30 Sep
CEP: Scots-led Ministry of Defence continues to favour Scottish naval shipyards at England’s expense
Tuesday, 30 Sep 2008 09:34
The MoD press notice last Friday sounded sweet and innocent enough: ‘The Royal Navy frigate HMS Campbeltown left her base port in Plymouth last week for exercises off the Scottish coast’, until, as CEP Secretary and West Country [...]
Posted in Discrimination, Press Releases, Scottish Raj by: wonkotsane
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30 Sep
The London Paper has the following article on its website:
Seb Coe confirms football team for Team GB in 2012, regardless of opposition from by Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish
by Dominic Midgeley
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
TEAM GB will have a football team for the 2012 Games, Seb Coe has confirmed, whatever opposition is put up by the Scots, [...]
Posted in Britain = England, Sport by: wonkotsane
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29 Sep
The Northern Irish government has announced that it is to abolish prescription charges in Northern Ireland from 2010.
As an interim step, the charges will be reduced to £3 per prescription next year before being abolished entirely in the following year.
Prescriptions in Wales have been free since April 2007 and in Scotland they will be free [...]
Posted in Apartheid, Health, Northern Ireland by: wonkotsane
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28 Sep
Fears as frigate refit switched to Scotland
MULTI-million-pound refit work on a Westcountry warship has been switched from Devonport to Scotland for the first time, sparking concerns among unions and defence experts.
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Campbeltown left her base port in Plymouth last week bound for France and exercises off the Scottish coast. She is [...]
Posted in Claim of Right, England, Scotland by: wonkotsane
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26 Sep
Those Scots, they do like a laugh don’t they?
First they tried to claim Berwick (again) for Scotland with some dodgy unofficial poll organised by an Englishman who likes to wear a kilt, now they’re laying a claim to Carlisle. Again!
A “Welcome to Scotland” sign has been erected outside Carlisle by an artist who wants to start [...]
Posted in England, Scotland, Wales by: wonkotsane
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23 Sep
The Daily Telegraph have excelled themselves with this article: Half of Britain has unacceptable levels of litter.
Despite mentioning the fact that only English councils were surveyed on more than one occassion in the article, the reporter (Lousie Gray, Environment Correspondent) still went on to call England “Britain” at every opportunity.
The following email has been sent to [...]
Posted in Britain = England, Media Watch by: CEP Media Watch
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23 Sep
Linda Riordan, the MP for Halifax, is to meet Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling in a futile attempt to save jobs in Halifax after the merger of Lloyds TSB.
As you will no doubt be aware, the merger document says that management focus will be on saving jobs north of the border and the deal was brokered [...]
Posted in Alistair Darling, Discrimination, Gordon Brown by: wonkotsane
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22 Sep
People often mistakenly call the British government an English government. Some, like Alex Salmond, do it deliberately for political ends. Others do it because they don’t bother to check their facts or proof read press releases issued to the by people like Alex Salmond. PublicService.co.uk for example:
Alex Salmond’s accusation that the English government could have [...]
Posted in Britain = England, Media Watch by: CEP Media Watch
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22 Sep
Gordon Brown ready to sacrifice HBOS jobs in England to carry out his 1989 pledge to Scotland
‘The real face of Gordon Brown has at last been exposed. As the financial crisis bites deeper and deeper and jobs are threatened in their thousands both in Scotland and England by the imminent Lloyds takeover of HBOS, his [...]
Posted in Press Releases by: CEP Media Unit
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21 Sep
The Campaign for an English Parliament has the British establishment running scared. Welsh newspaper, The Western Mail, published this article in May. Unfortunately, we didn’t notice it until now!
For over a decade now the British government has been telling us we don’t want an English Parliament; now Gordon Brown and Jack Straw are using our [...]
Posted in CEP, Gordon Brown, Press, Wales by: wonkotsane
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