Campaign for an English Parliament

The CEP would like to wish all our members and supporters a very Happy New Year.
England will come under renewed assault in 2009 from all sides.  We will be under threat from regionalisation on one side and from overpowering unionism on the other.
We need every patriotic Englishman or woman to join us in our fight [...]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers.  We’ll be back in a few days.

The following is in the Flletwood Today newspaper following yesterday’s press release on the suggestion that the Scottish Parliament should be given control of the English portions of the River Esk in addition to the English portions of the River Tweed and its tributaries.

Row over fishing demand
The chair of the Campaign for an English Parliament [...]

The Northern Irish economy is reaping the benefits of the near parity of the pound to the euro, according to the BBC.
Border towns are seeing people flooding over the border from the Irish Republic to take advantage of low VAT and the preferential interest rate.
The Irish government recently increased the VAT rate in the republic to [...]

According to the Birmingham Mail, the West Midlands is the place to be for St Georges Day celebrations.
They say that six years ago there were no St Georges Day celebrations in the West Midlands but now they are some of the largest celebrations in England.
2009 might not be quite so successful though – despite assurances [...]

Troubled waters for River Esk
AN MP has called for a top-level investigation into the policing of the River Esk.
Dumfriesshire representative David Mundell wants rules on the river changing and says the Calman Commission, set up to look into the future of devolution in Scotland, is the ideal vehicle for it.
The MP has written to the [...]

FIFA have agreed to a British football team for the 2012 Olympics and Gordon Brown has got assurances from Sepp Blatter that the independence of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish teams will be maintained.
The English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish fan associations are all opposed to a British football team and the Scottish, Welsh [...]

Inquiry to begin into Barnett Formula with debate on remit
Westminster’s new inquiry into the Barnett Formula gets under way tomorrow with the first meeting of the Lords committee on the subject.
The meeting will be in private and is expected to discuss the general remit of the peers’ inquiry. The formula, which determines the level of [...]

Inquiry needs fairer balance
WHY would anyone liberally pepper a Parliamentary committee set up to scrutinise accusations that Scotland was getting too much funding with Scottish representatives?
And why, when the claim is Scotland is reaping financial aid at the expense of Merseyside, is there not a single MP from the north of England on the committee?
Eight [...]

The Calman Commission has released its report after months of gathering evidence and deliberations.
The gist of the report is that devolution has been good for Scotland, that the Scottish government should be given more power but they shouldn’t be allowed to raise their own taxes instead of leeching off the English taxpayer because that would [...]