20.htm (3457 words)

	Orkney_Islands
		Orkney is also a former county, and a Lieutenancy area, and the Orkney constituency of the Scottish Parliament.
		The Orkney Islands are represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the Orkney and Shetland constituency, which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
		In the Scottish Parliament the Orkney Islands are themselves the Orkney constituency, which elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post system.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orkney_islands.html (2704 words)

	Scottish Parliament: Official Report (16/02/00) - Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
		It was the official language of Scottish government until the adoption of English translations of the Bible at the reformation, and continued as the spoken language of all classes in the lowlands well into the 18th century.
		Surely our new Scottish democracy must recognise the culture and speech of the mass of the people if it is to approach the ideal of inclusivity, which is cherished by all of us who worked for the creation of the Parliament.
		The Scottish Socialist party hopes soon to introduce a new proposal to abolish the deeply regressive and unpopular council tax and replace it with a Scottish service tax that would be based on ability to pay and incomes.
	www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk /corpus/search/document.php?documentid=1238 (21248 words)

	East Lothian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Her selection for East Lothian in 2001 was a surprise as she was, and remains, largely unknown in the constituency.
		He is the Convener of East Lothian SNP and lives in Dunbar with his wife Sharron his son Scott and daughter Kirsty.
		This new constituency consists of the whole of the old East Lothian seat with the addition of four wards from the old Edinburgh East and Musselburgh seat and one ward that was shared between the two constituencies.
	www.alba.org.uk /nextge/eastlothian.html (818 words)

	Caithness CWS - Links - Scottish Government
		Having the same constituencies for the Scottish Parliament and Westminster is desirable but not essential and should not drive change to the electoral system for the Scottish Parliament.
		Scottish Parliament regions should be revised to reflect natural local communities and identity and should be built on local authority areas.
		The code of conduct for Members of the Scottish Parliament should be revised to provide a clear and positive role for both constituency and regional members to enhance representation for constituents and improve scrutiny of local and national services.
	www.caithness.org /links/scottishgovernment.htm (1640 words)

	City of Edinburgh Information
		The Next tier of government is that of the Scottish Parliament, which governs on matters of Scottish "national interest" such as Healthcare, education, the environment and agriculture devolved to it by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		For purposes of administration by the UK Parliament, the City of Edinburgh is composed of 5 UK Parliament constituencies, each of which elects one member, under the first past the post voting system to be its MP.
		The Parliament of the United Kingdom gave legislative consent to these proposals by passing the Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004, which resulted in the City of Edinburgh losing 1 UK Parliament Constituency and the boundaries on the others redrawn.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/City_of_Edinburgh (1462 words)

	Musselburgh East (East Lothian) 22 nd June 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Because of the latter change, the town of Musselburgh is part of the Lothians Regional constituency for the Scottish Parliament, while the rest of the county of East Lothian is, much to the confusion of local residents, not part of the Lothians, but of South of Scotland.
		The western corner of East Lothian around Prestonpans and Tranent is a former mining area however the western part around East Linton and Dunbar has more in common with rural Berwickshire, which used to be part of the parliamentary constituency until 1983.
		East Lothian District council was firmly in Labour hands in 1984, and remained solid until the 1992 elections when Labour's majority was slashed dramatically from seven to just a single seat as the Tory vote surged throughout the county.
	www.scottishpolitics.org /localby/musselburgheast.html (2683 words)

	Lothians (Scottish Parliamentary Electoral Area) information - Search.com
		The Lothians is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999.
		Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs).
		The East Lothian constituency, however, is not part of the Lothians region, but forms part of the South of Scotland region.
	www.search.com /reference/Lothians_(Scottish_Parliamentary_Electoral_Area) (227 words)

	Scottish Devolution: A Historical and Political Analysis
		In November 1998 the Westminster Parliament passed the Scotland Act, as it did a Wales Act also, and it received Royal assent; the first elections to the Scottish Parliament are to be held on May 6, 1999.
		As Archie Brown theorized in his article, Asymmetrical Devolution: the Scottish Case, "membership in the European Union means that a break with England would not be absolute."<16> With Scotland’s striving economy and claims to the North Sea oil, the EU may be the larger entity needed to replace the UK and give Scotland stability.
		By 1979 the Scottish public was bored of the five-year struggle that had become the Scottish Home Rule campaign and which had culminated in the Referendum.
	www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1998-9/Rivera.htm (3340 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 21 Jan 2004 (pt 21)
		The fact that we face the prospect of the architect of the West Lothian question leaving the House before his constitutional dilemma is properly addressed is an indictment that we must try to avoid.
		As the Scottish Parliament enters its sixth year, it is legitimate to ask why the Government have completely failed to address that question.
		Even though the decision on whether to introduce that policy for their constituents was clearly within the remit of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Members saw fit to troop lamely through the Lobby and save the day for their beleaguered Prime Minister.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040121/debtext/40121-21.htm (1322 words)

	Akerbeltz.org - Official Status for Gaelic
		To similar effect is the Scottish Land Court Act 1993 (1993 c.45, s.1(5)), requiring a Gaelic-speaking member on the seven-member Land Court, which deals with non-crofting land disputes in the Highlands and Islands as part of its national remit.
		The East Lothian Question remains a critical problem for proponents of official status for Gaelic, who must wrestle with the nature of Gaelic’s rôle in Scotland — whether it is the true national language, whether it is a national language at all.
		The Dynamics of Scottish Gaelic (paper presented to the Language Policy and Planning in the European Union Conference Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 28-29 April 1995).
	www.akerbeltz.org /rannsachadh/officialstatus.htm (7725 words)

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		East Lothian MSP John Home Robertson is thought not to be seeking reselection for next year's Scottish Parliamentary elections.
		All one would say was that the MSP was due to attend a meeting of the East Lothian Constituency Labour Party on Thursday November 9.
		Before his election to parliament, he ran his family farm in Berwickshire and was a member of Berwickshire District Council from 1974 to 78.
	www.eastlothiantoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1133&ArticleID=1866178 (513 words)

	SNP, Liberal Democrats, Labour and Scottish Conservative party views on scottish referendum for scottish parliament:
		It is proposed that the Scottish Parliament be empowered to determine the form of local government taxation, to set the framework within which local government operates, to legislate to make changes to the powers, boundaries and, crucially, to change functions of local authorities.
		Power is thus bestowed on the Scottish Parliament to make local government responsible for the administration and financing of any or even all areas of government provision in Scotland, retaining only legislative powers at the Parliament itself.
		By giving the Scottish Parliament full control over the local authority remit which includes revenue raising responsibilities and the definition of its functions, New Labour is leaving the back door wide open to Scottish independence.
	www.scotlink.com /scottish-referendum/political-parties-scotland.htm (5930 words)

	Informat.io on Kirkcaldy Scottish Parliament Constituency
		Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
		The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency.
		The Holyrood constituency of Kirkcaldy is one of five Mid Scotland and Fife constituencies covering the Fife council area, the others being Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West, Fife Central and Fife North East.
	www.informat.io /?title=kirkcaldy-scottish-parliament-constituency (378 words)

	Scottish Parliament: Chamber Minutes Vol 3, no 11 - Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
		The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body ("the SPCB") shall provide information technology and other office equipment, and office furniture for an office, within the constituency/region from which a member was returned.
		(13) A constituency member may locate his or her Parliamentary office base in a constituency other than the one from which the member was returned provided that the location has prior approval of the member returned from that other constituency and the SPCB is notified immediately.
		(2) Where a member's main residence lies within a constituency mentioned in Group Two of Annex B, the member shall be eligible for an overnight expenses allowance of up to £82.08 per night for each night that he or she requires to stay overnight for Parliamentary duties in Edinburgh.
	www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk /corpus/search/document.php?documentid=1085 (5190 words)

	An MOT for MP hopefuls
		The new constituency that an old MP has migrated to is given and four litmus test votes are shown.
		Her selection in 2001 was a surprise as she was, and remains, largely unknown in the constituency.
		Picking’s attendance record in the House of Commons was the poorest of any Scottish MP, while her expenses claims were amongst the highest.
	www.scottishleftreview.org /php/upload/slr-442-I27HM.htm (1745 words)

	Scottish Conservatives :: Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the sole Scottish Conservative MP at Westminster I have to tell you ladies and gentlemen, I don’t want to be alone.
		But by focussing attacks on the Scottish Parliament we are missing the real target, which is Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
		I am greatly encouraged by the enthusiasm of our Scottish Parliament candidates and the number of new people who have come forward to stand in Council elections next year and I know that our army of volunteers across Scotland will give them their full backing.
	www.scottishconservatives.com /speeches.asp?article=86&curpage=4 (1763 words)

	East Lothian UK
		East Lothian is officially the sunniest and driest...
		East Lothian is the perfect relaxing day out from Edinburgh....
		East Lothian U3A is run by a committee elected by...
	www.dotukdirectory.co.uk /d6592.html (212 words)

	Scottish Conservatives :: Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Margaret has also been a councillor and was special adviser to David McLetchie MSP and James Douglas-Hamilton MSP prior to being elected to the Scottish Parliament.
		Margaret is Scottish Conservative Justice Spokesman and a member of the parliament’s Justice 1 Committee.
		In addition to this she is Vice Chairman of the Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CPG) and she co chairs the Dyslexia Cross Party Group.
	www.scottishconservatives.com /biogs.asp?biogid=59 (163 words)

	The Witanagemot Club - We few, we happy few...English News from the bloggers for England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		No UK voter, whether they be English, Scottish, Irish or Welsh, elected Gordon Brown to represent them on health, education, transport, culture, sport, or any of the other policy areas that are delvoved to the Scottish Parliament.
		The majority of people in Scotland and England believe that it is wrong for Scottish MPs to vote on English matters, and whether or not it is acceptable for a Scottish MP to become prime minister is related to this.
		It is a fair settlement to have a Scottish parliament and my answer to English nationalism is the same as my answer to Scottish nationalism: it is foolish, and wrong and backward looking, and we can modernise the UK for today's world.
	www.toque.co.uk /witan (1885 words)

	eastlothiantories.com - the East Lothian Conservatives
		The East Lothian Conservatives hold four seats on the East Lothian Council and are working for you all year round.
		If any constituent insists on his involvement, he will assist under the rules of the Scottish Parliament.
		Phil has visited East Lothian on several occasions, attending local functions and meeting the Scottish Conservative Group.
	www.eastlothiantories.com (210 words)

	politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In total, 659 Members of Parliament will be elected from across the constituent parts of the United Kingdom: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
		Those who are elected then go to the United Kingdom Parliament in Westminster, London, to represent their parties and constituents in the House of Commons.
		In Scotland there is greater choice for voters as in addition to the British political parties, there is also the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Scottish Socialist Party who are contesting all 72 of the Scottish seats.
	website.lineone.net /~scottishfreedom/electsystem2001.html (293 words)

	politics
		The new Scottish Parliament, devolved from Westminster, will have 129 MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament).
		One vote will choose a constituency MSP and the second vote will be for a political party.
		Opinion polls in Scotland suggest that this electoral system is most likely to result in the formation of a coalition Government in the first term of the Scottish Parliament.
	www.angelfire.com /sc/freedom/electsyst.html (259 words)

	Special report: Scottish elections 2007 \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		April 13: The prime minister said that Scottish voters might be tempted to give him a kicking, but they would be left with the consequences of an SNP government for years.
		April 10: The leader of the Scottish Labour party today pledged a 'radical' and 'urgent' programme to invest another £1.2bn in education every year, as his party unveiled a detailed manifesto for this May's Scottish parliament elections.
		April 12: The leader of the Scottish Nationalist party has signalled that he is willing to strike a deal over a referendum on independence in an attempt to secure a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in the Scottish parliament.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /scotland/scottishelections/0,,2001442,00.html (2517 words)

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