Payment for running siblings’ new cars

Back in 1999, the parents of three children bought two of their offspring, a new BMW, each. The third received nothing.

For the next 15 years, they did not acknowledge their third child’s existence although they forced him to pay the running costs of his siblings’ new cars.

However, after those 15 years, circumstances forced them to recant slightly and they bought their third child a second-hand moped. He still had to pay his siblings’ running-costs.

By coincidence in 1999, the British government granted two of the three countries of Great Britain (Scotland and Wales) their own parliaments and with them, selfdetermination. The third, (England) received nothing. For the next 15 years, the British government refused to acknowledge England’s existence, although they forced her citizens to pay the running-costs of these Scottish and Welsh parliaments, enabling the Scots and Welsh to enjoy freebies which they were denied.

However, after those 15 years, a Scottish independence referendum forced them to recant slightly, and the people of England have been told we’re going to get EVEL (English votes on English laws). We will continue to be made to pay the Scots’ and Welsh running costs.

We weren’t asked. The Scots and the Welsh got a referendum – we didn’t. The Scots and the Welsh each got a brand new BMW. Now, after 15 years, we’re being told we can have a second-hand moped – “take it or leave it”.

Clive Lavelle Weston-super-Mare English Democrats