CEP Calls for a Constitution for England

Wednesday, 28, Jan 2009 12:00
The CEP condemns the undemocratic way in which England is being treated by the UK Government. It calls for a constitution for the English nation.
The CEP has noted that no less than 13 ministers, whose responsibilities are for England only, are unelected. They are are: Lord Mandelson BERR, Mervyn Davies BERR, Lord Bach Ministry of Justice, Lord West Home Office, Lord Darzi Health, Baroness Vadera BERR, Lord Carter BERR & Media and Constitutional Affairs, Lord Hunt DEFRA, Lady Andrews DCLG, Lord Adonis Transport, Baroness Morgan Children Families and Skills, Baron Carter Culture Media and Sport, Lord Young Innovation Universities and Skills. Not one of them represents a single English voter. In contrast there are no unelected ministers in the Scotland, Wales or NI Offices.
As a result of the 1998 devolution legislation all Scottish, Welsh and NI MPs can vote on all matters affecting England, even matters which concern England only, while no English MPs can vote on matters reserved to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the NI Assembly. The situation now is so undemocratic as far as England is concerned that it is governed in every detail by a government led by a Scottish Prime Minister who as a consequence of devolution has neither an electoral mandate nor any electoral responsibility for the legislation he makes which concerns England only, such as major government matters as health, education, business and business regulation, agriculture, fisheries, the environment and others.
The English nation has no political and constitutional recognition or existence, unlike Scotland, Wales and NI which all have both by reason of devolution which made them in different ways self-ruling and gave them their own parliament or assembly which is, as the devolution legislation stated, a declaration of the distinct nationhood of each of them. England does not have its own parliament. It is politically and constitutionally just a British territory.
The UK government is diluting, even in cases abolishing, the liberties and freedoms achieved by the English nation in the thousand years of its own existence before the 1707 Act of Union, such as those contained in the Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, the jury system, the independence of the coroner, the English Common Law, the existence of representative democracy itself, and above all the independence of Parliament which the English Parliament defended so magnificently against Charles 1st. All are England’s achievements, and England’s only. Now England has no institution of its own to defend and restore its ancient liberties.
The situation is one immense injustice, it is racial discrimination at its worst, it amounts to a flagrant breach of every possible democratic principle. The CEP is demanding of the Government that it brings in a constitution for England as it has for the other nations of the United Kingdom.
Contacts:
Michael Knowles.
CEP Media Unit.
Tel: 01260 271139
Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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