31 Mar
God’s good servants but the government’s first
All 44 bishops of the Church of England have been asked by a churchgoer if they will hold a celebration of St. George’s Day, April 23rd -England’s own patron saint. England’s patron saint for the last 800 years. England’s patron saint before any other modern European nation was [...]
Posted in England by: wonkotsane
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28 Mar
CEP email addresses are being moved over to a new platform over the next couple of days.
During this time, there may be a short period of disruption but hopefully it will all go smoothly!
Posted in Announcements by: wonkotsane
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28 Mar
Stone Cross St George Association, organisers of the Sandwell St Georges Day parade, have sent the following message to supporters …
Apologies for not giving much news of late but we’ve been working behind the scenes to try and move things forward.
GOOD NEWS…
The date of the parade WILL be the 19th April. Assembling in Westminster Road [...]
Posted in St George by: wonkotsane
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26 Mar
The Daily Mail has an article from British nationalist Robert Hardman, on why England shouldn’t have its own national anthem or parliament and should continue as the last colony of the British Empire.
I didn’t think it was possible for a professional journalist to write such a long article and manage to miss the point entirely. [...]
Posted in Anthem by: wonkotsane
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25 Mar
Posted in St George by: wonkotsane
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23 Mar
Looking up the Great Fire of London on the BBC website for one of the kids, I noticed this in the introduction on this article:
With the country also at war with the French and Dutch, paranoid xenophobia – a familiar English trait – was rife.
A familiar trait then or a familiar trait now? There’s only [...]
Posted in BBC, Media Watch by: CEP Media Watch
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13 Mar
A Shropshire man has fallen foul of the nationality lottery after Telford & Wrekin NHS Trust refused to treat him with Lucentis to try and save his sight.
Allan Farley has punctate inner choroidopathy and two consultants have told him that Lucentis will help to save the sight in his right eye. He is already blind [...]
Posted in Apartheid, Branches, Discrimination, Health by: CEP Shropshire
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12 Mar
The following story graced the front page of Wednesday night’s Shropshire Star:
MP’s bid for equal rights at factories
Workers at a Japanese car part factory in Shropshire are not receiving the same state aid in the current economic climate as their Welsh counterparts, an MP has claimed.
Shimizu UK has operations in Hortonwood, Telford, and Welshpool.
However, while [...]
Posted in Discrimination, Economy, Press, Wales by: CEP Shropshire
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11 Mar
Good news! The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that it is going to use £1.7bn of the magic money the Bank of England invented to issue new mortgages. But only in Scotland.
RBS is, I imagine, keen to reassert its Scottish credentials now that the “English” government owns most of it. How ironic that the [...]
Posted in Economy, England, Scotland by: wonkotsane
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09 Mar
Forth Bridge and the Humber Bridge – No tolls for one, highest tolls in the UK for the other
Monday, 09, Mar 2009 12:00
‘The brazen injustice in the way Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling treat England and favour their own Scotland could hardly be better illustrated than the way they deal with the issue of tolls [...]
Posted in England, Press Releases, Scotland, Transport by: CEP Media Unit
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