Campaign for an English Parliament

This year, the Convention on Modern Liberty will gather in London and six venues across the UK, from Belfast to Cambridge, on 28 February.
It will bring together well over a thousand people, nearly fifty organisations, from the TUC to the Countryside Alliance, from the Football Supporters Federation to the British Institute of Human Rights, and [...]

CEP members and supporters are cordially invited to join me over at LabourSpace in campaigning for A National Conversation for England.
‘A National Conversation for England’ is a campaign that urges people to engage positively in discussion on the question of England: our national identity, our democracy, our governance, our future. We call for a [...]

It looks like the St Georges Day celebrations in Sandwell in the West Midlands will be going ahead after all.
In November it was reported that the St Georges Day parade – one of the biggest in the country – was going to be cancelled because the BNP attend the march.
This year’s event will be in [...]

The British Library has a whole section on English devolution, complete with a video submission by CEP Chairman, Scilla Cullen and a poll on the different options for English devolution.
To see the video and vote in the poll, just click here to open the British Library website, select United Kingdom? from the menu along the [...]

British Prime Minister and MP for the Scottish constituency of Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, Gordon Brown, signed the English NHS Constitution on Wednesday.
The NHS Constitution, which doesn’t apply to Gordon Brown’s own constituents, will set out the rights and responsibilities of citizens with regard to the NHS.  Bizarrely, none of the rights or responsibilities are binding on either the [...]

The Daily Mail has a poll on their website asking “Are the Scots racist against the English?”
This, this, this, this, this and this should give you a bit of a clue.  As I write, 76% of people have voted “Yes”.

English blogger, Man in a Shed, has an excellent idea – if HBOS and RBS are Scottish banks, why don’t the Scottish government underwrite their bail-outs with their future share of North Sea Oil and Gas revenues should they get their hands on them?
The new Lloyds Banking Group – comprised of Lloyds TSB and Halifax [...]

Copy of message sent to the BBC
Songs of Praise 18th January 2009
The Welshman Aled Jones refers to the ENGLISH heroine Grace Darling as “one of Britain’s best loved heroines”.  You can be sure that if she had been Welsh he and the BBC would have made sure that her origins were well advertised.  However because [...]

Earlier this week it was reported that a woman in Aberdeen had been visciously assaulted by a Scottish racist who targeted her because she was English.
Now it appears that the Scottish racists have struck again, this time forcing an English family from their home in Paisley.
Despite leaving several messages for his press secretary, there’s still [...]

A 22 year old woman, originally English but living in Scotland for the last 18 years, has been visciously assaulted by a Scot in Aberdeen for having an “English” accent.  She has been left with two black eyes, a broken cheek bone, severed nerves in one of her eyes and the possibility of needing plastic [...]