IN response to David Mowat’s, Conservative MP for Warrington South, piece ‘UK Has Changed For Ever, However We Vote’ – Guardian, September 18.

He says: “It should interest all of us to understand that under current plans, even if Scotland votes yes there would still be 57 Scottish MPs elected to Westminster at the General Election next May.

“What this means in practice is that Scottish MPs could choose the Prime Minster next May, even though Scotland is on a path to separation. How fair is that?”

The real question in the debate, is exactly how Mr Mowat has ended it: How fair is that?

It’s about fairness. Now as I understand it, The West Lothian Question or the issue of ‘English votes for English laws’, regards the concept that in a devolved system, Scottish MPs can vote on England-only policies, but English MPs do not have an equivalent say on how Scotland is run because it is led by the Scottish parliament.

This system in my opinion is not fair because current Liberal Democrat Scottish MPs such as Danny Alexander, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and whom is chief secretary to the Treasury; Charles Kennedy, Ross, Skye and Lochabar, and Menzies Campbell, North East Fife, could have all voted in our English parliament for the rise in tuition fees which did not effect their Scottish constituents, but did the youth in England, despite Nick Clegg signing a pre-election pledge not too.

The same goes for the Labour Party; in their election manifestos of 1997 and 2001, they pledged not to introduce tuition fees and top up fees, but did and so the likes of Labour Scottish MPs such as former chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, former chancellor Alistair Darling, Edinburgh South West and current shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, Paisley and Renfrewshire South, could have all voted in our English parliament for tuition fees and top up fees, which did not effect their Scottish constituents but all the youth in England.

Unfortunately both the way the Labour and Conservative party have presented the debate is nothing more than partisan politics for obvious reasons and not about fairness for the citizens of England.

TONY FOX Stockton Heath