Campaign for an English Parliament

Andrew Marr has just interviewed Gordon Brown on the Andrew Marr Show.  I didn’t catch quite all of the interview but what I did hear was priceless. We announced a major initiative on cancer yesterday which I’ll be talking about on Tuesday.  We’ve announced major changes in the way we deal with schooling so that [...]

A council tax freeze in Scotland, a council tax hike in England ‘The background to the announcement by the Finance Secretary to the Scottish Parliament John Sweeney that householders in Scotland will have their council tax bills frozen until 2012 raises fundamental questions about justice and fairness and the whole point and purpose of the [...]

It’s been a while since I wrote a letter to the Shropshire Star. This one was published in tonight’s Shropshire Star.  It’s the letter that sparked this debate on whether the CEP considers itself as “nationalist”. It’s not too late to hear out English nationalists It’s a little late for John Denham to be worrying [...]

Welsh patients pushed down waiting list at Shropshire hospital I was told last night on very good authority that the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt hospital in Gobowen (also known as Oswestry Opthopaedic) is bumping English patients up the waiting lists in protest at the Welsh government’s refusal to pay the going rate for treatment. [...]

Yesterday I fired a letter off to my local newspaper on the subject of John Denham’s hand-wringing over the English & Welsh Defence League et al. In my letter I suggested that the British government should engage with moderate nationalists such as the CEP to deny groups like the E&WDL their raison d’être.  I forwarded [...]

George Monbiot, the environmentalist and left wing political activist, has told the Plaid Cymru conference that an English Parliament is necessary to England a voice and spoke in support of a federal UK. English nationalism in general and support for an English Parliament in particular is often incorrectly seen as a right wing ideology.  Monbiot’s [...]

CEP members and supporters turned up at Bedford town hall yesterday to protest at the south east England regional grand committee. The regional grand committees are Gordon Brown’s latest bright idea to bring government closer to the people of England without actually moving any power or responsibility away from the British government in Westminster whatsoever.  [...]

This morning I called Asda’s press office following the comments made to Daggs in the comments thread of this post.  The conversation started something along the lines of: Me:  I’m calling from the Campaign for an English Parliament.  One of our members has had a response to a complaint that he’s not happy with and [...]

England? No. Scotland? Yes. BBC bias strikes again. A season of programmes on Scotland’s history and culture tells of the delight the BBC takes in the celebration of Scotland. It would never do the same for England. ‘The default position for the BBC when it comes to anything to do with England is not to [...]

This complaint has been sent to ITV: Hi, I am currently watching the England -v- Slovenia match and as is customary, I muted the TV during God Save the Queen as it is the British national anthem and it is England that is playing. However, whoever is writing the subtitles for the game clearly isn’t [...]