Is England a Nation?
That’s the question that David Martin would like Gordon Brown to answer:
In my view, it’s time the government were forced to come clean on this issue and state, one way or another, whether it views England as a nation or not (as I think is the case).
If, however, the answer to the petition is ‘yes, England is a nation’, this would enable the case for popular English sovereignty (the basis on which we in England might actually be consulted about our constitutional future, as well as the basis for any future English parliament) to be pressed much more powerfully: ‘as England is a nation’, we could say, ‘it is the sovereign right of her people, under human-rights legislation to which the UK government has signed up, to demand to be able to govern themselves in the manner of their own choosing’.
I urge CEP supporters to sign this petition because the case for national, and popular, sovereignty rests on recognition of England’s nationhood.
Please add your name to the petition here.
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