IT was so sad to read the headline in last week's Review. One can empathise entirely with the iniquity experienced by the sick Llandogo lady and the frustration of Action4OurCare.

However, all of these iniquities and frustrations, along with many other consequences of devolved powers – which we English were not allowed to vote for – were completely forecastable and no one should be surprised by the iniquities now present in our dis-United Kingdom.

As demonstrated in this case, the NHS is no longer UK national. Students are not treated equally in UK countries.

Legal issues, such as small claims limits, separate Northern Ireland and Scotland from Wales, and there are many other example but perhaps the worst iniquity of all: Scots MPs can vote on matters affecting only us English but English MPs cannot vote on matters affecting Scots!

Yet our MPs prattle on pretending that they are concerned about "equality" and "fairness". What hypocrites!

As well as war mongering, destroying the economy and private pensions (legislation that the coalition has so far failed to reverse) the Blair/Brown government has much to answer for – but especially for destroying the constitutional basis of the United Kingdom, without the consent of all of its people resulting in just the kind of iniquity the poor lady from Llandogo has had to endure both in terms of cost and the bureaucracy she has had to deal with when ill.

This is not how the NHS was intended to be. What a mess we have allowed to develop.

– Tom Atkinson, Lydney.