The tide is turning

Published on February 20, 2011 by in CEP News, Current Affairs

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In December 2008 the Conservativehome survey invited response to the statement “England should have its own Parliament”‏ at that time 32% agreed with 60% disagreeing.

The same question was posed in December 2010. This time 51% of respondents were in favour of an English parliament with just 42% disagreeing.

In election terms this represents a landslide.

It is of interest to note that when the people of Wales were asked in their referendum if they wanted a Welsh Assembly 50.3% voted in favour and when the people of Scotland were asked if they wanted a Scottish Parliament 44.87% agreed.

Clearly if the results of the recent Conservativehome survey were transposed to the general population of England and they were asked the same question the majority would favour an English Parliament, a more resounding vote of approval then the responses of the people of Wales and the people of Scotland.

The question is will David Cameron listen to Tory voters?

  • englishbob

    English Parliament!!! English Referendum!!! The general Population of England!!!.

    Were is England? Who are these English people they are taking about? I’v never heard of England? Cameron keeps saying.

    51% of the general Population of England!!! wants a English Referendum!!! and their English Parliament!!! So you better start listen to English people because we’ll have our day…Cameron

  • JoolsB

    The answer is no, David Cameron will not listen to Tory voters. I have written many times in the last three months to David Cameron’s office asking his policy, if he has one, on the WLQ, the EQ and the Barnett Formula. Disgracefully, Mr Cameron’s response has managed to not even mention the word England once. I have done the same with John Redwood, MP, asking why English students are discriminated against. Again, amazingly the word England was not mentioned once. There are however a few Tory MPs beginning to speak out but Mr. Cameron has said on many occasions he wants to be PM of the ‘United Kingdom’ not England. Until Mr. Cameron takes his rose tinted glasses off and realises it is only England who voted for him, we have no chance.

    • William Gruff

      Cameron’s glasses are tartan, not rose, tinted.

  • raymond francis jones

    English parliament that is out of E.U. not in it.

    • William Gruff

      Absolutely. Out of the European ‘union’ and out of the British ‘union’.

      • raymond francis jones

        who will be first to set us free. Who dares wins,all political patriotic parties are still behind EU lines and still under their thumb.I am in UKIP but if England breaks free without referendum I would join them but so far know one dares.

  • Derek

    Do you have a link to the 2010 survey?

  • Daggsat

    Actually, your figure for the Welsh result doesn’t tell the true story. Only 50% of the Welsh population bothered to vote. Of those 50.3% voted in favour.
    Therefore (near as makes no difference) Wales got it’s assembly on a vote in favour of 25%.

    • Alfred the OK

      “Of those 50.3% voted in favour”……
      They only voted in favour after a few recounts (I expect they found a few YES votes which had slipped down the side of the sofa)…

    • William Gruff

      It should not be forgotten, especially by those opposed to AV, that not voting in a referendum is not the same as voting No.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bernard.edge Bernard Edge

    They cannot keep denying us a English Parliament for ever.

    Just look at what’s happening in Muslim countries in North Africa to see what the people can do when they have had enough.

    Even the English can rebel sometimes.

    • Anonymous

      Who was it who said,”When peaceful revolution is made impossible, violent revolution is unavoidable”?

  • Alfred the OK

    Just like King Cnut (have I spelt that correctly?), Cameron will try to defy the tide….
    Let’s hope he drowns in the attempt.

    • William Gruff

      Cnut was not trying to command the tides; the performance was to show his fawning courtiers that he could not.

  • Peggy Taylor

    No. David Cameron will nor listen to the voters. He has his own agenda and that is to promote Scottish interests,his own and those of his party who agree with him Much like his two predecessors. After all did he not boast on the Andrew Marr program that he has Scottish blood running through his veins. My own MP, James Gray is also a self-confessed patriotic Scotsman. They are all over England like a rash, in top positions, in all our industries and anywhere that they can hold the whip hand, ensured by the Scotsmen who rule England, viciously assisted by the moguls across the English Channel.

  • Peggy Taylor

    One England. The last thing we need is yet another splinter group. Division will not assist England’s cause. In any case all is not as it seems.