Jogging Memories
A gentle reminder to Conservative MPs about the popularity of one of the measures on which they were elected.
...it has been suggested that when MPs at Westminster consider issues that affect only England, only English MPs (and not Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish MPs) should be allowed to vote on them. Do you support or oppose this idea?
Support: 66%
Oppose: 17%
Don't know: 17%
And a gentle reminder to Liberal Democrat MPs that they were elected on a promise to do something about the Barnett Formula.
Scotland currently receives around 20% more public spending per head of population than England. Do you think Scotland gets ...
More than its fair share of government spending: 59%
Pretty much its fair share, given Scotland's large land area and the costs that arise from this: 24%
Less than its fair share: 3%
Don't know: 13%
The polling data is taken from YouGov for the Sunday Times, three weeks prior to the general election.
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As Alan Trench has pointed
As Alan Trench has pointed out, the Holtham Commission has yet to publish its final report (due in June) on Welsh funding. It will no doubt be 'noted' by the coalition and filed in the nearest bin.
Hopefully that will be noted
Hopefully that will be noted by the Welsh public.
For someone who doesn't want to be prime minister of England, and who prefers to think of himself as British, David Cameron has wasted no time in associating himself with England's sports stars - taking up where Gordon Brown left off.
Huh, Twenty20, not even
Huh, Twenty20, not even proper cricket...