Guest Post: Ross Finnie’s submission to Sir Menzies Campbell’s Home and Community Rule Commission Ross Finnie was Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP to the West of Scotland from 1999-2011 and Rural Affairs Minister in the Scottish Cabinet from 1999-2007. He’s shared his submission to the Campbell Commission with me. I’ve put an extract on Liberal Democrat [...]
The British Government has announced plans to sell off England’s (and only England’s) road network to Chinese and other Sovereign Wealth Funds. Note that these proposals only apply to England, (just as with the ongoing sales of our Forests), but that the money is used to fund the whole of the United Kingdom. England is being [...]
England expects By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: MARCH 18, 2012 I am regularly asked now for my opinion on Scottish independence. I was asked it again on Thursday at the EU conference I attended. My reply is that we should instead be discussing the question of England. I pointed out that the polling which shows the UK as hostile [...]
Tribunal makes NHS pay for Unison bullying Published on March 12, 2012 by admin in News Feed The Bury St Edmunds Employment Tribunal has unanimously found that on 4 counts, the North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust had deliberately failed to protect an official of the Workers of England Union against the defamation, bullying and harassment by Unison [...]
Paul I read this statement of your on your website: ‘Regional government in England never really took off, following the failure of Labour’s referendum on North-East devolution. But it is very much alive and well in Scotland, Wales and London. It’s about time the North had its fair share of devolution too. The ‘Hannah Mitchell Foundation’ is about developing a debate [...]
Michael Knowles Statement for the launch of the Hannah Mitchell Foundation, Bradford Town, March 9th 2012 There are two big themes to this meeting. One is, you are using the name of Hannah Mitchel to launch a campaign. The second is the campaign itself:- to get what you call an elected regional government for [...]
Some English political activists have been concerned for years at the disadvantaged constitutional position of England within the Union. With the recent media coverage of the Scottish Government’s proposed independence referendum, constitutional debate has become a hot topic of the moment. The readers’ comments made on various media websites on their vision of the UK’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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