Campaign for an English Parliament

The SNP and Plaid have issued a joint statement today notifying Labour and the Conservatives that they won’t negotiate with them in the event of a hung parliament unless “fair funding” is guaranteed! Scotland and Wales already receive over £1,600 and £1,000 per head per year more than in England and the gap is widening. [...]

The British English Transport Minister and one of the Scottish Prime Minister’s many unelected cabinet cronies, Lord Adonis, has announced that 10 English railway stations will receive a share of £50m set aside to improve the most run-down stations in the country. No Scottish stations will receive funding as it is a devolved matter and [...]

The Magna Carta was sealed on this day in 1215. And on this day in 2009 two articles on politics.co.uk manage to celebrate the Magna Carta without any mention of England. Groundswell of support for civil liberties on the anniversary of the Magna Carta Thank God Britain hates its government Some parts of Britain hate [...]

If a British politician has ever told you that the reason that they don’t want an English parliament is because it would mean ‘an extra layer of politicians’ and ‘extra cost’, then thanks to the Telegraph, which helpfully exposes the way that the British political class has been milking the system, you might now have [...]

Yesterday the Brown Government took its controversial plans for grand committees for the English regions through Parliament, by 254 votes to 220, with the votes of non-English MPs most probably decisive. Not only is it another attempt to deny England its national right, as noted by the CEP, it is also an attempt at gerrymandering, [...]

Labour have won the by-election in Glenrothes, a bordering constituency to Gordon Brown’s Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath constituency. When John MacDougal died earlier this year (following a visit by Jonah Brown, incidently) Labour had a majority of over 10,000.  Their majority has now been reduced to 6,737 with a swing to the SNP of 5%. The [...]

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 is not calculated according [...]

Its almost like the Scottish Labour Party were running the NuLabour bye-election campaign in Crewe (England) – this short article explains much. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/24/labour.crewebyelection08?gusrc=rss&feed=politics The Guardian Saturday May 24th 2008 Andrew Sparrow Class warrior remains unapologetic For a man accused of running one of the most disastrous Labour byelection campaigns in recent times, Steve McCabe looked [...]

Since devolution happened the Conservatives have carried on in England almost as if it hadn’t. Every news release they put out on Education, Health or Transport fails to mention whether they are discussing measures that will effect only-England, England-Wales, or the entire UK. We need to put a stop to this, so please, whenever you [...]