Campaign for an English Parliament

Back in July I wrote to Jonathan Shaw about his role as a regional minister, keen to know what it entailed and what powers he actually had. As it turned out he didn’t really have any, but the reply I received was interesting for the fact that it made the claim that the Barnett [...]

The benefits to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at ENGLAND’S expense just get bigger and bigger
Over the last two weeks an incredible list of extra benefits for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has been declared, none of which will be available in England but all of which English taxpayers will pay for. At present [...]

Good old BBC, you can always rely on them for a bit of revisionism.  According to one of the BBC’s tame gardeners, the 1600s was the best time to be British.

At first I was a little confused on account of there not being a British nation until 1707, then I thought perhaps she was being [...]

Jim McMurphy, the new Secretary of State for Scotland, has got off to a flying start.
He apparently told Gordon McBrown that he would only take the job on the condition that it was full time and not combined with another cabinet position like it was with Des McBrowne.  At a time when the British government [...]

My long-suffering wife dispatched me with to Ironbridge today with my 3 boys.
I got a passport allowing unlimited access to all the Ironbridge museums for the bargain price of £24 through my employer not long ago. We’ve certainly made full use of the passport since getting it - we’ve been to Blists Hill a [...]

The Shropshire branch of the CEP is holding a rally on Saturday the 18th of October in Shrewsbury.
We’ll be meeting somewhere central - probably Pride Hill or near the hideous Market Hall - at around 10am and hand out leaflets.
The theme of the rally will be the NHS. Just over the border in Wales [...]

The artists who put up a Welcome to Scotland sign outside Carlisle to start a “fun debate” are spitting feathers after someone destroyed their sign.
The five artists are calling the sign a piece of art and said they put it up to highlight the plight of artists who get much more support north of the [...]

Think of England #35 is now available for download.
Printed copies are available to non-members for £1.00 by contacting the Newsletter Editor.

The front page article on Seb Coe’s “F**k em” outburst in the London Paper has been removed from their website after Lord Coe apparently called in the lawyers.
According to the Glorious People’s London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, Comrade Coe’s lawyers are thrashing out the wording of a retraction with the London Paper although [...]

The following letter was published in tonight’s Shropshire Star.  Unfortunately, whilst editing it they took out “in England” from the end of the first line which makes the whole letter ambiguous.

Kind of PM to think of England
How kind of Gordon Brown, the MP for Kikcaldy and Cowdenbeath in Scotland, to find some loose change down [...]