Campaign for an English Parliament

The British-Irish Council is meeting in Wales today, hosted by the Welsh First Minister.

The BBC lists the representatives that will attend the British-Irish Council meeting except for the British ministers that will attend in place of England which has no representation in the Council.

Others due to attend include Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, the Irish Taoiseach, or prime minister, Brian Cowan, Wales’ Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones, Secretary of State for Wales Paul Murphy and representatives from Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.

England has never been represented at the British-Irish Council – it is an organisation that is closed to the last colony of the British Empire.  We are, instead, represented by the Scottish Prime Minister and his minions.

The following complaint has been made to the BBC:

You list all the representatives to the British-Irish Council except the British ministers that attend in place of England which has no representation at the Council.  This conveniently fails to tell readers that the British-Irish Council is a UK & Ireland-wide organisation that discriminates against the English by denying them direct representation.  Decisions taken at the British-Irish Council will affect England but the British will make the decisions for England.  I believe this was a deliberate omission by the BBC to avoid its responsibility to accurately report on events affecting England.