http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress CEP News Blog Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:35:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The English Democrats Party, campaigning in Henley, have been forced by the Police to remove a table bedecked with red and white bunting, citing a local by-law that they have so far failed to provide any details of.  As the English flag is their logo, this makes it understandably difficult ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/28/police-force-edp-to-remove-english-flags/ The following was written by former England rugby international turned sport pundit, Brian Moore, in yesterday's Daily Telegraph: Andy Murray, the very talented, very surly, Scottish tennis player, now claims his statement that he supported anyone who played against England was a mere bagatelle. Murray's rationalisation of his former slight appears to ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/27/brian-moore-on-andy-murray/ Brown's restrictions on planning democracy in England carried with the votes of Scottish MPs On Wednesday June 25th harsh restrictions on democracy in tche treatment of planning applications in England, personally endorsed and promoted by Gordon Brown UK Prime Minister, were carried with the help of votes of Scotland 50 MPs ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/27/press-release-english-planning-laws-changed-with-scots-votes/ Tonight's episode of Dr Who, broadcast on BBC1, had a scene which portrayed the English as racists, likening them to the Nazi's. The scene in question shows an Italian family being loaded into the back of a truck to be taken to a forced labour camp.  The Italian man says "you ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/21/bbc-wales-anti-english-slur/ CEP Chairman, Scilla Cullen, recently wrote to Asda to ask why they were happy to sell produce bearing the Scottish and Welsh flags but anything English has the British flag on it. The response was much the same as that previously encountered from Tesco and not entirely surprising.  In a nutshell, if ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/20/from-the-horses-mouth/ The left wing, Labour-aligned think tank, IPPR, has called on Gordon Brown to allow English cities and towns to have directly elected mayors to help diffuse the English Question. IPPR claims that 38% of people support a directly elected mayor for their council and 29% oppose it, rising to 40% when ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/20/ippr-calls-for-elected-mayors/ Professor Iain McLean, the public spending expert advising the Calman Commission review of devolution, has called the Barnett Formula "perverse". He went on to confirm what the CEP has been saying for years - that the extra funding given to the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish (the "celtgeld") under Barnett Formula ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/18/expert-calls-barnett-formula-perverse/ The British Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has rather embarrassedly been forced to admit that it has spent only £230 on promoting St Georges Day in the last 5 years. In 2008, DCMS spent £116 on promoting St Georges Day, £114 in 2007 and nothing in the previous 3 ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/12/st-george-is-cross/ Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister and MP for the Scottish constituency of Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, last night disposed of the most important part of the English constitution - Magna Carta. Magna Carta was a contract between the Crown and the people, limiting the power of the Crown, creating an English Parliament ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/12/scottish-pm-abolishes-english-constitution/ Not long ago a rumour emerged that Ken Clarke's "Democracy Task Farce" was going to water down the already half-hearted, half-baked English Votes on English Matters policy the Conswervatives have held for a while now. I asked Daniel Kawczynski MP, who was on the committee, why in gods name they were ... http://www.thecep.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/10/english-pauses-for-english-clause-nothing-more-than-an-insult/