Letter: Why can't the English stop paying for everyone else?

Letter: Recently the news said that Scotland is not going to charge university fees. We in Shropshire have to provide hospital cover for parts of Wales while they enjoy free prescriptions.

We in England will have to pay university fees - soon to be increased - and, for most, prescription items have to be paid for.

We in Shropshire are suffering difficulties with our hospital cover, with people from Wales worried about getting to Telford for certain cover. Why don't the Welsh pay for their prescription charges and further develop their own hospitals, taking some of the pressure off ours?

The Welsh and Scots - even those in Northern Ireland - have their own MPs to speak for them alone, yet we, in England, have to submit to what their Westminster MPs decide for us.

We in England have no English MPs to speak for us in our own English Parliament, hence we are overburdened while our fellow British people enjoy freedoms we have no hope of, especially as the economic screw is further applied.

Let England speak for England.

BA Flowers

Newport