MARATHON MAN

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.