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

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 Zahawi should not have withdrawn his Bill and England should have no confidence that the outcome of such a consultation will result in a St. George’s Day bank holiday, because rather than try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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.