Blind Black Country Englishman Dave Heeley and his sighted guide Malcolm (mad Mac) Carr, running in support of the charity “Guide Dogs for the Blind” completed a record breaking challenge of running 7 marathons across 7 continents in 7 days, and the feat hardly gets a mention in the British media.
The seven Magnificent Marathons challenge began on the Falkland Islands Mount Pleasant on the 7th April, and then their travels took them to Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Sydney and Dubai, Tunis, and London.
The 50 year old Englishman and his 44 year old guide covered a total of 183.4 miles, around 26.2 miles in each continent, inspired, Dave said, by his three guide dogs, Peter, Carla and his present dog Wicksie who have given him life changing independence.
The pair arrived back at Sandwell and Dudley station to be greeted by an adoring crowd, with a welcoming committee including the mayor of Sandwell Gurcharan Sing Sidhu, Albion legend Tony “Bomber” Brown and Jeff Astle’s widow Laraine. Scores of pupils from his old school serenaded him with a performance of “Keep on Running” and entertained the crowd with a dance routine, and the mayor congratulated the pair on their tremendous achievement and presented them with specially engraved crystal rose bowls.
Dave and Mac then enjoyed celebrity treatment by being paraded around the town and streets of West Bromwich in an open top bus. People of all ages in their thousands lined the route to his home, shoppers and workers poured onto the streets shouting and cheering, while motorists beeped their horns in congratulations.
The “Campaign for an English Parliament” fighting for the constitutional and political identity of England and the English, would like to congratulate both Dave and Mac on their achievement and would also like to thank the Express & Star newspaper for their two page coverage.
If England and the English identity had been recognised with an English Parliament this achievement would have been given headline coverage on national Television.
After such a showing of English pride both at Dave’s and Mac’s homecoming and the subsequent support for the Black Country St. George’s Day parade by Sandwell council, which was again attended by thousands. It seems ironic that the council are allowing the start of Gordon Brown’s flagship “Who Do We Think We Are” Britishness schools programme to come onto our doorstep and onto Dave’s children.
The Sandwell Rewind Project manager Dave Allport says on their site that his rewind project is a reaction to Far Right influences on young people and also negative attitudes from professional staff around issues of race and identity. I do not agree and I say it is about denying the children of England their birthright and their identity.
They can’t ask this question in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland because these countries have their own parliaments, and education is devolved, their children are being taught and educated to believe they are Scottish, Welsh or Irish and their school curriculum’s are based around their individual identities.
We can save the British time and money
WE IN THE BLACK COUNTRY and our children DON’T THINK WE KNOW WHO WE ARE
WE DO KNOW WHO WE ARE
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND AND ENGLAND'S CHILDREN
WE ARE THE ENGLISH
Be prepared – The programme starts on the 23rd June.
Fight against British Racism – Fight against English and England’s Discrimination.
Monday 28 April 2008
Friday 18 April 2008
St Georges Day events in Birmingham
Birmingham St Georges Day Association has a number of St Georges Day events next week, including:
- A concert at the Symphony Hall on the 26th
- An outdoor concert at Victoria Square on the 26th
- An outdoor concert at Chamberlain Square on the 26th
- Medieval Weekend at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery on the 26th & 27th
Wednesday 16 April 2008
St. George and the Dragon
The truth behind English folklore.
There probably isn't an English, man, women, or child in the country who has not heard of the legend of St. George. His slaying of a fire breathing Dragon, and the rescuing of a maiden from a Dragon's castle are probably also known the world over, yet how many actually know the truth behind the myth.
For the truth we have to look at Wales and to how that country became and still is today a pricipality of England. For it is they the Welsh Dragons that we are concerned with here and led to the legends of England's St.George.
Dragons have been around in British folklore for centuries perhaps even in Roman times, but Britain's Dragon legends were created in the middle ages at the time when English and Welsh hostilities were coming to a head. The Welsh have always had a fascination with Dragons, and their warrior leaders were often given the name Dragon, their facination even extended to the point of giving their mythical King Arthur the name Pendragon and their nation eventually having adopted a picture of a Dragon on their national flag.
Story tellers of the time helped in creating the myth by depicting these Welsh leaders as fiery Dragons, and only the mention of a Dragon instilled fear in the peasants’ of the time. Dragons started appearing all over England as landlords used this fear to stop peasants from wandering off and not working on their land, agreeing to provide them with protection and security.
The Welsh Dragons operated in the border Marcher counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire which were known as the Dragon haunted lands. These Welsh Dragons would cross over the English border to rape and pillage English villages, and when they left they would set them on fire, the smoke from which could be seen for miles around and said to be the breath of the Dragon.
One such Dragon called Llewelyn, was a Prince of Wales who had desires above his station. After gaining support in part of Glamorgan he had intentions on marrying Elinor the daughter of the powerful English lord Simon de Montfort without the English Kings consent. The new English King, Edward (1st) believed the prince (Dragon) was seeking to stir up another barons’ war in England, and in 1275 he sent English forces into Wales and freed Elinor from the Prince's (Dragon's) castle to prevent the wedding.
Eventually the English King got fed up with the Welsh Dragons incursions into England and he gathered an army to bring them under English control.
When the English and their supporters joined together to fight a common cause they did so under the flag of St.George, and the army became known as that of St George. Any battles won were then said to have been won by St.George.
The two pictures most commonly seen of St. George and the Dragon represent the defeat of the Welsh ( St. George slaying fire breathing Dragon) and the rescuing of the Simon de Montfort's daughter from a Welsh castle. ( St. George in front of a castle with a maiden in the tower)
The present day British Parliament with their devolutionary policies are sending our island nations back to these Middle Ages and their actions have already begun to wake up these sleeping Dragons both in England and Wales. The heat is again being felt most in the border areas where one side of the road gets things free and cheaper than the other side, and across England, the Dragons are being stoked up with the fires of regionalism.
Before these Dragons escape and destroy England, the English must rise again to St.George, and with the help of his virtues of courage, honour and fortitude, we can again put out the fires in their bellies.
J. Stanhope
The Englishman
Thursday 10 April 2008
St. Georges Day
St. George’s Day Wednesday 23rd April
By supplanting Britain for England and Britishness for English in the media, Gordon Brown and the British UK Parliament are trying to stifle the English voice and make it difficult for England and the English to gain any political and constitutional recognition.
The British recognise the existence of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and show contempt for the English by flaunting these nations national identities in public, even to the point of letting their British Prime Minister give his beloved Scottish nation a National Holiday on their St.Andrew’s Day.
FIGHT AGAINST BRITISH RACISM, FIGHT AGAINST ENGLISH AND ENGLAND’S DISCRIMINATION
Why not join thousands of marchers and fly the flag by attending the biggest St.George’s Day parade and fun day in the Black Country at West Bromwich on Sunday the 20th April, or be in Birmingham city centre on Saturday the 26th for theirs.
The parade in West Bromwich starts from Westminster Road, Stone Cross at 10.40am, following a route along Walsall Road arriving at Dartmouth Park around 12.00 noon.
Langley Band, Morris Dancing, Pat Collins Fair, Market,
Medieval settlement, cooking demonstrations etc.
Please note! This is an alcohol free event. Anyone caught with alcohol could have drinks confiscated and face a fixed penalty.
In Birmingham city centre events start at 12 noon in Victoria and Chamberlain Squares. There will be traditional entertainment with folk and Morris dancing and on stage in Victoria Square there will be performances from the city of Birmingham Brass Band, the Fab Beatles tribute act and folk performers’ Show of Hands. Plus many other activities and puppet shows etc. around and about.
By supplanting Britain for England and Britishness for English in the media, Gordon Brown and the British UK Parliament are trying to stifle the English voice and make it difficult for England and the English to gain any political and constitutional recognition.
The British recognise the existence of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and show contempt for the English by flaunting these nations national identities in public, even to the point of letting their British Prime Minister give his beloved Scottish nation a National Holiday on their St.Andrew’s Day.
FIGHT AGAINST BRITISH RACISM, FIGHT AGAINST ENGLISH AND ENGLAND’S DISCRIMINATION
Why not join thousands of marchers and fly the flag by attending the biggest St.George’s Day parade and fun day in the Black Country at West Bromwich on Sunday the 20th April, or be in Birmingham city centre on Saturday the 26th for theirs.
The parade in West Bromwich starts from Westminster Road, Stone Cross at 10.40am, following a route along Walsall Road arriving at Dartmouth Park around 12.00 noon.
Langley Band, Morris Dancing, Pat Collins Fair, Market,
Medieval settlement, cooking demonstrations etc.
Please note! This is an alcohol free event. Anyone caught with alcohol could have drinks confiscated and face a fixed penalty.
In Birmingham city centre events start at 12 noon in Victoria and Chamberlain Squares. There will be traditional entertainment with folk and Morris dancing and on stage in Victoria Square there will be performances from the city of Birmingham Brass Band, the Fab Beatles tribute act and folk performers’ Show of Hands. Plus many other activities and puppet shows etc. around and about.
Monday 7 April 2008
CEP stands up for English university students
Press Release: CEP stands up for English university students while the NUS lets them down
The CEP carries on with its opposition to the Government’s policy of discrimination against English university students.
The Campaign for an English Parliamen has deplored the decision of the National Union of Students last week to end its opposition to the tuition and top-up fees which are being imposed upon English university students.
‘We want every English student to know’, stated Mrs Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the CEP, ‘that the Campaign for an English Parliament will not stop campaigning against the fees New Labour has inflicted on English students while sparing Scottish and Welsh students. English students are being hit with immense debts while Scottish students are not.
In England university students have to pay £3145 each year of their university life. Students loans then have to be repaid at 4.8% interest rates after graduation.
Welsh students don’t have anything like the fee burden English students have.Their fees are only £1255 pa.’
However, in Scotland university students have no fees to pay. What’s more, the Scottish parliament has also made grants up to £2510 available to Scottish students coming from families on low incomes, which are not available in England. To make the discrimination even worse English students at Scottish have to pay their fees, while EU students do not; and Scottish students, and indeed Isle of Man students, at English unviersities pay no fees. What is quite grotesque about the whole situation is that, at the same time as the Scottish Parliament was legislatiing to relieve its students of fees, the vote in the UK Parliament to impose top-up fees on English students was carried only by the Scottish MPs in Westminister voting for them to give New Labour its majority in the vote in the House.The majority of English MPs voted against them.
‘The only way forward out of this discrimination’ says Mrs Cullen, ‘is for England to have its own parliament just as Scotland has. The UK government is just seeing England, which provides 85% of its whole tax revenue, as a milch cow from which Scotland and Wales benefit at the expense of the people of England. All the MPs who have imposed these fees upon English students got their university education completely free. The injustice to England is grotesque; and it is time that of the 660 Westminster MPs the 550 who are English start to stand up for their country. England should matter as much to them as Scotland does to the Scottish MPs both at Westminster and Edinburgh. They should stand up for their constituents. I can assure English students that is what an English Parliament will do.’
All students are invited to the CEP National Conference taking place at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn London on Saturday April 26th from 10:30 to 4:30. It is free and open to everyone.
The CEP carries on with its opposition to the Government’s policy of discrimination against English university students.
The Campaign for an English Parliamen has deplored the decision of the National Union of Students last week to end its opposition to the tuition and top-up fees which are being imposed upon English university students.
‘We want every English student to know’, stated Mrs Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the CEP, ‘that the Campaign for an English Parliament will not stop campaigning against the fees New Labour has inflicted on English students while sparing Scottish and Welsh students. English students are being hit with immense debts while Scottish students are not.
In England university students have to pay £3145 each year of their university life. Students loans then have to be repaid at 4.8% interest rates after graduation.
Welsh students don’t have anything like the fee burden English students have.Their fees are only £1255 pa.’
However, in Scotland university students have no fees to pay. What’s more, the Scottish parliament has also made grants up to £2510 available to Scottish students coming from families on low incomes, which are not available in England. To make the discrimination even worse English students at Scottish have to pay their fees, while EU students do not; and Scottish students, and indeed Isle of Man students, at English unviersities pay no fees. What is quite grotesque about the whole situation is that, at the same time as the Scottish Parliament was legislatiing to relieve its students of fees, the vote in the UK Parliament to impose top-up fees on English students was carried only by the Scottish MPs in Westminister voting for them to give New Labour its majority in the vote in the House.The majority of English MPs voted against them.
‘The only way forward out of this discrimination’ says Mrs Cullen, ‘is for England to have its own parliament just as Scotland has. The UK government is just seeing England, which provides 85% of its whole tax revenue, as a milch cow from which Scotland and Wales benefit at the expense of the people of England. All the MPs who have imposed these fees upon English students got their university education completely free. The injustice to England is grotesque; and it is time that of the 660 Westminster MPs the 550 who are English start to stand up for their country. England should matter as much to them as Scotland does to the Scottish MPs both at Westminster and Edinburgh. They should stand up for their constituents. I can assure English students that is what an English Parliament will do.’
All students are invited to the CEP National Conference taking place at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn London on Saturday April 26th from 10:30 to 4:30. It is free and open to everyone.
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