With the countdown to the likely end of Gordon Brown’s premiership well under way, the Campaign for an English Parliament today calls on the Prime Minister to take decisive action in order to prevent history from recording him as the most anti-English Prime Minister ever.
Having signed the Scottish Claim of Right 1988, which asserts the sovereign right of the people of Scotland to adopt the governance of their choosing, it is hypocritical of Gordon Brown to deny the people of England the same sovereign right to choose how England should be governed.
St George's Day on the 23rd April represents an opportunity for Gordon Brown to start making amends. There is massive public support for a national holiday to mark England's national day, and such a national holiday in England would put the people of England on an equal footing with Gordon Brown's own constituents in Scotland who enjoy a public holiday on St Andrew's Day.
On the 23rd April, 2008, Mr Brown declared that "As far as St. George's day is concerned, it is a matter for public debate on whether this is going to be a holiday." What has happened to that public debate and why isn't the Prime Minister leading it? Or does he only do ‘Britishness’? There is still time for Mr Brown to introduce the change this year – and it would a nice pre-election treat for an England weary of politicians who take but never give.
Gareth Young
CAMPAIGN FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT
23 January 2010
gpy1973@yahoo.co.uk
CEP Tel: 0797 3296 118
A Tribute to St. George's Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF24LZInNB0
We must not forget that it is the British that are denying England its political recognition, the British MPs we have sent to parliament to represent England, it is these who are to blame. Until we have our own English MPs not British MPs representing England nothing is going to change.
Fight against British Racism – Fight against racism directed against England and the English
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