Our Political Parties have been clear in their rhetoric, any major change in our relationship with Europe will lead to a referendum. In particular if there was to be a proposal that we join the Euro we could be sure of a vote. This sets a clear precedent, that fiscal union is something for the people to decide, not something the Parties should determine for us. This is a point of principal they claim and we have no way of knowing any different until they do as they did yesterday and make it clear that they only believe in this principle when it suits them.

The decision by the three main parties to oppose the use of the British Pound by Scotland if there is a YES in the outcome of Septembers Referendum is a step further than any of them would go if the relationship in question was with the EU. For the first time last week, David Cameron acknowledged our role in this decision, something that I expressed a few days ago was coming too little and too late as the break-up of the Union is a matter of constitutional significance for you and me. We keep on being told that constitutional change is something we will have a say in. I believe that the break up with Scotland is different to the granting of Independence to India or large parts of Africa in previous decades. However assuming that the final decision on Independence is one for the Scots, it is clearly a decision for the British People as a whole to decide if they are willing to share their currency with another nation. Not a decision for here today, gone to the Lords tomorrow MPs and Party strategists.

On a personal note, I will regret the loss of Scotland from the Union if the Scots do vote YES, the nation brings a great deal to our combined entity. I would however support greater powers to be released by Westminster to Holyrood. In this I believe in subsidiary, something that is at the heart of the philosophy of the EU (cackle ye not!) and something that both Labour and Conservative Parties claim to believe in, although they may not use the term. However the final step of Independence is something I would rather not see, and it is certainly something I feel should be a matter for the English to consider, albeit to a different extent than the decision being taken by the Scots themselves.

Today at Westminster the three parties will predetermine a decision on behalf of those who they hope will vote for them in 2015. We need an alternative to these three dominant parties whose arrogance is presented red in tooth and claw this morning when they tell us what they will allow and what they won’t if elected. We need elected leaders who make it clear that their form of leadership is to do what is best for us as English, Welsh and Northern Irish citizens, irrespective of the outcome of the September referendum. This means that if our nearest neighbour wishes to share our currency, that subject to our decision which must be informed by the technical and political implications, the new Government will do as we ask. Sadly this presumption of power and our consent is all too typical of these Parties and their ruling elite, many of whom have never been elected by us.