What a red herring. People in England, we are told, are outraged that Scottish MPs can vote in Parliament on English affairs. It is entirely possible that the media will be able to excite a proportion of the population at this complete non-issue.

Politicians are of course only too happy to use this new distraction from real issues. It is highly doubtful that excluding Scottish MPs as suggested would have any positive affect whatsoever on our lives. It may even give more weight to those eager to push down the living standards of working people.

I am much more concerned that rich MPs with no experience of state education, either as pupils or parents, are able to make decisions on state education, or MPs with no experience of the NHS because they are rich enough to queue jump through state subsidised private medicine are able to privatise the NHS.

I am concerned that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (millionaire who gets £500,000 a year and got the tax payer to fund a £3,000 course in Mandarin) gets to say we can’t afford proper pay for NHS workers. And it’s nauseating that MPs who know only banking and finance make decisions to squeeze the families of people on benefits.

I am even more concerned that a tiny minority own all the means of production and make decisions, which affect the people who actually made those means of production, without being subject to any kind of vote at all.

Peter Smith Woodside Avenue Swindon