Bob Peedle, Chairman of the Royal Society of St George, has criticised Wayne Rooney for not singing the British national anthem before England games.
Apparently, Rooney doesn’t know the words which Peedle thinks is disgraceful and has offered to teach them to him.
The Royal Society of St George is there to promote England and the Commonwealth, singing [...]
There’s some new reseach from MORI that you may find interesting.
Dear ‘Ministry of Justice’,
Are you aware of the new MORI research that finds that Scottish MPs voting on English matters is the most annoying constitutional problem of the constitutional debacle we laughingly refer to as the United Kingdom?
The public … are most likely to be [...]
Lord Henley (Conservative):
My Lords, I live in Carlisle, north of Hadrian’s Wall but very firmly in England. What can the Government do to make it clear that they will resolve the West Lothian question so that all of us who live in England feel that we benefit from remaining part of the union, which we [...]
Michael Wills’ speech on Britishness that I mentioned previously is up on the Ministry of Justice website. The key findings are these:
80% felt a strong sense of belonging to Britain
82% in England felt a strong sense of belonging to England
91%% in Scotland felt a strong sense of belonging to Scotland
95% in Wales felt a [...]
No Mandate Brown is appealing to “middle England” to support more devolution for Scotland and support the union.
No Mandate Brown says that the UK is “the world’s most successful multi-national state” but that the union isn’t “a contract of convenience that can be renegotiated”. Multi-national or multi-regional? Remember, as far as Liebour is [...]
For years ethnic minority groups have accused the Police of institutional discrimination - now it’s the turn of the majority to make the same accusation.
Former soldier, Craig Briggs, has wanted to join the Police since he was a child and joined the army to get some experience before applying. After serving 4 and a [...]
More than 300 people have protested about cuts to services in Aberdeen.
Council Tax has been frozen in Scotland by the Scottish government so services will naturally be have to cut. The subsidy from England may be extremely generous but it has its limits and council tax in England increases way above inflation year on year, [...]
NHS apartheid hit the news in the last week or so and CEP branches had something to say about it:
CEP Surrey & Middlesex seemed a little surprised that the Times even mentioned the unfair allocation of funding under the Barnett Formula: “The mainstream media usually ignore this story (not rocking the establishment boat - as [...]
As predicted by West Midlands NO!, Shropshire Ambulance Service and anyone else with an ounce of common sense, the regionalisation of the Ambulance Service in the West Midlands has proved disastrous with only 65% of emergency 999 calls in Shropshire being responded to within 8 minutes.
The British government’s minimum target is 75%.
I have first hand [...]
The following letter has been sent to the press in the West Midlands and Shropshire MPs:
Tom Taylor, Chief Executive of the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust, has confirmed what the Shropshire branch of the Campaign for an English Parliament has been saying for the last couple of years - that treating [...]
