Campaign for an English Parliament

Happy New Year to all our loyal supporters, members and readers.

The British English Health Minister, Andy Burnham, has announced a consultation on options to partially abolish parking charges at English hospitals which he says have caused “great resentment”.
Hospital parking charges have already been abolished at all but two or three Scottish hospitals where the charges are written into PFI contracts.  They have also been abolished [...]

The left-wing Labour Party affiliated think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), has produced a very important and exciting report on devolution.
The IPPR’s press release is as follows:
Ten years on from the introduction of Labour’s devolution settlement for Scotland and Wales, there is a clear consensus among MPs over the need for new [...]

Merry Christmas to all our members and supporters.

Peter Mandelson, the unelected British English Business Secretary, has announced over half a billion pounds in budget cuts for English universities and told them to protect quality and access to higher education at the same time.
The Scottish Chancellor announced £600m of cuts for English universities in his pre-budget report a few weeks ago and it is [...]

To order your copy of the 2010 CEP Calendar, featuring exclusive English landscape scenes, please click the “Buy Now” button below.
Postage & packaging is free in England and the UK, for all other destinations, please contact us.

The CEP website has been inundated with spam comments this morning so it has been necessary to temporarily restrict comments to registered users only.
Comments will be opened to all users again in a day or two.

For those of you who could not attend the Future of England debate, the speeches of all four speakers are now available.

Paul Kingsnorth
Peter Facey
George Monbiot
David Wildgoose

Please sign my petition to abolish the BBC and create an English Broadcasting Company (EBC).
We should not have to pay a compulsory TV licence any longer to fund the left-wing biased BBC, which is playing a major part in destroying English culture. The BBC’s existence is yet another example of the English being treated as [...]

I’m a great fan of Top Gear – it’s worth paying the BBC tax just for Top Gear and Spooks in my opinion – but I was irritated at last week’s episode.
The show featured a race with airport utility vehicles driven by touring car drivers which contained some hilarious and impressive manoeuvres (I have never [...]