Comments on: Spot the difference

By: T. R. Spratt

T. R. Spratt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:10:46 +0000

that puts the NFU and the NUS in the same boat as UKIP, the BNP, and the Conservative Party. if the Scots vote for independence, this Saint Andrew’s Day, that will leave the English with no other option, but to have a parliament. no need for civil war.

The Young Wessex League
“Zeaxe; owre land and volc”

By: francis

francis — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:58:20 +0000

Terry,

The NUS and NFU are not interested in England – it is all by design. Their unwritten rules will not allow England to be represented in any way. It’s a conspiracy, nothing less. Only civil war will bring about an English Parliament, the UK establishment is too deliberately too stobborn to do anything about the WLQ.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:19:26 +0000

LBB I am doing something about it. I spend many hours a day doing something about it, but my frustration rises when I address a group of students or a Rotary meeting (most of whom are farmers around here) and they shrug their shoulders and mutter something about not wanting to harm the Union.

We’ve long campaigned for the NUS and NFU to stand up for English students/farmers and they’re just not interested.

My sympathy is at absolute zero.

By: LBB

LBB — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:39:43 +0000

Gadgie/Terry.
Your comments apply equally to every English man/women across our country, not only students and farmers.

England is a door mat for every evil MP at Westminster, and how do we protest..whinge on blogs like this and all similar blogs, and yes it includes no hopers like me as well, as Mrs LBB keeps telling me, if that’s how you feel get off your backside and do something about it.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:32:08 +0000

The UK population was even higher than England’s, (before Scots MPs swung the vote for English kids to suffer an education tax), yet we all enjoyed free tertiary education.

Is this the old, “England’s too big to enjoy the fruits of its own taxes”?

By: George Ireland

George Ireland — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:57:25 +0000

Personally, I don’t think that tuition fees will ever be abolished in England, the population is too high, however I think that financial aid would be a good start. But the main thing I seek from an English Parliament is to regain the supressed identity.

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:17:41 +0000

I agree with Gadgie. If you act like a doormat, get ready to be walked all over.

The English students and English farmers deserve everything they get (or don’t get)!

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:04:04 +0000

I understand that the Student Loans Company is, surprisingly enough, based in Scotland and is the only ‘Scottish’ asset that Brown is proposing to sell off to the private sector. Once privatised, presumably the SLC will remain in Scotland to provide jobs.
It is another example, as you rightly say, of what happens ‘while we are without a government elected by, for and accountable to English voters’. We should make more of that phrase, which is at the core of any democaracy, in our publicity and in dealings with those who seek to preserve the status quo.

By: gadgie

gadgie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:58:20 +0000

Unless these students make a fuss about it, they and English farmers deserve everything they get