The Campaign for an English Parliament welcomes the news that English
Votes on English Laws has made it to 4th place in the Power2010 election pledges. |  |
The Campaign for an English Parliament is pleased to announce that the Campaign’s Battlebus is touring England in advance of the announcement of the General Election. The tour commences in Cambridge on Monday 22nd February. | |
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. | |
The Student Loan Company is making [1]150 staff in Glasgow redundant and transferring another 45 jobs to Darlington. | |
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. | |
The Campaign for an English Parliament notes with regret that a referendum on an English parliament - the most popular idea* submitted to Power2010(1) - is not an available option on the public vote stage of Power2010's campaign to reform our democracy. | |
The Campaign for an English Parliament congratulates Andrew Rosindell MP on his success in securing all three of Parliament's flagpoles for the patriotic purpose of flag flying. | |
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. | |
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. | |
The British Health Secretary for England, Andy Burnham, has announced a consultation on options to partially abolish parking charges at English hospitals which he says have caused “great resentment”. | |
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank has produced a very important and exciting report on devolution | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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.
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When extra money is spent in England the Barnett Formula triggers extra money for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the so-called "Barnett Consequences".
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The British government has accepted the recommendations of the Calman Commission to give the Scottish government more powers, including control of taxation. | |
Research into how UK tax revenue is spent reveals that it is the English taxpayer who is in effect the sole contributer to the UK treasury. The populations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are in reality non-paying recipients. The idea of the 'UK' taxpayer is a myth.
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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. | |
In preparation for its conference in the House of Commons on 'The Future of England' on November 18th members of the National Council and prominent local members of the Campaign for an English Parliament has sent a statement setting out what they are looking for for the future of England'.
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