The Queen praises Scotland, the Scottish Parliament and Scottish politicians. Yet never once in her 56 years reign has she been allowed to mention England, let alone praise England.
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Gordon Brown's 'programme for Britain' defies and denies the most fundamental principle of the English notion of democracy. | |
“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. | |
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, both Scottish MPs, have announced yet another measure that will add to the financial discrimination their 1998 Devolution Legislation has inflicted upon the English people. | |
'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', David Wildgoose Vice Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament has stated to Campaign members writing from Sheffield. | |
'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. | |
'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.' | |
The report of the House of Commons Justice Committee of MPs 'Devolution: A Decade on' is to be warmly welcomed. | |
That is the message that has been sent out by the Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament to all its members in her end of May 2009 bulletin. | |
The UK establishment avoids addressing the most outrageous constitutional injustice of all. It is the way England is being treated. | |
In your address to Conservatives in Perth on 15 May, you called for an end to the ‘dual mandate’ whereby some representatives, primarily Mr Salmond, might sit in two legislatures, in his case in both the Scottish Parliament and the British Parliament at Westminster. | |
The UK constitution should now be purged. England should be like Scotland now have its opportunity to govern itself cleanly and honestly, and purely in the interests of the people | |
‘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.’ | |
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. | |
"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." | |
When will England's MPs get off their backsides and stand up for England for once. | |
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. | |
The British Government spent a mere £166 on celebrating St George's Day. The Scottish Government spent £1 Million on St Andrew's Day.
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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. | |
'If you are ill and English, it can be that the best chance of survival is prayer'. That was the message circulated by John Stanhope of the National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament to the population of Wolverhampton where he is is the CEP organiser. | |