Originally Posted by
Wander00
On the same lines - can someone explain the origin of "The West Lothian Question" - I think I understand it as Scots getting double representation (a bit like Trades Union Members in the Labour Party), but what is the origin?
Tam Dayell, then MP for West Lothian, raised the question during the 1978/9 Assembly referendum. Effectively, he found a few places in his constituency with the same names as place sin England (e.g. Blackburn) and asked why, as MP for Blackburn in West Lothian, he could vote on matters to do with Blackburn in England but not in the one in his own constituency.