Comments on: Press Release: Calman Commission

By: Stuart Eels

Stuart Eels — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:01:21 +0000

Have just sent an e-mail to BBC Radio 5 who are running a debate about Scottish Independence. Nicky Campbell,a Scot said that there was no evidence that the English People wanted an English Parliament. Come on everybody bombard this shower with e-mails and letters. I would turn over but it’s a Welshman on the other station!

By: Nick I

Nick I — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:52:21 +0000

A challenge to this blatant discrimination by any legal means possible is greatly to be welcomed, and if the EU legislation and courts can be used to achieve this then so much the better; let the LibLabCon establishment be ‘hoist by its own petard’. That said, I share Stuart’s doubts as to whether this will actually lead to a ruling in our favour.

By: bobbyboy

bobbyboy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:05:46 +0000

There seems to be a disconnect between what people say and how they vote! At the moment it is clear that people are very unhappy with the way things are being dealt with in England. The problem as I see it is that there is a general reluctance for people to vote for any alternative party. They have been told year after year that to vote for any but the main parties is a wasted vote. This is complete nonsense because no vote is ever wasted. We seem to have an uphill struggle to get through to people. Sadly until this happens the media will not take this matter seriously and the best we can hope for at the moment is a hung parliament. I fear that the situation will deteriorate because we could conceivably be in a situation where the Labour party still retain influence after an election. Things are getting out of hand but at least they are beginning to listen but I hope it’s not too late.
Just take a look at what Lord Pearson said in Washington a few weeks ago. It’s a problem us English have to deal with but I think our way of live is being severely threatened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh1QbEjI9YQ&feature=related

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:01:43 +0000

If I remember rightly, Robert Kiljoy-Silk complained to some organ of the EU that the charging of tuition fees to English students in Scotland breached EU laws on the equal treatment of EU citizens. They said it was a domestic matter – in other words, EU citizens have to be treated equally as long as they are from another member state but member states’ own citizens can be discriminated against on the basis of nationality or ethnic origin.

LBB, the last two polls for the CEP were 68% and 67% in favour.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:36:54 +0000

It make me so angry that the UK Gov does everything to appease the Scots to keep them in the Union, which is detrimental to England an highly Anglophobic. Scotland ia already about 3/4 independent, so do we really want to be attached to the remaining 1/4 at our constant expence and degridation?

By: LBB

LBB — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:52:14 +0000

…not that I am suggesting that is the right thing to do, it’s more a throw away remark out of sheer frustration.

By: LBB

LBB — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:52:42 +0000

The 50.3 per cent of the Welsh electorate that voted for its own assembly was only 50.3pc of the 50pc that bothered to vote.
In actual fact it amounts to only 25pc of the Welsh population wanting devolution, yet they got it, a stitch up if ever there was one.

We English keep having it rammed down our throat that there isn’t enough support for an English parliament yet surveys constantly show nearer 60pc want one, our protests go unheard, so where do we go from here, if Stuart Eels’s post is right then there is nowhere to go, apart from the street!

By: Stuart Eels

Stuart Eels — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:40:01 +0000

Yes it’s disgusting, if the CEP is going to challenge in the Equalities & Human Rights Commission, keep it in UK don’t go down the road of the European Court of Human Rights. They messed myself, Veronica and John Newman about for over a year several years ago and decided it wasn’t a matter for them to rule on in the end. There was no right of appeal.