Expecting England to pay

Seems the devolved nations of the UK have decided to oppose the current UK government plans for spending cuts as "too fast and too deep" No doubt an English Parliament might have said the same thing, though as said parliament would likely be Tory dominated, perhaps not. Problem being of course, who represents England? Nobody as far as I can see, we're the forgotten nation of the Union beset by other nationalities with their own parliaments and subsumed under the all encompassing term of "British" we even get criticised by our own "Brits" when we dare to fly our own flag and support our team as apparently it's racist except when its anyone else flying their flag and supporting their team of course.

BBC.

The first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have issued a joint declaration attacking the UK government's spending plans.

The leaders of the three devolved administrations said the coalition's cuts are "too fast and too deep" and may put the economic recovery at risk.

Alex Salmond, Carwyn Jones and Peter Robinson want cuts phased in over a longer period.

The prime minister said that approach would worsen the debt problems.

In his speech to the Tory conference on Wednesday, David Cameron said only Labour opposed to the UK government's deficit reduction plans.

But the rainbow alliance of parties which run the three devolved administrations, which includes the SNP and DUP, says frontloading spending cuts over the next two years is "entirely the wrong approach for the economy" and risks stalling any recovery.

They say: "The devolved administrations believe that the proposed approach to public spending reductions by the UK government runs the risk of delivering significant economic and social harm and urge the UK government to reconsider its proposals."

 In other words they see the bribes to keep them sweet drying up as the government struggle to get spending under control and reduce the sheer amount of debt and waste the previous administration left them with.
Personally I believe the UK government will ignore them, that means they can play the victim of "English" hostility to the outer regions and use it to pick up votes. Though I doubt they'll call for independence, that would leave them high and dry save possibly for Scotland with its oil, but as they'd be trying to get into the EU, I doubt they'd keep their oil for long.

Sooner this unequal union breathes its last the better as far as I'm concerned. I see no reason at all for the leaders of the devolved parliaments representing only 5% of the electorate to be telling the UK government what it can and can't do. Bit like the tail wagging the dog, but under Labour they did, Labour need the votes of their nations to keep a majority in Parliament because without them the Tories would dominate an English parliament.
So, Alex Salmond, Carwyn Jones and Peter Robinson, you get to share our (the English) pain and hand it down to your own people. Don't look for sympathy, you wont find it here, not any more, we're going to do our part, time you did yours.