The Aim
The aim of the Campaign is to achieve an English Parliament and Executive with powers at least equivalent to those powers devolved to Scotland.The Campaign for an English Parliament seeks the creation of an English parliament and Executive based on the Scottish model, with power devolved to them from the UK parliament. The proposed constitutional arrangements will need the approval of the people of England.
To provide a full answer to the constitutional problems and provide a fairer system of devolved government for all parts of the United Kingdom, it would also be necessary to upgrade the Welsh Assembly to become a Welsh Parliament with similar devolved powers. However, that is a matter for the people of Wales and it is not therefore a specific aim of the Campaign for an English Parliament.
As well as solving the current constitutional problems, an English Parliament would:
- Strengthen democratic control and make government more accountable to the people of England.
- Enable the people of England to express their own priorities and direct spending to where it is most needed.
- Better enable the people of England to pursue policies, which help preserve England’s identity and improve its environment.
- Give England a voice (similar to that of Scotland) in the European Union.
- Provide a partial realisation of the right to self-government to which the people of all countries aspire.
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I’m new to CEP and I’ve found my way around the website (I think) and I’m in pretty well full agreement of the objectives (maybe I would like to go further in some cases) but I’m not sure what’s actually going on. I’m left with the impression from the action on the website that there isn’t a lot of members. How many are there? Is somebody doing something to achieve the objectives or is it just talk? Is there a program with key dates to measure progress? When do we expect to achieve an English Parliament? Where do I go to get answers?
May 8th, 2008 at 1:53 pmThere are a couple of thousand members I believe. We are active but it might not be immediately apparent. I will invite you to the CEP email group so you can get in touch with other members. If you want to be more active then feel free to contact me offline – you have my email address.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:52 pmThe Aims of the CEP need to be much broader. An English parliament is important, but the CEP needs to promote more political activism to protect England and English-ness within the current state of the UK. For example, there is a lot of discussion in Scotland to establish its own tax raising powers. These would only work for Scotland if they undercut tax rates in England and thus sucked business away from England to Scotland. It is important the CEP stands up for England’s rights and powers to protect herself economically from being undercut by the other home nations.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:19 amHenry…It makes know differants what they would suck/take from us and give to the rest, we would just build it back up and better, it’s in the English blood, we just can’t help it. An English parliament for the English people and sooner the better.
May 30th, 2010 at 1:31 amIts in the English blood, sounds like something that would be said in the Third Reich! Let’s leave the racism, and build civic nationalism in England for all the people who live in England, Africans, Asians, Celts, etc. Unless you are hoping for apartheid
May 30th, 2010 at 7:33 amAll I’m hoping for is an English parliament run by English blood (True Englishmen) and just for people who live in England, not outsiders. Who are outsiders? anyone who complains about the English and our flag, while living in our country.
June 9th, 2010 at 2:42 amWhat determines English blood? Anyone who can trace pure descent from Alfred the Great? Or Hengist or Horsa?
June 9th, 2010 at 8:30 amAnd nor can the Welsh, so stop peddling your nonsense.
June 9th, 2010 at 10:11 amWe do have some evidence in England by the way, along with some living relatives.
“In 1996, Bryan Sykes of Oxford University first sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of Cheddar Man, with DNA extracted from one of Cheddar Man’s molars. Cheddar Man was determined to have belonged to Haplogroup U5a, a branch of mitochondrial haplogroup U. U5a, the specific haplogroup of Cheddar Man, is known to be the oldest truly modern human (not Neanderthal) mtDNA haplogroup in Europe.
Cheddar Man is the name given to the remains of a human male found in Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England. The remains date to approximately 7150 BC, and it appears that he died a violent death. It is Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton.”
(This has since been revised and is much older by around 5,000 years).
“Bryan Sykes’ research into Cheddar Man was filmed as he performed it in 1997. As a means of connecting Cheddar Man to the li”ving residents of Cheddar village, he compared mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) taken from twenty living residents of the village to that extracted from Cheddar Man’s molar. It produced two exact matches and one match with a single mutation. The two exact matches were schoolchildren, and their names were not released. The close match was a history teacher named Adrian Targett, meaning that he was a direct descendant of Cheddar Man through his maternal line.
Sykes argued that this modern connection to Cheddar Man (who died at least three thousand years before agriculture began in Britain) makes credible the theory that modern-day Britons are not all descended from Middle Eastern migratory farmers who entered Britain about 10,000 years ago. Instead, modern Britons are descended from ancient European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherer tribes, who much later on adopted farming.”
Of course this is long before (at least 10,000 years) Edward Lhuyd changed the title of Paul Yves Pezron’s work on Gaul.
June 9th, 2010 at 10:40 amYes Bobby Boyce,
Thanks for reminding me and of course it all makes the rubbish that Steve spouts all the more stupid!!!!!!!!!!! as usual!
I once read a book about the origins of the British, can’t remember the author’s name but he did a lot of DNA testing and what it basically came down to was the Britain was populated by the same racial group, Ireland, Wales and Western Scotland by one branch travelling up through Spain and another England and Central and Eastern Scotland by another.
I wouldn’t expect Steve to know that, it was a big book and didn’t have any pictures. It does however, put the Scots/Welsh hating English and the English hating Scots/Welsh in a pretty stupid place.
Years ago I attended a family funeral in Nantyglo and a young Welsh girl wanted to know what the bloody English were doing there, when told that her greatgrandmother and greatgrandfather came from English mining stock she was appalled! Lovely!!!!!!
June 9th, 2010 at 4:59 pmHay glad to here you want out of the union too, any help you want just ask.
June 20th, 2010 at 12:30 am