Campaign for an English Parliament

Tens of thousands of English university students are still waiting for their tuition fee and top-up fee loans from the British government’s English student loans quango, the Student Loans Company.
Meanwhile, the Scottish government has announced a £30m bonus for the Scottish university grants system which will mean an increase in the grants given to 75,000 [...]

It has come to my attention through speaking to one of their parliamentary candidates that the EDP is promoting the demonstration organised on Parliament Square for the 18th November by the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) as its own.  This is the kind of dishonesty we have come to expect from politicians and an [...]

THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND?
A MAJOR CONFERENCE TAKING PLACE IN ROOM 10 IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18TH 5pm to 7pm (SAME DAY AS THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT) WITH FOUR DISTINGUISHED WRITERS AND CAMPAIGNERS.

George Monbiot (Guardian newspaper and environment campaigner)
Peter Facey (Director: Unlock Democracy)
Paul Kingsnorth (author of ‘Real England: The Battle against the Bland’)
David Wildgoose [...]

The clocks went back an hour this morning to mark the return to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Every year since 1916 – excluding the second world war years – the clocks have changed twice a year, bringing lighter mornings during the winter at a cost darker evenings.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has [...]

DEFRA, the British government’s English farming and rural affairs quango, is planning to impose a tax on livestock to pay for contingency planning for livestock disease outbreaks like foot and mouth.
Jim Fitzpatrick, the British English Farming Minister, says that there is a consensus amongst the political classes that this is a good idea.  Naturally, the [...]

Alex Salmond is hoping for a hung parliament with the SNP holding the balance of power to help secure an even bigger share of English taxes to help Scotland out of the recession.
The SNP want to increase the number of British MPs they have from 7 to at least 20 and are prepared to offer [...]

The Scottish Prime Minister has announced that the British government will be selling £16bn worth of assets to try and plug the gaping hole in the budget.
Amongst the assets that will be put up for sale are the English Channel Tunnel rail link, the English student loan book, the English Dartford Crossing, the English enriched [...]

Policing and justice looks likely to be devolved to the Northern Irish government following meetings between the Irish, British and Northern Irish governments.
Hilary Clinton is currently on a visit to Ireland and is confident of a deal to devolve policing to Stormont.  The British government made similar noises earlier in the week.
Lucky them, eh?  The [...]

Members of the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) in Shropshire and the West Midlands attended the inaugural meeting of the grandly-titled but pointlessly ineffectual Regional Grand Committee for the West Midlands last night (8th October) to protest at its existence.
Like the vast majority of English people, the Campaign for an English [...]

The Tories and the Lib Dems both pledged to boycott Gordon Brown’s regional grand committees so I called the offices of the five Shropshire MPs over the last couple of days to ask if they would be attending the regional grand committee in Smethwick on Thursday.

Daniel Kawczynski will definitely not be attending the meeting, approves [...]