Mr Morgan seems to be suggesting that if England had its own parliament then the problems we now face principally in regards to the economy, Iraq/Afghanistan and immigration would be significantly different.  I agree that there is a constitutional anomaly currently at play but the main challenges we face as a country are not exclusive to England.

England has always been the driving force of the union and I very much doubt that were it to have its own parliament/assembly or indeed to be entirely independent that the post-imperial yearning that Mr Morgan identifies as a major part of our decision to go to war would evaporate.  The war would have happened with or without the union.

Economic liberalism, war and mass immigration have clearly not benefited Wales and/or Scotland any more than England so I don't understand why Mr Morgan thinks that if the English had a specifically and exclusively English body to represent them that the political course of our country would have been any different. 

The section of society to benefit most from these policies are not any one nation of the union but a class of people ­– bankers, business people, in short, the rich.  It is in their interest that the country has been run since 1978 under the misapprehension, which I spoke of in my last correspondence, that what is good for the rich is good for the poor.   

Loathe as I am to defend Gordon Brown the economic crisis is global and there is not a country on earth that will not feel its effects. To what extent any one country suffers depends very much on the policies they have followed over the past few years.  If they, like New Labour, have subscribed to market ideology then they too will be much more severely affected by the financial storm.  If, however, they are more left wing and have therefore more tightly regulated their financial sector then their troubles will be significantly less intense.  

My main point is that the political opinions of the English do not differ enough from those of the Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish to have significantly altered policy.  In fact, if anything the problems would have been worse since Wales and Scotland tend to be a bit more left wing. – Tyler Chinnick, Wyesham, Mon­mouth.