Apparently
"Many areas of Scots law are legislated for by the Scottish Parliament, whose authority devolved from the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). Areas of Scots law over which the Scottish Parliament has competency include health, education, criminal justice, local government, environment and civil justice amongst others. However, certain powers are reserved to Westminster such as defence, international relations, fiscal and economic policy, drugs law, and broadcasting, amongst others. The Scottish Parliament does retain limited tax raising powers."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law

I know, it does seem odd that we should have our own parliament as well as the UK one, while England only has the UK one. I never understood why the existing MPs in Scottish constituencies could just be the Scottish parliament, why do we need two sets of politicians anyway?

The European elections are coming up soon, we've got our polling cards. I know fuck all about European politics so I'd best not stick my oar in, it would only be adding noise to the signal.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 10 May 2009, 14:04, archived)

The scot and taaf parliaments exist to weaken the tories.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 10 May 2009, 14:06, archived)

Now there's a conspiracy I'd never considered.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 10 May 2009, 14:06, archived)

It's the argument that won over Blair towards devolution.
100% of fact.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sun 10 May 2009, 14:08, archived)

i reckon every part of the internet
should be capable of doing wikipedia mashups

this has just occurred to me. i might write a greasemonkey script this afternoon
( spacefish bong!, Sun 10 May 2009, 14:06, archived)