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	West Lothian - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Under the Local Government Act of 1973, West Lothian was divided between the Lothian and Central regions.
		In the local government reorganization of 1996, the Lothian and Central regions were dissolved and the council area of West Lothian was created in part from that portion of the county of West Lothian that had been assigned to the Lothian region.
		The county of West Lothian was formerly called Linlithgow or Linlithgowshire.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-westl1oth.html (366 words)

	BBC News \| Talking Politics \| The West Lothian Question (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The original question was posed by Labour MP Tam Dalyell, whose constituency used to be called West Lothian.
		Today, the question is more commonly assumed to challenge the fact that Scottish members at Westminster would continue to vote upon English matters while MPs from England had lost the power to influence Scottish affairs which had been devolved to Edinburgh.
		Two, it is argued that the potential West Lothian anomaly is outweighed by the actual past anomaly of Scotland voting predominantly for one party - Labour - and being governed by the Conservatives.
	news.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /1/hi/uk_politics/talking_politics/82358.stm (1005 words)

	The West Lothian Question - Uncyclopedia
		The West Lothian Question is a quandary that has plagued the people of the Scottish hamlet of West Lothia for centuries.
		The reason for the Question's persistence over so many years can almost certainly be attributed to the fact that there are simply no good restaurants in West Lothia.
		An intelligent observer of the situation may ask, "Why don't the people of West Lothia simply cook their own food?" Herein lies another unique natural phenomenon: the West Lothians have a genetic trait that physically prohibits them from preparing anything but quiche.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/The_West_Lothian_Question (245 words)

	Free Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The West Lothian question was a question raised by Tam Dalyell, MP for the Scottish constituency of West Lothian during the debate over Scottish devolution in the 1970s.
		The West Lothian Question is important because the government went ahead to provide the Scots and the Welsh with Parliaments while not addressing the question.
		The lack of effective action to counter such discrimination is likely to result in a default solution justified on the basis of popular demand for an English Parliament providing the English with the same levels of representation and decision-making power currently enjoyed by the Welsh and the Scots.
	www.realnews-online.com /rn0006.htm (423 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - West Lothian question goes unanswered
		He said: "The Government's position on the West Lothian Question is a matter of public record and the subject has been comprehensively debated inside and outside of parliament for a hundred years.
		I have a feeling that the WLQ will be resolved in the not too distant future when Scotland opts for complete independence, to say that it has been debated many times over the past 100 years does not take into account the relationship between Scotland and England post devolution.
		The WLQ will be solved, not by banning Scottish constituency MPs From voting on English matters, a stupid suggestion anyway, but by creating an English Parliament with the same powers as the Scottish one.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1538992006 (908 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Davis Seeks Answer to the West Lothian Question
		Davis argued that the answer to the West Lothian debate should be a separation between British and English policy in Parliament.
		Conservative answers to the West Lothian Question have ranged from a reduction in the number of Scottish MPs, to the restriction of voting on English issues to English MPs.
		The debate was named the West Lothian Question after it was brought up in the first major debate over devolution in the 1970's by Tam Dalyell, Ex- MP for the Scottish constituency West Lothian.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-11-21/34838.html (499 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Why the West Lothian Question may become the key issue at the next general ...
		"West Lothian" is a supeb name for this issue, summoning up as it does the gerundive mood of the verb "to loath" together with a sense of sunset.
		The workable solution to the West Lothian question is to take all the relevant powers out of central government and to place their management and accountability as near to the parish pump as possible.
		The "West" in West Lothian is, I hope, a ray from the sunset of over-centralised ineffectiveness.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000755.php (3406 words)

	chapter 5
		This problem was first raised by Labour MP for West Lothian Tam Dalyell in the 1970s - hence its name: the West Lothian Question - and has been vociferously raised ever since by Dalyell and other critics of devolution.
		The West Lothian issue exists because the British devolved system of government is asymmetrical.
		Bogdanor agues that there is only one logical answer to the West Lothian Question, and that is that Britain become a federal state whereby all the nations within the UK have their own separate governments with a federal government controlling national and international affairs.
	freespace.virgin.net /tr.kelly/ch5.htm (871 words)

	RealNews
		But it must be said that all British MPs failed to respond to this sane question in the honorable and transparent fashion it deserved but continued in their irresponsible fashion of placing their party before country.
		This in itself raises questions as to the issue of the relationship between votes received and legitimate representation.
		Unfortunately, the lack of clarity on these questions in declarations by the main opposition parties calls into question their fitness and preparedness in serving the interests of the English in the 21st Century.
	www.realnews-online.com /rn0008.htm (659 words)

	West Lothian question (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The West Lothian question is a question posed by Tam Dalyell, MP for the Scottish constituency of West Lothian during the debate over Scottish devolution in the 1970s, and which is still relevant after the 1999 establishment of the Scottish Parliament.
		The question is : :If power over Scottish affairs is devolved to a Scottish Parliament, how can it be right that MPs representing Scottish constituencies in the Parliament of the United Kingdom still have the power to vote on equivalent issues affecting England and other parts of the UK, but not Scotland?
		This could potentially be seen as an injustice, and was of particular significance as the Labour Party was (at the time) proposing devolution while reliant on Scottish MPs for its majority at Westminster.
	west-lothian-question.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (436 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Comment is free \| Tim Dowling: I've got this West Lothian question licked
		In the early years of my residency in Britain, I sometimes fancied that I was destined to be the one to answer the West Lothian question, that my outsider's perspective and formidable insight would be perfectly suited to the task, and that I would become a hero.
		That was before I knew what the West Lothian question was, of course.
		Now that there is a Scottish parliament, with its own building and everything, the West Lothian question is being deployed by the Conservatives in order to argue - with admirable impartiality - that Scottish MPs should be banned from voting on English issues.
	www.guardian.co.uk /commentisfree/story/0,,1812168,00.html (470 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Baker seeks end to West Lothian question
		He published a Bill, Parliament (Participation of Members of the House of Commons), which seeks to answer the "West Lothian Question" and create a new constitutional settlement between the constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
		During the debates in 1977 and 1978 on the Labour Government's proposals to create a Scottish Parliament, and again in 1998, Tam Dalyell, the former member for West Lothian, constantly raised the central question of the consequences at Westminster of introducing a separate Scottish parliament in Edinburgh.
		However, Mr Blair has ignored the West Lothian question and regularly relied on the votes of Scots Labour MPs to carry contentious legislation affecting England.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/17/nscot17.xml (528 words)

	The Blogspot Last Ditch Archives: The West Lothian Question
		St Georges' Day was a non-event when I was a boy with The Times snootily commenting on one occasion that "...nationalism varies inversely with the importance of the nation..." Now the flag of St George flies on that day and the long-slumbering beast of English nationalism is stirring.
		Debates on the England/Scotland question in the blogosphere are becoming quite disturbing in their intensity.
		The original West Lothian question will be supplemented with a new one; how can a United Kindgom government and parliament dominated by Scots negotiate Scottish independence with the Scottish Parliament without the English being stuffed for one last time?
	lastditch.blogspot.com /2005/11/west-lothian-question.html (792 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Scottish Devolution and the West Lothian Question
		The West Lothian Question was first mooted in the 1970s by the MP for West Lothian, Tam Dalyell.
		Do nothing, accept the West Lothian Question as a quirk of the parliamentary system, and hope much of the recent controversy goes away.
		The Scottish devolution settlement has created the problem of the West Lothian Question, whereby MPs from a Scottish constituency can vote on issues not affecting their own constituents.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/actionnetwork/A13484928 (1249 words)

	Eurealist
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		The West Lothian Question, 62 percent of English and 46 per cent of Scots voters are concerned about the affects of Scottish devolution on the British Parliament.
		As this is a constitutional problem it should be addressed by the leading constitutional power in the land; unfortunately for the English that power at present resides in the person of the Lord Chancellor, who happens to be the unelected Lord Falconer, Scottish friend of Tony Blair and major campaigner for the Scottish parliament.
	eurealitshome.com /blog/index.php?tag=west-lothian-question (4623 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Scotland: News - Dundee answer question but Livvy are touch unlucky
		Tam Dalyell may never have received a satisfactory reply to his famous West Lothian question, but the rest of us have already received answers to all the questions posed of the team from that part of the country.
		Livingston were unable to endorse their superb start to life in the SPL with a victory at Dens Park yesterday, but, after a win over Hearts and a draw at Ibrox, Jim Leishman's side confirmed their status as a top-flight outfit is unlikely to be short-lived.
		The visitors' back division had to ask questions of itself though, for the unmarked Sara was given what amounted to a free header at goal to break the deadlock and secure a home win.
	www.soccernet.com /scotland/news/2001/0812/20010812dfcsvlfcs.html (813 words)

	FT.com / World / UK - The Scottish question might leave Cameron's Tories struggling for an answer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now that the chancellor is all but certain to become prime minister next year, this is a salient question.
		It was first mooted by Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for West Lothian, back in the 1970s and was termed the "West Lothian question".
		The West Lothian question, meanwhile, is not as important to the public as some Tories believe.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/e02b2506-0253-11db-a141-0000779e2340.html (708 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight Home \| The West Lothian question
		The answer to the West Lothian question is simple - The Scots, Welsh and Irish all have their own forms of parliament from an actual parliament to an Assembly - the English don't!
		Stuff the West Lothian question since there is one question that's UNITING the whole nation: Is Grace the biggest bitch ever in the Big Brother house?
		I think the most simple and obvious answer regarding the West Lothian question is that English MPs only should vote on matters that affect England.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5056060.stm (1902 words)

	Independent Online Edition > UK Politics
		Dalyell was, at that time, MP for West Lothian.
		But at the weekend, Mr Clarke told a Sunday newspaper that there was no question of the Tories backing out of their commitment to the English.
		But the West Lothian Question is relevant to Wales, which has its own Assembly, though its powers are not as great as that of the Scottish Parliament.
	news.independent.co.uk /uk/politics/article1159315.ece (1156 words)

	English National Party Manifesto Policies
		The ENP believes that every victim of a criminal offence should have the right to address the court on the question of sentence and for the court to be required to bear the victim’s views in mind when passing sentence.
		English Nationalism is not a question of race, it is a question of being proud of our way of life (ethnicity), our heritage and our culture and about loyalty and a sense of community.
		It is a fundamental tenet of the ENP that the current system of Government has become debased to the point where Governments for whom only a minority of the electorate have voted, nevertheless insist upon carrying through dubious "manifesto commitments" without further reference to the democratic process.
	www.englishnationalparty.com /enp_manifesto_policies.htm (5104 words)

	The Sharpener » Blog Archive » In search of West Lothian
		Prime Minister’s Questions would be interesting, with the two party leaders having to run from one side of the dispatch box to the other depending on what the subject matter was.
		You may be correct that the ‘West Lothian’ question has been overstated, but in it simplest form it remains true.
		Although if one did want to resolve West Lothian issues neatly, the obvious solution would be to set up English regional parliaments of similar size and power to the Scottish Assembly (it’s a shame that the English regional assemblies proposed recently were so powerless and lame…).
	www.thesharpener.net /?p=72 (3873 words)

	New Statesman - Answering the English question
		As Falkirk West prepares to send a new MP to Westminster, the question is not so much "who?" as "why?".
		With a Scottish government in Edinburgh talking openly of initiatives that would bring it into conflict with London (such as full implementation of the Sutherland report on long-term care of the elderly), the focus will be on a tit-for-tat reduction of Scots representation at Westminster.
		However, the point about the West Lothian or English question is that it is a problem only if you think it is. If England had regional assemblies and Scots MPs were not allowed to vote on exclusively English matters, it wouldn't worry ordinary Scots.
	www.newstatesman.com /200012180028 (1045 words)

	Ephems of BLB » Blog Archive » Scotland and the West Lothian question: federation is still the only answer
		The only real solution is to admit that Tam [Dalyell, former MP for West Lothian, who originally raised and defined the West Lothian Question] was (for once) right, that the whole devolution thing was the wrong answer to the wrong question in the first place, and to abolish it.
		The Welsh Assembly is a sick joke, and the Scottish parliament, ever since Donald Dewar’s death, has been populated solely by third-rate rejects (apart from the occasional appearance of Alex Salmond, who clearly regards all politics as a bit of a joke invented for his private entertainment – quite a sane attitude really).
		Aspects of the West Lothian question, in an Irish context, have been inherent in British politics ever since Gladstone; hopefully the number of Irish MPs at Westminster will not frequently be sufficient to cause the kind of situation in which they can flmail governments.
	www.barder.com /ephems/516 (2555 words)

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