WHO HAS ALL THE POWER NOT THE PEOPLE

                             

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Acts and Statutory Instruments, and since they may not under any circumstances be changed, amended, altered, or repealed in any way, so they get very little and most often no debate at all in the UK parliament.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

J.Stanhope.                                                                                                                                                                          West Mid Campaign for an English Parliament

Scots starting to rattle a few cages

                             

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                                                J. Stanhope

                                                            West Midlands

                                         Campaign for an English Parliament

What the British political parties must be made to talk about

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

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

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

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

                                                                                     J.Stanhope

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England Better Together than Regions Apart

England watched how all the main political parties stuck together in mass to support the independence no vote in the Scottish referendum. They virtually got on their hands and knees as they begged, pleaded, and yes even cried to woo the Scottish electorate. Unbelievably, they allowed Gordon Brown the self appointed ex Prime Minister and a Scotsman; the man mainly responsible for the “Scottish claim of Right “

ttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TSxGuNrc2vg&NR=1   that led us to this situation, offer the Scots terms of agreement for a no vote that has sent shock waves through the UK constitution.

How differently these parties reacted when the Scots accepted this agreement, no mass support from them for England to receive anything like this devolution settlement. One party though the Conservative thought a consideration was necessary after they thought the offer had highlighted how England was being treated unfairly. It is surprising that any political party noticed this when you consider that England has been treated unfairly by all the main stream political parties since New Labour’s devolution program of 1998, and have all been constructive in denying the political and constitutional existence of England and an English identity, the implications of which have led to the English question.

The English don’t believe these political parties through self interest have any intension of tending to England’s grievances with anything like the vigor they fought for Scotland’s. Already the conservative party has selected Graham Allen an MP known not to support an English Parliament to chair their House of Commons Political and Constitutional Committee looking into the situation. Until British MP’s accept that there are four indigenous Nations on these islands not three, that each one needs to be treated equally and fairly there can be no sustainable union.

Any talk of regional government in any form by any political party or politicians without first giving England and the English nation national recognition should be fought against if England is to survive.

In the latest slight on our English identity England’s rugby team has to suppress a patriotic film rallying support for the side due to fears of political ramifications. Stuart Lancaster the side’s head coach said that at a private viewing some of the audience who watched the film was in tears.

Campaign Update

                                           

We approach our campaigning with grim determination and have made considerable inroads into the British Establishment and with the referendum on Scottish independence coming up in September we need to keep the pressure on. Below is a summary of the achievements and events of the last year and hope that you will consider the CEP a worthwhile campaign to which to subscribe.

Our activities over the years have produced the following results:

·         Because of the oral and written evidence we gave the McKay Commission, the Commissioners went beyond their sole remit to propose a procedural device at Westminster. They further stated that only an ‘all-England’ solution is acceptable, agreed that England needed a voice, rejected regional assemblies or localism as English devolution and stated that the political parties must produce manifestos for England. In addition to calling for an English Parliament these were precisely the additional requirements that we made in our evidence.

·         Secondly all the articles now being written by correspondents, columnists and journalists about the Constitution not only draw heavily on the articles, leaflets, booklets and pamphlets that we have circulated and published but lift whole sentences and paragraphs from what we have been publishing over the years. The fact that they do not have the courtesy to acknowledge us is not down to any lack on our part.

·         Thirdly our Campaign Director, Eddie Bone, is now frequently invited on to the British broadcast media for his opinion on the current state of the constitution. He was interviewed alongside Plaid Cymru's Leanne Woods and the Ulster Unionist Mike Nesbit by Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News in January. This is clearly a step forward from when only the pop artist Billy Bragg was invited to comment on English matters.

Some events and activities that we have been involved in during the last year and anticipated:

We continually meet and lobby MPs. Consequently our third 'Future of England' event took place in the House of Lords last November.  Frank Field MP, Lord Maclennan, Frank Field MP, Professor Richard Wyn Jones and Eddie Bone, who had appeared on two BBC Politics programmes that day, spoke. Our annual open meeting, when we met members and discussed activities, was on the same day.  In January we demonstrated and leafletted in Portsmouth about the political decision to sacrifice jobs in the historic shipyards in favour of retaining those in Scotland and flew a banner inviting the Mayor, who described herself as Welsh and therefore not responsible for English affairs, to resign.  We have give written evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee inquiry on Scottish independence: constitutional implications for the rest of the UK.

Labour and Trades Union events we have attended are antagonistic to us and refer to ‘salami slicing’ England to divide and weaken us without the public noticing.  They intend to bribe city councils by expanding city regions but to keep this policy quiet until the next election manifesto is published.  At a London event on a UK Constitutional Convention it was clear that the speakers and organisers did not intend us in England to be treated as one nation. At a Conservative Party conference there was a debate on the UK, which comprised representatives from the devolved countries but none from England!  Currently UKIP have no policy on the governance of England although Nigel Farage has publicly supported the creation of an English Parliament and we had stalls and an oversubscribed fringe event at the September UKIP conference.

The Coalition parties appointed members of the McKay Commission whose title and remit excluded ‘England’ and addressed only the House of Commons viewpoint. The 5 man Commission was set up with a majority of members from the devolved nations and none to represent England. Their report, which redefined the West Lothian Question as the English Question, is insufficient for us. However, once we have some form of EVEOL, territorial classification of bills and English manifestos, the people of England are likely to press for further changes. Once England has a voice it will be impossible and very unwise to ignore it. Articles in the press, using the arguments we put forward ten years ago, illustrate why EVOEL will not work.  The next step is to prove that the only equitable and workable answer is an English Parliament.

We have kept our voice within the English question debate by issuing press releases constantly and writing to all political journalists and Universities’ political departments asking for a debate on the position of England in a devolved UK.  The Census, The Mckay commission, Think Tank and newspaper reports of the Coalition's attempts to answer the English Question have helped our issues move up the political agenda and gain academic acceptance.

Last year NC members have given numerous radio and TV interviews in England. Our campaign has been reported in Prospect magazine but, shamefully only with the imminence of the Scottish referendum have major British media been interested in our views.  The Huffington Post, a US news website, includes our articles but makes them difficult to find.  The editors of the New Statesman and Country Life are antagonistic to our campaign. Eddie Bone attended an academic conference in Cardiff on the effects of the Scottish referendum and was pleased with the response to our campaign.  He also attended a conference in Manchester about our changing Union and also Dundee University. 

The CEP battlewagon does turn heads, it gets a friendly honk or the thumbs up! It attends many events and gatherings. Would you like to organise a meeting near you for us to attend with it and a continuous PowerPoint presentation showing the effect devolution has had on England? To speak to the team please ring 0845 6346108 or email campaigns@thecep.org.uk.

We have a professional quality camera so we can make films and broadcast interviews; to date with Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Paul Salveson and Jim Hancock (campaigning for a 'Northern' Parliament) and CEP members' testimonials. We need donations to defray the cost of camera and sound equipment.  To raise some of the funds necessary to expand our campaign we have signed up to www.easyfundraising.org.uk.  When you buy online at participating stores, at the standard price, a proportion will be credited to our bank account.  Please register and use this way to help us to continue our campaign.  If every member could recruit one new member then our income would double! You could also  join the 100 club.  It costs just £10 annually to join and cash prizes (value depends on numbers of members) are drawn 5 times a year at every NC meeting, except the AGM. 

We cannot keep up this level of activity without the commitment of members so you see a regular contribution both personally and financially would be greatly appreciated.

Dairy Crest Response

Call me Dave has hired a Looby Loo shrink to run psychometric tests on MP’s, the Campaign for an English Parliament suggests that Dairy Crest do the same and run a similar test on its PR and advertising departments. Perhaps both will then come to the same conclusion and realise that these people can only fool all of the people some of the time, and not all of the people all of the time.
We have had a reply from Dairy Crest on our complaint about the changing of identity of their Country Life butter product, from its original English Label to a British Label, and they tell us that people have requested this?
No they have not, when this company with its French interests recently acquired 100% of the Country Life Label they could not wait to shove it in our English faces and have been determined to ignore its English connection.
We have asked who these people are? and pointed out to them that we too had asked the people, in two Mori polls, one ICM poll, and a BBC poll across England, and these had shown that 68% of the population of our country wanted to be identified with England and yet they ignored them.
They also tell us that there have been no changes in the manufacturing process, admitting the two products are identical, which virtually proves this to be a case of deliberate discrimination and amounts to racism against England. It is also unbelievable that Dairy Crest thinks there is no racism when they state in their annual report that they are the sole suppliers of milk to Marks & Spencer, and boast too, that all of their organic milk comes from farms in the West Country, yet Marks & Spencer can identify its milk source with England and the Cross of St. George, and the company that supplies it can’t. Marks and Spencer and their customers should sue this company for misrepresentation, and is again another sign of British racism and English discrimination.
Dairy Crest racism if not stopped will spread across other British companies and we advise all the people of England to think seriously about purchasing this companies products.




Down at the pub Marge says what we all think of Dairy Crest’s replies
from their stooges.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hj0VosOd4A

Fight against British Racism - Fight against English and England's Discrimination

What could be England's Last Wake up Call

When Margaret Thatcher was ousted by Europhiles for defending the United Kingdom against the introduction of EU regional policies proposed in the Maastricht Treaty, (subsequently signed by her successor) the signal was given to the EU that the United Kingdom was going to be a willing partner in sharing and relinquishing power to them, and accepted the possibility it could lead to the destabilisation of the nation state. Britain in Margaret Thatcher lost its last true British patriot.

Successive British governments and parliaments in their rush for Europe have corrupted the British identity with these regional policies, so much so that you could actually say they have encouraged it to the extent that Scotland and Wales now appear to want no more part of it. Given the power to look after their own domestic affairs with national parliament’s and doing so successively is it very surprising that they keep coming back for more power, and one of them, Scotland, now wants the option in a referendum to breakaway and decide its own future.

England has been kept in the dark since 1998 from the reality of adopting these EU regional policies and it is only now when the end of the United Kingdom could be in sight that the English are beginning to wake up. When in 1998 New Labour introduced these EU regional policies they did so by using our national boundaries and a process called asymmetrical devolution which denied England its rightful recognition, and it gave all other UK constituent nations except England a parliament. For the first time in 300 years the separate nations of the UK were given the power to discriminate against each other, and England without a parliament was not and is still not able to fight back. We have seen the results of discrimination manifest themselves in the differing costs of student fees, access to prescription drugs, care for the elderly etc, etc, each time the cost being to the disadvantage of the English tax payer. It also made it impossible anymore for British political party’s to put out a manifesto that would apply across the whole of the UK, and although they try to make it appear so by calling one British they can’t mask their separate manifestos for Scotland and Wales. How long can the United Kingdom survive in its present form anyway when certain parts get better benefits than others, and English rights to those benefits are denied by British MP’s, over 100 of  whom are from Scotland and Wales whose countries it is that get them. We must not forget either why the British have to deny England its political existence, it’s so that they can use it as a cash cow to bolster their own identity at home and abroad, and how hypocritical then that they are spending billions of pounds of our money doing it while at the same time they have continued to sign over their identity to Europe. If the British had any intention of saving the last of their empire they would have been talking to all of the UK nations about federalism before and after signing Maastricht and at least before any Scottish referendum that could signal the end of it. The importance of England gaining a parliament to protect itself and its assets in the circumstances can not be over stressed; if Scotland becomes independent the British Empire will be over. (FACT) If the British after want to retain their now defunct UK identity and power over England by denying us a parliament they will have to make us in England take on all of Scotland’s UK debts, which could put a debt of between £20,000 and £30,000 on the head of every English tax payer.

It will be a sad and costly day for us all if Scotland brings the United Kingdom to an end, and let us remember the FACT that the separate kingdoms were those of England and Scotland which became one in 1707 and that Wales and Ireland played no part in it. (Wales had been part of England since 1536)

Most of all let us not forget that none of this could have come about if the New Labour Blair government had not repealed all of the Treason Acts from 1770 onwards from British Law.

                                                                                                                           STANO