Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
The anomaly to all this is that the British Parliament at Westminster is still a government of the whole island. It sets foreign policy for Scotland for example, but not education policy. England does not have an equivalent of the Scottish Parliament for its own territory (although there are a couple of Regional Assemblies - see description of the Welsh Assembly for uselessness).
The north east turned down a regional assembly because they didn't want another level of government wasting their tax money. Devolution of the regions is rather unpopular for this reason.