Andy Burnham - Non-Elected 'UK' Prime Minister - Splitting England Up, Barnett Formula and West Lothian Question Privileges Outside Continue
How do we explain someone like Andy? Well, he likes the Celtic myth (a 1707 linguistic term from Welsh Nationalist Edward Lhuyd - not an ancient UK ethnicity) and all things 'saintly' and exclusive about three of the UK countries. Look after the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish (don't mention Darien, disproportionate activity by the Scots in the British Empire, the partitioning of Ireland by a Welsh PM with avid backing of Protestant Scots, the invention of the Poll Tax by Scotsman Douglas Mason and its implementation there in 1989 by its own Secretary of State, Wales as separate factions and kingdoms, not an ancient, unified nation) and pander to their one-side retellings of history. And as for the far more ethnically diverse England? Stuff that! That is what we know. One-sided UK 'history' (three saintly countries, one demonic) obviously helped shape Andy Burnham's barely concealed dislike of Engl...