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National archives: Sir John Major, the head pushed separate Scottish time zone

Feb 16,2020 9:40 am

plans for Scotland were not a separate Time Zone than the rest of the UK decided against the Ex-Premier Sir John Major , The National archives reveal recently.

England, Wales and Northern Ireland , on the same Time Zone as Germany and France, the proposals for a single /double summer time (SDST.

the proponents in the 1990s, said it would be several days in these regions.

But Sir John wrote that it is "feed the separatist debate".

In a hand-written note on untimed memo included in the files released at The National Archives in Kew, he wrote: "I Am strictly against it and would like to say so. "

He wrote as a private member's bill was prepared, so that the members in the debate, the thing is maybe.

remained The Clocks forward by one hour in winter and two hours in summer in most of the UK aligning with Central European time (CET) - while Scotland, on the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

The proposals would have meant it would be easier, one hour later than previously in The Morning , and darker an hour later in the evening.

The Proposal has been design by the Lord mount garret the end of 1994, And Then about a year later from Bournemouth West MP John Butterfill , who has the law.

Michael Forsyth , the former Secretary of state for Scotland, is also vehemently against The Proposal in a letter to the lord president of the Privy Council, Tony Newton.

He wrote that it was an "extremely serious matter" for him and the Conservatives in Scotland.

"I think that the colleagues do not appreciate the strength of feeling, that those who are convicted of, wrote by a move to SDST to an extra hour of darkness, the winter 's morning," he said.

"There is widespread opposition to such a change in the whole of Scotland, and this was exacerbated by John Butterfill , the ridiculous proposal that a separate Time Zone for Scotland, if The Change in the promotion, the for England and Wales. "

not decided in The Cabinet that the government will make time available to discuss The Bill .

But, the road safety activists have the idea, to demand that The Change would mean, SDST, to lighter evenings and reduce The Number of crashes.

But there remains the concern in Scotland about the impact that a longer time of darkness in The Morning about things like agriculture and Travel .



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Source of news: bbc.com

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