Over the past decade, support for an English Parliament has grown, from 18% to 29% – and 40% believe that the current “Barnett forumla” system is unfair.
The way devolution has been set up to work currently is untenable. There is a massive democratic deficit as Scotland and Wales both have:

Their own Parliament or Assembly with various law-making powers

More MPs than their population justifies

Scotland and Wales benefit massively from the Barnett formula, gaining £1-1.5k extra per person every year – all paid for by English taxes!

There is no denying that the …

Over at the Wardman Wire, we are holding an online symposium on devolution and most specifically the issue of an English Parliament.
So far:

Dave Cole argues that it’s “a long way to Westminster” and the English devolution should be provided on a regional level – but he doesn’t deny that it is needed;
Garbo claims that we don’t need an English Parliament, and can’t have one due to them complications; and
Matt Wardman considers the way(s) in which we are governed and the the potential role of an English Parliament.

In my post, I’ve …

The West Lothian Answer is not this:

Mr Clarke’s committee suggests there should be voting restrictions when MPs look at the “committee stage” of a bill – when most in-depth amendments are discussed.
For matters relating solely to England, only English MPs should vote, while English and Welsh MPs alone should vote on issues only affecting those two countries, it argues.
MPs from all countries could later vote to pass or reject the bill as a whole, the committee adds. (BBC)

That doesn’t solve the West Lothian Question. It isn’t even an acceptable temporary …

The idea of an English Grand Committee is a good one. It will reduce the currently enormous democratic deficit currently enforced upon England and its people.
But this is only acceptable and appropriate as a short-time solution. This will only reduce the democratic deficit, not remove it. If a grand committee is acceptable for England, why is it not also acceptable for Scotland and Wales? There should be equal – truly equal – democratic representation for all four parts of the United Kingdom.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should all have …

Toque has made a new petition on the PM petitions site:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop saying ‘Our country’ or ‘This country’ when he is talking in relation to devolved issues such as health, education and housing. If Mr Brown is talking about English matters then he should say ‘England’, even if it is politically inconvenient for him to do so…There is a tendency amongst politicians of all hues to conflate England and the UK as if devolution had never happened. It’s less complicated that way. But …

Today is “Devolution Day” in Wales, a decade since the referendum narrowly in favour of devolution, which is now claimed by First Minister Rhodri Morgan to be the glue which unites Wales and allows it to “grow up”. Bloggers such as Ordovicius want the Welsh Assembly to gain more powers and become a parliament like that in Scotland. I can but agree with him that it should be – and there should be an English Parliament as well.
But will – or could – this lead to the situation that Belgium …

We want a referendum, and he’s going to try and get us one:
David Cameron is planning a Parliamentary ambush over the new EU treaty in an attempt toThe Tory leader revealed his plans to mobilise the rapidly growing cross-party support for a nationwide vote in an exclusive interview on Telegraph TV [viewable below].He pledged that within weeks of Parliament’s return on Oct 9 he would force a Commons vote demanding a referendum on the successor treaty to the abandoned European Constitution.Mr Cameron said he would “push the government all the …

It seems that even some on the Left are coming around to the inherent problems with the current constitutional situation:
Pressure mounted yesterday on Labour to curb the power of Scottish MPs at Westminster and the “unfair” funding formula which channels public spending to Scotland.Gordon Brown, himself a Scottish MP, was urged by a Left-of-Centre think-tank [IPPR] to remedy the perceived constitutional unfairness stemming from the creation of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.As a result of devolution, English MPs can no longer vote on key issues such as health and education …

Is it possible to the United Kingdom to survive the inequalities that exist within it – all of which are to the detriment of the largest constituent part of it, and which provides the funding for the inequalities as well?
Government has been devolved to both Scotland and Wales, with the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly – and yet England lacks any form of self-government as an individual country. This is not acceptable, not in the short-term and certainly not in the long term. The very least that should – nay, …