Campaign for an English Parliament

There’s nothing like getting your priorities right and this is nothing like getting your priorities right.
The Campaign for Plain English has convinced Tesco to change the wording of its “10 items or less” because it’s grammatically incorrect.  They quite rightly point out that when you know the quantity then it is grammatically correct to say [...]

CEP: England completely left out of Olympic celebrations
‘If there is one thing which is totally unacceptable about the celebration back in the UK of the achievements of the Team GB at the Beijing Olympics,’ Mr John Stanhope, speaking to CEP members in Wolverhampton where he is the Black Country organiser, ‘it is the way [...]

The BBC’s coverage of the Olympics has been inconsistent, to say the least.  English athletes were always British while Scottish and Welsh athletes were Scottish and Welsh.
The News at 10 tonight had some of the most blatant bias of the BBC’s olympic coverage.  They went to Cardiff to cover the welcoming of what they referred [...]

September rallies for England against the indifference of our 550 English MPs
Unfortunate England that does not have MPs of the calibre of those of Scotland and Wales who have got such a brilliant deal for their constituents!
That will be the rallying cry of CEP members who will be campaigning from Sept 6th to October [...]

The following Facebook groups may be of interest to you:

No GB Olympic Football Team
Return England, Scotland and Wales to the profile options
I am English, not British
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Campaign for an English Parliament

No Mandate Brown has told Sky News that he hopes there will be a Team UK for the 2012 Olympics.  Not Team GB you’ll note, but Team UK.  Great Britain doesn’t include Northern Ireland - something that doesn’t seem to bother Lieutenant Governor Brown in Beijing - but the Northern Ireland FA is the only [...]

The following letter appeared in the Western Daily Press yesterday …

Hypocrisy of MPs’ desire to drop oath
08:00 - 18-August-2008
WESTMINSTER MPs are campaigning to drop the oath to the Queen claiming a new-found allegiance and duty to the people who elect them.
It is English-elected Labour and Lib Dem MPs who are driving this campaign with a [...]

The following article was in the News of the World yesterday:

I can get Viagra on the NHS, but nothing for my Alzhemier’s
THE NHS is seriously injured
Alzheimer’s is a particularly unpleasant and feared disease. I don’t know anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.
It strips away our humanity a little bit at a time so you [...]

**TaxPayers’ Alliance Bulletin - 15th August 2008**
**Welsh Assembly Members’ expenses revealed**
This week the full breakdown of expenses for Welsh Assembly Members was published for the first time. Some examples were £2,000 claimed for a sofa, £1,000 for a TV and £2 for a glass bowl. Eight AMs claimed the maximum £12,500 available for second home [...]

Ah diddums, Jeremy Paxman has upset the Scots again.
In an introduction Paxo has written for the Chambers Dictionary he describes Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, as “a king of sentimental doggerel”.
The editor of the Chambers Dictionary, who is a Scot, said that they know Paxo likes to poke fun at the Scots and they weren’t [...]