This is a guest post by Alan Clancy who blogs at Necessity is a Tyrants Cry and is in part a reply to this blog post by Stuart Parr I speak to Stuart Parr of wonkosworld quite often on Twitter. He has some interesting suggestions about the future of the United Kingdom. So I was [...]
Our Chairman; Eddie Bone and a small team of volunteers are at the Hay Festival again. Monday 30/05/2011 Eddie was informed by Tristram Hunt, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent and English Civil War historian, that he does not support an English Parliament. Perhaps the good people of Stoke should be informed of the disadvantages they experience [...]
The three main political parties of the UK have an urgent decision to make. Do they embrace and harness England’s sense of civic existence or do they ignore the rise in English nationalism in favour of the moribund British status quo. The choice they make will clearly determine who is in power after the next [...]
Today the campaign website 38 degrees had a full page ad in the Daily Mail entitled “Lansley still isn’t listening” as part of their “Save the NHS campaign”. David Wildgoose, Vice Chairman of the CEP has this to say: “Unfortunately, 38 degrees is still failing to make it clear that Lansley’s proposals affect England ONLY [...]
Currently a number of Scottish Liberal Democrats are expressing the view that Scots should celebrate the Scottish National Party (SNP) victory and that we should all push (in a child birth sense) towards a federal UK. A federal UK! Those words are sweet to the Campaign for an English Parliament (The CEP) because we also [...]
The following article is a guest post by Stuart Parr of Wonkosworld it does not represent CEP policy but we thought it would be of interest to our readers. Yesterday I explained that I don’t want a vote on Scottish independence and predicted how Alex Salmond would approach “independence” for Scotland. If I am right [...]
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There’s an interesting piece in the Scotsman from David Torrence: The political scientist Michael Billig identified a phenomenon he called “banal nationalism”, where nationhood is so deeply and subconsciously taken for granted that it does not require coherent articulation. But the same critique can be applied to the contrary constitutional position. Indeed, it is “banal [...]
In his speech on the proposed reforms to the English NHS yesterday, David Cameron mentioned ‘England’ twice: once as part of a quote from the Health Select Committee (so not actually attributable to Cameron himself) and once in a reference to a letter in support of the reforms from “GPs representing 1,100 practices across England”. [...]
The Liberal Democrats are facing a wipe out in the next General Election and they have only a brief window of opportunity to do something about it. Fortunately for them they still have that chance. Nick Clegg is responsible for Constitutional Reform and so he can still rescue both his party and his own reputation. [...]
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