Campaign for an English Parliament - West Midlands

English Riots

2011-08-14T14:03:00.001+01:00

Over the last few days the people of England have seen a recently discredited and corrupted British police force stand by and leave English businesses in nearly all of their major cities including England’s capital city London to the mercy of rampaging mobs. Forced by the police to stand by and watch as their businesses and homes were ransacked and set on fire the English were reduced to taking photographs, with any vigilantly effort to stop the outrage being seen as a violation. As English businesses and livelihoods were destroyed by children as young as 7 and 10 years old and with the whole of the country going into economic meltdown, England’s British MPs like Nero fiddled and enjoyed their excesses on one of their many holidays well away from the trouble.
But in one (not insignificant) respect the BBC has at last been compelled to tell the truth. The riots (not protests) are English, not British or UK riots: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Bristol and Gloucester are indeed English not Scottish, Welsh or Irish cities. We must at least thank the rioters together with the incompetent British politicians and police for putting England back on the map, and since the BBC has suddenly got a taste for the truth, perhaps we can start adding the following terms to the BBC lexicon (and, who knows, that Old Etonian David Cameron may follow suit). Thus:
1. England’s forests the British want to sell
2. England’s people who pay full university fees.
3. England’s people who pay prescription charges.
4 England’s NHS that denies patients Drugs given free to the Scots, Welsh and Irish
5. England’s countryside the British want to concrete over
6 England’s people that are forced to pay Hospital Car parking charges and Bridge tolls
7. It’s the English AS WELL as the Irish, Scottish and Welsh dead in Afghanistan.
8. It’s the English AS WELL as the Irish, Scottish and Welsh youths without arms and legs, having had them blown off in Afghanistan.
Let us add:
1. British bombs on Libyan civilians.
2. British bankers.
3. British MPs fiddling on expenses.
4. British PMs inviting Rupert Murdoch to Downing Street through the back door.
5. British parliament.
6. Scottish parliament.
7. Welsh assembly.
8. Northern Ireland assembly.

No wonder we have had riots in England when the whole British establishment is not only being perceived has being corrupt but also being proved to be so, and the reason is that they no longer have respect for the sovereignty of our nation. Thus the pusillanimous Philip Hammond, Minister of Transport, awards a contract for railway carriages to Germany and in the process adds to the deprivation and misery of Derby (England) in the midst of a recession. Then they sell our hard-won freedom to Brussels. Then they sell our football clubs (the symbol of a once precious English working-class culture) to foreign owners, foreign managers, foreign players and foreign agents. Then they set out to sell the Port of Dover our English forests and wish to destroy the English countryside by giving count blanch planning permission for concreting over England’s green belt and the building of an unnecessary High Speed line from London to Birmingham (perhaps to enable the rioters in these cities to co-ordinate their efforts more speedily). Then they abandon the national defences (Ark Royal, harrier jump jets, etc.) whilst lavishing billions on the Olympic Games and foreign aid. Then they choose New Zealanders and South Africans instead of Englishmen in our rugby and cricket teams. Then they appoint Swedish and Italian managers to run our football team. Then they insist on the singing of British anthems instead of English anthems for English teams (even when playing the Scots and the Welsh). Then England is forced to play in grey against West Germany and Australia and black against Wales instead of the white or red of England. Then they disbar the English poor from Oxford and Cambridge by the imposition of huge fees. Then they impose prescription charges on the English poor. Then they refuse a parliament to the English and stuff Westminster with Brits. In other words, they have sold our once great country (England) to foreigners and foreign interest groups. Can they really be surprised when England’s capital city is in flames?
What a reward indeed for the heroes of 1939-1945.
It is time for the long-suffering English to call a halt to this madness. We (the English) must seek clever, non-violent ways of rising up against the British oppressor in an ENGLISH SPRING.
The first thing to do is to repudiate the British anthem for England and for goodness sake, why cannot these rugby and football supporters sing some English songs to match the Welsh and Scottish songs of their supporters, and why cannot England teams play in the colours of England and that is, for the benefit of the ignoramuses red and white, and lets all stand up and fight for a St. George’s Day public holiday.
There must surely be a positive impact engendered by the pride that is encouraged in Welsh and Scottish society by their respective assembly and parliament, the teaching of their history and not being looked down on because they are from these nations. In contrast one is not allowed to be proud of England and being English as this is deemed to imply some form of racism, as does displaying England’s flag. England’s history has been replaced with a false British interpretation so there is no respect for the society in which we live and no value placed on our heritage. Our children feel they do not belong anymore and have no place in this multicultural society watching as they do the British dismantle and sell off their sovereignty and deny them their identity, is it any wonder they look for peers amongst the gangs on our streets.
It did not need the speaker in the House of Commons to decide if these riots applied to England only as it was plainly obvious to everybody, everybody that is except the British Prime Minister David Cameron who recalled the entire British Parliament. This was England’s business only so why should he have had to recall the MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, was it to give them a reason to scoff over our troubles as our police force had to be backed up by their own mercenaries, or was it to encourage the suggestion England gets one from the U.S.A.

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DECMS – Deny English Community Mainstream Support

2011-06-26T13:51:00.002+01:00

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport like every department and institution the British have set up to look after English interests has one thing in common with all others, a clear mandate and objective to deny the English community mainstream support, and also like all others are allowed to treat England with contempt, denying even that the departments are English only departments, preferring to hide this fact under UK or British letterheads, so I have added the ‘E’ for them. It seems that the Coalition Government in charge of this department is no wiser than New Labour on this subject so I will remind them again that these issues are devolved to the nations, so they have no jurisdiction to legally demand other nation compliance.

It is possible to write a book on the way each aspect of this department denies England and its English Community support, but I prefer for the moment to comment on the one that is making headlines.
Sport

The British realise that the national identity of its UK nations is firmly wrapped up in this department and none at least, from the publics perception greater than that revolving around a nations sporting activity, and in particular football. This national patriotism was encouraged and actually seen to be beneficial in sustaining the United Kingdom’s sovereignty before the British headed for Europe, then after instigating its devolution policies the British have realised that home nation loyalty comes at a price and are now attempting to overcome a threat of their own creation, a mounting rise in nationalism.

It was not long after the London bid for the Olympic Games and its success that it was announced by the then Olympic Committee that Teams GB would be entered into the Olympic Football Tournament. From the offset this created a controversy across the United Kingdom’s national football associations who declared in block that they would not support such a team, because quite rightly they feared that playing in an international competition under a GB banner would jeopardise their own national team identities, and their places in future international competitions. At this time I warned that the FA, the association that is supposed to be representing England’s interest, but isn’t even allowed to state that fact (note again the missing ‘E’) else it would put it into conflict with British interests, would agree to put out an all England team if that scenario endured, thus committing England and only England to carry their GB banner in all future competitions. Now that the Olympic Games are almost upon us the FA, the British not English organisation have agreed with what I said then and they are claiming quite rightly that they have that legal responsibility to obey their masters, so the FA - f------ A------ will bow to demands being asked of them to support the British Olympic Organisation and will be preparing if necessary to do just that.

The FA will put out an initial list of players that includes some from other UK national organisations and pretend to care when none of them accept the offer, and it’s odds on none will. What players are prepared to become traitors to their own nation and accept the offer, I will tell you who, it wont be any from the minor nations, it will the British who hide under the English shirt who will be the traitors, led by that well thought of supposed English Icon David Beckham that’s who.
The question is, if it happens and it will –

WHAT ARE YOU THE ENGLISH GOING TO DO ABOUT IT
A suggestion would be perhaps to go back to the original structure of playing GB Amateur Teams in Olympic competitions.

For the record and for those who have not read the previous pages of the West Midland Blog, at the last Olympic Games England won more Gold medals than it had done at any since the games began, and yet not one medal was accredited to England and the English, only to British, Scottish, Welsh and Irish competitors, who were also allowed to hold their own separate national celebrations when they arrived home.

ENGLAND MUST SPEAK UP NOW AND FIGHT BRITISH DISCRIMINATION

England is now all but a map reference having -

NO Parliament - NO Nation - NO Voice - NO Anthem

Devolution 1998 – England’s war of 1066 proportions

2011-06-20T13:39:00.000+01:00

Devolution forced on the UK by Europe’s regional policies saw the British because of Scottish influence adopt a system of devolution that regionalised the United Kingdom along national boundaries. It was obvious that giving political and constitutional recognition to national regions would weaken British sovereignty, so for protection the British in their Devolution Acts of 1998 denied England, the largest of the British regions, from gaining its unitary regional existence; in doing so the British denied not only England but also its English nation from gaining their lawful right of recognition.

By adopting this asymmetrical form of devolution the British have retained the power to manipulate English Domestic policies to their own advantage and are using this power to reinforce their identity on the people of England. We are witnessing a forceful and psychological encouragement of Britishness that is distorting English history and culture to suit a British multiculturism that sees England has a Britain made up of their 9 British regions.

This is England Today

Since 1998 the English have been the only nation in the United Kingdom without a National Parliament and the only nation not able to defend and protect itself against ‘British’ Domestic and EU Polices, giving British Nationalists a free hand to destroy England’s unity and culture by allowing them to break up England into their 9 multicultural ‘British’ Regions, and apply EU laws with impunity.

Since 1998 England has been marginalised by devolution, constitutionally, politically, financially, economically and culturally.

By virtue of their national institutions Scotland and Wales have a distinct and separate political, constitutional existence and nationhood, England however does not constitutionally exist and is being denied its nationhood.

The Devolution Acts of 1998 revoked the Act of Union, revoked the concept of one British Nation with one legislative body of government, and revoked the principle of representative democracy. It unbalanced the Union by placing England, Scotland and Wales each in a different relationship with the Union and each other, and it institutionalised discrimination against the people of England.

The Devolution Acts of 1998 abolished representative democracy as the untouchable 1st principle of government. By what is understood to be the West Lothian issue, British MPs elected in Scotland can be both ministers and legislators, even Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary in English matters without being answerable in elections for their actions in those matters to ‘any electorate’ either in Scotland or England.

England is being broken up into British Regions and is losing its unitary existence to the disadvantage of the English Nation to whom it denies nationhood and political representation. British nationalists claim that England does not need any separate representation because they say the interests of England are best served by its British MPs; this is an untruth as they could have said the same about the interests of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and there would have been no need for the Devolution Acts of 1998 and the UK could have remained with one united parliament.

It is impossible to see how England can be best served by its British MPs when you consider how the British political system works. The United Kingdom Parliament’s House of Commons is not divided up into four national sectors with British MPs sitting in the sector of the country that elected them, the house divides on party political lines, the government on one side and the opposition on the other. What this means is that England’s elected representative British MPs are always divided and are always under the control of their separate political party whips, and who has ever seen or will see, or can imagine Labour and Conservative MPs sitting in English constituency seats defying their party whips to the extent of combining to defeat and bring down their own respective governments.

With England’s political and constitutional recognition England could decide its own form of local government and would be able to take over the work performed by the regions in the EU, providing England with a stronger unified voice and force than the individual regions in applying for EU structural funds. Currently the regions apply separately for funds and are therefore in direct competition with one another. With London and the South East undoubtedly able to shout the loudest the poorer regions such as those in the North are always in danger of losing out; an English Parliament would therefore not only be a stronger lobbying force in the UK and in the EU but it would be better placed to distribute the funds more evenly across England.

There is nothing to stop an English Parliament from deciding on a regional form of local government, the difference between an English Parliament deciding on the option and a UK British Parliament deciding, is that the first option rightly gives England and its nation their political and constitutional recognition and the second deny it, disproving again British Nationalist claims that their MPs elected from English constituencies act in England’s best interests.

England is further disenfranchised in representation in the House of Lords, in which members from other countries in the UK and abroad, unaccountable to the English electorate, are able to revise and modify laws that only apply to England, when they can not do so for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

‘The British / Irish Council’ known as the ‘Council of the Isles’ which
promotes the harmonious and mutually beneficial development of the totality of relationships among the peoples of these islands, ( British gibberish) which has representatives from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and even the Isle of Man, is not allowed an independent representative from England.

Since Labours Devolution Acts of 1998 and their subsequent immigration policies, which included signing up to an EU open border policy, our country has been inundated with people from Europe’s 450 million inhabitants and England our homeland is no longer our own, and with each nation in the EU retaining power over its own citizenship a rogue nation could invite the world's population to our doorstep. By denying England its political and constitutional identity the nation is also being denied its ability to protect its own assets and culture, and the British are exploiting this situation by selling assets that would sustain England’s identity and are fostering a British Multiculturism on England that is encouraging the rise of alien cultures at its nation’s expense.

Compare this with the nations of Scotland and Wales who have recognition and have a parliament with responsibility for their own nation’s education and training programs. While British Multiculturism on England is based around a false premise of Britishness, and encourages cohesion from the outside by downplaying England’s identity, the Scots and Welsh are able to do the opposite and are encouraging cohesion from the inside. Through the school curriculum all children in Scotland and Wales are now being reared and educated to have strong Scottish and Welsh national identities and knowledge of their own individual Scottish and Welsh history and heritage. The British have also given each country a separate TV channel to help them regenerate their old languages, and the Welsh language is now being taught in the schools of Wales. The British have also allowed these nations similar ‘Sports and Art’ programs backed up by other separate television channels, a BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and a BBC Northern Ireland, and they have the added bonus of separate tourist boards who promote their own distinct Scottish and Welsh cultures.

While British Multiculturism is always demoting, a Scottish and Welsh Multiculturism is always promoting, and an obvious difference between the two was seen in the celebrations after the recent Olympic Games. England having won more Gold Medals in this Olympic Games than it had in its entire history in the competition, not only saw its winners denied their English identity in the media, but also saw their entire nation denied separate celebrations by the British on their return. Scottish and Welsh competitors on the other hand were applauded by the media and their nation status made headline news each time a medal came their way. Consider the difference too when the Scottish and Welsh competitors returned home, each nation held their own separate celebrations in Edinburgh and Cardiff with the added bonus of also being allowed to participate in the separate British celebrations in London.

Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are also allowed to promote their own separate identities and culture through labeling, especially food items, a lot of which now sport their national flags, while English products are encouraged to display the British flag. In one instance in England, the ‘Dairy Crest’ company re-branded their ‘English Country Life Butter’ ‘British Country Life Butter’ with British government approval when the French recently acquired the brand outright.
The people of Scotland and Ireland have also been given a public holiday to celebrate their national saint’s St. Andrew and St Patrick while England is denied one for St. George.

Only in England is a false history of a multicultural Britishness being used to deny the people and their children their heritage. Only in England is its nation having obstacles put in its way to prevent its recognition and existence, and only on England are the British pursuing a vigorous policy of Multiculturism that is amounting to the cultural genocide of its standing nation with the introduction of their new licensing laws, health and safety regulations, public order offences, liability insurance requirements, and their political correctness
and human rights policies.

Constitutional and political recognition for England would see British Multiculturism replaced with an English Multiculturism like that of Scotland and Wales that could encourage and promote England’s national identity to engage all from the inside, allowing all the people of England with a British qualification to identify with the country in which they live, the very essence of which would unite England’s people under one banner like is happening in Scotland and Wales, and an English Parliament would be the centre of gravity around which all could work together to carve out a new English identity. Britishness would then be promoted throughout the UK in its true category as the requirements and responsibilities of state citizenship.

Devolution 1998 the cause of the UK’s instability was the result of pressure being put on British Nationalists in the UK Parliament by a disillusioned Scotland and a UK Parliament that wanted to comply with the European Union’s Regional Policies that demanded it. If the devolutionary powers given to Scotland had been given to England, the simplest way to avoid a constitutional controversy, England would have received the same powers over its own domestic policies as those listed below and the UK would have held onto reserved issues.

Under the Scotland Act 1998, the Scottish Parliament can make primary and secondary legislation in Areas not reserved to Westminster or protected from modification.

* Health * Local Government * Social Work
* Education and Training * Housing * Planning
* Tourism * Economic development and financial assistance to industry
* Some aspects of transport, the Scottish road network, bus policy and ports and harbours
* Law and home affairs, inc. most aspects of criminal and civil law, the prosecution system and the courts
* The Police and Fire Services * Natural and Built Heritage * Sports and the Arts
* The Environment * Agriculture, forestry and Fishing
* Statistics, public registers and records

Other Advantages gained by the Devolved Nations

* MPs in their own parliament and separate MPs of their own at Westminster
* A Secretary of State in the Cabinet
* A Grand Committee made up of all of their MPs
* Their own Select Committee at Westminster to deal with their own affairs
* They can speak up for their own nations in Europe and help shape UK- EU policy
* Have the benefit of Statutory Instruments (UK laws) to be studied by their own institution
* The Scottish and Welsh Development agencies deal direct with their own executives so can tailor things on a national rather than a regional basis
* Although the devolved nations MPs at Westminster have had their workload drastically reduced they have had no pay cut (99% of constituent’s problems now being dealt with by their own parliamentary MSPs)

Similar powers have been given to Wales.

You don’t have to be the brain of Britain to realise that when the UK’s British Government talks about any of the above institutions, appoints Ministers over them, and passes laws on them, that what they say and do can only apply to England, yet the media are aiding and abetting the government by not making this clear to the English general public.

UK Parliament controlled ‘Reserved Responsibilities’

* The Constitution * Defence and national security * Fiscal, economic and monetary system
* Trade and Industry, including competition and customer protection
* Transport (not particular to Scotland) including railways, transport safety and regulation
* Social Security * Employment * Equal opportunities
* Medical ethics: abortion; human fertilisation and embryology; genetics; xenotransplantation and vivi section
* Broadcasting * the Civil Service * Immigration and Nationality
* Foreign Affairs * Energy: electricity, coal, gas, nuclear energy

You don’t have to be the brain of Britain either to realise that the UK Parliament’s ‘Reserved Responsibilities’ and their sovereign powers are wanted and are gradually being surrendered by the British to the EU. Giving up your sovereign rights means you are handing over the supreme and indisputable power to rule on those rights to the EU, and how far the British are prepared to go down that path depends on the whims of which political party is in power in the UK Parliament, and not its UK subjects who are being denied a referendum on the issue. If the EU gains enough power the UK will be at its mercy, England therefore needs its political and constitutional recognition now before that point is reached in order to defend itself against British MPs and Lords who have proved themselves unworthy of our trust, and have shown that they are prepared to put their own interests and those of their party before England’s.

Looking at the UK list of powers devolved to Scotland and Wales, by far the most important thing every person living in England should be aware of and realise, is that the list is a list of national powers, powers given to the national parliaments of Scotland and Wales who appoint their own ministers over them, they are national institutions.

While Scotland and Wales have national institutions and can control their own policies nationally across all of their country England can not because England has no unitary existence. If we look at the health services we see that England is heading in the direction of privatisation by being subjected to a Health Service that is not a National Health Service in the sense of the word at all, but a British based regional system of Primary Care Trusts and Foundation Hospitals. Half of English hospitals are already out of Ministerial control and it is said all will be by 2012; we must not forget that this situation has been forced on England by Scotland’s elected British MPs against the wishes of those British MPs representing England after rejecting the system for their own Scottish nation. It must not be forgotten that it is these Scottish MPs that destroyed the English National Health Service and forced it into the regional based British Health Service we have now.

England’s regional based Foundation hospitals have been given huge sums of tax payer’s money by the British and conduct their own affairs free of British interference and are allowed to adopt differing policies and priorities in order to meet British set targets. They are run like businesses and are free to use the market as they see fit which is creating huge differences of care across England known as the post code lottery, which wouldn’t happen in a national based system. We are even seeing some of these hospitals paying for and building their own hospitals in other countries, outside of the EU too, and it is also being reported that they are selling first class drugs intended for English patients abroad for profit, while English patients go short or receive the cheaper options.

The NHS of Scotland and Wales provides equality of care for all of their people regardless of what part of their country people live in, and care is not dependent on a post code lottery; their hospitals do not have the same restraints put on them as those in England have because they are all under ministerial control and subsidised by the English tax payer. Besides receiving a huge grant from the British Government to run their own affairs the National Parliaments also get additional payments every year made to them because the funding formula called Barnet is based on England’s expenditure, in Scotland’s case alone this formula lets the British give Scotland an extra £12 billion per year more than they give England, which they use to bolster their own welfare system.

A National Parliament’s first priority is to the nation it serves and Scottish and Welsh national achievements since devolution are things England can only dream about and some are listed below.

*Free Prescription charges
*Free Eye Tests
*Free Dental Check Ups and reduced charges
*Free personal Care in Residential Homes - even if their people cross the border into England
*Free School Milk - Better school meals being provided because they are given double England’s subsidy
* The seriously ill are able to receive drugs that are denied to English patients even if their patients are in an English hospital
*Trainee nurses are kept on an extra year after qualification so that they have the necessary experience to get jobs in the private sector should there be no jobs in their NHS
*No Hospital Car Parking Charges
*No Wheel Clamping allowed anywhere in the country
*A fully funded Air Ambulance Service
*No Bridge tolls
*Higher wages to teachers and smaller class sizes in schools
*Their own Students in Universities have fees waived until they are earning over £25,000 per year and no top up fees are paid. (English Students now paying up to £9000/year + in top up fees and leave with debts of £30,000+)
*Council Tax frozen from 2008 and has only risen 40% since 1997 (England’s council tax has risen 100% over the same period and increases every year)
*Every young woman between the ages of 20 and 25 is invited for a cervical smear test - in England you have to be 25, by then it is too late for any girl unfortunate enough to get it at a younger age like Jade Goody did.

Continuing on the list we can see that the British recognised nations have responsibility for their own housing, planning, and environmental policies, the British can’t force their ECO Towns on Scotland or Wales, or force the extension of airports which they are able to force onto England. Their own Agriculture and Fisheries departments are seeing national governments make sure their farmers get their subsidies on time while the British keep English farmers waiting, some in the mean time going bankrupt, and the Scottish Fisheries Dept has already made a cut in English fishing quotas along the East Coast. The list goes on, and in every dept the nations are able to protect their people from the sufferance of the British Domestic policies that can be forced onto England; from ID Cards, to Road Pricing to bin collections, to council tax, to CTV surveillance and speed cameras, the national parliaments decide for themselves what is best for their people and do not have to accept the wishes of the British Government, and invariably do not.

The Barnet Formula mentioned previously is the mechanism that determines the allocation of resources throughout the United Kingdom and has been in place since the 1970s. It is the formula that decides the size of the Block Grants given to the devolved nations and it is based upon England’s expenditure. It was supposed to be “a convergence formula” based on population based changes, but in practice this has not proved to be the case. Government figures show that instead of converging the opposite is happening, and it is clear that the spending per head of population in England is continually lower to that of the devolved nations and the gap is actually widening.

In 2008 spending in England per head of population was £7,121. In Wales it was £8,139 (14% more), in Scotland £8,623 (21% more) and in Northern Ireland £9,385 (32% more) new figures for 2009 England £7535, Scot £9179 Scots get £1644 more. Since the Scottish Parliament was created in 1998 public spending has outstripped tax generated there by 45%, and in addition Scotland’s two flagship banks, HBOS and RBS have been bailed out by the tax payer.

Basically, every extra pound spent by the UK British Government on England projects automatically triggers an additional 10.66% payout to Scotland, a 6.02% payout to Wales and a 2.87% payout to Northern Ireland. So, for example, this means that any capital projects taking place in England are automatically made a total of 19.55% more expensive, because they instantly trigger extra Barnett Formula funding. This is why the proposed Cross Rail project in England means a financial bonanza in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and it has been estimated that Scotland alone will receive an extra £500 million pounds. Of course, this is a one-way process, capital projects elsewhere in the UK do not result in a single penny of extra funding for England.

But that is not all, when “uniform” adjustments, are made across treasury departments, for example Health, the same increase when applied to an already larger per capita budget naturally results in an even larger additional payout. In theory, these adjustments can be decreases as well as increases, but of course in practice this doesn’t happen.
For example, one of Gordon Brown’s last actions as Chancellor of the Exchequer was to slash England’s British Health Service capital budget by a third, £2.1 billion taken away from the English whilst the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish budgets remained untouched, and of course, any steps taken to return the money to England’s British Health Service will trigger automatic payouts to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The ‘£9000 top-up’ student tuition fees in England are also counted as additional English public expenditure, (because the extra income is spent by our universities). So by putting the burden of tuition fees on English students British MPs triggered a payout to the nations under the Barnett Formula, helping the nations to give their students free tuition.

The Barnett Formula also ensures that the rest of the UK benefits when England receives European Union (EU) funds. This is because the Treasury regards EU funding as UK expenditure, based on the argument that the UK is a net contributor to the EU and therefore EU grants are just money from the UK taxpayer. A large increase in EU funding to England is reflected in the Department Expenditure Limits (DELs) of the relevant English departments. DELs not only set limits on spending but also determine the assigned budget of the devolved nations in conjunction with the Barnett Formula. Therefore, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive extra funding from the UK Treasury, even though the intention of the EU was to meet the particular needs of England.

The Barnett Formula isn’t just fuelling resentment in England; it is also funding separation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Because unequal, asymmetric devolution that deliberately ignores England’s constitutional and political existence is all about separation.

The Barnett Formula itself is expressively based upon nationality, not need. It is specifically and openly all about handing over money to the nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – money taken in taxes from England.
The argument that these taxes are UK taxes doesn’t hold water. More money is spent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than is raised in taxes. The shortfall is made up in England and so it is English taxpayers who pay for the superior services elsewhere.

It is true that rural areas are more expensive to provide services to. But most of Scotland’s population lives in the Central Belt, which can hardly be described as “rural.” Glasgow alone has 40% of the Scottish population, and whereas there is an argument to be made for Wales being a poorer area of the UK and thus needing more funding, this cannot apply to Scotland which is recognised as being the third richest of the 12 EU regions.

Why should taxes on the low-paid in places in the North East of England go to support Edinburgh millionaires? The people of the North East are on average 13% poorer than the people of Scotland, but despite this they receive less government spending. Remember, Joel Barnett who devised the funding formula has said recently it was never intended to be the long term answer, and contradicted Gordon Brown by stressing that it was a population based formula not one based on need, that had run its course and was now grossly unfair to England.

This Barnet Formula will not be changed while England has no constitutional and political existence and England will continue to take the brunt of taxes to pay for British incompetence because of the aggressive nature of British Nationalism.

We have recently had a General Election and nothing changes as we hear the Con/Dem British Nationalist parties of Tory and Liberal continuing to trumpet their support for Scotland and have promised even in the midst of the UK’s Billions of debt that there will be no reduction in their nations funding in the short term; it’s England then that is going to take the brunt of cuts in public expenditure and be subjected to British revenue raising budgets.

England’s troubles began in 1997 when a gang of Scottish conspirators and Europhiles were supported by a United Kingdom Prime Minister backed by English elected British MPs who were prepared to sacrifice England and the English Nation that elected them for the glorification of Scotland and their New Labour Party. Tony Blair was the Prime Minister and Gordon Brown headed the long list of conspirators that included Charles Kennedy the then leader of the Liberal Party, Menzies Campbell his successor, and such people as the disgraced speaker Michael Martin and George Galloway amongst them, who had signed an oath in 1989 known as ‘The Scottish Claim of Right’ swearing to put the interests of Scotland before that of any other nation, and in doing so forced UK’s 1998 Devolution.

From this day British MPs elected from English constituencies can not be trusted to put England’s interests before that of their party.

The West Lothian Question

Why should MPs elected by the countries of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland into the British UK Parliament be allowed to debate and vote on policies that only apply to England, when British MPs elected by England to the UK Parliament can not debate and vote on policies that only apply to their countries.

The result of their interference in English legislation has already resulted in England being forced down the road of NHS privatisation with Foundation Hospitals, and also forced our University students to pay Top Up fees, and most recently influenced the stopping of trials by Jury for certain offences.

The English Question

Who rules England – Why should British MPs elected in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland be allowed to be head of English only departments deciding English Domestic Policies when they can not force those same policies onto their own nations that elected them, and one as even made himself Prime Minister.
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England and Englishness are something to be positively proud about. It is the right of the people of England to have their own distinct particular English national identity acknowledged within the UK and the EU as those of Scotland and Wales have been acknowledged in the 1998 Devolution legislation.

The British do not wish to recognise England and Englishness because it gives them a problem with their identity and reduces their power, so they are trying to solve it by supplanting the name Britain for England and forcing an invented indigenous British multi-cultural identity onto the English Nation.

St. George’s Day and St. David’s Day Bill

2011-05-26T22:40:00.001+01:00

Sponsor Mr. Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford on Avon)

Summary

The Bill would amend the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 to provide that 23 April (St. George’s Day) or nearest working day should be a bank holiday in England but not in Wales, and that 1 March (St. David’s Day) or nearest working day should be a bank holiday in Wales but not in England.
The Bill would enable the Secretary of State to designate an alternative date for the St. George’s Day bank holiday if it fell on Good Friday or Easter Monday.
The Bill would address the grave injustice of inequality that exists across the United Kingdom that allows only the Scots and Northern Irish to celebrate their saint days.

Mr. Nadhim Zahawi MP for Stratford on Avon withdrew his bill after a short debate because Minister Mr. John Hayes announced that the DCMS strategy allowed for a consultation on moving the May Day Bank Holiday, and one suggestion is that it might be moved to St. George’s or St. David’s day.

In my opinion Mr. Zahawi should not have withdrawn his Bill and England should have no confidence that the outcome of such a consultation will result in a St. George’s Day bank holiday, because rather than try to confirm it the withdrawal of this Bill if anything as done the opposite, and could more or less have guaranteed its failure if the mood of the short debate this Bill had continues into that consultation. While the Bill stood England could guarantee the full support of Wales, and Mr. Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr) confirmed this when he stated that it was a grave injustice that the Scots can celebrate St. Andrew, the Irish in Northern Ireland can celebrate St. Patrick, but the English cannot celebrate St. George, and in Wales they cannot celebrate St. David, and added that he wanted it put on record that the entire Welsh nation strongly supported the Bill.

Mr. Zahawi who was himself co-founder of the YouGov market research firm also stated that his Bill received 68% support in one of their polls and 89% in a Facebook UK Democracy page he had teamed up with that had had a response rate 800% higher than usual.

With all this public support in both England and Wales to right the wrong of what is another UK divisive and destructive policy you would have expected MPs that claim to support the Union would have given this Bill a favourable response, but when you think that the Bill if passed into law will give England at least some sort of formal recognition the Little Britishers are not so keen. Step up one of our own Labour Black Country MPs Mr. Ian Austin of Dudley, who hypocritically declared his support and then set about trashing the idea or got totally confused that the debate was about England and Wales and inequality and not Britain, has he continually ranted on about Britishness and what it meant to him to be British. The saying goes that the Cuckoos sing in May and obviously this man is one and has got into our Black Country nest, and is one who we can not rely on for support in any consultation process; he wants a British Trafalgar or Falklands Day holiday instead. If this is Ed Milliband's policy for connecting with England then the imerging Blue Labour movement has a mountain to climb to convince the electrate his Labour Party is any different from that of Gordon Brown when it comes to dealing with England, and from this debate we can have no confidence in David Cameron’s Tories either, as another West Midland MP a Conservative Mr. Christopher Pincher (Tamworth) who also wanted a Trafalgar Day gave an example of why the people of England should not be represented by these British MPs when he set about trashing all the virtues of England’s St. George when asking why do we not celebrate Trafalgar day rather than the day of a mythical Greek who went around slaying mythical beasts?
When the May Day bank holiday was mentioned in this short debate Mr. Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Lieth) said he hoped that it was not being suggested that the May Day holiday should not continue, because he said if that approach were to be associated with introducing St George’s day or St David’s day, it would destroy the otherwise bipartisan approach to the debate, and added that he thought that Mr. Zahawi would not want that either, which beggars the question why Mr. Zahawi withdrew his Bill.

One year into a new government and its no change for the English

2011-05-10T14:30:00.008+01:00

For thirteen years British MPs representing England in the United Kingdom Parliament have sat on their backsides and watched what were virtually Scottish led New Labour governments destroy all that was good about Great Britain. These so called English MPs were so engrossed in lining their pockets with fools Gold after being allowed to fiddle their expense sheets, dig out their Moats and the refurbish their Duck Houses that they had no time to consider the consequences of what was happening to the country they represented, and as long as a blind eye was being cast over their dealings they couldn’t have cared less, and only when it was too late did they realise that the Scottish tail was now wagging the English dog. The United Kingdom is now a shadow of its former self, and those British MPs who represented England over that period have disgraced themselves and have a lot to answer for; they sat back and watched and said nothing when successive British governments denied England its ability to have a voice in parliament and never protested when our nation, historically one of the first unified nations on Earth was treated with contempt and even denied its existence, and it was good riddance when a third of them were sent packing in 2010, a pity it was not all of them.

When the country went to the polls to elect a new government in 2010 it was reasonable of us to expect that the influx of new blood would reflect on passed mistakes and would make every effort to right the wrongs and forge in roads into re-uniting a Kingdom that had started to tear itself apart. Although no one party had won an outright victory in the election and we ended up with coalition government it was still our assumption that preserving the Union would be the first priority of such a government, but it seems we were mistaken, and far from trying to unite the nations the policies coming from the coalition is doing the opposite and appears to be designed to tear them further apart. Faced with an economic deficit and debts of crisis proportions caused by the collapse of the banks and failures of the last government, the first priority of any new government would obviously be to balance the books, and what better opportunity could there be for a government wanting to create unity than making everyone of her majesty’s subjects pay their equal share of the debt. This is not happening, and what we are seeing is a continuation of the last governments policies in making an unrecognised England pay far more than its fair share of the debt, and like the last government they ignore England’s cries for a fair and honest hearing in the devolution process while at the same time handing out gifts to Scotland and Wales that encourages their independence. Lies, Lies, more Lies and hypocrisy can only be used to describe a government that spouts rhetoric of unity yet commits actions of separation, none more powerful than the act of allowing Wales to gain further power to make laws of discrimination against the Queen’s subjects in other parts of the United Kingdom, the brunt of which will fall directly on our unrecognised English Nation already reeling from the hypocrisy of a coalition who agree with the discrimination against England’s students, and the discrimination of our sick by the other nations. Anyone of average intelligence and you would expect that would apply to a British MP would know that given a choice a nation will always take the one in which it can decide its own destiny, so why did they act surprised when Scotland voted for the SNP and Wales voted for law making powers for their assembly, Lies, Lies, and more Lies THEY CAN’T BE THAT STUPID.

If the British want the Union to survive they must now start looking for some type of federal or confederal solution before it’s to late, because Wales will eventually follow Scotland down the national path, and we in England are not alone going to be palmed off into taking on their failing British Identity. If this British Government is serious about saving the Union it should drop its intensions of forming separate committees to look for answers that prevent England gaining its identity, and HOL reform, and instead should immediately set up a Select Committee with a view to finding a federal solution to the UK problems.
If that is not forth coming it’s time then for all Unionists to realise that the Union is over, because have no doubt for reasons already given Scotland will vote for independence given the chance, and the fight will then be for an English England or British Britain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lt0cAKQk04&feature=watch_response

Stonecross St. George’s Day West Bromwich 24th April

2011-04-26T12:24:00.009+01:00

More than the expected 20,000 people from across the Black Country flocked to West Bromwich to take part in the celebrations to honour England’s patron saint, and for almost two hours the streets around the town became one mass of Red and White as English patriots marched in a parade that stretched almost a third of the route from Westminster Road to Dartmouth Park. Getting people into the mood at the start of the parade was organiser Mark and blind Dave Heeley helped by Baggie Bird and a look alike former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who stood in for the Queen this year because she was busy organising her grandson’s wedding. Leading the parade was the ever loyal Northfield Caledonia band supported in the march by the bands of the England’s Supporters and Walsall Coronets who must be congratulated for their stirling endurance and performances. The number of attractions in Dartmouth Park must have surprised everyone who knew of the problems being met by the organisers even as late as two weeks before the event, and I hope that people show their appreciation by offering their assistance or donating to next years event. The parade ended at the War Memorial in the park in a salute to past patriots before people dispersed to the attractions which included this year, Bouncy Castles, Morris Dancers, a Viking settlement, Scooter display, Pat Collins Fun Fair, besides a variety of Craft stalls and food vans not forgetting our own campaign stand.
Our stand had to be brought all the way up from Salisbury after it had taken pride of place in the local market there on Saturday and thanks have to go to Veronica and John Newman who had very little sleep in order to bring it. The stand was manned by Veronica, John, and the West Midland team of John Stanhope, Julian Asher and Nigel Bromage with appearances from our Chairman Eddie Bone and members Fred Bishop and Tony Trahearn. I am glad to say that at most times throughout the day people were two and three deep and scrambling to put their names down on our supporters lists, so many were they that at one point we had to put out 6 separate sheets to accommodate the queue. All in all in was grand day for a grand occasion and everyone left happy.

Stonecross St.George's Day Parade West Bromwich

2011-04-07T14:10:00.003+01:00

The Campaign for an English Parliament is attending the parade again this year and you are invited to come along and meet your local Representatives at the CEP Stand in the park. The one and half mile walk from Stonecross to the park is a lot of fun for everybody so we look forward to seeing you dressed up in your Red and White and waving your flags in celebrating your Englishness, and if the Sun shines so much the better.
Since the council withdrew their funding of the parade some three years ago the organisers are constantly having to overcome obstacles not before experienced,the least not being the necessary requirement of raising thousands of pounds every year to pay for road closers and policing.It is thanks to their efforts throughout the year and their ability to act quickly to changing circumstances that this event which attracts 15,000 to 20,000 people is again able to take place.
If you or any of your family or friends come and join the parade I am asking you to consider making a £1 donation towards the cost, and this can done on their web site
www.stonecrossstgeorge.org or in a £1 coin on the day.
The parade this year takes place on Easter Sunday 24th March and if you can help on the day please ring me 01902630110 ASAP.

The British don't want to give England a public holiday on St. George's Day because it could create a feeling in England of nationhood,which goes against British policy of devolution which is designed to prevent England gaining that political and constitutional recognition, so your celebration of St. George is also your protest against that British injustice.

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.

Have the British made one mistake to many by using April 1st to make fools of the English

2011-04-05T11:03:00.006+01:00

You can’t fool all of the people all of the time the saying goes, so have the people of England at last realised on April 1st of all days that the British joker is no fool to be laughed at, and are they at last realising that the joke is on them, not only on April 1st 2011 but on every day since devolution 1998 denied them and their country their political and constitutional existence. Since April 1st England’s Health Service has become the only one in the United Kingdom that will not be giving out free prescriptions, and to compound the joke it is England that is providing the money for the other nations to get theirs free. How can the United Kingdom exist when certain parts have better benefits than the English and the English rights to those benefits are being vetoed by Scottish, Welsh and Irish MPs. The British don’t seem to realise that the future of the United Kingdom is at stake, and nor do they realise that an essential feature of the Union must be equality, or is it ingrained in the British psyche that they think that an English life in all its aspects isn’t worth the same as a Scottish, Welsh or Irish one. The United Kingdom no longer has one NHS, since devolution 1998 the UK now has four health services three of which, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are truly national and are under the control of government ministers and fully funded, while England, the only country without its own parliament is being forced to accept a privatised British Regional Health Service in which patient care depends more on where you live than the severity of the complaint, and has resulted in what is termed a post code lottery. The irony of the situation is that the British MPs who forced this privitisation on England were elected from the nations whose counties had been given their own parliament and they new full well that it would not apply to their own health services. Next time you are ill and take your prescription to the pharmacy to pay £7-40 per item put on the fools cap and stand in the corner, because not only are you paying for something the other nations get free but you will probably be paying for second class generic equivalents too.

It is England’s Forests not British Forests they want to sell

2011-02-09T11:12:00.005Z

It is surely time that the media respected the distinction between British and English forests (and more generally between Britain and England). Otherwise we shall be led to think that it is engaging in British propaganda. It should be the media’s job to tell the general public when the United Kingdom government is intending to pass a bill that does not effect Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland not to assist it by referring to England only bills has being British bills, or bills for Britain. It should be made clear to the public that the forests the Coalition intend to sell off are England’s forests, and only England’s forests, they are not Britain’s forests or British forests which implies the forest sales would apply across the UnitedKingdom The conduct of the Coalition in respect to the sale of English assets in this case forests is little better than that of the previous Labour government, and together the British political parties simply ignore the manifest will of the people of England, even ignoring their own manifesto pledges. It was certainly not a part of any manifesto presented to the electors of Cannock Chase and South Staffordshire in 2010 that the Cannock Chase forest was going to be put up for sale. In my view the dishonourable behaviour of MPs Aiden Burley and Gavin Williamson in voting for the sale of their own areas greatest asset, and all of the other British Conservative MPs who voted for the Coalitions proposal, proves once and for all that British MPs have no loyalty to England or the English nation; preferring to put their own and their own parties interests before any other, and that applies to all three main political parties. True patriotic MPs should show their loyalty to England by breaking away and forming their own English political party.

Vote to save Cannock Chase http://www.savecannockchase.org.uk/

England pays the price of being denied its English Identity

2010-12-29T13:36:00.006Z

It has been some time since I last blogged because I thought the April 2010 one said it all, however I am now so angry with the British over their treatment of England’s University students I am going to start again and this is more than a rant.

England and its citizens are suffering more prejudice and discrimination than citizens in any other part of the United Kingdom because England has no voice. British political parties show more support and less discrimination against those citizens in places like Jersey, Guernsey, and the little isle of Man than they do of those in England, their citizens at least have been given a voice and separate representation in the British / Irish ‘Council of the Isles’ to which England and its citizens are denied. This action by the British and Irish governments amounts to outright racism against the people of England and the English nation, and it is being supported by all of those countries of the UK that attend it. The objective of this British / Irish ‘Council of the Isles’ is to promote the harmonious and mutually beneficial development of the relationships between all of the people of these islands, all it appears except those in England.

The people of England are not only suffering discrimination from the British United Kingdom government, but also from our fellow British citizens in other parts of the United Kingdom. Devolution is allowing the people of England to be discriminated against in varying degrees by citizens of all UK national regions without any recourse, one nation, Scotland, has even been given a parliament that can legally legislate against us. A change in government has not seen a change in attitude, and the present economic climate is a bonus it appears to those Ministers and MPs in the coalition who want to continue England’s destruction and discrimination, as we see the sell off of another icon of our identity, and with it the possibility of the Queen’s Head on our stamps, not to mention England’s forests. The British Coalition government says it believes in the Union yet it is deliberately creating policies that are increasing friction, like making unequal cuts and funding across the regions, and offering more devolution to Scotland and Wales, while ignoring England. It is shocking too that it is not only the Tory, and Liberal Parties, but Labour and the entire British establishment who are party to this increase in devolution, and even more shocking and an insult, that without consulting England the British have agreed to the Welsh referendum in March 2011 that will decide if Wales too wants the same legal right to legislate and discriminate against England and their fellow United Kingdom citizens, while at the same time refusing to answer the West Lothian Question.

If Wales gets its Law making parliament in May, England will be at the mercy of Laws made in the parliaments of the EU, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Isles, Isle of Man, and a UK parliament full of British Racists.

There are no boundaries as far as the British are concerned when it comes to England’s discrimination, its citizens, young and old alike, rich, poor, the dying the sick, they treat all with contempt compared to how the government’s of national regions treat their citizens, besides which they are systematically dismantling England and selling off its icons of identity.

Fight the Fees

At present it is the British Education Policy for England that is taking central focus in the media, and discrimination against England could not be shown more clearly than the injustice that has been metered out to England’s University students. Increases in tuition fees that the British are forcing England’s students to pay compared with fees that the national governments of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are going to ask off theirs and EU students is not only unfair, it is grotesque, in what the British keep telling us is a United Kingdom.

This power of discrimination against England’s students was first felt in the 1999 Scottish government elections, when the abolition of University tuition fees became a major issue in the forming of the Lab / Lib coalition that governed Scotland 1999/2003. The Liberal Party stood by its manifesto pledge and the coalition depended on the Labour Party’s acceptance of the Liberal Policy; a deal which saw the abolition of tuition fees for Scotland’s domiciled students and for students attending Scottish Universities from Europe. A deal however that denied that same privilege to students attending Scottish Universities from other parts of the UK, even those from England whose nation was being forced to subsidise the deal with their taxes. The Liberal Party cry then was and still is “Going to University must be decided on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay” which obviously is now a cry being taken up by all of our national governments, and refers to cheap or free education for their own and European students but as no reference to England’s students, who along with the English nation is helping fund it.

The EU says their students studying in the UK must be treated in the same way as domiciled students are treated in the region that they study, so are entitled to the same discounts and benefits offered by national regional governments. By far the most destructive and discriminating part of EU law on devolution however is the one that came to light in the 1999 Scottish election and the reason why we could not fight England’s discrimination then, and why we can’t now. It is the law of devolution, it gives regional governments the power to discriminate against citizens of other regions within the same State, and it is not being given the full attention it deserves by the media, the full force of which is felt by the English who have No Region, No Defence, and No Voice, and is the reason England must fight tooth and nail to stop any British Government creating and giving the same power to regions in whatever disguise they take within England’s borders, or the English Nation will tear itself apart.

I hope English students can create enough noise to make England’s sleeping nation wake up and realise its discrimination in all areas and not just education, though violence of any sort cannot be condoned. With the outstanding debt of the British state there maybe justifiable reasons to ask students to subsidise their own education, but if we still have a United Kingdom then every student/citizen of it should be made to contribute to the debt equally. Instead, the British are using England’s unrecognised Nation to subsidise the contributions being made by our fellow citizens in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and also those coming here from the European Union, and no matter how much the British Government or the EU tries to convince us otherwise, their devolution policies are not fair, are racially motivated and are against human rights and should not happen in what they keep telling us is a United Kingdom.

Summary

England’s students pay £3290 now but are being made to meet the full cost of their University tuition fees from 2012 because of British cuts to England’s funding. Students will then pay between £6000 and £9000 a year for a 3year degree course at any University in England, which if you add on living costs arrives at a figure between £40,000 and £50,000 for the 3 year course at a minimum. The British Government allows England’s students a loan but are reducing its size, and it appears the low fixed rate of interest they now pay on it could be removed and opened up to market forces increasing its cost, besides which the government grant EMA is being removed. The student does not have to pay the tuition fees up front and the loan does not have to be paid back until the student is earning £21,000 at which point they start paying back 9% of their earnings; the loan taking an average student an estimated 30years to pay off. European students pay the same fees as England’s students if they study at England’s Universities, unless they or their parents have lived for the 3 years previously in either Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, when instead they will pay the fees decided by the respective governments of the nation lived in, EU students can even get extra help if they have lived for 3years in the Channel Isles or the Isle of Man. It is also a fact that even now before the rise in tuition fees takes effect that less than a third of EU students have been paying back their fees, which beggars the question of whether the British are a willing partner in subsidising these EU students at English Universities.

Fees to be paid by Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and EU students living in those countries are still under revision, also under revision are the fees that these countries are going to charge England’s students that attend their Universities, but;

Scotland’s domiciled Scottish students do not pay top up fees at any UK University now and are not expected to pay any after the revision and they also get a better deal on living costs. EU students with the 3year qualification qualify for the same benefits the domiciled Scots get now and it is debatable whether they can be charged any differently after the revision?
English/Welsh/NI students attending Scottish Universities after revision are expected to be charged the same fees that the British charge English students in England, to stop the exodus from England for cheaper fees.
Only England’s students are guaranteed to be forced to pay the full fees in Scotland however, because the Welsh and Northern Irish governments have given a guarantee of funding to their students to keep their fees at the £3290 a year they pay now.

Welsh domiciled students studying at Universities in Wales and EU students with the 3year qualification pay £3290 a year now but get a grant of £1890 towards it off the government, fees are not expected to change after the revision. Tuition fees for English/Scottish and N. Irish students attending Welsh Universities are expected to rise after the revision to meet those set by the British for England, for the reasons given above. It will only be the English however who pay the full fee because the Scots pay nothing and the N. Irish government have given the guarantee that their students will not pay more than the £3290 they pay now.

I have just been shown page six of today’s SUN newspaper, Wednesday 29th December 2010 and it should go down in history, and it just about sums up what these British Racists think of the people of England. David Willetts the Minister for England’s University Education says the Coalition Government is going to subsidise the tuition fees and living costs of England’s University students, but only for those children of service personnel killed in action, in other words the British expect the English to give their lives for what others get for doing nothing, unbelievable.

Unless England becomes a national region within the United Kingdom and Europe with its own English Parliament, Brussels will continue to recognise England to be a Britain, the part left over from British devolution in 1998, and will leave England, its people, its culture, and its assets to the mercy of a British government that is denying the English Nation its political and constitutional existence, and to any other United Kingdom nation that wants to discriminate against it.

Devolution 1998 – England’s war of 1066 proportions

2010-04-17T10:09:00.014+01:00

Devolution forced on the UK by Europe’s regional policies saw the British because of Scottish influence adopt a system of devolution that regionalised the United Kingdom along national boundaries. It was obvious that any devolution that gave political and constitutional recognition along national lines would strengthen a nation’s individual national identity and weaken the British State, so to protect the British identity devolution 1998 denied the English Nation and England itself any political or constitutional recognition.

Pulling out of the EU and abandoning their regional policies or creating a new British federal state, are not options the British are considering. Yet!

After being subdued by a British Government for centuries the Scottish fortunes have now been turned around, and Scotland with its own parliament is now in a much stronger position to gain concessions off the British to prevent the country seeking independence. The British are already showing they are open to this bribery with the most obvious being their refusal to make changes to the Barnet funding formula that gives Scotland £12 billion a year more than England, and the bailing out of Scottish banks which they have promised England will take the brunt of paying for. Just how far the British are prepared to go in this direction could be seen to depend on how long the people of England are going to stand by and let this bribery continue.

By adopting an asymmetrical form of devolution that gave political and constitutional recognition to all UK countries except England, the British have retained the power to manipulate English Domestic policies to their own advantage. The British are using this power to reinforce their identity on the people of England and we are seeing a forceful encouragement of Britishness that wants to break up our country into regions to stop us gaining that unitary political existence and nationhood.

This is England Today

Since 1998 the English have been the only nation in the United Kingdom without a National Parliament and the only nation not able to defend and protect itself against ‘British’ Domestic and EU Polices, giving British Nationalists a free hand to destroy England’s unity and culture by allowing them to break up England into their 9 multicultural ‘British’ Regions, and apply EU laws with impunity.

Since 1998 England has been marginalised by devolution, constitutionally, politically, financially, economically and culturally.

By virtue of their national institutions Scotland and Wales have a distinct and separate political, constitutional existence and nationhood, England however does not constitutionally exist and is being denied its nationhood.

The Devolution Acts of 1998 revoked the Act of Union, revoked the concept of one British Nation with one legislative body of government, and revoked the principle of representative democracy. It unbalanced the Union by placing England, Scotland and Wales each in a different relationship with the Union and each other, and it institutionalised discrimination against the people of England.

The Devolution Acts of 1998 abolished representative democracy as the untouchable 1st principle of government. By what is understood to be the West Lothian issue, British MPs elected in Scotland can be both ministers and legislators,even Prime
Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary in English matters without being answerable in elections for their actions in those matters to ‘any electorate’ either in Scotland or England.

England is being broken up into British Regions and is losing its unitary existence to the disadvantage of the English Nation to whom it denies nationhood and political representation. British nationalists claim that England does not need any separate representation because they say the interests of England are best served by its British MPs; this is an untruth as they could have said the same about the interests of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and there would have been no need for the Devolution Acts of 1998 and the UK could have remained with one united parliament.

It is impossible to see how England can be best served by its British MPs when you consider how the British political system works. The United Kingdom Parliament’s House of Commons is not divided up into four national sectors with British MPs sitting in the sector of the country that elected them, the house divides on party political lines, the government on one side and the opposition on the other. What this means is that England’s elected representative British MPs are always divided and are always under the control of their separate political party whips, and who has ever seen or will see, or can imagine Labour and Conservative MPs sitting in English constituency seats defying their party whips to the extent of combining to defeat and bring down their own respective governments.

With England’s political and constitutional recognition England could decide its own form of local government and would be able to take over the work performed by the regions in the EU, providing England with a stronger unified voice and force than the individual regions in applying for EU structural funds. Currently the regions apply separately for funds and are therefore in direct competition with one another. With London and the South East undoubtedly able to shout the loudest the poorer regions such as those in the North are always in danger of losing out; an English Parliament would therefore not only be a stronger lobbying force in the UK and in the EU but it would be better placed to distribute the funds more evenly across England.

There is nothing to stop an English Parliament from deciding on a regional form of local government, the difference between an English Parliament deciding on the option and a UK British Parliament deciding, is that the first option rightly gives
England and its nation their political and constitutional recognition and the second deny it, disproving again British Nationalist claims that their MPs elected from English constituencies act in England’s best interests.

England is further disenfranchised in representation in the House of Lords, in which members from other countries in the UK and abroad, unaccountable to the English electorate, are able to revise and modify laws that only apply to England, when they can not do so for Scotland and Northern Ireland.

‘The British / Irish Council’ known as the ‘Council of the Isles’ which
promotes the harmonious and mutually beneficial development of the totality of relationships among the peoples of these islands, ( British gibberish) which has representatives from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and even the Isle of Man, is not allowed an independent representative from England.

Since Labours Devolution Acts of 1998 and their subsequent immigration policies, which included signing up to an EU open border policy, our country has been inundated with people from Europe’s 450 million inhabitants and England our homeland is no longer our own, and with each nation in the EU retaining power over its own citizenship a rogue nation could invite the world's population to our doorstep. By denying England its political and constitutional identity the nation is also being denied its ability to protect its own assets and culture, and the British are exploiting this situation by selling assets that would sustain England’s identity and are fostering a British Multiculturism on England that is encouraging the rise of alien cultures at its nation’s expense.

Compare this with the nations of Scotland and Wales who have recognition and have a parliament with responsibility for their own nation’s education and training programs. While British Multiculturism on England is based around a false premise of Britishness, and encourages cohesion from the outside by downplaying England’s identity, the Scots and Welsh are able to do the opposite and are encouraging cohesion from the inside. Through the school curriculum all children in Scotland and Wales are now being reared and educated to have strong Scottish and Welsh national identities and knowledge of their own individual Scottish and Welsh history and heritage. The British have also given each country a separate TV channel to help them regenerate their old languages, and the Welsh language is now being taught in the schools of Wales. The British have also allowed these nations similar ‘Sports and Art’ programs backed up by other separate television channels, a BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and a BBC Northern Ireland, and they have the added bonus of separate tourist boards who promote their own distinct Scottish and Welsh cultures.

While British Multiculturism is always demoting, a Scottish and Welsh Multiculturism is always promoting, and an obvious difference between the two was seen in the celebrations after the recent Olympic Games. England having won more Gold Medals in this Olympic Games than it had in its entire history in the competition, not only saw its winners denied their English identity in the media, but also saw their entire nation denied separate celebrations by the British on their return. Scottish and Welsh competitors on the other hand were applauded by the media and their nation status made headline news each time a medal came their way. Consider the difference too when the Scottish and Welsh competitors returned home, each nation held their own separate celebrations in Edinburgh and Cardiff with the added bonus of also being allowed to participate in the separate British celebrations in London.

Scotland, Wales, and Ireland are also allowed to promote their own separate identities and culture through labelling, especially food items, a lot of which now sport their national flags. Controversially in England, the ‘Dairy Crest’ company re-branded their ‘English Country Life Butter’ ‘British Country Life Butter’ with British government approval when the French recently acquired the brand outright.

Out of a grand total of 549 British MPs sent to the UK Parliament to represent the interests of the people of England, only 34 of them voted in favour of an EDM that called for England’s St. George to be honoured with a national day’s holiday, yet they knew they had already allowed Scotland a national holiday for St. Andrew’s Day.

Only in England is a false history of a multicultural Britishness being used to deny the people and their children their heritage. Only in England is its nation having obstacles put in its way to prevent its recognition and existence, and only on England are the British pursuing a vigorous policy of Multiculturism that is amounting to the cultural genocide of its standing nation with the introduction of their new licensing laws, health and safety regulations, public order offences, liability insurance requirements,and their political correctness and human rights policies.

Constitutional and political recognition for England would see British Multiculturism replaced with an English Multiculturism like that of Scotland and Wales that could encourage and promote England’s national identity to engage all from the inside, allowing all the people of England with a British qualification to identify with the country in which they live, the very essence of which would unite England’s people under one banner like is happening in Scotland and Wales, and an English Parliament would be the centre of gravity around which all could work together to carve out a new English identity. Britishness would then be promoted throughout the UK in its true category as the requirements and responsibilities of state citizenship.

Devolution 1998 the cause of the UK’s instability was the result of pressure being put on British Nationalists in the UK Parliament by a disillusioned Scotland and a UK Parliament that wanted to comply with the European Union’s Regional Policies that demanded it. If the devolutionary powers given to Scotland had been given to England, the simplest way to avoid a constitutional controversy, England would have received the same powers over its own domestic policies as those listed below and the UK would have held onto reserved issues.

Under the Scotland Act 1998, the Scottish Parliament can make primary and secondary legislation in Areas not reserved to Westminster or protected from modification.

* Health * Local Government * Social Work
* Education and Training * Housing * Planning
* Tourism * Economic development and financial assistance to industry
* Some aspects of transport, the Scottish road network, bus policy and ports and harbours
* Law and home affairs, inc. most aspects of criminal and civil law, the prosecution system and the courts
* The Police and Fire Services * Natural and Built Heritage * Sports and the Arts
* The Environment * Agriculture, forestry and Fishing
* Statistics, public registers and records

Other Advantages gained by the Devolved Nations

* MPs in their own parliament and separate MPs of their own at Westminster
* A Secretary of State in the Cabinet
* A Grand Committee made up of all of their MPs
* Their own Select Committee at Westminster to deal with their own affairs
* They can speak up for their own nations in Europe and help shape UK- EU policy
* Have the benefit of Statutory Instruments (UK laws) to be studied by their own institution
* The Scottish and Welsh Development agencies deal direct with their own executives so can tailor things on a national rather than a regional basis
* Although the devolved nations MPs at Westminster have had their workload drastically reduced they have had no pay cut (99% of constituent’s problems now being dealt with by their own parliamentary MSPs)

Similar powers have been given to Wales with the only exception being it has yet to be given jurisdiction over Primary Legislation.

You don’t have to be the brain of Britain to realise that when the UK’s British Government talks about any of the above institutions, appoints Ministers over them, and passes laws on them, that what they say and do can only apply to England, yet the media are aiding and abetting the government by not making this clear to the English general public.

UK Parliament controlled ‘Reserved Responsibilities’

* The Constitution * Defence and national security * Fiscal, economic and monetary system
* Trade and Industry, including competition and customer protection
* Transport (not particular to Scotland) including railways, transport safety and regulation
* Social Security * Employment * Equal opportunities
* Medical ethics: abortion; human fertilisation and embryology; genetics; xenotransplantation and vivi section
* Broadcasting * the Civil Service * Immigration and Nationality
* Foreign Affairs * Energy: electricity, coal, gas, nuclear energy

You don’t have to be the brain of Britain either to realise that the UK Parliament’s ‘Reserved Responsibilities’ and their sovereign powers are wanted and are gradually being surrendered by the British to the EU. Giving up your sovereign rights means you are handing over the supreme and indisputable power to rule on those rights to the EU, and how far the British are prepared to go down that path depends on the whims of which political party is in power in the UK Parliament, and not its UK subjects who are being denied a referendum on the issue. If the
EU gains enough power the UK will be at its mercy, England therefore needs its political and constitutional recognition now before that point is reached in order to defend itself against British MPs who have proved themselves unworthy of our trust, and have shown that they are prepared to put their own interests and those of their party before England’s.

Looking at the UK list of powers devolved to Scotland and Wales, by far the most important thing every person living in England should be aware of and realise, is that the list is a list of national powers, powers given to the national parliaments of Scotland and Wales who appoint their own ministers over them, they are national institutions.

While Scotland and Wales have national institutions and can control their own policies nationally across all of their country England can not because England has no unitary existence. If we look at the health services we see that England is heading in the direction of privatisation by being subjected to a Health Service that is not a National Health Service in the sense of the word at all, but a British based regional system of Primary Care Trusts and Foundation Hospitals. Half of English hospitals are already out of Ministerial control and it is said all will be by 2012; we must not forget that this situation has been forced on England by Scotland’s elected British MPs against the wishes of those British MPs representing England after rejecting the system for their own Scottish nation. It must not be forgotten that it is these Scottish MPs that destroyed the English National Health Service and forced it into the regional based British Health Service we have now.

England’s regional based Foundation hospitals have been given huge sums of tax payer’s money by the British and conduct their own affairs free of British interference and are allowed to adopt differing policies and priorities in order to meet British set targets. They are run like businesses and are free to use the market as they see fit which is creating huge differences of care across England known as the post code lottery, which wouldn’t happen in a national based system. We are even seeing some of these hospitals paying for and building their own hospitals in other countries, outside of the EU too, and it is also being reported that they are selling first class drugs intended for English patients abroad for profit, while English patients go short or receive the cheaper options.

The NHS of Scotland and Wales provides equality of care for all of their people regardless of what part of their country people live in, and care is not dependent on a post code lottery; their hospitals do not have the same restraints put on them as those in England have because they are all under ministerial control and subsidised by the English tax payer. Besides receiving a huge grant from the British Government to run their own affairs the National Parliaments also get additional payments every year made to them because the funding formula called Barnet is based on England’s expenditure, in Scotland’s case alone this formula lets the British give Scotland an extra £12 billion per year more than they give England, which they use to bolster their own welfare system.

A National Parliament’s first priority is to the nation it serves and Scottish and Welsh national achievements since devolution are things England can only dream about and some are listed below.

*Free Prescription charges
*Free Eye Tests
*Free Dental Check Ups and reduced charges
*Free personal Care in Residential Homes - even if their people cross the border into England
*Free School Milk - Better school meals being provided because they are given double England’s subsidy
* The seriously ill are able to receive drugs that are denied to English patients even if their patients are in an English hospital
*Trainee nurses are kept on an extra year after qualification so that they have the necessary experience to get jobs in the private sector should there be no jobs in their NHS
*No Hospital Car Parking Charges
*No Wheel Clamping allowed anywhere in the country
*A fully funded Air Ambulance Service
*No Bridge tolls
*Higher wages to teachers and smaller class sizes in schools
*Their own Students in Universities have fees waived until they are earning over £25,000 per year and no top up fees are paid. (English Students pay £3000/year + in top up fees and leave with debts of £20,000)
*Council Tax frozen 2008, 2009, and probably 2010 has only risen 40% since 1997 (England’s council tax has risen 100% over the same period and increases every year)
*Every young woman between the ages of 20 and 25 is invited for a cervical smear test - in England you have to be 25, by then it is too late for any girl unfortunate enough to get it at a younger age like Jade Goody did.

Continuing on the list we can see that the British recognised nations have responsibility for their own housing, planning, and environmental policies, the British can’t force their ECO Towns on Scotland or Wales, or force the extension of airports which they are able to force onto England. Their own Agriculture and Fisheries departments are seeing national governments make sure their farmers get their subsidies on time while the British keep English farmers waiting, some in the mean time going bankrupt, and the Scottish Fisheries Dept has already made a cut in English fishing quotas along the East Coast. The list goes on, and in every dept the nations are able to protect their people from the sufferance of the British Domestic policies that can be forced onto England; from ID Cards, to Road Pricing to bin collections, to council tax, to CTV surveillance and speed cameras, the national parliaments decide for themselves what is best for their people and do not have to accept the wishes of the British Government, and invariably do not.

The Barnet Formula mentioned previously is the mechanism that determines the allocation of resources throughout the United Kingdom and has been in place since the 1970s. It is the formula that decides the size of the Block Grants given to the devolved nations and it is based upon England’s expenditure. It was supposed to be “a convergence formula” based on population based changes, but in practice this has not proved to be the case. Government figures show that instead of converging the opposite is happening, and it is clear that the spending per head of population in England is continually lower to that of the devolved nations and the gap is actually widening.

In 2008 spending in England per head of population was £7,121. In Wales it was £8,139 (14% more), in Scotland £8,623 (21% more) and in Northern Ireland £9,385 (32% more) new figures for 2009 England £7535, Scot £9179 Scots get £1644 more. Since the Scottish Parliament was created in 1998 public spending has outstripped tax generated there by 45%, and in addition Scotland’s two flagship banks, HBOS and RBS have been bailed out by the tax payer.

Basically, every extra pound spent by the UK British Government on England projects automatically triggers an additional 10.66% payout to Scotland, a 6.02% payout to Wales and a 2.87% payout to Northern Ireland. So, for example, this means that any capital projects taking place in England are automatically made a total of 19.55% more expensive, because they instantly trigger extra Barnett Formula funding. This is why the proposed Cross Rail project in England means a financial bonanza in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and it has been estimated that Scotland alone will receive an extra £500 million pounds. Of course, this is a one-way process, capital projects elsewhere in the UK do not result in a single penny of extra funding for England.

But that is not all, when “uniform” adjustments, are made across treasury departments, for example Health, the same increase when applied to an already larger per capita budget naturally results in an even larger additional payout. In theory, these adjustments can be decreases as well as increases, but of course in practice this doesn’t happen.
For example, one of Gordon Brown’s last actions as Chancellor of the Exchequer was to slash England’s British Health Service capital budget by a third, £2.1 billion taken away from the English whilst the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish budgets remained untouched, and of course, any steps taken to return the money to England’s British Health Service will trigger automatic payouts to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The ‘£3000 top-up’ student tuition fees in England are also counted as additional English public expenditure, (because the extra income is spent by our universities). So by putting the burden of tuition fees on English students British MPs triggered a payout to the nations under the Barnett Formula, helping the nations to give their students free tuition.

The Barnett Formula also ensures that the rest of the UK benefits when England receives European Union (EU) funds. This is because the Treasury regards EU funding as UK expenditure, based on the argument that the UK is a net contributor to the EU and therefore EU grants are just money from the UK taxpayer. A large increase in EU funding to England is reflected in the Department Expenditure Limits (DELs) of the relevant English departments. DELs not only set limits on spending but also determine the assigned budget of the devolved nations in conjunction with the Barnett Formula. Therefore, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive extra funding from the UK Treasury, even though the intention of the EU was to meet the particular needs of England.

The Barnett Formula isn’t just fuelling resentment in England; it is also funding separation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Because unequal, asymmetric devolution that deliberately ignores England’s constitutional and political existence is all about separation.

The Barnett Formula itself is expressively based upon nationality, not need. It is specifically and openly all about handing over money to the nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – money taken in taxes from England.
The argument that these taxes are UK taxes doesn’t hold water. More money is spent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland than is raised in taxes. The shortfall is made up in England and so it is English taxpayers who pay for the superior services elsewhere.

It is true that rural areas are more expensive to provide services to. But most of Scotland’s population lives in the Central Belt, which can hardly be described as “rural.” Glasgow alone has 40% of the Scottish population, and whereas there is an argument to be made for Wales being a poorer area of the UK and thus needing more funding, this cannot apply to Scotland which is recognised as being the third richest of the 12 EU regions.

Why should taxes on the low-paid in places in the North East of England go to support Edinburgh millionaires? The people of the North East are on average 13% poorer than the people of Scotland, but despite this they receive less government spending. Remember, Joel Barnett who devised the funding formula has said recently it was never intended to be the long term answer, and contradicted Gordon Brown by stressing that it was a population based formula not one based on need, that had run its course and was now grossly unfair to England.

This Barnet Formula will not be changed while England has no constitutional and political existence and England will continue to take the brunt of taxes to pay for British incompetence because of the aggressive nature of British Nationalism.

We have recently had a General Election and nothing changes as we hear the Con/Dem British Nationalist parties of Tory and Liberal continuing to trumpet their support for Scotland and have promised even in the midst of the UK’s Billions of debt that there will be no reduction in their nations funding in the short term; it’s England then that is going to take the brunt of cuts in public expenditure and be subjected to British revenue raising budgets.

England’s troubles began in 1997 when a gang of Scottish conspirators and Europhiles were supported by a United Kingdom Prime Minister backed by English elected British MPs who were prepared to sacrifice England and the English Nation that elected them for the glorification of Scotland and their New Labour Party. Tony Blair was the Prime Minister and Gordon Brown headed the long list of conspirators that included Charles Kennedy the then leader of the Liberal Party, Menzies Campbell his successor, and such people as the disgraced speaker Michael Martin and George Galloway amongst them, who had signed an oath in 1989 known as ‘The Scottish Claim of Right’ swearing to put the interests of Scotland before that of any other nation, and in doing so forced UK’s 1998 Devolution.

From this day British MPs elected from English constituencies can not be trusted to put England’s interests before that of their party.

The West Lothian Question

Why should MPs elected by the countries of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland into the British UK Parliament be allowed to debate and vote on policies that only apply to England, when British MPs elected by England to the UK Parliament can not debate and vote on policies that only apply to their countries.

The result of their interference in English legislation has already resulted in England being forced down the road of NHS privatisation with Foundation Hospitals, and also forced our University students to pay Top Up fees, and most recently influenced the stopping of trials by Jury for certain offences.

The English Question

Who rules England – Why should British MPs elected in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland be allowed to be head of English only departments deciding English Domestic Policies when they can not force those same policies onto their own nations that elected them, and one as even made himself Prime Minister.
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England and Englishness are something to be positively proud about. It is the right of the people of England to have their own distinct particular English national identity acknowledged within the UK and the EU as those of Scotland and Wales have been acknowledged in the 1998 Devolution legislation.

The British do not wish to recognise England and Englishness because it gives them a problem with their identity and reduces their power, so they are trying to solve it by supplanting the name Britain for England and forcing an invented indigenous British multi-cultural identity onto the English Nation.

England, the sacrificial lamb

2010-03-31T14:19:00.000+01:00

Once again it appears that England's interests are to be sacrificed on the altar of the Union.
The Scottish Government is demanding that the Scottish portion of the DEFRA budget be handed over to Scotland's control before any of the planned cuts are made, thereby causing the cuts to fall even more heavily on England.
This demand follows the recent assurances from the Conservative Party that they will ‘respect’ the budget passed by the Scottish Government, an offer that has now also been extended to Wales. In other words, as an editorial in The Scotsman has pointed out, "England will see painful cuts over the next 12 months, while Scotland will escape relatively unscathed."[*]
For how much longer must England and her people be treated with this cavalier contempt? At what point will the British Government realise that it has to treat all its citizens equally if the Union is to survive? Or will it keep putting this off until it is too late?
David Wildgoose
CAMPAIGN FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT
Contacts: cep@skein.co.uk or 07906 551 417

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

Battlebus at Birmingham, Bromsgrove and Worcester

2010-03-03T20:01:00.002Z

The CEP Battlebus will be arriving in Birmingham on Saturday 6th March, meet at Victoria Square 10am, come along and find out about the 'Campaign for an English Parliament, or if you are a member come along and help the campaign.

On Sunday 7th March the Battlebus will stop at Bromsgrove Asda 10am to hand out leaflets to helpers before touring round and continuing its tour to arrive at the Car Park opposite the Slug and Lettuce in Worcester at 12 pm.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ENGLISH?

2010-02-27T11:53:00.002Z

I don’t know what it means to be English, because I’ve never been anything else
I am not proud of being English, or think I am better or worse than anyone else
It’s what I am, and I am what I am, and if I’d have been born into any other nation
I would have felt the same and said again without even hesitation
It’s what I am, and I am what I am, a member of that nation

To the British I say this:

I know who I am, and so do you, and we know who you are, and we all know each other, and to pretend otherwise is hypocritical.

What is the difference between being British and being English?

The difference between being British and being English is easily explained;

“If England is playing football against any other country you will always find British people that support the opposing team.
An Englishman would never change his loyalty no matter how bad his team turned out to be.”
Quote by J.M.STANHOPE

I say to Gordon Brown and the rest of the British establishment what Rudyard Kipling’s Norman Barron said to his son and heir has he lay on his death bed.

“The Saxon’s not like the Norman, his manners are not so polite
But he never means anything serious, till he talks about justice and right
When he stands like an ox in the furrow with his sullen eyes on your own
And grumbles “this isn’t fair dealing my son” leave the Saxon alone.”

It is only fair that England and its Nation are given their constitutional
and political identities.

FOLLOW THE CEP BATTLEBUS TOUR AROUND ENGLAND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1o-lLsm5ho

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

Come along and catch the Bus

2010-02-20T13:34:00.003Z

The Campaign for an English Parliament has loaded up its Battlewagon and heads for Cambridge to start a nation wide tour of England.

A large lorry with a banner and speakers will be touring England’s major towns and cities over the next 4 weeks in a publicity campaign promoting an English Parliament.
The people of England are being starved of information by the media at the behest of a British Government who are trying to promote a British Regionalism on England and are strangling publicity on the results and consequences this is having for England and an English Nation without political recognition.

Besides touring smaller towns and villages on the way the Battle bus will be stopping in the following places to meet you, hand out leaflets, and answer your questions.

22nd February the Battle bus will begin its tour and spend the day at Cambridge then move each day to the next location.

23rd Norwich 24th Nottingham 25th Leeds – 26th Hull 27th York
28th Middlesbrough -1st March Sunderland and Newcastle 2nd Carlisle - 3rd Lakes
4th Liverpool - 5th Manchester 6th Birmingham - 7th Hereford - 8th Bristol
9th Bath - 10th Exeter - 11th Lands End - 12th Plymouth 13th Bournemouth
14th Isle of White 15th Portsmouth - 16th Brighton - 17th Maidstone
18th Reading - 19th Oxford - 20th Watford / St Albans 21st March London.

Can I count on your support, no matter how small or limited?

To maximize the impact of this event would you like to volunteer
to due any of the following -
• Alert people to the campaign and ask for their support
• Write/call your local radio/newspaper to highlight the Bus’ presence
• Hand out leaflets
• Take photos/videos for us to post on YouTube or the CEP website

You, as a local person, will have a far greater impact on the opinion makers in your community.
A well organized event, such as this, can have a seismic effect on our campaign’s effectiveness.

PLEASE offer your support!

Please give the following contact numbers –

To catch the bus ring its mobile number and talk to Eddie – 07980667732
Ian Campbell CEP Media Unit - 0845 6346 108
www.thecep.org.uk www.cepwestmidlands.blogspot.com

J.Stanhope
West Midlands Campaign for an English Parliament
01902 630110

SHARE THE PAIN THAT YOUR BANKS CAUSED

2010-02-16T22:39:00.000Z

Thanks to a Scottish Prime Minister and a Scottish Chancellor, the people of England along with their children and grandchildren have been saddled with paying off enormous debts incurred by the wanton profligacy of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland.

Now the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, is demanding that Scotland's already over-generous Barnett subsidies should be continued untouched, thereby leaving the enormous burden of the Scottish bank bail-out to fall primarily on public services in England whilst leaving Scotland unscathed.

With no Parliament and Politicians of our own to speak up for us and defend our interests, the Campaign for an English Parliament wishes to remind the British Government that any attempt to make England suffer an unfair share of the burden will be neither understood nor forgiven.

Ref: "Hands off Scotland's grant, warns Alex Salmond"
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Hands-off-Scotland39s-grant-warns.6071256.jp

Did you know that?

2010-02-10T15:35:00.011Z

Did you know that the Westminster Parliament in London is not an English Parliament; it is the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a ‘BRITISH’ Parliament?

Did you know that the United Kingdom of Great Britain was created in 1707 when England and Scotland gave up their own separate Kingdom’s to be united under one sovereign monarch?

Did you know that by giving up your nation's sovereign rights you are handing over the supreme and indisputable power to rule on those rights to whom you give them? (Today think EU)

Did you know that England and Scotland were made to give up their own separate parliaments and identities in the terms of the ‘Treaty of Union’ and agree to all of the new United Kingdoms subjects taking on its new ‘BRITISH’ identity?

Did you know that Wales was a Principality under England’s control, so Welsh subjects too became part of the new United Kingdom and had to take on its new ‘BRITISH’ identity?

Did you know that articles in the terms of the ‘Treaty of Union’ stated; that all subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain shall have full communication of all rights, privileges and advantages, which do or may belong to the subjects of either kingdom, and that all parts of the United Kingdom shall have the same allowances, encouragements and drawbacks?

Did you know that the ‘British’ United Kingdom Parliament broke those articles of the treaty in 1998 with their Devolution Acts, which denied England’s ‘British’ subjects any entitlement to the rights and privileges that the United Kingdom Parliament gave to Scotland and Wales; namely giving them their own separate National Parliaments while denying a National Parliament to England?

Did you know that a National Parliament recognises the political existence of a nation and gives it the power to defend its borders and cultural identity?

Did you know that since 1998 England has been the only nation in the United Kingdom without a National Parliament and the only nation not able to defend and protect itself against ‘British’ Domestic Polices, giving the ‘British’ a free hand to destroy England’s unity and culture by allowing them to break up England into their 9 multicultural ‘British’ Regions, and applying their EU laws with impunity?

Did you know that since 1998 the ‘British’ rather than giving England a parliament to politically recognise the ‘English Nation’ have been using the media, especially the BBC, to try and force the ‘English Nation’ into accepting their multicultural ‘British identity? The ‘British’ media and politicians to hoodwink the general public prefer to talk about Britain when they mean England, and prefer to talk of the Brits and British when they mean English, and show their contempt for England when they refer to the ‘Nations and Regions’ of the United Kingdom to deny England and its nation existance.

Did you know that without an English Parliament to defend the cultural assets of the nation the ‘British’ can continue to sell them off until England will not have the means to regenerate its English identity?

Did you know that since 1998 it has been impossible for the United Kingdom British political parties to set out a manifesto, or a British Government to deliver a set of social and domestic policies that would have to apply throughout the whole of the United Kingdom?
The British political parties will be producing separate manifestos for their Nations and their British (England) Regions for the next General Election.

If you love England and want England’s identity to survive you must gain a defence against British Domestic and EU Policies being forced on the English Nation, and the only way you can do that is to gain political recognition for yourself and your country with an English Parliament. Don’t let the ‘British’ soft soap you with their bull s—t of needing more MPs, costs, England’s too big etc. rhetoric into accepting their British Regions as an alternative.England’s and your future depends on it.

England and Englishness are something to be positively proud about. It is the right of the people of England to have their own distinct particular English national identity acknowledged within the UK and the EU as those of Scotland and Wales have been acknowledged in the 1998 Devolution legislation.

Every nation has a right to govern themselves under their own laws; it is what makes a nation, and is the difference between self government and subordination, between self respect and self contempt. Are we going to surrender what our ancestors have fought and died for over centuries, have they died for nothing, or are we going to raise our heads and tell these people who would deny us, that England has a nation too and demand that it be recognised.

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

CEP: Make St George's Day a public holiday in England

2010-01-26T13:34:00.002Z

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

Make them talk of England

2010-01-20T07:59:00.009Z

Articles 111, 1V and V1 of the Act of Union state that the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one Parliament; that all the subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain shall have full communication of all other rights, privileges, and advantages which do or may belong to the subjects of either Kingdom and that all parts of the United Kingdom shall have the same allowances, encouragements and drawbacks.

By allowing Scotland to take back its own parliament in the Devolution Acts 1998 the British Government destabilised the United Kingdom, and in doing so violated the Articles of Union as set out some 300 years ago in 1707 that created the United Kingdom Parliament.

The people of England were never asked if they agreed to this violation and the British MPs elected by England to represent them in the United Kingdom Parliament never explained what the consequences of this action would mean for the English Nation. England’s MPs did however aid and abet the British MPs elected to represent Scotland in explaining to the people of Scotland Scotland’s benefits, and supported the call for a yes vote in a national referendum that gave Scotland a parliament.

The people of England should realise that it was the people of Scotland with their yes vote along with their British MPs who instigated the violation and devolution; the abomination and violation that has allowed the British in their United Kingdom Parliament to ignore the guarantees that were laid down in those Articles to the people of England.

England can not ignore the fact that it was the ordinary Scottish voter whether they knew it or not that has handed the political power to the United Kingdom Parliament that is being used by its British MPs to deny England its political identity, and its people their homeland and their cultural identity.

British MPs who hated England and loved the EU, many elected from Welsh and English constituencies always new what power they would have when giving Scotland a parliament, and so put Scottish MPs in the top ministerial positions to pull it off. Scotland’s MPs have been rewarded by the British in that they have been allowed to dominate most if not all of the most important ministerial positions in the British United Kingdom Parliament ever since, and these MPs have missed no opportunity with their English hating friends in using this new found power over England.

Scottish elected MPs including the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling have been orchestrating policies for the last 12 years which they knew could not apply to their own Scottish Nation that elected them, and have subjected the people of England to a campaign of discrimination bordering on cultural genocide, and have been and are acting as England’s liquidators in selling off the nation’s assets turning the country into England Plc. Even the country itself as not escaped the liquidator as the British hand it over to every Tom, Dick or Harry that wants to come here and be stamped with their British Brand.

England’s guarantee is up and while England is suffering Scotland is prospering at its expense, and its people either enjoy now or have been promised the luxuries of Free Eye Tests, Free Prescription Charges, Free Dental Check Ups and Reduced Charges, Free Personal Care in Residential Homes – even if they cross the border into England, Free School Milk and Better School Meals being provided as they receive double England’s subsidy, Seriously ill patients are able to receive drugs denied to England’s patients even if they are in an English hospital, Trainee nurses kept on an extra year after qualification, Scotland has 80% more nurses,midwives and health visitors,50% more doctors and dentists, teachers get higher pay and they have less pupils per class,No Hospital Parking Charges, No Wheel Clamping allowed anywhere in the country, Students in Universities have fees waived until they are earning over £25,000 per year and have to pay No Top Up Fees, Council tax frozen at 2007 rate and it has only risen by 40% since 1997 while England’s has risen 100% over the same period, and every young woman living in England should be aware that their life is not as important as a Scottish one as Jade Goody tragically found out to her cost, because England’s young women are not entitled to cancer cervical smear tests until they are 25, in Scotland its 20. The Scots also get a National Holiday on their St. Andrew’s Day and can fly Scotland’s flag from public buildings and use it to promote their products.

Scotland and Wales also have been given louder voices in the UK-EU policy shaping process and can speak up for the specific interests of their nations.
The Scottish and Welsh Development Agencies deal direct with their own National Executives so they can tailor things on a national basis. England on the other hand only has poorly funded regional development agencies fighting each other for resources.
In fact, the devolved countries (Nations) have a multitude of special privileges to get their voice heard on a range of policies and laws.
They have MP’s at Westminster, They have their own parliament or assembly They each have a secretary of state in the UK cabinet They each have a grand committee made up of their Westminster MP’s. They each have a Select Committee at Westminster to deal with their national affairs.
The government is making and changing laws so often that the legislation is not fully scrutinised and more than 4000 Statutory Instruments have been issued in one year alone. Their MP’s in Westminster have had their work load drastically cut because they now have no constituents to look after, which has allowed them more time to study these laws, besides which, they also have the benefit of their own separate institutions that study them and give approval.
Although the devolved nation’s MP’s workload has been drastically reduced they have had no pay cut.
Scottish Fisheries Departments have now taken control of border fisheries and this has already led to the Scots cutting English fishing quotas along the East Coast. How long before the Welsh do the same?
The maritime border was moved to pacify the nationalists and does not now follow international convention gifting a lot of England’s oil and gas to Scotland.

Every nation has a right to govern themselves under their own laws; it is what makes a nation, and is the difference between self government and subordination, between self respect and self contempt. Scotland is now in control of all of its own domestic policies and a British and EU recognised nation. England too is a nation and we must demand that recognition.

Not one British political party wants to talk about England in their election manifestos preferring to obscure its existence in a Britain, because if they were forced to tell the people of England the truth their house would fall down, and in the meantime the entire British establishment with its social engineering and tax policies seems to be set on a course of turning the next generation of England into a nation of bastards.

Make them talk about England and bring them down - stop the rot get rid of the lot

We need our own MPs in our own English Parliament now tomorrow could be to late

I’M DYING FOR AN ENGLISH EDUCATION

2010-01-14T13:04:00.002Z

Even before all the British political parties have finalised their manifestos for the forthcoming General Election, they are not disguising the fact that they are going to continue treating the people of England as second class citizens. Not once have we heard the word ‘England’ mentioned by any British political party, even though the parties have spoken about policies on the Health Service and education, which they know could only apply to England. If this is the new political policy for regaining the trust of the English people after all the shenanigans of the present corrupt government, then we should have a lot to fear from the next one.

England will continue to suffer at the expense of the devolved nations. Depending on which party is elected to form the next government, England’s children could face ‘slavery’ or the orphanage with the prospect of their parents becoming heroes, England’s elderly face the prospect of having to sell their homes to get care, England’s sick will be allowed to go blind or will have to be terminally ill in order to get free prescription drugs, England’s council tax will continue to rise; yet not one of these policies will apply to the Scots, the Welsh or the Irish, because they have their own parliaments that stop such policies being forced on them.

Gordon Brown, the leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and England’s unelected ‘First Minister’, said that his clear expectation is that all the young people of England will be made to do community service (the like of which is now reserved for criminals) which would be linked to a ‘clear system of accreditation’, meaning that children who refuse to take part in this ‘slave labour’ scheme would be marked down or fail their Citizenship exams.

Because of costs, Nick Clegg’s Liberal-Democrats party has now dropped its worthwhile policies for the English Health Service and for education (without mentioning ‘England’) that would have gone a long way to right the wrongs against England. This party, like all the British parties, obviously considers the quality of an English life to be less than that of a Scottish, Welsh or Irish one.

It is hard to find out what is likely to be in David Cameron’s Conservative party manifesto but what we do know is that the Conservatives have gone one step further than any of the other British parties on England’s higher education policy. This party’s policy on English education shows the contempt all the British political parties have for our nation; at a time when it is being reported that one in five of our troops are not fit to fight in Afghanistan, partly because of mental illness, this party’s education policy tells England’s servicemen and women that if they get themselves killed the British will fund their children’s university education, which is tantamount to asking them to commit suicide in order for their children to get the same provision of the free education the British already provide for Scotland’s children.

These British policies do nothing to bring the Union together, but go a long way in breaking it apart and shows once again that it is no longer possible since devolution for any British political party or government to deliver a set of social and domestic policies that would have to apply to the whole of the United Kingdom and the people this government is supposed to be elected to represent.

John Stanhope
Campaign for an English Parliament
14 January 2010

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

What’s the point of an English Parliament in the first place? Why bother?

2010-01-05T23:16:00.000Z

Well. Try putting that same question to the Scots, the Welsh, the Northern Irish, the people of Eire, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney, to the Germans, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, the Chinese, the Kazachs, the Americans, the Indians, the Palestinians, and any and every other people you can think of. They would all say that having their own parliament is definitely in their interest. For all sorts of solid reasons. But we English are the Kurds of Europe, the only nation in Europe which does not have its own parliament. Even the people of tiny Sark has its own parliament! And why? Because a national parliament or assembly means something, something very significant. First, it is the most positive statement going of being a distinct nation, which is also precisely what the people of England are. In fact, England was the first unified nation in the whole of Europe. And now the only one without its own parliament! Second, it means self rule. And that is a basic human right for any people. Then third, a parliament is the way to protect and improve the welfare of the people it represents.
What’s more, it is fascinating to think a moment about the people in the United Kingdom Parliament who oppose England having its own parliament. Let’s just take one such person. Gordon Brown. He was the keenest supporter going for Scotland having its own parliament, he was the engine behind the Scottish Constitutional Convention which formulated all the legislation which in 1998 got Scotland its parliament, he was one of the many Scottish MPs and MEPs who signed the Scottish Claim of Right stating that they would put the interests of Scotland first and foremost in everything they did. Brown’s calculation is that Scotland is best served if it has its own parliament and with it the astonishing degree of self-rule within the Union he and his Scottish colleagues achieved for his country while keeping their power to legislate for England in every single one of England’s internal affairs. It is the gross unfairness of the power of Scottish MPs like Brown to legislate on England’s internal affairs that blocks the possibility of England having its own parliament. Well, what’s ok for Scotland is also ok for England. And what everyone expects for their own people we can rightly expect for ours.
In spite of having their own Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, Scottish and Welsh MPs still attend the Westminster Parliament as of right and vote on all matters coming before the House, even on those which concern only English affairs, such as health and education provision in England and English transport matters etc. However, English MPs are not entitled to vote on any matters internal to Scotland or Wales or NI. Furthermore, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer just to mention two in the British Parliament, are Scots representing Scottish constituencies. The whole situation is now grossly unfair and discriminatory.
Constitutionally and politically England does not exist.
Constitutionally there are four sorts of people in the United Kingdom. There are those who are Scottish and British, those who are Welsh and British, those who are Northern Irish and British and those who are just British. No prizes for guessing who this last group is. Constitutionally and politically the English just do not exist, while the Scots, the Northern Irish and the Welsh do. Now do you see why England must have its own Parliament? England and the people of England are non-entities as far as the British state is concerned. The English should get the same national recognition.
England doesn’t need such bureaucracies as regional assemblies to reflect its diversity. It has been unified in its diversity and diverse in its unity for 1500 years. It has its counties and its great cities. It has its own six ancient geographical regions rooted in the language, familiar to all English men and women: the North of England, East Anglia, the Midlands, London and the Home Counties, the South and the West Country. And how strange that this was only being said about England. The UK Government, and the Scottish ministers in it, and the Scottish MPs and MSPs have never said it about Scotland. Scotland is far more diverse politically, economically and culturally than England. The Western Isles and the Highlands are Celtic in language and culture, quite distinct from the Anglo-Saxon regions of the Central Belt and the Lowlands. Edinburgh is much closer in every form of culture to London and Manchester than it is to Argyll, Skye or Lewis. Orkney and Shetland are Norse in their history and culture, not Scottish at all. Yet a single Scottish Parliament is seen fit to preside over all this diversity which comprises Scotland. No one suggests that Scotland should be balkanised into regions. Why just England? England is the oldest unified nation in the whole of Europe, its unity and self of identity has been the source of its amazing cultural, political, economic and scientific contribution to both European and world civilisation, admired and acknowledged everywhere. One wonders why members of the Union government would even contemplate its balkanisation into ‘regions’ which have no roots whatsoever in its history or in the sense of identity the English people have always had of themselves. When Mr Blair, who was born and educated in Scotland, gave his reasons for a Scottish Parliament in 1998 in his Preface to the Scottish Devolution White Paper, he wrote: ‘Scotland is a proud historic nation’. So is England. Very much so. Regrettably –and curiously- he never made that statement about England. England is indeed a proud historic nation, distinct from the rest, and should therefore for that reason have its own parliament.
England is a most beautiful country, a green and pleasant land, loved intensely by its people, its poets, its artists and its writers. But for too long the Union Kingdom government has regarded and treated England as nothing more than a trading estate, a shopping mall. an employment park. The English countryside is shrinking rapidly, and much of it could disappear within 80 years unless there are curbs on new developments. Alarm over the loss of undisturbed areas of the landscape is being raised by the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Almost 50 per cent of England is now disturbed by roads, industrial developments, out-of-town retail and business parks and new housing estates. Motorways and roads, power stations, airports, railway lines, power lines, wind farms, mines, and quarries have adversely affected the countryside. According to the CPRE, only 26 per cent of England’s land area had been disturbed by urban intrusion before the 1960s. This grew to 41 per cent by the early 1990s, and this year to almost 50 per cent, 25,614 square miles; and the calculation of the incursion would be even greater if the impact of aircraft noise were taken into account. The Union Government in recent years has shown no concern for the English countryside, has never shown any understanding of the close relationship between environmental tranquillity and beauty on the one hand and the mental and cultural welfare of people on the other and has only ever regarded England as a business. Unless and until England is governed by its own people in their own parliament, who love it and feel for it as theirs, just as Scotland and Wales are, its destruction will get worse.
An NOP opinion poll in April 2002 showed that in England 47% wanted an English Parliament, whereas only 28% said they wanted Regional Assemblies (25% don’t knows). Tellingly, the strongest support came from the 15 to 24 age group and from women voters. On St. George's Day that year BBC Radio 2 invited listeners to ring in whether or not they supported an English Parliament. 94% (14,556 people) rang in with a Yes, a mere 6% (930 people) voted No.
The next decisive milestone was the referendum on regional assemblies in England’s North East two years later November 4th 2004. The Union government spent millions of pounds on propaganda and dispatched every Cabinet member to argue for the policy. It knew England was becoming more and more bitter at the way it had been completely left out of the devolution programme and at the huge immense advantages Scotland and Wales were getting from having their own parliaments and home rule, 80% of which was being paid for by the English taxpayer. But the government was completely opposed to England getting its own parliament, it was pushing the division of England into regions instead, each with their own assembly. The people of the North East rejected that proposal overwhelmingly by 78% to 22%. That was an historic moment in England’s history. The Union government’s attempt to abolish England and replace it with regions competing against each other had been stopped dead in its tracks.
Two more polls more than confirmed the trend. The ICM poll November 2006 recorded 68% in support of ‘England having its own parliament with similar powers to those of the Scottish Parliament’, and the BBC poll January 16th 2007, the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union, found 61% of people in England supporting an English Parliament.
There is an extra factor which reveals the special significance of this degree of support and which cannot be ignored. It has been achieved without much more than a penny being spent in promotion of an English Parliament, without adverts being placed in newspapers, without a single Government minister or Shadow minister campaigning for it, indeed with the Government and all three main parties actively opposing it, without any celebrity being involved, with very few leaflets and brochures being distributed, let alone pushed through the letter boxes of households, without any publicity on English TV and radio and in newspapers. It has been achieved despite the public opposition of all three major political parties, all backing alternatives if anything at all, and despite the opposition of the BBC, which is hostile to any political recognition of England qua England. The BBC operates a BBC Scotland, a BBC Wales, a BBC Northern Ireland and a British Asian Network but despite all our requests adamantly refuses to have a BBC England. When pressed by us for its reason it stated that ‘England is too big’ which of course is nonsense. There is a BBC World Service. The prejudice against England within the British cultural and political Establishment runs very deep indeed.
A union between partners is always stronger when each one is treated equally and fairly. At present the English are showing more and more resentment at the financial and political injustice they are suffering from the UK government. A glance at the website page "England Disadvantaged' illustrates it pretty adequately. It is this resentment that might prove to be the greatest threat to the Union. After all, economically, financially, politically and culturally England does not need union with Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland. England in fact subsidises them. It provides them with a huge job market. The fact is, it is in the best interests of the Union that the UK government acts quickly to restore fairness and justice within the United Kingdom and gives to England what it has so happily given to Scotland. The fact is that Scotland, undoubtedly because of the positions held by Scottish MPs in the Labour government since 1997 to the present day, has received a degree of self-rule and advantage much greater than that received by Wales and Northern Ireland, while of course England has received none at all. Nothing threatens the continuation of the Union more than unfairness like that. The Union will only survive if each partaking nation stands in the same relationship to the Union government and to each other. Nothing destroys a union more than unfairness.
At present there is no relationship at all between England and the EU. There is however between the UK and the EU, between Scotland and the EU, between Wales and the EU and between Northern Ireland and the EU. All four are represented in different ways at the EU. All four are recognised officially by the EU. The EU however, does not recognise England at all. The EU, which showed Scotland, Wales and the UK on its map of Europe, did not show England on it at all but nine EU ‘regions’ instead. Only when pressed by members of the CEP with letter after letter did the EU map-makers change their map and put England on it.
In the event that England gets its own parliament, the relationship between it and the EU will then be the same as that between Scotland and the EU. That relationship is to have official recognition within the EU, to have an office in the EU, to be able to make representation on behalf of the people of England as distinct from the rest of the UK and to receive and distribute EU subsidies and grants pertaining to England directly exactly as Scotland does. England qua England, after all, is and will remain with France and Germany one of the three biggest contributors to the EU budget.
The Campaign for an English Parliament is a single-issue political campaign. We have members from all major political parties and none. Our members are pro-EU and anti-EU, pro-monarchy and anti-monarchy, for absolute free-trade and for regulated markets. We do not tolerate extremist views or illegal activity, but otherwise if you agree that there should be a parliament for England, please join the CEP now.

Where's England's Dave

2010-01-05T13:09:00.000Z

The leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has outlined his draft manifesto for this year's general election and knowing that elections are won and lost in England, has sensibly opted to base his election campaign on the English health service.

You would, however, be forgiven for thinking that the manifesto announced today applied to the whole of the UK as David Cameron failed to mention the country he was talking about once.

David Cameron's draft manifesto mentions "Britain" and "the UK" once, "our country" twice and "this country" three times despite the fact he was talking about England. The word England doesn't appear once in his manifesto.

This can mean one of two things: either David Cameron is trying to deliberately mislead voters into thinking that if they voted for the Conservatives he would be in charge of the NHS in the whole of the UK or he simply doesn't understand what he would and wouldn't be able to do as British Prime Minister. Whichever if these is the case, it really doesn't say a lot about his ability to govern the country.

The Campaign for an English Parliament is urging all voters in England to give their vote to the candidate that will give equal rights to English people. David Cameron can't even bring himself to mention our country, how can he be trusted to do what is right for by the 50 million English people who have been discriminated against for over a decade by this anti-English British government?

Stuart Parr

Campaign for an English Parliament

stuart.parr@thecep.org.uk

07973296118

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

TV Debates

2009-12-24T22:00:00.002Z

The BBC reported yesterday that the Scottish Nationalist party and Plaid Cymru (the party of Wales) have threatened legal action over their exclusion from the TV debates agreed between the leaders of the unionist parties, that is Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative. We understand that instead they will be offered their own debates within Scotland and Wales respectively. If so, should not one or more of the main debates be reserved for England? But unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland there is no-one elected by the people of England who has the authority to speak for them because there is no English national Assembly or Parliament

The Westminster Parliament - in which MPs from all the British countries and the Province of Northern Ireland sit- is not only responsible for UK reserved matters but also for English domestic matters. If the UK debates are to be on reserved matters rather than English domestic matters, there is nothing left to be debated separately in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since their devolved assemblies/Parliament deal with their domestic matters.
The Conservative leader, David Cameron, is reported to have said: "I have always believed in live television debates. I think they can help enliven our democracy, I think they will help answer people's questions, I think they will crystallise the debate about the change this country needs." Which country, Mr Cameron? Britain is a state consisting of three countries. Is he going to debate UK matters only or English matters as well?
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, told the Daily Mirror: "I relish the opportunity provided by these debates to discuss the big choices the country faces. Choices like whether we lock in the recovery or whether we choke it off; whether we protect the NHS, schools and police or whether we put them at risk to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy few." Again, we might ask: which country please? From Mr. Brown’s statement, we must assume that he intends to debate English domestic matters, such as the English health service, English schools and police since the Westminster parliament has control over those matters only in England.
It will be important to discover from the debates whether the LibLabCon 'unionist' parties will be presenting different policies on domestic matters for their Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament members to pursue in the devolved territories. We need to know whether those policies would be more advantageous than those proposed for England.
The Campaign for an English Parliament will be monitoring what these so-called unionist parties propose and will note any comparative disadvantage proposed for the people of England.
Contact:
Scilla Cullen CEP Chairman Tel: 01438

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

Merry Christmas

2009-12-24T19:41:00.001Z

Merry Christmas to all our members and supporters.

ARE THE BRITISH BRINGING BACK SLAVERY - COMPULSORY SERVICE FOR ENGLISH YOUTH

2009-12-14T11:35:00.002Z

In April the British Prime Minister (MP for Scotland’s Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency) announced (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7995652.stm) plans to force all English children, (but not those of his own constituents because he only has control over England in this matter), to carry out at least 50 hours of community service before the age of 19. He was quoted word for word without correction: “It is my ambition to create a Britain ( England ) in which there is a clear expectation that all young people will undertake some service to their community, and where community service will become a normal part of growing up in Britain ( England ).
He also said the community work would be linked to a “clear system of accreditation” meaning that children who refuse to take part in the slave labour would fail or marked down in their Citizenship exams.
Now this government’s higher education minister for England , David Lammy, has said that a national (only applies to England ) civic service should be in the next Labour manifesto. In addition (English) university students would be required to carry out 100 hours of community service in recognition of the subsidy the state pays towards their education - estimated at £8,000. The £450m cost of the scheme would be funded by levying interest on student loans English students already leave university with twice the debt of British students from Wales and Scotland because they are, uniquely, obliged to pay top-up fees and are subsidised less by the British government than other British students who are extensively subsidised by their own national governments.
One surmises that these proposals will not be in the manifesto they publish for Scotland but only that published for ‘ Britain ’, which means England . Let us hope that this never comes to fruition since Labour is unlikely to win a general election. Nevertheless we are told that The Conservatives have proposed a six-week national service scheme for youngsters in the summer after their GCSEs. If the Conservatives form the next British government they will also only have power over English youth in this matter.
However, as unlikely as it is that his proposals will ever come to anything, this Prime Minister will ask, via his party’s manifesto, the voters of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath in Scotland to elect him, so that he will be able to compel English children to carry out unpaid “voluntary” work by making it a compulsory element of the English school curriculum.
Mr Lammy has backed this call for a national army of volunteers (sic) to help the UK economy out of recession. Because of devolution this measure will only apply to England but it is clearly stated that it intended to help the whole of the UK including Scotland and Wales . Yet another example of how England ’s people are expected to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the so-called Union . Indeed, is this one of the benefits for England that the Unionist LibLabCon parties are always telling us we enjoy?

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqShXo7H-XE

NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE

2009-12-11T21:28:00.000Z

Yesterday (10 December), Jack Straw vetoed releasing the minutes of a 1997 Cabinet Ministerial Committee Meeting on Devolution to Scotland and Wales and the English Regions. He stated that releasing the information would be ‘against the public interest’, citing the doctrine of collective responsibility, although the disclosure had previously been approved by the Information Commissioner on June 23rd 2009.

According to the Ministry of Justice, this is only the second time since the Freedom of Information Act was introduced in 2005 that a request granted by an Information Tribunal has been vetoed – out of 160,000 requests. The previous occasion the veto was imposed was in February 2009 in respect of the disclosure of the minutes of two cabinet meetings leading up to the Iraq war.

What is Jack Straw and the Ministry of Justice so concerned with concealing? What was said in a meeting about devolution that was so dangerous that it can’t be made public? What deals were done to break up England and preserve the dominance of Scottish politicians? The English public has a right to know.

This meeting, twelve years ago, led to an asymmetric devolution settlement which is to the great disadvantage of England. The Campaign for an English Parliament believes that action must be taken to deliver a fair and democratic constitutional settlement for England. Lift the veto, Jack, and let us in on the decisions you made.

David WILDGOOSE
Vice-Chairman Campaign for an English Parliament

CEP: Would a Tory Government bring in a needs-based formula to replace Barnett?

2009-12-08T21:54:00.001Z

Professor David Bell of Stirling University has analysed the impact on Scotland of the Welsh Assembly's Holtham Commission report into a needs-based funding formula to replace the out-dated Barnett Formula.

Writing in The Scotsman Prof Bell warns that a move to a needs-based formula could lose Scotland £4.5 billion a year of Treasury funding.

"If its calculations were put into practice, it would have dramatic effects on the Scottish budget," Prof Bell says. "The size of the block grant from Westminster to Holyrood would shrink substantially. Instead of the Scottish grant being 20 per cent higher per head than in England , the margin would shrink to 5 per cent.
"At current spending levels, this would mean a cut of around £4.5bn in Scotland 's annual grant from Westminster ."

During the House of Lord's Select Committee on Barnett, former Conservative Secretary of State for Scotland (1995 to 1997), Lord Forsyth, revealed that in order to guard Scotland 's interests he was counselled against a needs-based formula.

The advice I was given when I was Secretary of State is do everything you can to avoid a needs-based assessment being implemented by the Treasury because the Treasury believe that it will enable them to reduce Scotland's budget by between £2.5 and £4 billion.

Given the possible implications for Scotland , what is the likelihood of a future Conservative Government implementing a needs-based replacement of the Barnett Formula? Would the Tories replace Barnett with a system that is fair to ALL the British nations or would they continue to bribe Scotland to remain in the Union ? The CEP believes that the people of England , whose taxes subsidise the UK , have a right to know.

David WILDGOOSE
Vice-Chairman, Campaign for an English Parliament
0114 274 6191 cep@skein.co.uk
8 December 2009

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.

Song for St. George's Day by Resistance 77

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/entertainment/Undefined-Headline/article-869549-detail/article.html

DAVID CAMERON MAY FAIRLY BE ACCUSED OF DOUBLE STANDARDS: ONE FOR WALES, A VERY DIFFERENT ONE FOR ENGLAND

2009-11-09T11:07:00.000Z

Addressing the issue of the demand being made in Wales for a referendum to be held among its people for the Welsh Assembly to have law-making powers equivalent to those enjoyed by the Scottish Parliament, Mr David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, speaking on Friday November 6th, said he would support it if the Welsh Assembly voted for it. 'It is a very significant statement,' the National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament has declared. 'We welcome it. The very foundation stone of our cause is that the three historic nations of this island should stand in the same relationship to the United Kingdom Parliament and to each other. Unless and until that happens, the Union is severely constiutionally unbalanced and tainted by gross unfairness and discriminatory inequality. One nation, Scotland, should not have advantages within the Union denied to Wales and England. That situation naturally suits Mr Gordon Brown who was the driving force behind the 1998 Devolution legislation because it favours his country. However, such narrow nationalistic bias is no way to run a Union of nations.

'Mr Cameron is aware that whether or not such a referendum may take place is a decision reserved to the United Kingdom Parliament. He is aware that the UK Parliament can only consider it if it is backed by two thirds of the Welsh Assembly members. That is a high obstacle to clear. To date Mr Brown's party has fiercely opposed it. Mr Hain, an MP for a Welsh constituency though not a Welshman but a South African, who was the Welsh Secretary till he had to resign the office when facing charges of abusing the Commons regulations regarding his financial affairs, has spoken against it. It is a strange state of affairs where Mr Brown to achieve Scottish devolution made the outcome of the 1998 devolution referenda dependable on a simple majority but made such a fundamental demand as this for Wales possible only if a two thirds majority is achieved. The Celtic brotherhood is obviously a rather wobbly and unreliable assocation. However, if Mr Cameron keeps to his word on attaining the Prime Minister's office, which after his retreat from his promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is now always a matter of some doubt, it might encourage Conservative Party Welsh Assembly members to vote for it.

'However', states the CEP National Council, 'Mr Cameron has never shown the same concern for England. Scotland was given a referendum about having its own parliament and self-rule in all matters of state internal to it; Wales was given a referendum about having its own assembly, though, as Mr Brown saw to it, with far less powers. Mr Cameron would now support a referendum for Wales to get the powers the Scots have if two thirds of its assembly vote for it. But he opposes England having its own parliament whatever its powers. He opposes England having a referendum on the matter. His attitude is one of gross unfairness and discrimination. Until and unless the three nations of this island stand in the same relationship to the Union Parliament and to each other, it is an unfair, discriminatory and dangerously unbalanced Union'

Contacts:
Michael Knowles
CEP Unit.Media Tel: 01260 271139 email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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.

FUTURE OF ENGLAND CONFERENCE

2009-10-29T22:19:00.002Z

THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND?

A MAJOR CONFERENCE BEING HELD BY THE CEP TAKING PLACE IN ROOM 10 IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18TH 5pm to 7pm (SAME DAY AS THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT) WITH FOUR DISTINGUISHED WRITERS AND CAMPAIGNERS.
• George Monbiot (Guardian newspaper and environment campaigner)
• Peter Facey (Director: Unlock Democracy)
• Paul Kingsnorth (author of 'Real England: The Battle against the Bland')
• David Wildgoose (vice-chairman The Campaign for an English Parliament)
• Chair: Scilla Cullen
It is eleven years since the 1998 devolution legislation. Scotland and Wales now have their own Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. They have forged ahead since, re-creating and expanding their own distinct national identities and achieving major benefits and advantages for their peoples. But England has got nothing from devolution. Why should English students pay tuition fees and emerge from university laden with debt while Scottish students don't? Why should Welsh people pay no prescription charges while English people do? England still has no constitutional existence of its own and no national institution of any kind as 'a forum where the concerns of the nation can be debated' (the Welsh White paper). England is disadvantaged. The situation is gravely unjust to the people of England. Scottish MPs can now take part in legislation that concerns England only, can even be ministers of departments which deal only with England, without being accountable to any electorate. The Union is dangerously unbalanced. There are massive cultural, environmental and political issues involved. From many angles the people of England are being left out and overlooked. It is a situation that cannot continue. Nor should it. The Union should be a Union of equals or it is no Union.'
We are looking for an open debate. We want your contribution.

Anyone wishing to attend please phone Scilla Cullen (CEP ChaIrman) on: 01438 833155 or email: scilla.cullen@dsl.pipex.com

NOTE - THERE WILL BE A PROTEST HELD IN PARLIAMENT SQUARE FOR 1 HOUR DURING THE AFTERNOON FROM 2-0PM UNTIL 3-0 PM PLEASE ATTEND

Campaign for an English Parliament protests at West Midlands Regional Grand Committee

2009-10-08T23:06:00.003+01:00

Members of the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) in Shropshire
and the West Midlands attended the inaugural meeting of the
grandly-titled but pointlessly ineffectual Regional Grand Committee for
the West Midlands last night (8th October) to protest at its existence.

Like the vast majority of English people, the Campaign for an English
Parliament opposes the damaging regionalisation of England and instead
believes that England should be run by an English Parliament.

CEP members held up a 12ft banner and waved placards as MPs arrived at
Sandwell College Campus at Smethwick. Several passing motorists stopped
to read the placards and many of them stuck up their thumbs and honked
their horns in support.

Despite the Conservatives saying that they would boycott these regional
grand committees and pledging, in their party conference this week, to
unravel Labour's regionalisation, seven Conservative MPs turned up to
the meeting. Had they not attended, the Labour MPs that attended would
have failed to meet the minimum number required for the meeting to go ahead.

These regional grand committees are Gordon Brown's preferred form of
government for England and are supposed to be Labour's answer to the
national parliament and assembly they created in Scotland and Wales.
British ministers have described them as bringing democracy closer to
the people. To think that the people of England will accept this sham
as the future of their country is an insult.

Stuart Parr
National Council Member
Campaign for an English Parliament
07973 296118

The Devolution Acts of 1997/98 were and are a deliberate attempt by the EU and New Labour to destabilise the British Nation State and deny England its nationhood

The Devolution Acts of 1997/98 revoked the Act of Union, revoked the concept of one British Nation with one legislative body of government and revoked the principle of representative democracy. It unbalanced the Union by placing England, Scotland and Wales each in a different relationship with the Union and each other, and it institutionalised discrimination against the people of England.

By virtue of their national institutions Scotland and Wales have a distinct and separate political and constitutional existence and nationhood, England however alone does not constitutionally exist and is denied its nationhood.

The Devolution Acts of 1997/98 abolished representative democracy as the untouchable 1st principle of government. By what is understood to be the West Lothian issue British MPs elected in Scotland can be both ministers and legislators, even Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary in English matters without being answerable in elections for their actions in those matters to ‘any electorate,’ either in Scotland or England.

England having no parliament has no separate representation of its own to defend its interests against such people and instead has to rely on its British MPs in the UK parliament who are subject to their political party whips to speak up for it, and who has ever seen or will ever see, or can imagine Labour and Conservative MPs sitting in English constituency seats combining to defeat and bring down their respective governments.

Regional government being offered England by the British is not the same type of regional government that has been given to Scotland and never could be, so what England is being offered in devolution is a government re-organisation program run by quangos that gives them more centralised control and us the people less local democracy and at the same time denies the people of England an English identity.

David Cameron said that he was going to abolish regional government if his Conservative Party won the next general election yet his MPs rushed all the way from their party conference in Manchester to attend this quango meeting at Sandwell College. It appears he and his Conservative Party can be no more trusted than Gordon Brown and his New Labour Party.

John Stanhope
NC Member for West Midlands
Campaign for an English Parliament
01902 630110

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.

CEP RESPONSE TO DAVID CAMERON

2009-10-07T20:50:00.000+01:00

David Cameron, speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, has suggested that there be an annual "Council of the Nations" with the aim of "keeping the family of the UK together". [1]

This is a laudable aim, however the question remains, "Who will speak for England?".

Certainly not David Cameron. After all, he has already repeatedly made it clear that he "does not want to be Prime Minister of England". [2]

So does this suggested "Council of the Nations" mean that the Conservatives will finally start to treat England with the respect due as a full member of the "family of the UK"?

Will our nationhood finally be acknowledged?

Or does his vision of a "family of the UK" mean continuing to treat England as if she were some mad Mrs Rochester [3], an embarrassment to be locked up in the attic and ignored?

David Wildgoose, vice Chairman CEP, mobile 07906 551417

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/8290611.stm
[2] http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/conservativeparty/David-Cameron-sticks-to-the.4550421.jp
[3] From the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

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.

2000 Labour Party delegates applauded the negation of the English Democratic Tradition

2009-10-04T13:22:00.000+01:00

Wednesday, 30, Sep 2009 12:00

2000 labour party delegates got to their feet in Brighton in the county of Sussex to applaud the repudiation by Gordon Brown of the very fundamentals of England's democratic tradition.
Yesterday afternoon the delegates to the Labour Party Conference -Cabinet Ministers, MPs, Peers, Party officials and 2000 delegates from across the United Kingdom got up and clapped and shouted their approval as Gordon Brown, MP for Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath in Fifeshire in Scotland, announced measure after measure of new legislation for England, and only for England, in defiance of the very fundamentals of what the people of England founded their parliament for 800 years ago.
The CEP National Council has circulated its membership with a statement on this matter.
'Gordon Brown announced new legislation to place new teenage mothers in hostels rather than council houses; to provide free personal care for the very elderly in their homes, to limit pub opening hours, to control broken familes unable to control their children, to bring in additional controls on wild disruptive youngsters, to provide 250,000 free childcare places and to delay the introduction of ID cards. Very many people will indeed agree with these measures. That is not an issue that the CEP as such involves itself with. The CEP is concerned with democracy for England. When England gets its own parlament, its parliament will concern itself wholeheartedly with the welfare of the people of England.
'These measures concern matters which affect England only. The fundamental nature of English democracy as founded with the English Parliament in the 13th century and developed by the people of England over the past 800 years is that it is representative democracy. Law makers are accountable to the people who elect them. They are elected to be their representatives in their parliament. But Brown is not elected by any English voters. He is not accountable to any English voter for any of these specific measures. His action, and the conference applause for it, is a repudiation of this most fundamental aspect of the English democratic tradition.
CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 271139 Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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.

THE BBC IS A GOVERNMENT TOOL BIASED AGAINST ENGLAND

2009-09-25T11:40:00.002+01:00

The BBC is now fully engaged without misgivings in the promotion of Scotland's culture, history, national pride and national identity. It hasn't just adapted itself to Scottish devolution, it is now playing a very pro-active part in its development and expansion. In itself there is no harm in that. However, the BBC is not doing the same for England even though English licence payers provide 85% of the BBC's income, indeed of the financial resources available to BBC Scotland.

On Tuesday September 22nd from 8 to 9pm BBC 4 presented a very informative and absorbing account of the life of Robert Bruce, his resistance to English rule, his victory over both Edward 1st and Edward 2nd of England, his achievement in establishing the independent kingdom of Scotland. The programme was presented by the strongly patriotic Oliver Neil of 'Coast' fame with his usual very admirable articulation and clarity. It had the added fascination of revealing, indeed it focussed on, the crucial part played by Scotland's Catholic hierarchy in support of Robert Bruce and in achieving Scottish independence.

'However', says Michael Knowles head of the CEP Media Unit, in his email bulletin to members, 'there is much more to this than meets the eye. The programme wasn't just history. It was history narrative with a purpose. There was balance, of course there was. Oliver did not spare Robert Bruce with his strictures. The cruelty and brutality of the man were unsparingly exposed. However, the fundamental theme wasn't Robert Bruce. The fundamental agenda was Scotland, its history, its resistance to England, its declarations, its role and its meaning for the Scottish people of today, a Scottish people now facing the choice about to be presented to it by its own Scottish government of remaining in a union with the same England that was as defined in relation to Scotland in the 13th century as it is today. That was what this programme was explictly about. It merits a second showing in order to enable viewers to perceive its agenda.

'I am not critical of the BBC presenting this sort of programme which is just one part of a much bigger BBC series on Scotland. There are many very good reasons to use the licence fee to promote national identity and a sense of patriotism, and to provide education -in a most fascinating and gripping way- in the history of Scotland. Indeed, BBC Scotland now exists primarily to promote Scotland and things Scottish.

'However, the English licence payer provides 85% of the BBC licence income. Yet there is no BBC England. The BBC admamantly refuses even to contemplate one. Its bias against England runs deep. It will not contemplate making such programmes, inspired by a similar political and educational zeal and patriotism, about England -its history and its culture. It is the most influential cultural power and influence in the UK. It should use its power in a balanced way. This island of ours consists of three distinct and ancient nations. Politically and culturally it is now returning to its historic roots. That is the time we live in. It is a tide that cannot be turned back. As it stands at present, the BBC is an agent for distortion when it should be a main agent, possibly the main agent, for a fair and balanced development of the forces about to shape this island's future.'

Michael Knowles CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 271139 email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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

A council tax freeze in Scotland, a council tax hike in England

2009-09-21T15:23:00.003+01:00

The background to the announcement by the Finance Secretary to the Scottish Parliament John Sweeney that householders in Scotland will have their council tax bills frozen until 2012 raises fundamental questions about justice and fairness and the whole point and purpose of the Union.The background to it is a £210 million deal to be funded by England’s taxpayers which has been worked out between the Scottish Parliament and the UK Treasury headed by Alistair Darling, MP for Edinburgh South West and supervised by Gordon Brown MP for Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath. In England meanwhile council tax bills are set to rise by almost £50 for an average property next year in order to plug a £2.5 billion black hole in local authority finances caused by the economic downturn. An economic downturn caused in large part by the policies of both men.
There are two basic issues here,‘The English taxpayer is as much a member of the British state as any Scot and should therefore be treated equally. We look to our government for fairness. Why is it not forthcoming? Mr Brown signed the ‘Scottish claim of Right’ in March 1989 in which he and 300 other Scottish politicians signed an oath pledging to put the interests of their own Scottish nation before that of any other nation. Is he and Mr Darling exploiting their control of UK finances, 85% of which are produced by the English population, to provide a better deal for Scotland?
‘Secondly, where are our English MPs? They are elected by their English constituents to represent their interests. Yet they are always as silent as the grave on matters like this. By the time of the London Olympics Scottish families will be paying the same amount of council tax as they were in 2007. In England it may even have doubled. The injustice is beyond comprehension.’
At its September meeting in Birmingham on Saturday the 19th the CEP National Council confirmed its arrangements for the meeting ‘The Future of England’ in the House of Commons on November 18th, the day of the Queen’s Speech at which matters such as this will be discussed.

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.

The role of an English Parliament

2009-09-19T09:29:00.000+01:00

'The role of an English Parliament, which is now firmly on the UK political agenda, will be to focus minds on England's future as a distinct nation. It will come about because Scotland and Wales enabled by devolution are now re-establishing and re-creating their own separate identities, legislation, and cultures within the United Kingdom and the European Union. The more the two of them become separate and distinct, the more England does too and the more this island returns to its roots as three historic nations.

This is the message sent to the CEP membership by its National Council as the three main political parties prepare for their annual conferences following on the TUC conference and the new political year of 2009-10 begins, to conclude within 9 months with the General Election.

'The National Council has fully endorsed the statement of one of its members, Gareth Young from Brighton in Sussex, about what the role and purpose of the Campaign is. 'Our task,' writes Mr Young, 'is to foster a strong and confident English culture in which all the people of England take pride, making it more likely that newcomers from whatever faith and background can have confidence in it too.' Mr Young was thinking of the stresses and strains of England's society as it deals with the current depression, the appalling increase in unemployment especially among those under 25 years of age, the lack and the cost of housing for young couples , the threats to England's beautiful natural heritage and the stresses created by the modern juxta-position of different cultures. 'An English parliament and proper recognition of our one nationhood is a cornerstone of this,' he stated.

In its message the National Council re-asserted two of its basic principles which are of incalculable importance in our times. 'By English the CEP means anyone and everyone who lives in England, for whom England is home and future, regardless of origin, ethnicity, religion and politics. We are one nation. And the CEP expects everyone to live by the principle, achieved over centuries of hard struggle and bitter experience, as the bedrock of our English way of life, that democracy allows, indeed encourages, dissent and debate, yet demands that we all submit to the rule of law as laid down for all by Parliament. England is one community, one people, in which everyone should regard their fellow Englishmen and women as their family, their neighbours, sharing the same fortunes and misfortunes, the same land and the same weather, the same air and the same shores -their common land, their common shores, their common present and future. No one group should strive for advantage. Everyone should value what is good throughout society. England expects, and rightly expects, that each one of us, no matter what our background or religion or politics might be, works for the common good of all. That is what an English Parliament is about'.

Contact:
Michael Knowles CEP Media Unit.
Tel: 01260 2711239 Email: michael-knowles@ tiscali.co. uk

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.

No written constitution or any other major constitutional changes should be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union because that is fundamental to any decisions we have to make, and it effects the very existence of the nation state.

CEP welcomes the swelling recognition of the distinct identity and nationhood of the people of England

2009-09-16T20:21:00.000+01:00

David Horspool's new book 'The English Rebel', (Viking Press 2009) recounting the history of fifteen hundred years of English radicalism, from the the time of the Abbess Hilda of Whitby down the centuries to the Peasants' Revolt and the Levellers to the present day and the opponents of the Poll Tax, has been warmly welcome by the Campaign for an English Parliament.
'This book speaks only of English men and women,' says Veronica Newman the Campaign's secretary in her August message to the CEP membership. 'It describes how radical and revolutionary the people of England has been and is. It asserts by implication that England is a separate and distinct nation within the United Kingdom.
'This book reclaims for the people of England the sparkling identity that is distinctly theirs. We must not forget how the BBC has used its dominant media position for the last 80 years to deny to England its existence and identity as a distinct and separate nation within the United Kingdom. This book celebrates England's glorious tradition of rebels which iculturally and politically has changed the whole world. It celebrates The Peasants' Revolt which asked that most revolutionary question: 'When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?' Colonel Rainsborough at a meeting of his fellow Levellers at St Mary's church in Putney during the Civil War making the statement which has reverberated ever since: 'Really I think that the poorest he that is in England has a life to live as the greatest he'. Thomas a Beckett challenging the unjust rule of a king even unto death. Robin Hood forced off his land into the greenwood. The Pilgrimage of Grace from the North marching with the banners in defence of their religous faith. The Suffragettes embracing imprisonment for women's rights. The Magna Carta in defence of basic freedoms which has been recognised and revered throughout history ever since.
'There have been of great noteworthy rebels through all human history,' says Veronica Newman. 'But this book is about English men and English women as a distinct people, not about anyone else. We have all been brought up in a society where the British political and cultural Establishment, particularly the BBC and characters like the present Prime Minister Gordon Brown, have done their level best to deny any recognition of England. But this book celebrates the English. The English are the people of England, anyone and everyone for whom England is their home, their future and their childen's future. This book is one of many statements now being made, now being shouted out loud and clear, that we have our own history and our own identity, constantly being reinvigorated and renewed, a distinct and vibrant part of the rich fabric that is the world.

What If

2009-09-12T00:06:00.001+01:00

As the date of the second election on the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty by Ireland draws ever nearer bringing with it the possibility of a yes vote, it seems inconceivable that not one national daily newspaper or any other media source has highlighted the effects of a yes vote, and especially with all the troubles in Afghanistan how it could directly affect British foreign and defence policies.

If the Irish vote yes to the Lisbon Treaty it gives the green light for the EU to create its own president and foreign minister, a foreign minister who will be able to make foreign policy without a full British veto, and scraps 55 national vetoes outright, bringing up the question of how long the EU will allow us to go on acting in our own interests and how long we will be able to maintain our own separate position within NATO.

How can our government plan for and justify billions of pounds of English money being spent on our armed forces when there is a grey area on who will decide where those forces will be deployed and even brings into question whether we will be in sole command of them.

Although the British have usually supported American policies and looked on America as a friend, the same cannot always be said of the EU whose pressure must already be being felt; add an EU President and an EU Foreign Minister and its odds on the EU will put a strain on that relationship and all the talk on our future in Afghanistan or anywhere else for that matter could be taken out of our hands?

No written constitution or any other major constitutional changes should be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union because that is fundamental to any decisions we have to make, and it effects the very existence of the nation state.

David Cameron must be made to give us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty whether the Irish vote yes or no.

‘England little more than a centrally governed colony'

2009-08-28T21:41:00.000+01:00

THE CEP HAS WELCOMED THIS RECENT, THOUGH INDEED VERY BELATED, RECOGNITION BY DR. TONY TRAVERS OF THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS OF ENGLAND’S CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION COMPARED TO THE DEVOLUTION STATUS OF SCOTLAND,AND WALES.

Dr. Travers, director of the LSE esearch Centre, is the foremost English expert on local government matters, esteemed very highly and consulted constantly by Whitehall, the media and his fellow academics. His recent article ‘We must support Scotland’ (Local Government Chronicle Aug.29th ’09) which deals with the Megrahi affair, has highlighted its constitutional implications for the UK and what it means for England.
‘For the people of England,’ he writes, ‘the revelation that a Scottish politician can make such a life-and-death decision with massive international ramifications serves to point out how privileged the Scots now are within the UK’s so-called constitution. The 50 million English and their elected local institutions have nothing like the devolved power of the five million Scots or three million Welsh. Scotland may now be a nation free to decide its own justice policy, but England remains little more than a centrally governed colony’
‘It is to be welcomed that Dr Travers has now had this insight into the implications for England of the 1998 Devolution legislation,’ Michael Knowles of the CEP National Council has stated. ‘It is precisely what the CEP has been saying for the past 11 years. Regretably however, Dr Travers like many traditional British-minded academics still thinks of English devolution in terms of regionalism, even though the people of England’s overwhelmingly rejected the measure in the 2004 referendum. It is still their mind-set. As George Orwell noted over half a century ago there is a immense pool of English intellectuals who are strangely uncomfortable in their English skin.
‘The next four significant mental break-throughs for academics like Dr. Travers is first the recognition that Devolution 1998 was given to nations qua nations, as is explicit in the text of the legislation.The second is to make themselves intellectually and culturally comfortable with being English, which is what they are, just as the Scots and the Welsh are comfortable with their national identity. Over 60 years ago George Orwell wrote about the strange phenomenon of an immense pool of English intellectuals who feel uncomfortable in their English skin. The third is to recognise that England cannot be balkanised without immense damage and divisiveness. As Will Hutton wrote in 2001 ‘regional assemblies will a veritable witches’ brew of internecine rivalries’. The fourth is an open mind to the introduction of a new Union in which the three historic nations of this island will stand in the same relationship to the UK government and to each other’.
Contacts:
Michael Knowles.
CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 271139. email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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History in the making

2009-08-24T06:59:00.003+01:00

Scotland entered the world stage as an independent nation when it ignored the UK and US Governments and freed Lockerbie bomber Abdel-baset Ali al Megrahi. The grounds Scotland gave for the bombers release prove not only that there are major differences between the Scottish and UK Governments domestic policies, but more importantly it appears that the boundaries of devolution are not stopping Scotland interfering and affecting matters reserved to the UK Government, in this case British foreign policy. Surely with the possibility of international repercussions if we still have a Union there is no way Scotland could have been allowed to release the bomber without the consent of the UK Government even if the matter was devolved, which brings up the question, did Gordon Brown actually give authorisation for it or is it what it seems a British embarrassment?
Perhaps this will bring home the realities of devolution to all those English doubters who think that devolution has been and is the saviour of the Union, when it is obvious it has given power to the factions that want to tear the Union apart and is turning bit players into international celebrities.
There is no way back now in reversing the devolutionary process and before animosities start getting to the stage of forcing separation instead of calling for a referendum on Scottish independence after the next general election, all four countries should be calling for a referendum on the creation of a new British Federal State and new ways of working together.
It takes courage to stand up for your beliefs and especially so if that belief is contary to that of the worlds superpower, and in that respect SNP's Kenny MacAaskill can either be seen as a Scottish hero or a Scottish fool and only time will tell.

England must not forget its Peterloo

2009-08-16T17:58:00.002+01:00

This piece is taken from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal the full article can be read at
http://links. org.au/node/ 1206

The 1819 `Peterloo' massacre: class struggle in the Industrial Revolution
By Graham Milner

August 16 in Lancashire was a lovely summer day with a cloudless sky and a hot sun shining. There was a confident, cheerful and festive atmosphere as the contingents gathered and prepared to march. Bands played, and the beautiful banners, woven and embroidered with great care, were unfurled. Oldham's banner was of pure white silk, emblazoned with the inscriptions: ``Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments -- Election by Ballot', and ``No Combination Acts: Oldham Union''. Saddleworth's was jet black, with the inscription ``Equal Representation or Death'' in white over two joined hands and a heart. One of the banners carried by the Stockport contingent read: ``Success to the Female Reformers of Stockport''. Many red caps of liberty were carried.
When all the contingents had arrived and assembled in the centre of Manchester, something like 12 per cent of the population of the county of Lancashire, and over half that of its industrial south east were present. It was the largest assembly England had ever seen.
As soon as all the contingents had filled St. Peter's Field, to the point where, according to a contemporary report, people were packed in so tightly that ``their hats seemed to touch'', the area was ringed by 1500 troops with cannon. No one in the crowd, least of all the organisers, suspected that an attempt to physically disperse the meeting was planned. Meetings such as this, even if smaller and without the same evident discipline and organisation, had been held many times before up and down the country. The ensuing massacre was completely unexpected and unprovoked, and met with little organised resistance. The city magistrates had even gone to the lengths in their preparations for the massacre of employing scavengers to remove every stone, brick or possible missile from the field and surrounding streets, so that the meeting's participants were thus left entirely without defence.
Barely had Henry Hunt, the main featured speaker, begun to address the meeting when mounted troopers of the yeomanry charged the hustings to arrest him and others on the platform. At first the crowd, which had not been aware of the presence of the troops, did not panic and Hunt shouted: ``Stand firm, my friends: there are only a few soldiers, and we are a host against them.''
But as the yeomanry, many of whom were drunk, charged with sabres drawn, slashing and cutting their way through the crowd and trampling and crushing many people, chaos and panic gripped the field. According to witnesses cited in Joyce Marlow's account The Peterloo Massacre, the yeomanry, having tasted blood, went berserk. They dragged the speakers and organisers from the hustings and would have killed Hunt had he not been quickly whisked away to jail. The yeomanry continued to slash and cut indiscriminately at men, women and children alike, while smashing wagons and platforms, and tearing the banners and the caps of liberty.
The regular cavalry then moved onto the field to complete the work. Hundreds more people suffered serious injuries from the slashing sabres and flying hooves, or were smothered under piles of falling bodies. Ten minutes from the first charge it was all over. Samuel Bamford, the Lancashire poet, described the scene
...the field was an open and almost deserted space. The hustings remained, with a few broken and hewed flagstaves erect, and a torn and gashed banner or two drooping; whilst over the whole field were strewed the caps, bonnets, hats, shawls and shoes and other parts of male and female dress; trampled, torn and bloody. The yeomanry had dismounted -- some were easing their horses' girths and some were wiping their sabres.
Many more people were killed and maimed as the troops continued to ``disperse'' the crowd through surrounding streets. That night one person was shot dead and several injured in clashes between soldiers and crowds of angry workers.
The government's attitude was made clear by its total endorsement of the massacre. The Prince Regent, then disporting himself on his yacht, made it known through Sidmouth what great satisfaction he had derived from the magistrate's ``prompt, decisive and efficient measure for the preservation of public tranquillity''. Despite repeated and widely voiced demands for one, there never was an official inquiry into the Peterloo massacre.
Wave of anger
An immense wave of anger swept across England in the wake of the massacre. The mass movement for reform was not appreciably set back by the Peterloo massacre. A huge crowd estimated by the conservative Times at 300,000 lined the streets of London to greet Hunt after his release from jail. Meetings were spurred all over England by the events at St. Peter's Field, especially in the north-east counties, where more than 50,000 miners marched into Newcastle from surrounding districts. Loyalist [pro-government] forces in this area began arming, and the pitmen took up arms to defend themselves. In the months of October and November, according to Edward Thompson, workers across the country stocked pikes and other weapons to defend themselves and their meetings. Drilling, and armed demonstrations, were reported in Newcastle, Wolverhampton, Wigan, Bolton and Blackburn.
Divisions within the radical movements's leadership between constitutionalists and revolutionaries were not resolved, and this crisis of leadership, combined with renewed government repression and an economic upturn brought this early phase of mass working-class struggle to a close. The events in Manchester on August 16, 1819 however, will remain forever inscribed in the collective memory of the international working class. Shelley's poem ``The Masque of Anarchy'' was written just after Peterloo and its final stanza carries the fighting sentiments of thousands of workers:
Rise, like lions after slumber.
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew,
Which in sleep had fallen on you!
Ye are many -- they are few!
[Graham Milner is a member of the Socialist Alliance in Perth, Western Australia.]

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.

First Mayor to be elected from an English Political Party in the News

2009-08-15T11:50:00.003+01:00

Published Date: 13 August 2009 IN THE SHOREHAM HERALD
By Ian Hart

I THINK the phrase goes something like "a new broom sweeps clean", and I'm indebted to Ellis Rodda for bringing my attention to the following tale.

On his first morning as mayor of Doncaster, Peter Davies cut his salary from £73,000 to £30,000, and on the same morning he closed the council's in-house newspaper for "peddling politics on the rates".

Mayor Davies is now pressing ahead with plans he hopes will see the number of town councillors cut from 63 to just 21, saving local taxpayers £800,000.

Mr Davies has said: "If 100 senators can run the United States of America; I can't see how 63 councillors are needed to run Doncaster."

He has withdrawn Doncaster from the Local Government Association and the Local Government Information Unit, saving another £200,000, citing both bodies as "all talk, no action".

The subject of twinning has also come under the microscope.

"Doncaster is in for some serious untwinning.

"We are twinned with probably nine other places around the world and they are just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council taxpayers' expense."

The mayor's chauffeur-driven car has been axed and the driver given another job within the local authority.

Mr Davies was elected in May, under the banner of the English Democrats, a party that wants tighter immigration curbs, an English parliament and a law requiring every public building to fly the flag of St George.

He has also promised to end council funding for Doncaster's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month.

He says: "Politicians have got completely out of touch with what people want.

"We need to cut costs, I want to pass on some savings I make in reduced taxes and use the rest for things we really need, like improved children's services."

So the million dollar question, the view of a right wing homophobic northerner, or the voice of reason?

Or simply someone who has said enough is enough and got in a position to make changes?

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.

WHY WE NEED AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT

2009-08-04T20:17:00.004+01:00

When Tony Blair’s government decided to take the initiative and head for Europe with the introduction of the Devolution Acts of 1998, there is no doubt that it did so because his government was dominated by Ministers elected from the Scottish and Welsh constituencies who saw European policies as the means of re-establishing their own countries separate political identities and nationhood.

Every nation has a right to govern themselves under their own laws; it is what makes a nation, and is the difference between self government and subordination, between self respect and self contempt, quoted Eurosceptics when it was proposed that the United Kingdom should join Europe’s superstate.

The Scots agreed but the nation they were talking about was the Scottish Nation and its position within the Multi- Nation British State, and when they moved into their new law making Scottish Parliament that boasted control over their own domestic policies they rejoiced in gaining their first move towards Scottish independence. Land of our fathers sang the Welsh; a forum for the nation they cried when Devolution 1998 gave them an assembly which recognised Wales and their Welsh Nationhood, and they dance in the streets of Northern Ireland now that the people have found peace in the resurrection of their own parliament.

NO DOUBT ABOUT IT ‘DEVOLUTION 1998 WAS DECIDED ON NATIONHOOD’

We too have a right to govern ourselves, we too have an identity separate from a British identity, and we too have a right to a parliament that will recognise England and England’s Nationhood. Why should we be the only nation not gaining anything from devolution, the claims made by the other three nations of the United Kingdom can be echoed by our claims, what applies to Scotland and Wales equally applies to England, and it is unjust and unfair that the English Nation should remain the only one subjugated entirely to British rule.

Young people for more than a millennium have been making the ultimate sacrifice in defending England’s shores for the sake of freedom and democracy, and young people are still doing so today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ask the Scotsman what he is fighting for and he can say Scotland, ask the Welshman and the Irishman what they are fighting for and they can say Wales and Ireland, but what about the English what can we say, what are we fighting for. They tell us (the English) we are fighting for Britain and fighting to stop Islamic terrorists destroying our country, yet they are openly inviting and giving these people a free passage into England, giving them all our free health and welfare benefits, houses and jobs, and when we catch them the British are refusing to kick them out. How much longer are our English mothers going to continue to let their sons fight for this British double-cross, are the British worth fighting for, and how much longer can we and they go on supporting a British Government that recognises the sacrifices made by the Scotsman, the Welshman, and the Irishman, but denies the same to the Englishman?

At the recent Olympic Games they did it again; they recognised the Scottish, Welsh and Irish medal winners with separate celebrations, while ours went unrecognised and were claimed by the British, and every government form or document denies an English identity.

Since Labours Devolution Acts of 1998 England our homeland is no longer our own, our nationality is not recognised, our country no longer has any political or constitutional existence, our culture is being denied us and our language is being infiltrated by that of every other nation on the globe. While our English soldiers fight for British interests abroad the British are trying their hardest to destroy the nation they identify with at home.

Compare this to the devolved nations of Scotland and Wales who now have a parliament and the responsibility for their own nation’s ‘Education and Training’ programs, and consider British lies when they say it is us the English not them who are trying to break up the Union and its British identity.

The Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly is the political and constitutional recognition of their Scottish and Welsh National Identities.

Through the school curriculum all children in Scotland and Wales are now being reared and educated to have strong Scottish and Welsh identities and knowledge of their Scottish and Welsh history and heritage; the Welsh language is now being taught in their schools. (Britishness is only being taught in English schools)

Similar ‘Sports and Art’ programs backed up by a BBC TV Scotland and a BBC TV Wales and their own tourist boards are promoting their distinct Scottish and Welsh cultures, (There is no BBC England or English tourist board) and the Scots have honoured their St. Andrew by giving their nation a day’s holiday. (No St. George’s holiday for England)

Scottish culture is being promoted also through education and training courses that encourage students into university by not asking them to pay ‘Top up Fees’ of £3000 + a year like the British ask of the English, and their part time students earning less than £18,000 are getting a £500 grant towards their £800 a year course fees as Scotland moves from a system of loans to
grants. (English students get nothing)

The devolved nations are also allowed to promote their own separate identities through labelling, especially food items, a lot of which now promote Scotland and Wales by supporting their national flags, controversially in England the ‘Dairy Crest’ company last year re-branded their ‘English Country Life’ butter’ as ‘British Country Life’ butter amid a fanfare of adverts featuring Jonny Rotten taking the mickey out of us English. The French have a big stake in Dairy Crest, and last year 2008 when they bought the butter brand outright they did the name change with British approval. Recently we have been told that the England football Team will be re-branded with the British identity ‘Team GB’ in 2012 in time for the Olympics.

Never mind the ‘West Lothian Question’ or the ‘English Question’ which question the right of the British to rule only on England’s Domestic policies, the British have now set up their own quango type government to do it.

England is now being governed by MPs elected from Scottish constituencies which include the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer and an assortment of seven peers from the House of Lords, not one of them is answerable to the English electorate and 7 of them can’t even be questioned in the House of Commons. If it wasn’t so serious the whole thing could be seen as a joke?

Why should England be the only country made to suffer the consequences of being ruled by these proven British untrustworthy, lying, cheating, corrupt fraudsters, so called Honourable MPs who despise us and treat us with contempt?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Q1) The Westminster Parliament has 529 MPs elected from England’s constituencies; don’t you think England has enough representation?

A1) MPs elected to the Westminster Parliament are British MPs not English MPs and they owe their loyalty to the British State as a whole not to the individual nations within it. MPs elected to national parliaments however like Scotland and Wales are full of members who owe their loyalty to their own nation; a nation’s interest often conflicts with that of the State.

Q2) Do we really need any more MPs surely we have got enough already?

A2) Regardless of cost England needs its own parliament in order to establish constitutionally and politically its identity and nationhood. British MPs elected from English constituencies have failed and are failing to put the interests of the people of England first, and instead are supporting the British political interests of their party.

With England controlling its own Domestic Policies on par with Scotland, Wales, and N. Ireland the role of the British Parliament would be significantly changed along with its workload; there would be no need for any significant increase in MP numbers if the number of MPs to an English Parliament could be matched by a similar reduction in the number of British MPs representing England in the UK Parliament.
Q3) Will the English Parliament need to be a separate parliament or could it be a parliament within a parliament made up from existing members of the British UK Parliament?

A3) An English Parliament must be a completely separately elected parliament with its own separately elected EMPs, a national parliament, a parliament elected solely to represent the interests of the people of England like that given to our other home nations. Suggestions by all the main British political Parties that England’s Domestic Policies and interests are best served only if they are looked after by British MPs in the UK Parliament does not hold credence, if that were true it would be true also for Scottish, Welsh and N. Irish Domestic Policies and interests and there would have been no need for devolution, which clearly it wasn’t. British MPs owe their loyalty to the UK British State, and what they are asking us to believe is that this British loyalty can be switched on and off according to what time of the day or what day of the week it is instantly an English Bill arises in the UK Parliament. Try telling that to a Manchester United supporter at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon when they haven’t got a game, and ask them to switch their support to Liverpool who have.

Q (4) It is said that if England was given its own Parliament the United Kingdom would have to look at becoming a Federal State, and that being the case, the sheer geographical size of England being 4/5 of the UK’s land mass and the size of its population would make England dominant and make a federal UK unstable and lead to its break up.

A(4) While the British believe an English Parliament would see the end of the Union, the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) believes it is vital to saving the Union. The specific point on England’s dominance and size making a federal UK unstable should be seen as a red herring along with the one about millions of pounds being needed for extra MPs if England gets an EP, and can be demonstrably exposed as nonsense by referring to the examples of the USA, Canada, and India. There are 60 Californians to every Alaskan, 70 bodies in Ontario for every person in Prince Edward Island, and 111 inhabitants of Utter Pradesh for every person in Goa. In fact, England has dominated the Union for 300 years and devolving power to England would not increase its ability to dominate the Union but would have the opposite effect and reduce it; England would now only be in charge of looking after its own domestic policies and could not interfere with those of the other nations, who could not interfere in England’s or in each others.

Q5) Would a new building be required for the English Parliament and if so where would it be sited?

A5) Moving at least one of the parliaments the British or the English to central or northern England would bring about the biggest transfer of employment, political, cultural and media power and activity, in all of England’s history. Such a decision would not harm the capital, as such an event would save London and the South East from self destructing due to its success, but that decision would have to be decided by present MPs and the constitutional committee, or through a British Convention.

Q6) The present policy regarding England’s devolution from all the main political parties centres around some type of Regionalism in preference to giving England a parliament, what are your views on these regional policies?

A6) For all their supposed good intensions it is a fundamental weakness of the regionalists’ argument that they seek to deny national government and constitutional recognition of nationhood to the people of England. It is one thing to argue for regionalism, but to argue that the nation of England should be denied national government because of it is quite another. An English Parliament would be able to take over the work performed by the regions in the EU, providing England with a stronger unified voice and force than the individual regions in applying for EU structural funds, currently the English regions apply separately for funds and are therefore in direct competition with one another. With London and the South East undoubtedly able to shout the loudest the poorer regions such as those in the North are in danger of losing out; an English Parliament would therefore not only be a stronger lobbying force in the UK and the EU but it would be better placed to distribute the funds more evenly across England.

Q7) How would an English Parliament effect England’s immigrant population?

A7) An English Parliament would do for England’s immigrants what it has done for Scottish and Welsh immigrants; in the first place it would allow all immigrants living in England with a British qualification to identity themselves with England the country in which they live and the indigenous English people they live with, like it has done in Scotland and Wales. The very essence of identifying themselves with the identity of our country would unite England’s people under one banner and an English Parliament would be the centre of gravity around which we could all work together in carving out a new English identity.

Q8) Alun Michael a Welsh MP said in a recent TV interview that if there was a First Minister for England he/she would be more important and have more power than the British Prime Minister?

A8) This is another British redherring; England's First Minister would only have the powers invested in him by the British Constitution and what Alun is inferring is that a state governor in the USA has more powers and is more important than the USA President which is rediclous.

Under the Scotland Act 1998, the Scottish Parliament can make primary and secondary legislation in
Areas not reserved to Westminster or protected from modification

‘Devolved’ responsibilities now controlled by the Scottish Parliament

* Health * Local Government * Social Work
* Education and Training * Housing * Planning
* Tourism * Economic development and financial assistance to industry
* Some aspects of transport, inc. the Scottish road network, bus policy and ports and harbours
* Law and home affairs, inc. most aspects of criminal and civil law, the prosecution system and the courts
* The Police and Fire Services * Natural and Built Heritage * Sports and the Arts
* The Environment * Agriculture, forestry and Fishing
* Statistics, public registers and records

Other Advantages

* MPs in their own parliament and separate MPs of their own at Westminster
* A Secretary of State in the Cabinet
* A Grand Committee made up of all of their MPs
* Their own Select Committee at Westminster to deal with their own affairs
* They can speak up for their own nations in Europe and help shape UK- EU policy
* Have the benefit of Statutory Instruments (UK laws) to be studied by their own institution
* The Scottish and Welsh Development agencies deal direct with their own executives so can tailor things on a national rather than a regional basis
* Although the devolved nations MPs at Westminster have had their workload drastically reduced they have had no pay cut (99% of constituent’s problems now being dealt with by their own parliamentary MSPs)

UK Parliament controlled ‘Reserved Responsibilities’

* The Constitution * Defence and national security * Fiscal, economic and monetary system
* Trade and Industry, including competition and customer protection
* Transport (not particular to Scotland) including railways, transport safety and regulation
* Social Security * Employment * Equal opportunities
* Medical ethics: abortion; human fertilisation and embryology; genetics; xenotransplantation and vivi section
* Broadcasting * the Civil Service * Immigration and Nationality
* Foreign Affairs * Energy: electricity, coal, gas,nuclear energy

Looking at the list opposite of the powers devolved to the national parliaments of Scotland and Wales you soon realise that England does not have National power over anything; all English powers are in the hands of the British, so let’s take a look and compare the health services. While Scotland and Wales have a true NHS and can control their own policies across all of their country England can not, instead England is heading in the direction of privatisation by being subjected to a Health Service run by a British based regionalism system of Primary Care Trusts and Foundation Hospitals, forced onto it by British MPs elected from Scottish and Welsh constituencies who denied forcing it onto their own nations. Half of our hospitals are already out of Ministerial control and it is said all will be by 2012. When the call went out for a massive clean up of English hospitals because of the MRSA outbreaks recently it was pointed out that it is against the law for an elected government or the Dept of Health on behalf of that government to tell Foundation Hospitals what to do, as long as they are financially viable.

National governments like Foundation hospitals above have been given huge sums of tax payer’s money by the British to conduct their own affairs without British interference which has allowed them to adopt differing policies and priorities. Foundation Hospitals are run like businesses and are free to use the market as they see fit in order to hit their targets and remain financially viable, this is seeing huge differences of care across England as each hospital decides its own policy, we are even seeing some of these hospitals paying for and building their own hospitals in other countries, outside of the EU too.

The NHS of Scotland and Wales provides equality of care for all their people regardless of what part of their country people live in, and their hospitals do not have the same restraints put on them as they are all under ministerial control and subsidised by the English tax payer. Besides receiving a huge grant from the British Government to run their own affairs, National Parliaments also get additional payments every year made to them through a formula called Barnet which is based on England’s expenditure, in Scotland’s case alone this formula lets the British give Scotland an extra £12 billion per year more than they give us in England.

National Parliaments first priority is to the nation they serve and not to the British State which they are part of, and this can be seen when we look at their national achievements.

Free Prescription charges
Free Eye Tests
Free Dental Check Ups and reduced charges
Free personal Care in Residential Homes - even if they cross the border into England
Free School Milk - Better school meals being provided by doubling England’s subsidy
Seriously ill patients are able to receive drugs that are denied to English patients even if they are a patient in an English hospital
Trainee nurses kept on an extra year after qualification so that they have the necessary experience to get jobs in the private sector should there be no jobs in NHS
No Hospital Car Parking Charges
No Wheel Clamping allowed anywhere in the country
Their own Students in Universities have fees waived until they are earning over £25,000 per year and no top up fees are paid. (English Students pay £3000/year + in top up fees and leave with debts of £20,000)
Council Tax frozen 2008 and 2009 and has only risen 40% since 1997 (England’s council tax has risen 100% over the same period and increases every year)

Every young person between the ages of 20 and 25 living in England should be aware that their lives are not as important to the British establishment as those lives of the young people of Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland, as Jade Goody found out to her cost. In England you do not get invited for a cervical smear test until you are 25, by then it is too late for any girl unfortunate enough to get it at a younger age as Jade did; in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland they are allowed to test their young at 20 and also every youngster taking part in sport over 16 years of age in Scotland will also be offered screening for cardiac abnormalities, the cause of sudden death syndrome.

Continuing on the list we can see that the British recognised nations have responsibility for their own housing, planning, and environmental policies, the British can’t force the ECO Towns on Scotland or Wales, or force the extension of airports which they are able to force onto us. Then there is Agriculture and Fisheries, national governments make sure their farmers get their subsidies on time while the British keep English farmers waiting, and the Scottish Fisheries Dept has already made a cut in English fishing quotas along the East Coast. The list goes on, and in every dept the nations are able to protect their people from the sufferance of seeing their domestic policies being decided by the corrupt incompetent fraudsters in the UK British Parliament; from ID Cards, to Road Pricing to bin collections, the national parliaments decide themselves what is best for their people and do not have to accept the wishes of the British Government, and invariably do not.

The British do not wish to recognise England and Englishness because it gives them a problem with their identity, so they are trying to solve it by supplanting the name Britain for England and forcing an invented indigenous British multi-cultural identity on our nation.

The West Lothian Question

Why should MPs elected by the countries of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland into the British UK Parliament be allowed to debate and vote on policies that only apply to England, when British MPs elected by England to the UK Parliament can not debate and vote on policies that only apply to their countries.

The reason they can’t is because these countries have their own parliaments and another set of MPs deciding their policies.

The result of their interference in English legislation has already resulted in England being forced down the road of NHS privatisation with Foundation Hospitals, and also forced our University students to pay Top Up fees, and most recently influenced the stopping of trials by Jury for certain offences.

The English Question

Who rules England – Why should British MPs elected in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland be allowed to be head of English only departments deciding English Domestic Policies when they can not force those same policies onto their own nations that elected them, and one as even made himself Prime Minister.

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We must not forget that our troubles began in 1997 when a gang of Scottish conspirators and Europhiles (Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and the disgraced speaker Michael Martin amongst them) who had signed an oath in 1989 vowing to put the interests of Scotland before that of every other nation (The Scottish Claim of Right) suddenly found themselves in control of a New British Labour Government. These British MPs elected by Scotland promoted themselves to all of the major ministerial posts in government and wasted little time in honouring that oath when in less than a year they complied with EU legislation and began the break up of the United Kingdom and headed for Scottish independence by bringing in the Devolution Acts of 1998.
It must also never be forgotten that although the Welsh and Irish British MPs spoke up for their countries nationhood, England’s elected British MPs elected to represent England failed to do so, and so England’s nationhood was not recognised.
From this day British MPs can not be trusted to put England’s interests before that of their party.

John Stanhope
West Midlands
tel - 01902 630110

Carved-up, stitched-up ... Labour's plan for England

2009-07-27T18:37:00.000+01:00

WORTH RECALLING

Published: 10 May 2002

IT’S difficult to take seriously a promise of “joined-up” government from a man who can’t manage joined-up sentences.
By getting Two Jags to announce plans for regional assemblies in England, Blair obviously thought he was making us an offer we couldn’t understand.

Because, for all the nonsense about extending democracy and accountability, the new bureaucracies are not what they seem.

As I pointed out on Tuesday, they are specifically designed to break up England into administrative units in preparation for our absorption into a federal Europe.

The regional assemblies correspond exactly with a map drawn up by Brussels for the government of a fully integrated European Union.

Stage One was devolution in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

This is Stage Two.

Stage Three is the abolition of the English counties.

Stage Four is the abolition of England.

To draw parallels with what has happened in Scotland and Wales is deliberately misleading.

These were countries with their own cultures and own identities being handed back limited powers.

If Labour was sincere it would have established an English parliament at the same time.

But Labour hates England and the English. While pandering to Scottish nationalism, Welsh nationalism and blood-stained Irish nationalism, Labour has ruthlessly set about eradicating English identity and undermining our institutions and traditions.

The English are caricatured as a bunch of wicked, backward racists in speeches by ministers and supporting editorials in the fascist Left press.

Instead of bringing communities together, multi-culturalism has been used as battering ram to drive wedges between us.
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Pledge ... Blunkett
When David Blunkett sensibly suggested making all immigrants learn to speak English and floated the idea of an American-style pledge of allegiance for new citizens he was howled down by the Guardianistas as if he had made the Nuremberg Address.

But then, Blunkett is a rare animal among Labour politicians in that he is prepared to challenge the orthodoxy.

Most of them are careerists prepared to go along with the whole agenda.

Top of that agenda is a policy of divide and rule intended to fragment widespread English resistance to the ultimate goal of full European integration and scrapping the Pound in favour of the euro.

Devolution – The making of Scotland – The destruction of England

2009-07-02T21:21:00.009+01:00

Under present European legislation all national governments are required to transfer power down from their own national central government to a lower level – usually the choice is between regional or local government.

This legislation is the basis of any nation’s acceptance of entry into the European Union and it is legislation that our British Government agreed to on behalf of the United Kingdom. (The British State)

While this has not generally been seen to be a major stumbling block for all other nation states across Europe, who already had some form of regional or provincial government, it is however a problem of seismatic proportions for the British here in the United Kingdom because the UK is a multi-nation state and it meant devolving power down to the nations within it, so entry was never certain and a cause of much debate.

In 1997 a gang of Scottish conspirators and Europhiles (Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and the disgraced speaker Michael Martin amongst them) who had signed an oath in 1989 vowing to put the interests of Scotland before that of any other nation (The Scottish Claim of Right) suddenly found themselves in control of a New British Labour Government, and they then wasted no time in honouring that oath when in less than a year they had complied with the EU and brought in devolution legislation that gave their own Scottish Nation political recognition and control over its own domestic policies with a parliament. (Devolution Acts 1998)

Devolution has been good for Scotland is the cry 10 years on, how could it not have been when Scotland for all of those 10 years has had two governments working in its best interests, one of their own in Scotland and one in Westminster, and Scotland now commands 188 MPs and MSPs, a UK Prime Minister and a Chancellor of the Exchequer all putting their interests first, while we the people of England have no separate representation at all, and are having to watch as these Scottish conspirators steal England’s money, deny England and our nation its English identity, break our country apart, sell off our assets, and declare our country England a British European Nation state open to the world for colonisation.

Question - Why do the British say there is no English Nation?
Answer - If they admit to an English Nation the British do not exist

The EU devolution legislation has created two major problems for the British -
The Question of Sovereignty – The Question of Identity

The United Kingdom in its pre 1998 form as the British State could not meet the entry requirements of the European Union, yet the survival of the British and British sovereignty revolves around the continuing existence of a British State.

The United Kingdom had a choice, to devolve power and then fight for sovereignty from inside the EU or come out of the EU altogether, and the Scottish led New Labour Government of 1997 chose the first option, and proceeded to devolve power in a way that gave the most benefit to their own Scottish Nation. But their 1998 Devolution Act did give enough power to the other minor nations for them to establish their own separate political identities.

When it came to devolving power to England and the English Nation the British had a problem with their identity, if England became English they had nowhere to go? So they came to the conclusion that if they wanted to stay in the EU their best chance of survival was to supplant the name Britain for England and force onto England and the English Nation an indigenous British identity.

In this they are having varying degrees of success because they are controlling the media.

It has taken a long time for the English to realise this, but at last there appears to be major signs of an English revival, and the British know it. The English are seeing through the British futile attempts to disguise their demise under offers of English votes on English Matters and their new English pauses for English causes to answer the West Lothian and English Questions and the tide is turning against them.

David Cameron is not calling for a withdrawal from the EU or promising a referendum if the Lisbon Treaty is agreed before a general election. Watch the British voters start jumping ship if the Irish say yes to Lisbon later in the year and it is realised that the Scots are freed from the power that the British are using to hold them in the Union,and watch the Tory lead decline as the English move to the parties that offer them recognition with a parliament when they realise they have been betrayed yet again.

The question then will become which of England’s main British political parties is going to gain the initiative and be the first to abandon the sinking British ship and return to England before being put out of existence by the rising English National parties like has happened in Scotland.

Was it and is it right that the reserved powers kept by the UK British Government from Scotland and Wales should have been and are being put in the hands of MPs whose constituencies are in Scotland and Wales while England has no separate parliament?

There is only one way to save the Union and that means pulling out of Europe

contact -
John Stanhope
01902 630110

GORDON BROWN’S ‘PROGRAMME FOR ‘BRITAIN’ DEFIES AND DENIES THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF THE ENGLISH NOTION OF DEMOCRACY.

2009-06-30T15:33:00.000+01:00

English democracy is representative democracy. The people who make the laws that govern a country must represent the people they govern and be answerable to them. On that basic principle England’s Parliament was founded almost 800 years ago in 1253. Tha
t same principle lies at the heart of English Common Law and the jury system. When Scotland united with England with the Act of Union in 1707, it accepted the English way of democratic government.

‘But the ‘Programme for ‘Britain’ announced yesterday by Gordon Brown in England’s ancient House of Commons is nothing less than outright repudiation of England’s way of democracy’. That is the declaration of the Campaign for an English Parliament. The main proposals of the Programme cover housing, health and education. Not one of them will apply to Scotland because Scotland through its parliament is self-ruling in all matters of housing, health and education. In these three important areas of government Brown is proposing legislation for England only.

Yet Brown is MP for the Scottish constituency of Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath in Fifeshire. He does not represent one inch of England’s territory and not one single English voter. And he is not answerable in any election to any English man or woman. He is the principal legislator for England, yet he does not represent England in any of these very important matters and he is not accountable to any English person.

What is more, when at next year’s General Election he stands for re-election in Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath, because he is not a member of the Scottish Parliament, he is not answerable even to his own electorate for any matter concerning housing, health and education. Our system of government has become twisted and deformed.

In terms of what is most basic to the very meaning of English democracy, to have an MP representing a Scottish constituency making legislation for England in matters on which he was not elected by and is not accountable to any electorate is not just wrong, it is politically and constitutionally perverse.

In the statement of the ‘Constitution Unit’ to the House of Commons Justice Committee in November 2007, what is ‘closest to a complete answer’ to this situation created by the nature of the 1998 devolution legislation ‘is an English Parliament?’

Contact:
Michael Knowles CEP Media Unit
Tel: 01260 271139 Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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.

The Campaign for an English Parliament welcomes the result of the Times Populus poll

2009-06-26T11:18:00.001+01:00

A special Populus poll for The Times, to mark the tenth anniversary of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament indicated that in England and Wales 41 per cent support the idea of an English parliament.
However, Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP), addressing a meeting of CEP members, asked why people in Wales were consulted about whether they supported an English Parliament 'The people of England were never consulted whether they wanted an Assembly for Wales or a Parliament for Scotland. Surely it is the people of England, not the Welsh, who should to be consulted if they want an English Parliament?'
'And why,' Mrs Cullen queried further, 'were we not given the figures for England? Clearly if the Times had cared to separate out the figures for England in this matter, the percentage in England supporting an English Parliament was most likely to be higher and in line with other recent polls that return figures of between 60 and 70%.
'We hear ad nauseam,' she said, 'Establishment pundits and the British government telling us that there is “no demand” for an English Parliament, yet again and again when asked, the people of England do want parity with the other countries of Britain. In the three most recent opinion polls their support ranged from 61% to 68%. Clearly the demand in England is at least as high at that in the referendum for the Scottish Parliament, namely 44%, characterised by those same pundits as “the settled will of the Scottish people”, and much higher than the 25% of the Welsh electorate that voted for devolution, and what irony that the present government was elected by just 21.59% of the electorate.
'Nevertheless, the will of the people of England continues to be studiously ignored by the British Political Class. Labour, Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties have set their faces against an English Parliament. They see it as a threat to their power and their whole life-style. We hear that David Cameron has said he will treat the people of Scotland with respect if the Conservative Party is returned to power at the next general election. Will that respect be extended to the wishes of the people of England? The Conservatives tell us that the UK cannot afford an English Parliament. The CEP says that we cannot afford the dubious, excessive, immoral practices and expenses of the members of the British Parliament. An English Parliament will be the golden opportunity to bring in root and branch reform of the corrupt way in which the Union Parliament operates.'

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

No written constitution or any other major constitutional changes should be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union because that is fundamental to any decisions we have to make, and it effects the very existence of the nation state.

Rumours say Gordon Brown contemplated putting his head in the gas oven on reading the ‘Calman Report’

2009-06-23T22:01:00.004+01:00

LORD CALMAN REPUDIATES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE LABOUR & LIB-DEM PERSPECTIVE ON ENGLAND.

“ England is a nation with a single political identity”. With those words Sir Kenneth Calman in his Commission report has undermined and rejected the way both the Labour Party and the Lib-Dem Party have regarded England since the devolution legislation of 1998. Both parties have always opposed any constitutional and political measures which would treat England as what it has been for well over a thousand years: a distinct nation. Both parties have supported the balkanization of England into regions. But, says Calman, England must be recognized for what it is, a nation, “with a political identity at least as old as Scotland’s”.

He goes even further. ‘The regions of England do not have the same sort of political identity as Scotland. This fundamental aspect of the Union will always remain, and must not be ignored in its territorial constitution’. The Union set up in 1707 was a union of nations, nothing else. That is in every line of the 1707 declaration and Calman has reiterated that basic fact about it.

These assertions of the Calman Commission are the very last thing Gordon Brown wanted to hear it make. He set up the commission to undermine Alec Salmon’s ‘conversation for Scotland ’. Brown has constantly described the UK as “a union of nations and regions’, with Wales and his own Scotland as the nations and the regions being the very artificial ‘regions’ of England constructed by Brussels. Brown being that sort of Scot has no feeling for England’s distinct history and culture

The CEP has warmly welcomed this statement of the Commission. As the devolution debate takes the Union into new constitutional territory, it is pleased that a Government Commission has formally acknowledged the distinct national identity of England. “A single political identity” is the first and most essential requirement for one's own institution of government.

Michael Knowles CEP Media Unit

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.

No written constitution or any other major constitutional changes should be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union because that is fundamental to any decisions we have to make, and it effects the very existence of the nation state.

Can we trust David Cameron or any of them?

2009-06-18T10:53:00.004+01:00

When the MPs expenses scandal exploded onto the scene David Cameron was the first to step up and condemn those MPs of his own party, and quite rightly he is doing what he said he would and those involved are being asked or are volunteering to stand down at the next election. This is what the Tory faithful would expect their leader to do and he should be congratulated for meeting their expectations, but what about us and the rest of the proletariat, how should we view it.

David Cameron is asking Gordon Brown to call a general election, but how can this be a genuine call when he has it in his own hands to force one himself and he is refusing to take it? He could rid his party and parliament of the people said to be bringing it into disrepute right now, which would force the general election he wants because the list is so long, instead he will be using them like Gordon Brown is going to do, to bring in constitutional changes that could be detrimental to us English who are being made to pay their wages for another 12 months, and hoping in that time he gets out of his promise of holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty as Ireland is expected ratify it in November. To add an insult to our intelligence the respected Times newspaper reported yesterday that when the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, David Cameron will give Tony Blair a free run for the EU presidency.

To his credit David Cameron is trying to form a new grouping in the EU to challenge its policies, but make no mistake, none of the main political parties want to come out of Europe even though its present policy (the one he will try to change) demands the break up of the United Kingdom.
Everyone should consider this and the ramifications for England and the English if England is not given its own parliament in the envisaged constitutional changes due to take place.

We can’t look to Nick Clegg and his Liberals either, they were quick to state some time ago in support of Gordon Brown that they would not support a referendum on Lisbon, but said they would support the one we all want, a referendum on stopping in or pulling out of the EU. Why were they not beating the drum during the recent EU elections when they could possibly have gained an advantage in the polls, they didn’t because like the rest of the main British parties its all a pack of lies, they say it but don’t mean it when it comes to the EU.

We have had two reports presented in the last few days on the effects of devolution, one from the Calman Commission and one from the Justice Committee (Devolution a Decade on); both are very important documents that the Campaign for an English Parliament made submissions too and need serious discussion. How can this take place and how can any written or other constitutional changes be made by this parliament while it contains the stigma of a said dishonest fraternity of fraudsters and fiddlers from across all parties, and how can any written constitution be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union, because that is fundamental to any decisions that have to be made, as it effects the very existence of the nation state itself.

Our parliament, once full of honest, honourable and patriotic men and women is now full of people who dishonour their titles and dishonour us the people who have put our trust in them.
If the MPs caught with their fingers in the till wanted to redeem themselves and help to save the Union they should get together and sacrifice their MP status now and force a general election. Honourable people and true Unionists would do just that of course, but how could we ever expect these people to do it.

Cicero Marcus Tullius, born on 3 January, 106 BC and murdered on 7 December, 43 BC:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

In or out of the European Union the ‘Campaign for an English Parliament’ demands that the British recognise the political identity of our country England by giving it its own English parliament, on terms equal to those given to the country of Scotland.

John Stanhope CEP West Midlands

"Killing the Union with Kindness"

2009-06-17T09:25:00.003+01:00

The Calman Commission was set up in response to growing anger over the injustice of the Barnett Formula coupled with demands from Scottish Nationalists for more powers to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament.

Not surprisingly it has failed to satisfy either of these points of view.

Its eye-catching proposal of allowing the Scottish Parliament to vary tax rates by as much as 10p in the pound rather than the 3p variation currently allowed is nothing more than a "sleight of hand". Far from being replaced, the Barnett Formula is being retained as the means of deciding the amount of the Block Grant that the Scottish Parliament will continue to receive.

In other words, the funding disparity will continue, but with the deliberate intention of allowing politicians to pretend that Scotland is raising the money that it is spending.

Nobody is fooled, and the anger will continue to grow.

From 1888 onwards Westminster has had a deliberate policy of "Killing Home Rule with Kindness", lavishing money on both Ireland and Scotland. This policy clearly failed with Ireland, is clearly failing with Scotland - and yet the Calman Commission continues it.

And as ever, England is being ignored. The Govt needs urgently to consider Calman in the light of the statement by Alan Beith's Justice Committee that it is the governance of England that is the most important unfinished business arising from devolution.

The widespread disgust with our politicians shows the need for a complete democratic renewal. This must also take account of English concerns, which in turn will require English representation and an English Parliament.

If English opinion turns against the Union, do they think they will be able to "Kill Home Rule by Kindness" by bribing us with our own money?

David Wildgoose CEP Vice Chairman

No written constitution or any other major constitutional changes should be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union because that is fundamental to any decisions we have to make, and it effects the very existence of the nation state.

If you are for the Union stand up and be counted

2009-06-15T17:12:00.004+01:00

It had to happen didn’t it, he helped to bring down Margaret Thatcher now he appears to want to destroy David Cameron, but at least he is honest and consistent. Kenneth Clarke, Europe’s sycophant and Gordon Brown’s equivalent in the Tory Party said on the Andrew Marr show yesterday, that the Tory Party will not give us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if it is ratified before a general election is called and they win it.
It proves once again that the main British parties and British politicians can not be trusted to defend the UK or England’s sovereignty and that for all Cameron’s bluster, all of these parties appear to be singing from the same hymn sheet, only the spin is different.

I have said before and say it again that those people looking towards the Conservative Party to save the Union are very optimistic, young and innocent, or must have a short memory; Margaret Thatcher the past PM who this Conservative Party still seems to idolise was sacked by them mainly because of her European stance, and I repeat what she said about Europe at that time “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super state exercising a new dominance from Brussels”
After sacking her this party immediately replaced her by a Prime Minister who would, John Major, (still an MP) who was aided and abetted by Europhiles like Kenneth Clarke and Michael Heseltine into signing up to the start of this break-up of the UK in a Maastricht Treaty. Kenneth Clarke, yes the same man, the man recently brought into the opposition cabinet by David Cameron, even took part in the launch of a ‘Britain in Europe Campaign’ and was on the stage with the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Charles Kennedy. It is this same Kenneth Clarke who was recently given the job by David Cameron of finding an answer to England’s devolution without making too many British MPs jobs redundant. This same Kenneth Clarke was chosen to give evidence to the Justice Committee ‘Devolution 10 years On’ and is one of these British MPs who say and continue to say that to give England a parliament could lead to the break up of the United Kingdom, when it is they themselves who are the ones orchestrating it. What they should be saying is that if England is given its own parliament it will end the very lucrative careers of very many of them because the English will never agree to pay for another set of MPs without getting rid of their British equivalents.

Make no mistake, none of the main political parties want to come out of Europe, and Europe’s present policy demands the break up of the UK, and everyone should consider the ramifications for England if it does not get its own parliament.

Scotland is slowly being fed the ingredients that it would require to join a single European Federal State in its own right, and all the British political parties are supporting that goal by gradually giving Scotland more power to help it become an independent/autonomous entity.

We at the CEP do not care if Scotland gains its independence if that is what Scotland wants, but I would say that like most people we would prefer them to remain part of a United Kingdom, but not at the expense of denying our country England and its people their English identity.

No written constitution or any other major constitutional changes should be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union because that is fundamental to any decisions we have to make, and it effects the very existence of the nation state.

For any MPs who believe in the Union there is now only one sure option to give it a chance of survival. All resign; force a general election and demand a vote on stopping in or getting out of the EU because your leader is only kidding when he says he will change it, because he knows he can’t, and so do you.

We should force the government to kick out of office all those MPs caught fiddling now and demand a general election, not next year,when the Irish could have voted in Lisbon. These fiddling fraudsters are going to be kept in office by the British for the sole purpose of getting the Irish vote.

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.

Brown's measures to reform parliament are fatally misdirected

2009-06-14T14:25:00.000+01:00

'Gordon Brown has appointed Tony Wright MP, one of Parliament's major advocates of reform, to chair a quick all-party inquiry into reform of parliamentary procedure but he has ensured that Wright does not address the most glaring distortion and corruption of all in our democratic process. Tony Wright and his committee will not address the West Lothian Question'. That is the message to the CEP membership sent out by Mrs Veronica Newman, secretary of the Campaign, its organiser in the county of Wiltshire.
'In the words of the members of the Justice Committee of MPs in their very recent Report (May 22nd) into 'Devolution a Decade on'
"England is subject to Ministers and MPs who do not represent England and whose constituents come under devolved governments' (page 84. para 27)
'Scottish MPs such as Gordon Brown legislate for every area of English life inclusive of health, transport, education, the legal system, the prison service, social services, local government and so on. In not one of those areas of governance is Mr Brown and his fellow Scottish MPs accountable to the electorate of their constituencies because no legislation they make in those areas applies to their constituents, to their electors. Neither is he and his fellow Scots accountable in an election to any English elector because he and they represent Scottish seats and only Scottish seats..
'There is no greater distortion of England's ancient democratic system of government. And Tony Wright MP for Cannock in Staffordshire, lying at the very heart of England, will not even address it. Whether Wright is aware of this distortion and injustice is unknown. But whether he is or isn't, he just will not address it. It is a grotesque injustice to the people of England'.
Michael Knowles
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.

Gordon Brown not of this world

2009-06-11T17:58:00.002+01:00

After the most humiliating defeat in both the local and European elections with the worst set of results in the History of any Labour Government, their champion Gordon Brown is unruffled and lets it run like water off a ducks back has he gets back down to the British business of destroying England’s constitution. Not only is this parliament full of corrupt, whining, lying, swindling zealots but they are also spineless, gutless whimpering cowards who are more interested in saving their own yellow necks and careers than they are in defending English democracy and sovereignty, and this applies across all the main stream parties.

This Labour Beast is not of this world; any sane earthly creature having been inflicted with so many mortal wounds would surely by now be dead and buried, yet its hatred of England and the English seems to be keeping it alive and we should be very wary of the ferocity of this injured British Beast in its death throws.

Where was Citizen Smith Cameron and his ‘Power to the People’ when we needed him, talk about a national disgrace and a day of shame, how can anybody think of voting for this party or any other main British political party, or for any MPs of this rotten British parliament for that matter, when they sat back and watched that pipsqueak of a Frenchman Sarkozy humiliate our nation and our war heroes by him not asking our Queen, our Head of State to the 65th and last commemoration of the D-Day Landings in Normandy. This whole saga was abetted by the attendance of Gordon Brown the Labour Beast himself who delighted and enjoyed the humiliation as the Frenchman then added a further insult by employing a German band for the occasion. Perhaps Citizen Smith like the rest of the under 50’s in the country believes that the triumph did belong to the French and Americans. After all, the British have been and are still in the process of rewriting our entire history, with the only proviso being that we the English are not part of it?

How long are we going to allow ourselves to be taken for mugs by this rotten parliament, and are we now going to stand by and allow this same cesspit of MPs draw up a written constitution that will in fact be a surrender document to the policies of the European Union? We already have a constitution, what we need to do is to get rid of this lot who are abusing it. No written constitution or any other major constitutional changes should be seriously discussed until the people of the United Kingdom have been given a chance by referendum to decide whether they want to stay in or come out of the European Union because that is fundamental to any decisions we have to make, and it effects the very existence of the nation state.

England, the only country in the United Kingdom without a separately elected parliament and governed for the last 11 years by a Scottish raj who have wreaked havoc and taken the country to the brink of bankruptcy, now finds itself in the ridiculous situation of being governed by a rag tag and bobtail mob of unelected peers led by Lord Peter Meddlesome of Foy at the invitation of the Prime Minister himself. Enter Lord Meddlesome, twice forced to resign from the cabinet, and who now has so many jobs they are thinking of making a special entry for him in the Guinness Book of Records. How many of this lot have not been implicated in tax fiddles etc?
Our unelected Prime Minister, elected by Scotland and one who can not be voted out by the English ballot box has now surrounded himself with a cabinet full of selfish bully boys, which includes the likes of Bob Ainsworth and 7 unelected peers to try and force onto the nation changes to our constitution that will benefit his party, Europe, and the British establishment to the detriment of the people of England and we should have non of it. Like Gordon himself we can not get rid of most of these people at the ballot box, and don’t forget either, Lord Triesman the ex Labour whip who controls the Football Association, another Brown noser who has decided the England football team’s name will be changed to the British football team in 2012 in time for the Olympics.

David Cameron are you a Maggie Thatcher, a JFK, or are you a French Poodle and an EU lap dog? Its make your mind up time.

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

A UNION IN WHICH FOUR FIFTHS OF ITS POPULATION IS UNFAIRLY GOVERNED IS A UNION MISGOVERNED

2009-06-09T22:59:00.000+01:00

'The Inquiry Report of the House of Commons Justice Committee of MPs into 'Devolution a Decade on' (published May 22nd) has produced Conclusions and Recommendations (paragraphs 26-40 pages 84-87) which emphatically lend substance and support to the arguments the CEP has been making for the past decade in support of a parliament for England with the same status, purpose and powers as the Scottish Parliament.' That is the message now sent out to all CEP members by Michael Knowles, head of the Campaign's Media Unit upon reception and consideration of the Report.

Paragraph 26 'Over four fifths of the population of the United Kingdom live in England but while fundamental change has been taking place in the governance of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with consequent effect upon the governance of the United Kingdom as a whole, no such change has taken place in the way England is governed'. The Campaign has been stating precisely that for the past decade, and stated it in great detail in the written and oral evidence it submitted to the Committee. England was totally left out of the Devolution Settlement. The most crucial element of the 1998 devolution legislation concerned governance. Scotland, Wales and NI became self-governing. In the case of Scotland seventy five percent self-governing. England enjoys no self-government at all. In the following paragraph the Committee provides more detail

Paragraph 27 ‘Government in England remains centralised under the authority and management of the United Kingdom Parliament and the United Kingdom Government’. Again, that was precisely our CEP written and oral evidence. The way in which the United Kingdom is now governed is nothing less than confused, muddled and unfair. Each of its four parts stands in a different relationship of governance to the UK Parliament. Scotland has benefited far in excess of the each of the other three. In the case of England the outcomes of this situation in terms of expenditure and benefits in comparison with what Scotland, Wales and NI receive or bestow upon themselves is grossly discriminatory. However, in respect of governance the Committee addresses something much worse.

Paragraph 27 ‘England is governed directly by the United Kingdom Government and Parliament and is therefore subject to Ministers and MPs who do not represent England and whose own constituents come under devolved governments’. This is the West Lothian Question. The Scots can legislate for England in every detail of English life. The English are excluded from 75% of legislation that concerns Scotland. For the past ten years the CEP has on every occasion possible, specifically through four major publications, brought this injustice to the attention of the United Kingdom Parliament. For the very first time a committee of the House of Commons has formally acknowledged the injustice.

Paragraph 27 ‘The governance of England is seen by many as the “unfinished business” of devolution’. The Committee goes on to deal with the different solutions proposed to the English Question. It does not support that of an English Parliament. That was signalled well in advance of the Inquiry even starting; and its Chairman Alan Beith MP was opposing it in public while the Inquiry –his Inquiry- was still taking evidence. However, the most fundamental progress has been made: A House of Commons Committee has for the first time made formal acknowledgement that England, ‘over four fifths of the population of the United Kingdom’ is misgoverned. The Union is not broken but its governance is systemically unjust.

Contacts:

Michael Knowles. CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 27339 Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

We must keep focused on Constitutional Reform

2009-06-04T12:10:00.004+01:00

We must not let the turmoil of the expenses scandal scramble our heads and cloud our judgement into jumping aboard the wrong ship when hearing all this talk of major constitutional reform. We must not forget that England without political or constitutional recognition as a national unit is more vulnerable to our enemies now than it was before this upsurge in MP animosity. Those who wish to destroy us; the Europhiles and the regionalists are seizing the opportunity and are screaming for more devolved regional powers, we must prevent this from happening until England has its own centralised parliament to put it on equal terms with Scotland, giving to our country England the recognition of its English identity. Only when there is a 100% guarantee of this happening, or it has been achieved, should we be prepared to talk about local government and its powers. It is up to us the people of England to decide what local government is best suited to our needs, not Brussels bureaucrats, not British MPs elected in Scotland, not British MPs elected in Wales, not British MPs elected in Northern Ireland, and not by a bunch of self serving regionalists who want to fool the public into voting for regionalised government under the guise of a PR voting system.

The only devolutionary measures we the people of England are interested in listening to and debating are those in a convention that will decide the parameters for the creation of an English Parliament, all other matters concerning England are subsidiary and will come under the jurisdiction of that parliament.

Here is a part sample of what was said by the Scottish Convention on its New Parliament-

It will be for Scotland's parliament to decide the policies and the funding arrangements for education and training. The Convention expects the parliament to work closely with local authorities to make the management of schools responsive and accountable to local communities, and to agree priorities for investment. Together, Scotland's parliament and the local authorities will have the power to decide how best to focus resources to rebuild the Scottish school system. Similarly, the parliament will be responsible for Scotland's universities and further education colleges, and the Convention expects it to work with them to agree and implement priorities. The parliament will also have responsibility for investing in research, and in training and retraining programmes, and for setting up accountable systems to direct this investment. The Convention regards education as a process to which all the people of Scotland have the right of access throughout their lives. It is therefore essential that Scotland's parliament has responsibility for the full scope of educational provision and thus the power to restore the unique Scottish education system to its position as a world leader....
Exactly the same principle applies to us and for exactly the same reasons, to the areas of recreation, heritage, sport, the arts, culture and science - the purest expressions of the nation's character.

According to reports the Scottish SNP and the Welsh Plaid Cymru are tabling a Commons motion next week to dissolve the British UK Parliament in order to cause an immediate general election, and if the motion is debated the Lib-Dems and the Tories are said to be backing it.

How can it be either democratic or constitutional for nationalists of countries that have their own national governments to call for the Westminster Parliament to be dissolved, when that Parliament is the only one that represents us in England; since England has no national Parliament? What they should do if they want to protest is look to themselves and withdraw their own British MPs from the Westminster Parliament, or ask them to resign.

England is fighting a war on the scale of the Norman Conquest of 1066 and our people are at last beginning to realise it, we now need to focus their attention on the enemies’ ultimate objective, which is to breakup and destabalise our national unity..

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

NO TO FOOTBALL TEAM GB

2009-05-31T21:17:00.001+01:00

The British are known for pulling the wool over the eyes of the English by slipping important items out while other bad news is grabbing the centre of our attention, and they are at it again. While our eyes are focused on the disgraceful goings on in the British Parliament, the English Football Association has announced that they have had agreement from the Scots, Welsh and N. Irish football associations that the England football team can have its name changed, and be supplanted with the British team name GB.
This must be stopped at all cost because there is no doubt that this could not have happened if their associations had not had 100% guaranteed assurances in writing that their teams would retain their individual identities in future competitions, and only our England name would be under threat, and you can guarantee it will be.
This is another of Gordon Brown’s Britishness and Labour party stitch ups and we need go back no further than the election of the independent chairman of the FA Lord Triesman, his close confident and Labour whip who became his Minister for the Department of Innovation, University and Skills and was the first person to be appointed outside football. The appointment was made possible by non other than Labour’s own Scotsman Richard Caborn who was the man who pushed through the Burns review that led to the decision for the FA to appoint an independent chairman in the first place? Lord Triesman is another of Labour’s ex communist ilk and when appointed he said he would win over doubters who feared his appointment signalled a Labour takeover of the FA, right, like the recent appointment of Ian Watmore another Labour Minister. Lord Triesman did add however that is political connections would be useful, useful to push through Brown’s Britishness more like, another reason why we need our own English Parliament.
You should not forget that when the Tour of Britain Cycle Race first came on the agenda the same thing occurred, and we had to fight tooth and nail to stop it. Other than England the 3 home nations were allowed team entrance on their own identities, our team England was made to have the name GB and riders were not even allowed to put down their English identity on the team sheet.

AN ENGLAND TEAM, AN ENGLAND NAME, OR NO OLYMPIC TEAM AT ALL
ANOTHER DISGUSTING BRITISH PLOT
DO NOT VOTE LABOUR, LIBERAL, OR TORY IN NEXT WEEKS ELECTIONS

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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.

Song for St. George's Day by Resistance 77

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Fight against British Racism – Fight against racism directed against England and the English

The British should keep their noses out of our business

2009-05-29T11:47:00.003+01:00

Gordon Brown – Everyone must know that they are being heard. There is no option I will not consider if it redistributes power. What has always been clear to me is that we must look at new ways in which the political elites can be made accountable to serve more effectively the single most important person in our democracy – the citizen.

Father forgive me for I no not what I do - What an hypocrite Gordon Brown is and what does it say for his religious upbringing, and how it confirms what is said describes many a local vicar ‘Do as I say and not as I do’, and Gordon honestly believes what ‘He’ says too. I don’t think the poor man realises yet that he was the mastermind behind devolution that gave Scotland the country that elected him, its own parliament, thus making himself unaccountable not only to the people of Scotland for all of their domestic policies, but unaccountable to all of the people of England for their domestic policies too. I wonder if he realises also that he is the sycophant and puppet for the other ilk in Europe who like him are unaccountable, unelected, and irremovable by the people of England at the ballot box, and that it is ‘they’ who are dictating their policies onto us and not him.
This man is either mad, bad, just plain stupid, or a bit of each and I wouldn’t trust him to change a light bulb let alone being put in charge of changing our constitution.
‘You stupid boy’ the man even helped bring in the legislation that is actually discrediting himself, his government, and this parliament and you can’t get more stupid than that, or can you, he has brought in his enemy Peter Meddlesome a man twice discredited in positions of government authority to try and save his premiership. It is him and his party that destroyed the British Civic identity and signed it over to Europe by recognising the separate civic identities of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and now wants to resurrect it by supplanting it on England.
How can anybody of sound mind be considering voting for this man and his party?

David Cameron – ‘Power to the People’ is his cry, and any readers who watch old programs on Sky will be familiar with this call being associated with that idiot Citizen Smith, and like him Cameron shoots himself in the foot and is discredited before he even gets to the election starting blocks. This man promises to give us a referendum on the European Lisbon Treaty, the one in Labour’s manifesto that Brown reneged on, but when questioned on the Andrew Marr show he would not commit himself to a referendum if the Irish had ratified it before a general election in which he had won, so some ‘Power to the People’ his policies are going to be. This mans rhetoric makes him seem like gods gift to democracy and he is promising all things to all people, but he is already proving himself to be no better than the other lot, and if he can’t be trusted to give us a say on surrendering our nations sovereignty to Europe how can he be trusted to carry out his other promises either, and this is reason enough not to vote for his party.

Nick Cleg’s Lib Dems – What’s the point? This party shows us what the 3 main British political parties are all about, and what they all are – self interested, corrupted, crazy people who think nothing of discriminating against one section of England’s people and who will only listen and appear to care about anything or anyone but themselves when their own livelihoods are threatened.
All British MPs are crazy and not capable of making rational judgements, this is a valid reason for getting rid of them. After going into Muslim countries and killing Muslims in support of American policies and in one case fighting an illegal war in Iraq, the British are now asking these very same Muslim people who have settled in England to support them and their actions at the ballot box.
Watch this Lib –Dem on U-tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC8ZIPA88E&feature=email

It is about time the people of England told these British Political Parties and the EU to keep their noses out of England’s domestic affairs; they have no more right to tell us what to do than they have to tell Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland what to do, and if they believed all this Power to the People, standing up for democracy, and decentralisation of power they speak of, they would start by giving the us our own parliament so that we too could decide our own policies and set the parameters to be met by our own MPs. One of which no doubt would be the requirement asked for by any good Working Men’s Club. ‘Anyone applying for any responsible position within the club must be of sound mind and not have been convicted of any criminal offence or been involved or suspected of being involved in any offences concerned with fraud, theft or dishonesty, or offences that could bring the good name of the club into disrepute’. Obviously not applying to British MPs.

The Institute of Public Policy Researchers Guy Lodge and Michael Kenny said it’s not true that the English want their own parliament. Perhaps they would like to prove that by suggesting the question be put to the English in a referendum, or perhaps if David Cameron is forced into a vote on the Lisbon Treaty they could suggest it be added to that voting paper if they are so sure.

The British have no right to decide England’s local government or poke their noses into England’s domestic affairs; they don’t poke their noses into Scottish, Welsh or Irish affairs so they should stop meddling in ours.

DON’T VOTE LABOUR, TORY, OR LIBERAL IN THE EU ELECTIONS

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.

PANIC

2009-05-26T14:47:00.002+01:00

The British political parties now up to their necks in effluent from their expenses scandal are starting to swim like the rats that they are, but with the King Rat now gone and still no let up, is panic starting to set in. The Labour Party believing they are going under the mire first and stand to lose a majority of their MPs in the next general election, are proposing to change the electoral system to a form of proportional representation, believing the electorate will not understand a new system and can be fooled into still giving them votes, so saving more of their MPs. The Tory Party on the other hand have said they will do nothing to save their rats and are willing to sacrifice any that look like going under, which leaves their party in a dilemma, as it looks as if panic as set in and at least half of their MPs are preparing to commit suicide, forcing their leader to plead for more recruits. The Liberal Party rats that jump on the backs of one or the other of the other parties rats, are finding it difficult to find enough Tory rats high enough to jump on and are going down too, so will have to support Labour’s proportional representation if it comes about to survive.

What we don’t need now is this band of British brigands meddling any further with the UK constitution until there has been a general election; they have caused enough trouble already.

DON’T VOTE FOR BRITISH PARTIES IN THE EU ELECTION

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

Stinking Rich

2009-05-24T13:34:00.005+01:00

They warned us of a Swine Flue pandemic and we got it, everyone living in the UK has been effected, and it is unbelievable that even with everyone still suffering with sickness, diarrhoea and breathing problems caused by the stench from this cesspit of a rotten parliament, the swine that are causing it are still in there and referring to themselves as the Right Honourables, supplanting effluent for affluent like they supplant Britain for our England.If it had only been a few in one party, if it had only been one issue, if it had only infected the back benches,if it was only in parliament,we could perhaps have isolated them and saved the rest. Unfortunately the virous as infected all of the British political parties and the entire British establishment and it is to late now to do anything other than a massive cull right down through the ranks of the regional quangos and town councils. Some are claiming immunity, but we have not heard their voices calling for justice for England, all we hear are their cries for help as their reputations go under the mire, and we know from past experience that for the rise of evil it only needs good men to do nothing, and that’s precisely what these that claim immunity have done, nothing. We the people of England are being robbed, cheated, and lied to by a bunch of British MPs who like traitors have sold their souls to an EU establishment that wishes to destroy the notion of our countries very existence in order that they can spend their time and our money looking after their moats, tennis courts, and duck ponds.
We the people of England have been let down by everyone from the Monarch to the Parish Councillor, from the Archbishop to the Parish vicar,from the House of Lords to the magistrate,and worst of all by the BBC and most of the media, and we must start to let them know it.

YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU

DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY BRITISH PARTY IN THE EU JUNE ELECTIONS

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

THE VOTE THAT CAN DESTROY OR SAVE OUR NATION

2009-05-15T21:21:00.002+01:00

Your vote in the June European elections could decide one way or the other whether the United Kingdom will remain a sovereign nation state. If the major British political parties are wiped out or given a severe set back, David Cameron could be forced to carry out his threat to leave the European Peoples Party in Brussels and to offer the country a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. The EEP is the largest party in the EU and has as its main objective the creation of one EU Federal State, one that will take unto itself all of our nation’s sovereign rights and one in which the UK and our MPs will have no more authority than that allowed to a province or a county council, on top of which it was and is opposed to us having a vote on the issue, notably the Lisbon Treaty. Unless we have a central government with sufficient authority as a nation we will forever be vulnerable to the whims and wishes of every other European country, and we have to remember that the EU is run by a group of people who are not elected, can not be removed, don’t have to listen to anybody, and are at this present time supplanting 75% our English Laws of democracy with their own. Nations have a right to govern themselves under their own laws, but over and over again we have been conned and tricked by the conniving British and EU establishments into accepting these treaties only to find out later that disguised in the package of proposals are major differences that are not only detrimental to the laws of our nation but to our nations very existence. The EU is trying to unravel the nation states with regionalism policies that are intended to take away the power of nation state governments, and what we are seeing is the creation of balkanised regions that are being conned and forced into conflict with one another for supremacy over the available work and resources, which only the strongest regions can win. We have been betrayed and are being betrayed by British politicians who we now see have their heads so deep in the trough and been feathering their own nests that they have had to shut their eyes to the consequences of the EU and our government’s actions on the United Kingdom, and especially on our English Nation. The 1998 Devolution Acts were forced on the UK by a New Labour Government who fully support Europe and the ‘European Peoples Party’ policies which is why they never carried out their manifesto pledge of giving us a referendum on Europe’s Constitutional Lisbon Treaty, and it must be said that David Cameron’s Tories and Nick Clegg’s Liberal Party lack lustre opposition to it is also because they too are members of the ‘European Peoples Party’. The 1998 Devolution Legislation is breaking up the United Kingdom and dividing the nations, and anyone who believes any of the major political parties are seriously trying to stop this and are against these EU regional policies should think again, and consider the ramifications for England as these policies are carried out and England without a parliament of its own disappears out of political existence.
We are now told that the people of Gibraltar voting in the European elections in June will be voting to elect a candidate in one of our English Regions, and what is more they could decide the result. We must be mad to allow this to happen. You must not forget either that you do not get a chance to pick your European MEP candidate, it is the choice of the political parties, which in other words means you will be voting for someone who represents their political parties interests and not yours.
There are 529 British MPs representing England in the UK parliament and non show any inkling of support for England’s political recognition, they must be told in no uncertain terms that it is us the people of England and the United Kingdom who are sovereign and not the other way round, we have only lent them that power and they have no right to give that power away without our say so. (Oliver Cromwell had the answer to such people)

20 April 1653 Oliver Cromwell to the Long Parliament:

“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do; I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place; go, get you out!
Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go! “

Norman Tebbit a Tory grandee recommends a protest vote against the 3 main British political parties because of catastrophic problems with their Expense Fiddlers, I recommend the same protest vote, but against the entire British Band, who are out of tune with the British public at large, are tone deaf, and treat their English sponsors with contempt.

To stop the rot we need to get rid of the lot and create a new British Parliament with input from 4 separate and equal national parliaments not the three we have now.

J.Stanhope

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

MPS RESORTING TO THE NUREMBERG WAR TRIALS DEFENCE

2009-05-14T11:31:00.000+01:00

‘If ever there was a moment when we really could do with England starting again just like Scotland with its own parliament, and shedding all the inanities, the vanities and the corrupt practices of both past and present in the way we are governed, it is now.’ That was the message put to all CEP blog readers by Gareth Young, Brighton member of the Campaign and co-editor of its website http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/blog/

‘If a British politician has ever told you that the reason that they don’t want an English parliament is because it would mean ‘an extra layer of politicians’ and ‘extra cost’, then now you know the real reason why. They don’t want an English Parliament because it will drive their Westminster gravy train up against the buffers. We have seen how Scotland, the moment it got its own parliament, free from the tentacles of Westminster and its centuries of corrupt practice, established the clearest of guidelines and rules for their MSPs. The moment two of its members were found to have broken its rules, they were made to resign. Here, we have scores of Cabinet ministers, shadow cabinet ministers, junior cabinet ministers and backbenches milking the system which they and their colleagues past and present set up; and to date not one single resignation. They have preached ‘Britishness’ and British democracy but have undermined the concept through greed. They are money-grubbers feather-bedding their lifestyles. They have no claim to govern England. England needs a clean sheet to start again.’

‘Their argument ‘I complied with the rules' is in essence the notorious Nuremberg Defence,’ Michael Knowles head of the CEP Media Unit has added to Gareth’s message. ‘Not of course in scale. Of course not’. Yet legalistically and morally in essence the same. The war criminals argued in Nuremberg that they obeyed the law; here MPs argue they have complied with the rules. There is no conceptual difference. In Nuremberg exposure of wrongdoing was followed by retribution. There is no retribution whatsoever in this case. And these MPspr expect to get away with it all just by ‘apologising’ and saying it will be enough to change the rules. Not at all. They so argue because they want to hang on to monies which in the 'court of public opinion' they unfairly obtained. There has to be retribution. Either MPs should pay back the monies they took from the public purse, or they should face prosecution for breaking the law if, for example, they have not paid capital gains tax where it was owed. Or both. There is no gainsaying it any longer. England needs its own parliament where it can start again, with a clean sheet, with new men and women, bound by new rules, this time in this modern age subject to the full force of freedom of information legislation, transparent and translucent.’

Contacts:
Gareth Young. email: gpy1973@yahoo.co.uk
Michael Knowles. email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk tel: 01260 271139

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

The British now put England's Carnivals under attack

2009-05-12T22:40:00.002+01:00

After cancelling their St. George’s Day Parade in April we now find out that Walsall council have cancelled a parade of floats at the traditional Bloxwich Carnival. An event dating back 60 years that attracts over 5000 visitors will have its parade cancelled because the council say the organisers can’t afford the £2000 for the new Health and Safety regulations they have put on them. Carnival chairman Ken Worley said the regulations were “barmy”, this is a repeat of the same thing done to the organisers of the carnival in Wombourne South Staffs. What is it with these councillors, and in whose name and interests are they serving by discriminating against our English heritage and traditions, and what is it and on whose authority is it that lets them treat one section of the English population different to how they treat the rest.
Only recently we saw Wolverhampton Council inviting thousands of Wolves fans to a screening of the cup presentation in West Park, but not telling them that they had slyly arranged for Traffic Wardens to come round after the event had started to slap £70 parking fines on any cars parked on the grass verge and streets around the park. This did not happen on the following Sunday when the park held a Vaisakhi celebration and cars where parked in the same areas, then no Traffic Wardens appeared. According to the Express and Star, when asked for an explanation on Monday, Alistair Merrick the council’s chief officer with responsibility for parking enforcement said “Parking services were not aware of the Vaisakhi event in West Park yesterday and clearly this is a mistake”. His statement has to be questionable because the event had been planned for and advertised for months including and up to the Saturday night prior, and may have been believable if it had happened at the Wolves event which was hastily planned.
Following the disgraceful treatment of England’s St.George’s Day by some of our local councils these latest actions should be expected and in no way helps to unite what is becoming a divided nation.

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
Posted by stano at 18:26

The Campaign for an English Parliament welcomes the result of the Times Populus poll

2009-05-12T13:38:00.001+01:00

A special Populus poll for The Times, to mark the tenth anniversary of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament indicated that in England and Wales 41 per cent support the idea of an English parliament.
However, Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP), addressing a meeting of CEP members, asked why people in Wales were consulted about whether they supported an English Parliament 'The people of England were never consulted whether they wanted an Assembly for Wales or a Parliament for Scotland. Surely it is the people of England, not the Welsh, who should to be consulted if they want an English Parliament?'
'And why,' Mrs Cullen queried further, 'were we not given the figures for England? Clearly if the Times had cared to separate out the figures for England in this matter, the percentage in England supporting an English Parliament was most likely to be higher and in line with other recent polls that return figures of between 60 and 70%.
'We hear ad nauseam,' she said, 'Establishment pundits and the British government telling us that there is “no demand” for an English Parliament, yet again and again when asked, the people of England do want parity with the other countries of Britain. In the three most recent opinion polls their support ranged from 61% to 68%. Clearly the demand in England is at least as high at that in the referendum for the Scottish Parliament, namely 44%, characterised by those same pundits as “the settled will of the Scottish people”, and much higher than the 25% of the Welsh electorate that voted for devolution.. And what irony that the present government was elected by just 21.59% of the electorate.
'Nevertheless, the will of the people of England continues to be studiously ignored by the British Political Class. Labour, Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties have set their faces against an English Parliament. They see it as a threat to their power and their whole life-style. We hear that David Cameron has said he will treat the people of Scotland with respect if the Conservative Party is returned to power at the next general election. Will that respect be extended to the wishes of the people of England? The Conservatives tell us that the UK cannot afford an English Parliament. The CEP says that we cannot afford the dubious, excessive, immoral practises and expenses of the members of the British Parliament. An English Parliament will be the golden opportunity to bring in root and branch reform of the corrupt way in which the Union Parliament operates.'
Contact:
Scilla Cullen: Tel@ 01483 833155 Email: scilla.cullen@thecep.org.uk

Cleaning bill, £6,500
Running costs of English Regional Assemblies, £28 million per year
Scottish Parliament building, £414 million
Sale of UK gold reserves, £2 billion
UK contributions to EU budget, £4 billion
ID cards, £5 billion
NHS patients database, £6 billion
Iraq war, £7 billion
Barnett Formula, £10 billion a year
Pension Raid, £100 billion
Trident, £100 billion over 50 years.
Bank bailout, £130 billion

Opposition to an English parliament on the basis of cost, Priceless!

British Blatent Descrimination of the English Workforce

2009-05-08T12:15:00.002+01:00

'All classes of nuclear submarines in Britain will be based at Faslane on the Clyde in Scotland from 2017'. That was yesterday’s announcement from Bob Ainsworth Minister of State for Defence. As from 2017 there won’t be a single nuclear submarine based in any English naval port. There will be no jobs for an Englishman or woman in the maintenance and service of the British nuclear fleet as from 2017.The four Vanguard class submarines, which carry Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent, are already based in Faslane. But from 2017 the remaining three nuclear-powered Trafalgar Class submarines, which do not carry nuclear warheads, will be moved from Devonport in Plymouth to Faslane. All the 10,000 plus jobs plus a similar number in the industries immediately supplying the bases will go from Devon to Scotland.
‘This is the most blatant act of discrimination against the English workforce yet carried out by this Scottish-led government in its eleven years of existence,’ David Wildgoose, Vice Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament, has stated in an emergency letter sent to all CEP members. ‘I urge every single member to write to their MP to object to this injustice. Britain's entire nuclear submarine fleet is to be based at Faslane on the Clyde. This government is allowing the "Scottish agenda" to threaten English jobs. Gordon Brown is taking jobs away from the English workforce of Devonport to ingratiate himself with this own Scottish countrymen and women in the hope of preserving Scottish votes in the coming local and EU elections on June 4th and the General Election next year. It is downright wrong. It is downright discrimination.
‘I agree wholeheartedly with the condemnation of the decision made by Gary Streeter, the MP for Devon South West who has said: "I fear that the Devonport naval base is going to be allowed to wither on the vine over the next five to 10 years. It has had 320 years of history. We will have the amphibious fleet, but that is three boats and not much else. That is not going to replace all these frigates and submarines". I agree with Mr Streeter when he says he is particularly angry because English jobs were being jeopardised by an attempt to appease the Scots.
And Mr Wildgoose reminded the CEP membership that for the last two years, in one press release after another, the Campaign has been trying to bring public attention to this Scottish-led UK government’s policy of transferring naval shipyard employment from Devonport, Tyneside, Barrow on Furness and Appledore to the two Scottish yards of Faslane on the Clyde adjacent to the Glasgow heartland of the government’s support in Scotland and to Rosyth right next to Gordon Brown’s own constituency. ‘We must make our objections known to our English MPs. English MPs must stand up for the English workforce'

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.

Song for St. George's Day by Resistance 77

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/entertainment/Undefined-Headline/article-869549-detail/article.html

Fight against British Racism – Fight against racism directed against England and the English

WITH BRITISH MPs REPRESENTING US IN THE UK PARLIAMENT ENGLAND IS NEVER GOING TO GET EQUAL TREATMENT; AGAIN THE BRITISH OPERATE THEIR DOUBLE STANDARDS.

2009-05-06T20:31:00.004+01:00

Jim Murphy MP for East Renfrewshire and Secretary of State for Scotland, has announced that the planned new bridge for the Forth adjacent to the Prime Minister’s constituency in Fife will go ahead. It will cost £2.3 billion. Every penny will be paid out of the public purse. No tolls will be charged. The citizens of Edinburgh which contains the constituency of Alistair Darling Chancellor of the Exchequer and which will benefit directly and those of Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath which borders the Forth and is the constituency of Gordon Brown will not have to contribute a penny. But in England? The new Mersey bridge between Lancashire and Cheshire which is also going to be built will not be paid out of the public purse at all. It will be paid for in its entirety through toll charges. It will be paid for in its entirety by the tolls to be imposed on everyone using the new Mersey crossing. Mainly of course the people of both English counties and the people of England’s North West in general.

‘The injustice doesn’t stop there,’ Michael Knowles head of the media unit for the Campaign for an English Parliament has stated in his May message to CEP members. ‘The Brown-Darling government has invoked the one and the same Barnett Formula to justify the expenditure in the one case and to refuse it in the other. How they can do it is beyond comprehension but obviously their attachment to their own country of Scotland is ruthless. Every citizen of Scotland, man, women and child, receives £1600 more per annum in social expenditure than people in England. And that is before there is added in the immense benefits gong to Scotland through the Devolution block grant.

‘It is about time England’s MPs got off their backsides and stood up for England,’ stated Knowles. ‘They know the score perfectly well. They know that no bridge or road of any sort in Scotland charges tolls any longer, while throughout England tolls are charged, like the Humber Bridge, both bridges across the Severn, the Dartford Crossing and the North Birmingham M6 relief road. England’s MPs know all about the injustice of the Barnett Formula, about Scotland’s students not paying top-up fees, the freeze in Scotland on the council tax, no hospital parking charges and soon no prescription charges either. So basically the problem the people of England have is not just with a perverse constitutional system that favours Scotland at England’s expense. Our problem is also with our MPs.’

Contact:
CEP Media Unit
Tel: 01260 271139 Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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.

Song for a national holiday for St. George's Day by Resistance 77

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/entertainment/Undefined-Headline/article-869549-detail/article.html

Fight against British Racism – Fight against racism directed against England and the English

OPEN LETTER TO THE CALMAN COMMISSION ON SCOTTISH DEVOLUTION AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FROM THE CAMPAIGN FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT

2009-05-02T10:27:00.000+01:00

We read in the Times online of 28th April 2009 that radical plans to give the Scottish government control of up to half of the income tax raised north of the Border and most of the revenue from North Sea oil and gas are being considered by economists advising the Calman Commission.

We are told that the commission, chaired by Sir Kenneth Calman, was charged by the three main Unionist parties (Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative) to find ways that the existing devolution settlement can be made to work better for all parts of the UK. We must assume that all parts of the UK includes England but most of the gas fields are in English waters so who is to negotiate on England’s behalf? Who has the authority to ensure that the interests of the English taxpayers are protected? Indeed who speaks for England?

We are further told that the commission is set to back borrowing powers for Holyrood as one of its main recommendations when it reports later this year. While not explicitly stated, the inference from other reports is that the borrowing will be from the British Government the vast majority of whose funding comes from England. With the example of the toxic assets of the Scottish banks before us should not England be consulted before its people are touched for any loan? And what guarantee do the people of England have that such debts will be administered by those with the best interests of England at heart?
If Holyrood is to get most of the revenue from British North Sea oil and gas-will the Scottish government then take on most of the cost of the failure of the Scottish Banks or will the enormous national debt, taken on by the British Government on behalf of those banks, remain a millstone around the necks of the English taxpayer for a generation? Of course we have been here before. The foolhardy Darien expedition bankrupted Scotland, and the 1707 Treaty of Union was purchased at the expense of England by a Stewart monarch

It is imperative that an English Assembly or Parliament is con vened in order to protect the interests of the people of England who are currently unrepresented nationally in the British constitutional settlement.

Scilla Cullen
Chairman, the Campaign for an English Parliament

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SPENT A MERE £166 ON CELEBRATING ST GEORGE’S DAY. THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT SPENT £1 MILLION ON ST ANDREW’S DAY.

2009-04-30T11:58:00.000+01:00

‘What is it with the Labour Government and party that it has such a mean and niggardly attitude towards England?’ the National Council of the CEP has asked its membership in its St George’s Day message ‘All it could bring itself to spend on the St George’s Day celebration 2009 was a miserly £116 for a flag to fly over the Department of Culture building in Whitehall. ‘Mrs Barbara Follett, Culture Minister, MP for Stevenage in Hertfordshire and the designated ‘Minister’ for the East of England whose responsibilities take in matters like national celebrations,when challenged in the Commons, simply refused to spend a penny more
‘Compare Scotland and Wales . About £440,000 was spent by the Scottish Government on last November's St Andrew’s Day celebrations, which included a series of concerts and ceilidhs across the country, while 7,500 Scottish Executive staff were given the day off, adding up to almost one million pounds in all. In Wales , the Welsh Assembly Government organised a packed programme of events last month for St David's Day, including a reception in Brussels , a food market in London , and free admission to national monuments.
‘But there is a lot more to it than just meanness towards England on the part of the Labour Government and the UK establishment in general,’ said Veronica |Newman the campaign secretary and its organiser in Wiltshire in the same message to members. ‘That meanness is an aspect of a much bigger issue, namely the hostility of the bulk of the British Establishment political, academic and cultural, to England and Englishness. The BBC is culturally the most influential embodiement of anti-Englishness. The overwhelming majority of MPs in the House of Commons are English and all three parties have the bulk of their support in England . You would think that they would demand, and by reason of their numbers get, equality for English people with the Scots and the Welsh. But they don’t. With a mere handful of exceptions they show no pride in being English, they do not stand up for England , they assert they are British rather than English.; and perversely they regard the rise of Englishness, the re-discovery of English identity and the omni-presence of the English flag as a threat to the Union. The English people they belong to is the oldest unified nation in Europe, it has a political and cultural history which is admired the world over, its language is now the world’s language, what it has achieved in industrial and technological invention is second to none, but they act as if they are ashamed to belong.
The Prime Minister and the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, both Scottish MPs, ensure Scotland enjoys immense benefits from devolution and the Barnett Formula, and no one regards their generosity to their fellow countrymen and women as a threat to the Union. Our English MPs could well learn a lesson from them both.
Contacts:

Michael Knowles CEP Media Unit

The 1998 devolution legislation is now creating division and injustice in the UK trade union movement

2009-04-27T12:22:00.001+01:00

The GMB Union, ‘Britain’s General Union’, with nearly half a million membership, some 40% of them women, is now another example of how the injustice against the English people inherent in the 1998 devolution legislation is penetrating every aspect of our national life. That is what the GMB membership in England has found out to their cost. That is what has now come to light because of an exchange of letters between one GMB member and the Union HQ.
Said Ken Seaton from Stockport in Cheshire: ‘I wrote to the GMB National Secretary for local services Brian Strutton to ask ‘Can you explain why GMB members in England were advised to accept 2.45% for 08/09 on the basis that that was the best that could be obtained by negotiation whilst Scottish members were advised to reject the larger offer of 3.02%? And am I correct in understanding that the 09/10 pay award for Scotland’s G|MC council workers was 2.5% whilst our offer in England is 0.5%? I asked Mr Strutton if the Scottish GMB was devolved from the rest of our Union and whether we all pay the same subs. I asked him if the Scottish membership were to take industrial action to widen the pay scales even further, would their strike pay come just from the Scottish GMB or from the UK-wide GMC membership. As I wrote to the Union, it looks like devolution has put Scotland in a win-win situation; and I asked what was the Union position on an English Parliament’
‘And the reply I received? Mr Strutton replied that Scottish local government has been separate from that of England, Wales and NI for the past ten years, that is since devolution and that’s why there are different pay offers and why GMB members in Scotland take their own decisions. In other words, said Mr Seaton, when it comes to the basic reason for having a union, namely wages, the Scottish GMB is a separate union altogether. Mr Strutton did not answer any of my other questions.
‘It makes me really angry. That is why I got on to the Campaign for an English Parliament about it and it’s one reason why I joined the campaign. Top-up fees for English university students, not for Scottish students; English old people forced to sell their homes to pay for personal care in care homes but not in Scotland; prescription charges and parking charges at hospitals here but not there; and wage settlements for council workers, nurses, teachers and the police bigger and better in Scotland. Just some of the examples of the discrimination England is now experiencing.
‘What we are witnessing,’ said Scilla Cullen Chairman of the Campaign commenting on this GMB correspondence ‘boils down to two things. It’s now not only English MPs who are supinely accepting a worse deal within the UK for their constituents and doing nothing about it but also trade union leaderships.
Gordon Brown is certainly fulfilling the pledge he made in writing in March 1989 to the Scottish people in the 'Scottish Claim of Right' that vowed to make the welfare of the people of Scotland paramount in everything he says and does. He parades what he calls 'Britishness' but in reality his first concern is Scotland. It just isn’t right, it just isn’t fair.’
Contact:

Michael Knowles CEP Media Unit.
Tel: 01260 271139. Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

This more than likely applies to all Unions across board and you should contact and question your Union and demand answers.

Happy St Georges Day

2009-04-23T09:06:00.000+01:00

Happy St Georges Day

ONE IN THE EYE FOR SANDWELL’S RACIST COUNCILLORS AS THOUSANDS ATTEND MARCH

2009-04-21T18:26:00.010+01:00

From MPs to councillors it is now impossible not to come to the conclusion that the West Midland’s as a whole is being led by people of a British persuasion who either by fear or fervour are openly supporting the direct discrimination of the English community they are supposed to be representing. Sandwell and Walsall’s Black Country MPs and councillors in particular are proving themselves to be more racist than most others when called upon to show their support for England’s St. George’s Day parades. After leaving it till the last minute to tell the English community that they were cancelling their usual Sunday morning parade in West Bromwich because they were short of £10,000 for funding, Sandwell’s racist council fearing the organisers might come up with the money had first moved the main follow up event held in Dartmouth Park where the parade ended to the Saturday. They hoped this would put people off the parade as it would leave any Sunday marchers high and dry with nothing to do after the parade if the organisers found the money. When the whole saga blew up in their faces these racists looked for another excuse and complained that the parade was being used by extremists, which turned out to be a complaint about another British racist party that had been seen handing out leaflets along the route and was beginning to steal their voters. A further complaint was about the use of a marching Ulster pipe band who they said should not have been allowed to join the parade, although it has been traditional in the past to allow different bands to join the parade to assist the resident Scottish pipe band, which they don't complain about,this year maybe we would have seen a Gurkha band in the parade. When English patriot Chris Kelly of Keltrucks came up with the money this council even then tried to scupper the event by attempting to have the park closed under Health and Safety regulations, but in the end public pressure forced them to give way and it was left open for old war heroes to put wreaths on the cenotaph. I am pleased to say that the parade did go ahead on Sunday morning with an estimated 20,000 patriots attending, all dressed up with painted faces and waving flags as they enjoyed themselves in the sunshine. This parade was and is the biggest St. George's Day parade in England and was great PR for the Sandwell Valley and The Black Country as a whole, which has now been discredited by the racist activity of the councillors of Sandwell and Walsall, those responsible should resign with immediate affect.
Sandwell’s cabinet member for safer communities Derek Rowley, (New Labour) said the cut in funding was justified because the two leaders of another British racist political party had been spotted walking in the march. It never occurred to him that if his own party or any of the other main British parties had had only one MP seen on the march let alone their two leaders, the British may well have regained some of their credibility, on the other hand it just proves that all the British political parties approve English discrimination.
The council event on the Saturday even after paying Keith Chegwin £4,000 to attend failed to get a crowd bigger than 5000 and left the racists with egg on their faces.

Walsall council was looking for an excuse to cancel their England’s St. George’s Day march and when Sandwell racists went into action and cancelled their march Walsall quickly followed suit, but never said that at the same time the council would be agreeing to close roads on the Willenhall and Wednesfield border for a march by the Asian community to celebrate a prophets birthday.

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.

Song for St. George's Day by Resistance 77

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/entertainment/Undefined-Headline/article-869549-detail/article.html

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Campaign for an English Parliament

2009-04-14T20:06:00.004+01:00

With the British introduction of the1998 Devolution Acts that signified the beginning of the end of the old British Empire, your campaign has been at the forefront in fighting to provide you our members, the general public, politicians, and the political media in general with information on how asymmetric devolution is not only leading to the break up of the United Kingdom, but it is totally destroying England and English national unity.
Our claim for an English Parliament and the political and constitutional recognition of our country England is a just one, and it is recognised by the British establishment to be so. There is no better time than now in the midst of a world recession to carry out the final act of devolution that will reinvigorate the whole concept of a United Kingdom.

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The British want to bring back slavery, but they only want to make slaves of the English

2009-04-13T14:57:00.001+01:00

Not a day goes by without hearing about the British suggesting, directing or inflicting more pain and discrimination on England and our English Nation, and what a useless lot of MPs of all parties we now have, and non more useless than those we have in the West Midlands where another Sandwell MP (Tom Watson) appears to be involved in another political scandal that has already forced the resignation of his buddy Mad Dog Damian McBride.
These are the type of British MPs we have elected to represent England and the MPs that now hold our nation in such utter contempt that their Prime Minister has suggested that they vote for our school children to be taken into slavery and be criminalised. Yes! It is our children only, England’s children, that the British want to force to do 50 hours community work as part of their Prime Ministers British Citizenship program. Community work is given out by the courts as a punishment to felons and it is criminalising our children, is he planning to fit them up with a ball and chain and orange jackets too. We must not forget that this British Prime Minister was elected in and by Scotland, and him and the rest of his ilk elected in Scotland have no say on Scottish domestic policy, and while this situation persists it is the Scottish Nation that will be forcing slavery onto our English children. We must not forget either that they voted for their own children to get free university education while they forced ours to pay top up fees, leaving our children with debts of over £20,000 when they pass out.

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.

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Dying to be English

2009-04-09T22:18:00.010+01:00

Why are the people of England listening and giving their support to the British propaganda machine when it is quite obvious the British are anti England, anti English, and are directly discriminating against our nation.
Following on from the scandalous actions of the British NHS to English patients reported on 25th March, we are now told that we can had to that report that thousands of English patients are being treated in portacabins because of the state of English hospital buildings, a mobile theatre meant to last 7 months at Good Hope Hospital Sutton Coldfield apparently was still open 18 months later. We also hear that some English children are being refused a TB vacination while others in their school class are given it, and of 2,311 English patients dying of starvation in English hospitals, with the West Midland hospitals heading this disgraceful list. We are also now told that the British MP for Stafford David Kidney is accused of failing to stop the deaths of hundreds of the English patients at the Stafford Hospital where the 1000+ patients died through appalling standards, by his refusal to blow the whistle on the horror hospital after receiving a dossier on the neglect 15 months before the failure emerged. This is the same British MP who has joined up with colleague Adrian Bailey an MP from Sandwell on a Commons anti English Regional Select Committee for the West Midlands, that is fighting for the destruction of England’s unity and wants to break the country up into 9 British Regions to deny England its political identity.
The West Midlands governing bodies are failing in their duties and from top to bottom are becoming a hot bed for anybody who is anti English or has anti English feelings. It appears if you want to be an MP, a city, town, or parish councillor or even be a simple public servant in the West Midlands, the first lesson you have to learn is how to deny your English identity and supplant it with a British identity which then gives you a licence to directly discriminate against the people you are in power to represent.

Andrew Rosindell's EDM 1253 in 2008 Calling for a national holiday for St. George's Day was signed by only 46 out of the 529 British MPs who are supposed to be representing England.
In 2009 over 1 million people support a public holiday for St. George's Day

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/76173/1m-demand-Give-us-St-George-s-day-holiday

yet in a recent Early Day Motion,when Marsha Singh asked the HOC to make St. George’s Day a public holiday it anoyed one of our West Midland MPs a Mr. Ken Purchase so much that he made what can only be termed as a sneering amendment.

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.

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God's Good Servants But the Government's First

2009-04-01T14:46:00.008+01:00

All 44 bishops of the Church of England have been asked by a churchgoer if they will hold a celebration on April 23rd for England's own patron St. George, who has been England's patron saint for the last 800 years. A mere five out of the 44 replied to say 'Yes' and most did not reply at all which indicates indifference. Some replied to say 'No' and one gave his reason that it might upset members of other faiths. One is left wondering if he - bishop no less - has stopped making a public profession of the Christian faith for fear it might upset members of other faiths.
What the response of the bishops indicates is that a majority of them share the same attitude of disdain towards England that is being shown by both the British Government and the British Establishment, an attitude of disdain towards England, their country, the country of which they are the Established Church. An attitude of disdain towards English patriotic sentiment which is not found in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and shows not only an indifference towards a sense of English national identity and belonging, but also of hostility towards England itself as a distinct nation - their nation despite themselves. They are in England but not of it. Hostility towards the concept of Englishness runs very deep within the British Government and Establishment to which these bishops belong.
All the Church of England bishops were appointed by by the British UK Government and 'Does it not appear' , asks the National Council of the Campaign, 'that yes, the great majority of them are God's good servants but the Government's first?

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Is Berwick being painted out of England?

2009-03-27T21:24:00.002Z

SIR,-The letter from the Vicar of Berwick, Canon Alan Hughes, “Berwick being painted out of English tourism” will be deliberate and fits in with the new unitary authority’s refusal to fund the Riding of the Bounds, as was reported in the Berwick Advertiser in January.Whether the people of Berwick like it or not the establishment might well have decided that Berwick should be annexed by Scotland. Canon Hughes asks: “Have we been ceded to Scotland without a referendum?” I doubt they would dare a referendum as they are well aware of rising English Nationalism.No, they would allow Scotland to annex Berwick as they allowed Wales to annex Monmouth at five minutes to midnight in an almost empty House of Commons more than 30 years ago.Only Gerald Kaufman MP objected when he said “Imagine Britain annexed by Europe at five minutes to midnight.”The situation for Sir Alan Beith MP will not change. As an English MP. He can vote on English affairs but not Scottish affairs.As a Scottish MP it will be exactly the same. As a Scottish MP, he can still be selected to sit on any English regional select committees, and at the stroke of a pen, he can claim that he’s brought the benefits enjoyed in Scotland at English taxpayers’ expense of free prescriptions, cancer drugs and testing and no student top up fees for the people of Berwick.It is only because of a lazy and aquiescent press that most people do not know that England at a very important level is run by people that hate it. I include Alan Beith amongst these people.Conservatives are no better. English people campaigning for the same considerations as the people of Wales and Scotland were called “Sour Little Englanders” by David Cameron to an audience in Scotland last year, he then added that “they should be re-educated about Scotland.”So, we in England have not a lot going for us. New Labour steadfastly refuses to clean up the botched devolution they imposed on England.Jack Straw said: “The English as a race are not worth saving,” so there we have it.At the next election, no MP you elect to represent your views at Westminster will do exactly that. Instead they will reflect the views of Gordon Brown, David Cameron or Nick Clegg back to you. Better to elect a local Independent MP who is either for staying with England or going to Scotland.As a member of the Campaign for an English Parliament I dearly hope Berwick stays with England.

K YOUNG
Orchard Road
Darlington
County Durham

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If your ill and English the best chance of survival is prayer

2009-03-25T16:59:00.002Z

On the 2nd of March I reported on the sad case of Jane Goody, who like many other seriously ill English patients had been denied or were being denied access to treatment under the British NHS that could save or extend their lives, treatment that was being offered by the Scottish NHS and Welsh NHS.
The difference between the three Health Services is that two, the Scottish and the Welsh are truly National Health Services and serve the nations they represent, while the third, what should be an English NHS does not exist. Instead England has a British Health Service that is being regionalised and is a mish mash of foundation and hospital trusts spread throughout the quango regions that represent themselves, and patients only get the treatment each can afford. English patients of all ages are dying through a lack of treatment and a lack of care which is being offered free to the Scots and Welsh nations by the British, which in turn is being paid for and subsidised by the victimised English patient through taxes. You would assume that a Scotsman a Welshman and an Englishman in beds next to one another in the same ENGLISH hospital all having the same serious illness in a United Kingdom would all be able to receive the same treatment, you would assume wrong, while the Scotsman and the Welshman would be given life saving drugs the Englishman would be denied and allowed to suffer and die as the case maybe. If the Englishman had the money to buy these drugs himself he could not because the British prevent him from doing so, and to make it even more difficult for him, and you, to cure even minor ailments you are made to pay a prescription charge of nearly £8 per item while those same drugs are offered free to the Welsh and will soon be free to the Scots. 2,500 English patients a year are being given drugs to accelerate their deaths in what critics claim is euthanasia by the back door, and Sarah Wootton of the campaign group Dignity in Dying said doctors are assisting patients to die, potentially without an explicit request from the patients themselves.
Unskilled labour is also being used in our English hospitals by the British, while trained English Nurses and Doctors can’t find jobs and are being told to look abroad. Just recently a Staffordshire hospital is said to have caused the death of some 1000 + English patients through that very reason, with some patients reporting that they were made to drink water from flower pots by the hospital’s untrained staff. A similar problem was also found with a Birmingham childrens hospital, and people are dying all over England through lack of cleanliness and care in our hospitals with regular outbreaks of C.diff and MRSA, and today it is reported again of 13 more deaths of elderly patients and of 17 being taken ill in an outbreak of C.diff at a hospital in Eastbourne. We English now have a greater fear of what deadly diseases we can catch when going into the hospital than the reason we have had to be admitted. Trust in doctors and nurses in English hospitals is being lost because England not having its own NHS is forcing care to become a regional post code lottery of management competences, and many more deaths are being caused because of it.
The English are facing blatant discrimination on medical treatment when compared to the Scottish and Welsh Nations which could be seen by some as a plot to coerce the English into abandoning a NHS in favour of regional privatisation schemes, or could be seen in the more sinister vain of a British plot of Genocide of the English by neglect.

We must not forget that it is the British that are denying the English this care, 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.

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AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT IS THE NEW START ENGLAND NEEDS.

2009-03-23T11:44:00.002Z

‘On all sides there is an ever-increasing demand for radical change in England .’ That was the message Michael Knowles, the CEP media officer, presented to the meeting of Campaign National Council held in Birmingham on Saturday March 21st. ‘There is no way the radical change needed can come from the Union Parliament. Its members have too many vested interests as well as a totally outdated notion of what the UK role in the world now is. They are glued to the past. Radical change can now only come about in England if England has a new institution separate from the Union parliament, its own parliament like Scotland has, where it has the freedom and the space to think new thoughts. The past sits upon the country at present like a great black smothering cloud, opposing change, resisting new ideas, chanting old outdated mantras. We need to bring a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old.

‘England is now vibrant and buzzing with environmental campaigners who want an end to the uglifying of its countryside, rivers, shores, towns and cities, people clamouring for alternative energy, campaigners against the surveillance state the UK government has reduced England to, bloggers and activists who want to unlock democracy from the chains of the past, to open democracy up to fairer electoral systems, who want freedom of information at every level outside of the control of political interests, and people who recognise the total folly and shortsightedness of making a god of the gross domestic product with its callous greed, its blatant immorality, divisiveness and its destruction of England’s environment.

‘The people of England want an end to the ugliness and the pressures of the rat race which the economic policies of the Union government have created. They want the restoration of their ancient hard-won liberties. They want their country -city, town and countryside- to be a green and pleasant land again, a place of peace and simple security and where harmony not difference is the ambition. They want space and the air to breath.

‘New creations first need new designs, new tools, new craftsmen and women. The people of England need their own space, their own voice, just like Scotland and Wales now have. They need their own separate institution, their own parliament where they can have the opportunity and the freedom to think differently and independently and create a new England. We must bring a new world into existence to redress the balance of the old.’

CEP media unit
Tel: 01260 271139 or email: michael-knowles@tiscali,co.uk

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uodN9nbp5Po&feature=related

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Tax Payers Alliance -The NHS in another blow to the English taxpayer’s wallets

2009-03-19T22:35:00.002Z

While the Treasury attempts to kick-start the British economy with interest rate cuts and quantitative easing to the tune of £75 billion, last week the Department of Health revealed plans to raise the cost of NHS prescriptions in England to £7.20 from April, while cancer patients would now be exempt from the charge. Health minster, Dawn Primarolo stated that this rise would bring in a ‘valuable’ £437 million in 2009/1.
The NHS budget for 2007/8 currently stands at £96 billion; in comparison, £437 million is a tiny fraction. This money could easily be rescued from the NHS dustbin by halting outrageous waste on huge increases on higher salaries, meaningless 5-a-day coordinators and the failing £12.7 billion Connecting For Health IT system for example.
At a time when household budgets are already stretched, it is unfair and unreasonable for the government to increase a ‘tax on the sick’. While only 10% of prescriptions come under the charge, this may prove enough of a disincentive for struggling families to reject the prescription, become increasingly unwell and consequently end up costing the NHS more in the long run. Similarly, these exemptions do not support the increasing number of families who sit just above the prescription exemption.
In further insult to the English taxpayer, counterparts in Wales saw prescription fees scrapped by the Welsh Assembly in 2007. Likewise, Northern Ireland prescription costs were reduced to £3 in January and are due to be abolished by 2010, while Scotland are to see their costs reduced to £3 in April in an attempt to phase out the charge by 2011.
Not only does it seem imbalanced that the rest of the British Isles will have free prescriptions in only 2 years, this has also come at cost to the English taxpayer. In December 2006, “the Scottish Government announced it would set aside £97m to abolish prescription charges. Once the charges have gone, the policy is expected to cost £57m a year.” The Scottish Parliament intend to fund this deficit through the £30 billion block grant that Scotland receives under the Barnett formula. The Barnett formula was introduced in 1978 as a temporary measure to redress the slower growth in the region. It seeks to ensure Scotland receives a proportion of all new public spending in England. Thirty years on, and despite a falling allocation, public service spending was £1, 644 higher in Scotland in 2007/8 than England. The Barnett formula also applies to Wales and Northern Ireland where gaps in an increase in spending in 2007/8 were £1,042 and £2,254 respectively.
In order to redress this balance, it is essential that the government reform the outdated Barnett Formula to the benefit of the English taxpayer, who has long suffered as a result of errors in judgment and budget brought about by devolution, starting with the abolishment of NHS prescription charges. British taxpayers already pay vast sums of tax to fund a wasteful health service, piling more charges on top of that big bill isn’t remotely fair.
Posted by Katherine Andrew on March 09, 2009 at 11:07 AM Permalink

Are you a small Business check this out -

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CEP: The future of England

2009-03-17T22:04:00.001Z

THE National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament (www.thecep.org.uk), is holding its next meeting at the Friends’ Meeting House, Bull St. Birmingham on Saturday March 21st. It has met every second month since its inauguration in June 1998. One item before it this month will be a paper being presented by its media officer Michael Knowles entitled : the Future of England.
‘If there is one measure carried out by the 1997 Labour Government which we can predict with certainty will be historic it is the devolution legislation of 1998. That legislation terminated the post-1707 situation that politically and constitutionally there was only one UK nation. That legislation explicitly spoke of and established Scotland and Wales as distinct nations and conveyed to them self-government in different degrees. By distinguishing them from England, which of course was both its raison d’etre and intent, by default it established England as a distinct nation likewise. Scotland and Wales have done very well in the last eleven years out of devolution. England however has not only not benefited from it, as indeed the architects of the legislation did not intend it to, but has also in fact been financially and governmentally disadvantaged by it.
‘However, those past eleven years have also proved politically and culturally very useful for England in ways the Labour government of 1997 to 2009 neither anticipated nor intended. They have provided England with eleven years of reflection about its future and have resurrected among the people of England an awareness of their distinct national identity. Every single item of legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly has successively emphasised the difference that now politically and constitutionally exists between them and England. The present UK government, aided and abetted by the BBC, is endeavouring to smother and repress any manifestation of England as a distinct nation, but like King Canute before the incoming waters they cannot hold back the tides of history driven on relentlessly by the force of the 1998 legislation.
‘England is not just distinct and different now from the rest of the UK as a result of the 1998 legislation. Its future as from now will be different too. We in the CEP, which is the only think-tank and campaigning body which has applied itself actively and academically to the issues of England’s future, must conduct debate in England’s universities and political parties about what form the future English Parliament will take, how it will be elected, where it will be located, what its relationship with Scotland, Wales and Ireland will be, and what its relationship with the EU will be. We will have to publish papers on the composition of English government and how after centuries of centralisation it can be decentralised around the whole English nation.
‘The last eleven years have been a period of gestation. Now the rebirth of England is about to happen. In those eleven years the CEP alone has rowed perspicaciously with the tide of history. Now it must give it articulation and expression.’
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West Bromwich St. George's Parade

2009-03-09T21:37:00.007Z

The St. George's Day Parade in West Bromwich is still being frustrated by Sandwell Council even though businessman Chris Kelly, managing director of Keltruck announced on the BBC'S Sunday Morning Politics Show that he was willing to put up the £10,000 the council said they needed for it to go ahead. It now appears that if the parade is given the green light and does go ahead, it will have to be on its usual Sunday morning timetable, for obvious reasons, but guess what? The St. George's Day Party in the Park which has always followed the parade on the Sunday and been the added attraction, attended by all those present, and IS BEING FUNDED BY SANDWELL COUNCIL has been moved by the council to the Saturday.
Mr. Collins for the organisers said we are now having to start from scratch with less than a month to go, and is appealing for entertainers, bands etc. to take part on the Sunday. If you can help you can contact Mr. Collins on 07976 790 255
lt is hoped that Walsall council will re-consider its position on holding their parade if Sandwell give the go ahead for theirs.
It should not be forgotten that the British have allowed Scotland to have a National Holiday on their St. Andrew's Day.

A letter from tonights Express and Star should give reason enough for the British to re-think
their position regarding England and the English, and the local parties should consider deselecting the Racists that have infiltrated this Sandwell council and any other.

It is interesting to note the difference between the West Bromwich St. George's Day parade and the Notting Hill Carnival. Both are run under Labour administrations.
Notting Hill Carnival: 3 murders, more than 400 arrests, 190 offences involving violence, robbery and theft, more than 400 injuries at one event and 94 people hospitalised. Two shootings at one event. Handguns, CS gas canisters and a stun gun confiscated before one event. Public funding £401,390 from the Arts Council. Police costs: £3 million. Another £8.7 million pledged by London Development Agency and the Arts Council to provide a Notting Hill carnival enterprise centre.
Sandwell's St. George's Day Parade: not one reported instance of any disrupted incident. One recognisable member of a rival party photographed walking quietly in the parade. Public funding withdrawn: £10,000. Perhaps Sandwell Council would like to justify its actions.
Fred Bishop Bridge Street

LATEST -11th March - Council refuses use of the park for any events being arranged by the organisers of the march on the Sunday, and refuse to move their own Party in the Park from the Saturday. Reason given Health and Safety, they will be dismantling their props from the Saturday.

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Daniel looks into the Lions Den; He needs a push

2009-03-04T17:21:00.000Z

One of the most likable MPs in the area is our Daniel Kawczynski the MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, and if it’s not his height that attracts you to him then it is pleasant personality and willingness to listen to his constituents. In the previous post I asked you to contact him and tell him of England’s deficit and said that I would look forward to the day when he would stand up in the HOC and call for England and English recognition. I am sure a lot of you must have contacted him because today he has a post on the Conservative Home’s Platform on this topic which you can read and pass a comment on, which many already have.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2009/03/it-is-time-to-a.html?cid=150409683#comment-150409683

I will make the following comment on what Daniel has to say, and it proves once again that however nice, pleasant, and sincere these British MPs appear to be, when it comes to choosing between their party and their English constituents they will always put their Party and its policies first.
The first couple of paragraphs of the article states what we at the CEP have been saying for the past 10 years, and which he now accepts and has come to agreement on; the democratic deficit caused to England by the British Devolution Acts of 1998.
He explains this deficit in terms of the number of constituents per MP in England to the comparable numbers of our other island nations and puts it over rather well, considering it is David Cameron’s and the Conservative party policy to reduce the number of MPs in those countries. Anyone reading the article would believe however that the British MPs he is talking about actually have these constituents, and are responsible for their constituents’ domestic problems, which is not true. These British MPs elected to the UK Parliament from our other island nations have no constituent domestic problems to deal with at all, in fact they are prevented from doing so, not even the Prime Minister elected by the Scots from a Scottish constituency can do so, and they deal only with reserved matters like defence and the constitution which are of very little interest to their constituents. He also fails to tell us that these British MPs without any constituents are still in receipt of their full salaries and expenses, and that the English are paying 80% towards the cost, and he should state what he is really complaining about, that he is over worked, and they are getting money for nothing. The answer is of course not to reduce their numbers but get rid of them altogether and have our own English Parliament.
The rest of the article highlights this and goes on to list deficits and makes a good case for an English Parliament but he fails to acknowledge this, or ask for it, preferring instead
to support his British Party. See

http://toque.co.uk/blog/?p=2147

Daniel was on the Justice Committee ‘Devolution 10 years on’ when we presented our case; you must continue to pressure and encourage him to support us.

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If Jade Goody had been Scottish, Welsh or Irish and not English she might not be dying now.

2009-03-02T14:13:00.007Z

Mr. J. Stanhope speaking to the West Midlands members of the Campaign for an English Parliament on Monday said that the tragedy of Jade Goody highlighted how the effects of devolution are tearing the United Kingdom apart, contrary to British claims that devolution is working. What was once a truly British National Health Service that served equally each of the four nations, has since devolution turned patient care into a post code lottery that depends on your country of residence, and is now four separate health services, with an English one that could be heading down the road to privatisation.
Referring to the tragic case of Jane Goody he said that every young person between the ages of 20 and 25 living in England should be aware that their lives are not as important to the British establishment as those lives of the young people of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath the Prime Ministers constituency, or of the rest of those young people living Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Quoting Mr. Angharad Mair from Wales on Sunday, he said that if Jade Goody now 27 had lived in Wales she might not be dying now, and who knows how many young women are still alive because they were lucky enough to live in those countries.
In England you do not get invited for a cervical smear test until you are 25 – and by then it’s too late for any girl unfortunate enough to be suffering from cervical cancer at a younger age - as Jade is. In Wales the age of screening is 20 – as it is in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Older women again do better in Wales with screenings every 3 years until the age of 65, while in England women are only screened every 3 years until the age of 49.
In this mornings ‘Sun’ newspaper, Prof Mike Richards, National Cancer Director, said they didn’t think screening of English women under the age of 25 was in the women’s best interests and had nothing to do with money? If it is in the young people’s interest in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland what’s so different about the young people of England said Mr. Stanhope. Prof Richards goes on to give a list of symptoms of the decease and advises these young people and people of other age groups to get themselves referred to a specialist within 2 weeks if they get them instead of waiting for screening.
The young people of England should also be aware of the sudden cardiac death syndrome which is claiming many fit and active young lives, especially young men, who are 10 times more vulnerable than women. If you live in Scotland then every youngster over 16 taking part in organised sport will be given the chance of being screened for cardiac abnormalities, initially, youngsters taking part in football and rugby will be screened during a trial period with screening eventually rolled out across other sports.
(Not in England though said Mr. Stanhope)
Sudden cardiac death is thought to affect around one person in 200,000.

On a similar subject Mr. Stanhope said, the MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham Mr. Daniel Kawczynski again in the last few weeks was complaining about the way English people are being treated in his local hospitals, why asked Mr. Kawczynski, is it right that a patient in the next bed can be given the life saving drugs that are being denied his English patient because they are Welsh? We know the answer to that said Mr. Stanhope, and we call upon all his constituents to write to him and tell him, it’s because he and all the other British MPs elected from English constituencies to represent England in the Westminster Parliament have refused and continue to refuse to do so, and instead are supporting the British agenda of racially discriminating against England and the English.
We look forward to Mr Kawczynski standing up in the HOC and calling for the recognition of England and the English Nation said Mr. Stanhope.

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Scotland is first in PM’s thoughts

2009-02-28T10:40:00.002Z

IN March 1989 Gordon Brown signed the ‘Scottish Claim of Right’. It was a pledge made by 132 Scottish MPs and MEPs ‘to make the interests of the people of Scotland paramount in everything they said and did’.
The question that has to be investigated now, the National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament has stated in its most recent circular to its membership, “is whether that pledge lay behind his cocktail party proposal to Lloyds Bank, and the encouragement and assistance he gave it to take over HBOS when HBOS was on the verge of collapse.” The Lloyds deal saved thousands of jobs in the Edinburgh and Fife area, which contains Gordon Brown’s Kirkcaldy constituency. The deal included a suspension of normal competition rules and it guaranteed a priority to keep jobs for Scottish employees.
The vast majority of Lloyds’ employees are in England. And now we know that the merger has brought huge losses to Lloyds, which threatens its English workforce.’
And now we are informed that the Ministry of Defence, in order to make savings, has transferred the work on two MoD aircraft carriers from Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and Tyneside to the Clyde and Rosyth, effecting 500 English workers.
Rosyth is in Fife. Many of the Rosyth workforce are from Mr Brown’s constituency. A&P Tyne of Jarrow and McNulty Offshore of South Shields, when they secured the contract to build the new carriers, looked on the deal as a rebirth of shipbuilding on the Tyne.
So the question which now has to be asked of Gordon Brown is if he has one policy for England and another for Scotland? It’s certainly is starting to look that way.

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WHEN IT COMES TO DOING SOMETHING FOR FARMERS AND RURAL BUSINESSES IN ENGLAND THE (BRITISH) ENVIRONMENT AGENCY IS A WIMP

2009-02-27T20:39:00.002Z

CEP Media Unit
Rural businesses and farmers in Scotland and England are faced with the same hostile economic climate. The difference is however that the Scottish rural industry has saved £550,000 as a result of efforts by Scotland's Protection Environment Agency (SEPA) working with the Scottish Government to promote economic recovery. ‘In comparison the (British) Environment Agency responsible for England is nothing more than a wimp,’ is the message which the Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament has sent round to its national membership, urging them to contact their MPs about the issue. ‘In this area the EA has nothing to show but fine words and the British Government not even that.’

‘SEPA was asked by Scottish Ministers to look at ways in which it could ease the financial burden on business and help stimulate economic activity. In response SEPA announced a 10 point plan in November which supports its Government's own Economic Recovery Plan. Now, a mere three months later, this is what SEPA has achieved:

* Its flagship measure, waiving fees for environmental permits, has so far benefited businesses to the tune of £344,000 with 1,545 fees waived * The waiver of licence fees for the disposal of sheep dip has saved farmers around £160,000 (with further savings estimated at £133,000 in 2009-10) * The waiver of fees for water abstraction licences has saved over 70 rural businesses £46,000
Scotland’s Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham has said: " By waiving these fees SEPA is supporting the farming, fishing, forestry and food industries that are the lifeblood of the rural economy and our rural communities.”
‘And in England? All there has been from the Environment Agency is just a call from its Chairman Lord Chris Smith to the UK government in a speech on February 11th in which he urged a package of green measures on the UK Government:

· Making electricity ‘carbon-free’ by 2030 including decarbonising coal and coal and gas power stations through the demonstration and deployment of carbon capture and storage. (The Government in response is considering a new coal power station in Kingsnorth in Kent without carbon capture and storage)
· Setting an example to business by ensuring all public buildings are fitted with solar or photovoltaic panels and new buildings are fitted with ground-source pumps. Public land should be used, where possible, for wind power generation.
· Electrification of all ground transport so that it no longer relies on fossil fuels

‘Fine words, noble aspirations but that is all,’ states the CEP. ‘No action taken by either the EA or the UK government. What England needs is what Scotland has got: its own parliament with Members elected like in Scotland dedicated to the concerns of England and the power to do something; Members who, like the MSPs do for Scotland, put England first as their expressed constitutional duty. Why should English farmers and rural businesses be denied the advantages Scotland has when we are all in the same United Kingdom?’
Contact:
Michael Knowles CEP Media Unit. Tel: 01260 271139 Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

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