Asking Questions on behalf of the CEP, David Asher. Frank Field interview. 29/02/2012 First of all on behalf of the CEP and the English movement I’d like to thank you for all your efforts for England and the English. FF: Pleasure Why is it that you’re just about the only MP [...]
Will Scotland Go Its Own Way? By NEAL ASCHERSON “THE Breakup of Britain”? It sounds like a fantasy fiction title. To many people across the world, including the English themselves, it is inconceivable that this deep-rooted United Kingdom, the oldest royal democracy in the world, could split apart. In the last few weeks, however, [...]
Federalism or Federacy: Some Consequences of ‘English Votes for English Laws’ Tim Montgomery and George Eaton both advocated “English votes for English laws’ in articles for the Guardian and New Statesman this week, a proposal first raised by William Hague in 1999. The suggestion that only English, or English and Welsh, MPs should vote on matters that concern only [...]
Now more than ever we need an English Parliament to address the democratic deficit in the UK. The EU want to balkanise us into regions so they can control us better. Scotland, Wales and NI have a voice whereas we do not. In the asymmetrical union, English people suffer the biggest cuts, pay more, have to pay [...]
English people should have their own parliament Colchester has been one of the most significant towns in England. From olden times when Boudicca forced the Romans to rethink their choice of capital, Colchester has always played a pivotal role in the development of our national democratic identity and holds a deep-seated symbolic significance in England. [...]
Would the Tories surrender Scotland? The lure of perpetual Conservative majorities in Westminster threatens the Union David Cameron’s call for Scotland to hold a yes or no referendum on independence “sooner rather than later,” is what some advisers called “the nuclear option.” He was challenging the most successful British politician of the moment—Alex Salmond, leader [...]
Original article PMQs, House of Commons, Wednesday 22 February 2012 Mr Frank Field (Birkenhead) (Lab): Given what the Prime Minister said last week in Scotland, will he devote as much time to facing up to the grievances that the English feel from the current proposals of devolution as he will to considering new proposals of [...]
by Matt Withers, Western Mail Feb 21 2012 A rising feeling of English identity and a need for its own politics could have serious implications for Wales, a leading academic has warned. A new report by think-tank the IPPR has shown there had been a rapid growth of “Englishness” over the border in the past four [...]
Buyer Beware: David “snake oil” Cameron does not know his product Gareth Young, 18 February 2012 From an English perspective David Cameron’s most recent speech ↑ on the Union is marginally better than his previous big speech on the Union ↑ - also delivered to a Scottish audience – in which he blamed the rise of Scottish separatism on English ignorance and [...]
It’s the English question now, stupid The Scottish media were a PhD dissertation about chippiness all unto themselves,” reflected Mr Blair in his memoirs, the Times editorial (£) recalled. By those standards, it seems Dave’s nervous apologia for the Union in Edinburgh fitted the bill after all, presentation wise. Substance was more problematical. In the Times (£) the august Scots [...]
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