Everyone knows that politicians are inherently disingenuous but the Scottish National Party really has taken this trait to new levels.
For years, the tiny number of SNP members at Westminster have avoided voting on matters which do not affect Scotland, those matters for which power has been devolved to their own parliament in Edinburgh. However, now having a much larger number of representatives at Westminster, they have decided to take sides in a vote on whether or not the ban on fax hunting should be repealed in England and Wales; their explanation for this wholly unwarranted intervention is that they want to make the Conservative government aware of how small their majority is. This is poppycock; all they want to do is cause trouble.
At the same time, the SNP is railing against the Conservatives' plans to introduce 'English votes for English laws', the equivalent of which the Scots already enjoy for a significant part of their own legislation and for which they will soon be granted much wider powers. The fox hunting debate scheduled at Westminster on Wednesday has nothing to do with Scotland but the Scots MPs will do whatever it takes in an effort to defeat the Government and influence matters in England and Wales.
That this cannot be right is obvious. That the SNP has so quickly reneged on its various commitments not to interfere in matters at Westminster which do not concern it, shows only too clearly that they cannot be trusted and that the people of England and Wales were right to elect a Conservative government. Now it is time for David Cameron to fulfil his pledge and introduce clear and stringent rules to ensure that the SNP are prevented from imposing their ideals on people whom they do not represent and who have no complementary say over people whom they do.
The SNP has one aim. It wants independence for Scotland. I say let them have it and be done with what will otherwise be years, even decades, of pointless and destructive bickering. Fox hunting is just the beginning.
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