Campaign for an English Parliament

The Student Loan Company is making 150 staff in Glasgow redundant and transferring another 45 jobs to Darlington.
The PCS union is predictably complaining about the job losses and calling on MPs, MSPs and Glasgow councillors to fight the job cuts.
There should never have been any Student Loan Company jobs in Glasgow in the first place [...]

The great saviour of the union, Gordon “Britishness” Brown, has left Northern Ireland having failed to convince the Northern Irish government to take on devolved police and justice powers.
The MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath made it his mission to devolve police and justice to the Northern Irish government even though they didn’t want it and [...]

Just for once, the British government actually says England when they’re talking about England and what does the BBC do?  Replace England with “Britain”.  I despair, I really do.

Living in rural Britain?
BBC3 is in the early stages of researching a programme about younger people living in rural areas. We are very keen to hear from [...]

Andrew Marr, the Scottish presenter of the imaginatively titled Andrew Marr Show, used his BBC1 show today to racially abuse the English.
Whilst interviewing the actor, Mark Rylance, about his new lefty liberal hand wringing play about Englishness, Marr interrupted to say “There’s cruelty in the play but there’s cruelty in Englishness too”.
The following a transcript [...]

Scottish Labour MPs no different to Non-Doms
THE double standards of this Government are legendry, but the latest outpouring by Sister Hattie Harman really does take the biscuit for downright cheek.
During questions on Non-Doms evading tax but being allowed to sit in the Commons and Lords, Hattie intoned: ”We are determined to make sure that we can’t have [...]

On Monday I asked Conservative HQ for an explanation as to why their draft education manifesto only says England once but says Britain or British 5 times when the manifesto only applies to England.  They promised me an email to explain why.
After 24 hours I still hadn’t had an email so I phoned them again. [...]

This is what the internet was invented for!  Your words will always come back to haunt you Dave.

An excellent attempt by the Guardian but they’ve got it slightly wrong – it’s not a postcode lottery, it’s a national lottery.  This discrimination is on the basis of nationality, not on your postcode.

Arthritis drug free in Scotland, but too expensive for south, says Nice
A powerful new arthritis drug is unlikely to be given to NHS [...]

The Conservatives have published their draft education manifesto for England but there seems to be a problem with the spell checker at CCHQ – it appears to be replacing the word “England” with “Britain”.
The word “Britain” is used 4 times in the document, “British” is used once and “England” is used once.  The word “English” [...]

Many moons ago when the CEP blog was called “Who Do You Think You’re Kidding Mr Prescott”, several of you participated in a campaign to have the Cross of St George flown above Parliament on St George’s Day.
Does anyone remember that? It was back in 2004 so you’d be forgiven for forgetting about it.
Those [...]