Sir - I have always found much to admire about the Scots, but must confess I do not relish the way some Scottish MPs dabble in English affairs.

Nearly 50 of them have been voting in the House of Commons on affairs which affect only the English, to whom none of them is accountable.

Foundation hospitals and student top-up fees are good examples.

If none but English MPs had voted on these matters, we would not be saddled with measures which most people here do not want and which, in Scotland, have been thrown out by the Scottish Parliament.

They don't want them up there but they don't mind foisting them on us here.

This is hardly democratic.

Like Tom Waterhouse (Oxford Mail, July 20), I love Oxfordshire and I love England, and I do not like to see them being subjugated by regional assemblies, where we would have even less voice in matters concerning us.

I am indebted also to John Sandalls (Oxford Mail, July 29) for pointing out the discrepancies in funding of the Scots and the English.

It's amazing how our Government gets away with this.

The English are being seriously short-changed.

If I were not blessed with a remarkably placid disposition, I might actually become quite angry about this.

Surely it is time for us to claim our own administrative assembly, as advocated by the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP).

I am more and more persuaded that the CEP deserves all the support we can give it.

Let's hope something can be done before England and its historic counties are swamped altogether.

If you have access to the Internet, take a look at www.thecep.org.uk - you may be favourably impressed, as I have been.

Alan Mynall

Radley