WHO HAS ALL THE POWER NOT THE PEOPLE

                             

From time to time especially in times of crisis we have had to consider regional government of the U.K. but not one of these schemes involved the national government giving up its responsibility for governing the country, and no one could ever have envisaged a government  surrendering that responsibility voluntarily to a foreign power. This has been happening in ever increasing proportions since Devolution 1998 because of the support given by the entire main stream political parties to the implementation of EU regional policies, which they know if followed through to their conclusion will see the break up of our nation state. The introduction of regional devolution and its effect on national government is seen more prominently when it is pointed out that Scotland and Wales although nations within the UK are in fact recognised regions of the EU, and because of this it’s Brussels, not the UK government that decides and rules over 80% of the laws on which their government base their domestic policies. These Laws and rules allow our regions to introduce policies of discrimination against one another at home in the UK but not against other regions outside in Europe, imagine England balkanised into the suggested EU regions without an English parliament to protect it, it will be game set and match to Europe and goodbye to England’s unity forever as regions fight each other to establish their own identities, a text book case for divide and rule within the United Kingdom. The truth is not being told, these EU laws do apply equally to England’s local government, and you can’t assume anymore that those applying and managing England’s laws are still making them, they are not, and they can’t bend them either for fear of enormous law suits and fines from the EU. These laws are so rigid that they are being rubber stamped into law by UK government ministers using Enabling Acts and Statutory Instruments, and since they may not under any circumstances be changed, amended, altered, or repealed in any way, so they get very little and most often no debate at all in the UK parliament. Most important is the fact that once power is devolved from national government to regions the power to govern them is passed to the EU, and once devolved to the EU it can not be taken back no more than you can take devolved powers back from Scotland and Wales. England’s regionalisation is a keystone, although it won’t be admitted in the EU’s long term plan to stop us acting as an independent nation. EU official papers make no reference to England at all only the regions of it, and the proposed city regions deceitfully being introduced under the combined authority banner is the first step in doing just that. Devolution / decentralisation within England is not national devolution as granted to Wales and Scotland nor should it be so regarded, England has no parliament and no political recognition neither in the United Kingdom nor the EU. What these protagonists for regionalism fail to tell the public is that what they are proposing for England is going to take the country back more than a thousand years to a time of England’s dismemberment, and internal conflict. Devolution in reality has come to mean the power to administer according to strict directives and laws, most of which are decided and enforced by the EU and it will be the responsibility of city mayors to see that these are adhered to, and if local businesses think they can get preferential treatment they should think again because they can’t. Europhiles want to create these regions ASAP before England wakes up and starts demanding its own parliament to defend itself, because they know if they can be established before March 2017 when the UK government loses its veto over 43 of the most important areas of self government to Qualified Majority Voting (we are in the transition period of the Lisbon Treaty which started from 1^st November 2014) then it will be almost impossible whatever government gets in to disband them. We need an EP. ASAP not regions and will David Cameron call the referendum before March 2017? It should include a vote for an English Parliament.

J.Stanhope.                                                                                                                                                                          West Mid Campaign for an English Parliament

Scots starting to rattle a few cages

                             

While media attention has been focused on Greece and the budget little attention has been given to the arrival in the House of Commons of the Scottish National Party. Free from the pressure and power of British party whips, the Scots are already starting to rattle the cages of the establishment, and it will soon become obvious if it has not already that the Scots will only be British when it suits them.

 The British must have known when they gave Scotland a devolved parliament in 1998 they were violating the ‘All for one, one for all, One Nation, One Parliament’, basic principle of the Union, yet they put their heads in the sand to its consequences. They have been lucky to avoid these consequences since devolution only because of the power the British political party’s have held in Scotland.

 Now that British power in Scotland is in the hands of the nationalists the Scottish pigeons can truly come home to roost, and from what we have seen so far they are clearly not going to sit back quietly and feast on the gifts of the referendum. The Scots have done the English a favour here and exposed how the democratic imbalance of devolution is enabling all of the national parliaments, not just Scotland; to interfere in English domestic affairs, and much of the time it can be seen to be to their own country’s advantage, hence the proposal by the Conservative party to introduce an ‘English Votes for English Laws’ (EVEL) policy in the House of Commons.

The one thing outstanding from the debates so far in the HOC on this policy is that EVEL is going to be unworkable unless the three nations, Scotland in particular play ball.

 The democratic imbalance in Britain goes far beyond the introduction of EVEL and the denial of a parliament for England; it is a systematic attempt to write England out of the political story. Without a parliament England has no political voice.

 Despite having these parliaments Scotland, Wales, and N. Ireland still retain ministers in the cabinet, and each has a separate select committee, grand committee, and BBC TV station, all solely dedicated to their own affairs. Lets not forget either a tax funded grant given to these nations based on an outdated formula called Barnett that gives Scotland 10.66% Wales 6.02% and N.Ireland 2.87% of any money the British spend on England; at present gifting Scotland alone an amount equiverlent to over £1600 per head of population more than England. What can England do about it? nothing, What does England have? absolutely nothing, and the ‘Better Together’ British cabal that only twelve months ago fought to keep Scotland in the Union are now promoting a ‘Better in Bits’ policy on England, and instead of backing this up by recognising England and its nation with a parliament they are trying to introduce an EVEL policy on the HOC that if nothing else admits that the UK parliament is now not fit for purpose. 

                                                                J. Stanhope

                                                            West Midlands

                                         Campaign for an English Parliament

What the British political parties must be made to talk about

Why are the media getting into a sweat about David Cameron refusing to take part in any political leader’s debates on TV if it doesn’t include The Green party, when the more important question they should be asking is why is the leader of the Scottish National Party being ignored.

According to the latest polling figures for the upcoming General Election in May the Scottish National Party (SNP) are on course to become the majority political party representing Scotland at Westminster. Faced with what appears to be more than a possibility the SNP after May could see itself not only being in control of the Scottish Parliament but being the third largest party in the whole of the United Kingdom, and more importantly it would be in the enviable position of being able to put pressure on any prospective UK government, even to the point of making a British political party include them in any coalition. Whether in a coalition or not the SNP could make it nigh on impossible or extremely difficult to say the least for any British Political Party to govern one half of the kingdom without their help. Facing the prospect of a Scottish national party passing laws on England doesn’t bear thinking about so why can’t the media and the so called English party the Conservatives see this, and why is this party having second thoughts on their English Votes for English Laws policy while giving this Scottish national party more power? The English have looked at the last 16years of devolution and the Barnett Formula as bribery by the British to keep Scotland in the Union, but is there any British political party now thinking the unthinkable and willing to offer a Scottish national party English government.

The question needs to be asked, will there be a Union a United Kingdom after May’s election or not, and if so what sort of United Kingdom will it be if the British do lose their power in Scotland to the SNP?

This is the most important Question to be put forward in any debate and D. Cameron and E. Milliband must be made to answer it.

                                                                                     J.Stanhope

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