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A weakening of the house of commons would be great but not by adding more bureaucracy by way of an English parliament. The UK suffers from so much red tape as it is adding more would stifle everything when what the need is less civil servants.
I think those are completely separate issues.
The bureaucracy needs to be utterly purged, but that doesn't negate the need for an English parliament.
A federated system means that the British Parliament would be representative of the 4 parliaments of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. These are entirely separate strata that conflict with one another. Whereas, a bureaucracy operates independently of political conflict and can be wielded as a weapon. You can cut the bureaucracy of the British state by 80% and still have an English Parliament, and frankly, I think you should.
I think there's another issue with an English parliament, where would you put it? There's as much tension within England equal to that of the tension between Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England so I think we might be opening Pandora's box by doing that as the root problem is Parliament's London centric viewpoint.
I'm of the opinion the UK shouldn't be Federated, the British Empire should have Federated when they had the chance, there was a lot of discussion doing so in the 19th century and you can imagine how many bullets might have been dodged if the commonwealth instead of just being a lose connection was a military and trade force.
Honestly, my libertarian solution is that the government should exist on it's back. Literally, it assembles, it doesn't have a permanent capital.
To be honest, the English parliamentary system actually understands that parliament is not a permanent force, but has to be summoned by the king.
Work off of that tradition, and have a few dozen cities where the government parliament can form, and they can form in different places annually. This makes it incredibly difficult for a "Westminster bubble" to form.