Arbuthnott Commission the Scottish Parliament, and would require Westminster legislation. All the main political parties in Scotland participated in a consultation process. So did 22 local government councils, and various other bodies and individuals. The commission's main recommendations for change may be summarised as follows: Arbuthnott Commission The Arbuthnott Commission on Boundary Differences and Voting Systems was set up in July 2004 by Alistair Darling, then Secretary of State for Scotland, under the chairmanship of Sir John Arbuthnott, to examine various consequences of having four different electoral systems in Scotland, and different boundaries for constituencies of the House of Commons (Parliament of
John Bull had reached the last limits of insult." In another of Verne's novels, "Around the World in Eighty Days", an American colonel refers to the English protagonist as "a son of John Bull." Some John Bull imagery appears in the first volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. John Bull is visible in the illustration accompanying the foreword, on a matchbox on the comic's first page and in person at the bottom of the final panel. In the Japanese anime "Hellsing Ultimate", Alucard refers to Walter, the Hellsing family butler, as "John Bull" on a