Campaign for an English Parliament

The CEP now has a chat room which anyone can use to discuss any burning issues they want to get off their chest.
The chat room is called the George and Dragon and you can access it via the link on the left-hand sidebar or by clicking here.
Don’t be shy!

I knew it was too good to be true when I started reading this article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Guardian.
It started off so well, an explanation of the cynical, self-serving motivation of Labour’s devolution settlement to their Scottish and Welsh strongholds.  He touches on the disgraceful gerrymandering of English constituencies that allowed Labour to [...]

From the Sun letters page:
What a wonderful by-election result for England in Glasgow. The Scots have shown the English it is all right to vote for your country.
Gordon Brown’s position is untenable as far as England is concerned. He should do the honourable thing and call a General Election.
Paul Voce
Salisbury, Wilts
Brown is not wanted [...]

Labour’s majority of 13,507 was overturned in Glasgow East yesterday by the SNP in what the SNP candidate described as “an epic win”.
The incumbent Labour MP, David Marshall, resigned for health reasons triggering a by-election in the constitueny next to Gordon Brown’s.  Labour were worried going into the by-election but I don’t think they believed [...]

The CEP has been contacted by a number of people with responses to their complaints to the company that runs the Edinburgh Dungeon over their ban on English visitors in retaliation for the 1298 Battle of Falkirk.
We don’t know how many people have complained but every person who has contacted the CEP has had the [...]

The Conservative Party has effectively taken over the Ulster Unionist Party in an attempt to gain support for David Cameron outside of England.
According to an article in the Daily Telegraph, the UUP will take the Tory whip and their only British MP will become a Tory MP from October.
The Conservative & Unionist Party has only [...]

The Edinburgh Dungeon yesterday banned English people from entering the tourist attraction unless they signed a pledge of alliegence to Scotland and William Wallace.
The ban was put in place as retaliation for the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 in which the English army crushed Wallace and his Scottish army and visitors to the dungeons were encouraged [...]

The Joseph Rowntree Trust, a Labour think tank, has concluded that “a fixed notion of Britishness” will not help to unite the population of the dis-United Kingdom.
The report says that ideas like swearing allegiance to the Queen, Britishness lessons and a Britishness Day public holiday won’t help people feel British, making an arse out of [...]

It’s taken a good 24 hours to get over the shock of being sent this link to a debate on Parliamentary Representation in England.
It is a momentous occassion in itself that the subject of democratic representation from the English perspective is discussed in Westminster but what makes this truly unbelievable is that it is a [...]

CEP: Lords is ‘bulwark of resistance’
Commenting on the government’s House of Lords white paper a Campaign for an English Parliament spokesperson said:
“We have already witnessed botched attempts to reform the Lords. For one thing, the Lords is an absolutely necessary second chamber. It has become the bulwark of resistance to an over-powerful and overweening government [...]