A SCOTTISH MP has accused the UK Government of treating devolved nations 'like children' after it threatened to repeal laws passed by the…
Cowan said:"It’s further evidence of the UK Government interfering in the working of the devolved parliaments.
"There is a lack of respect for the developed powers within the cabinet office and inter-governmental relationships often involve"I think it’s fair to say the devolved powers feel like they are treated like children. It’s a strange way to maintain a union of nations and certainly not one that treats us all as equals."
The threat by the UK Government, announced last Tuesday, led the Plaid Cymru leader to call for a referendum on Wales' future. Calling the move"potentially devolution’s breaking point", Price urged a strong response from the Welsh Government, suggesting that the question of Wales' future in the United Kingdom should be put to the public in a referendum."Westminster wants it to be a relationship where they are in control and our Senedd is subservient - where their Parliament is supreme and ours is subordinate," he said.
"It rolls back the rights of citizens, but also it denies those citizens' very right to decide their own future."A strongly worded letter from the Welsh Government is not going to work.
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