From: not.jim.silverton@verizon.net   
      
   Tory Andrew Rosindell (Romford) called for a federal system similar to   
   Australia or Canada that would give each of the home nations its own   
   parliament with a UK Parliament covering defence, foreign affairs,   
   national security, immigration and currency management.   
      
   However, such ideas do not take into account the overwhelming population   
   of "England" when compared with Scotland, Wales or N. Ireland. A federal   
   system will only work if England is divided into manageable components   
   like Northumbria, Yorkshire, Midlands, London, Essex and Wessex. Each   
   might have a separate assembly and the Parliament at Westminster would   
   have overall purview of the whole United Kingdom.   
      
      
   --   
   Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)   
      
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