You are an example of Hypocrisy at it’s finest.

By the way, you spelt your name wrong.

Regions work on the continent for three reasons.

The first reason is that quite a few European countries are actually federations, like Germany and Switzerland.

The second reason is that most European countries, whether they are federations or not, have been administered regionally for centuries and they have had regional identities for longer than living memory.

The third reason – and this is the most important one – is that the people in those countries are happy with regionalisation. English people are not and that has been expressed through the ballot box in the North East of England which had the first and only referendum on regional government in England. The North East euroregion was chosen because it had the highest level of support for regional government and they rejected it by 78%, the biggest referendum defeat in the history of England and the UK. Probably a contender for the biggest referendum defeat in Europe.

If an English government decided that the best way to govern England was by devolving some of its own powers to a regional level then that would, of course, be the English government’s prerogative. The politicians that would make that decision would have been elected by English people to represent English interests and would be directly accountable to English voters through the ballot box. It is not acceptable for British politicians elected from all four nations of the UK to represent British interests in the British government to break England up into 9 artificial regions of the EU’s devising with nothing to represent the interests of the English nation.

A region is not the same as a country and a regional parliament will never be on a par with the national governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. All we are asking for – and what the majority of English people want – is for parity with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They were given a referendum on whether they wanted a national government to represent their country, the English have a right to the same.

Life Revolves around London in England, London this, London that, yes I’m perfectly aware that London is the biggest city and hence should be the more important settlement, but the scale is a joke! Does France REVOLVE around Paris? Does Italy REVOLVE around Rome? Does Spain REVOLVE around Madrid? To some extend yes, but mostly no! Barcelona, Lyon, Milan all are much more important in their countries compared to Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester & Newcastle.

What we need is regional governments to put the interests of us None-Londoners first. London St Pancras gets re-developed, Docklands extended, CrossRail is being built, yet Birmingham New St station is still the most dilapidated overcrowded station in the UK? And the Birmingham Metro can’t expand past one line?

The Flop which was the Millenium dome wastes millions, yet there is still no London-Newcaslte Motorway?

It’s about time England stopped being so Londoncentric, and I think an English Parliament will only make this worse