My comment to John Redwood's post this morning - England's independence.

Martin Cole

Posted March 18, 2012 at 9:29 am | Permalink

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Hear, hear!

A debate on an English Parliament

MPs invited to debate whether the UK has a future?

The Campaign for an English Parliament is delighted to host a debate on Wednesday, 24^th November 2010 (7pm) at Dartmouth House, 37 Charles Street, London W1J 5ED.

The motion will be

‘This house believes that an English Parliament is the last hope for a United Kingdom’.

The background to this debate is the widening gulf between the nations of the UK and the reluctance of the British Government to discuss these inequalities. You only have to listen to the Coalition Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg when on the 16^th November 2010 he stated, at the Hansard Society event, ‘that there is no evidence at all that devolution leads to inequalities.’

“That view is dangerously naive as the dissolution of Unions is a very real concern, we only have to think of Yugoslavia and the present impasse in Belgium to realise the damaging consequences of failure. The blatant inequalities within UK devolution need to be resolved before the people of England become totally irreconcilable to the Union”. Says Eddie Bone, Public Relations Officer, Campaign for an English Parliament

“Without national equality we will see a continuation of the unrest seen on our streets such as that of the students this month. Only English students face the prospect of tuition fees up to £9,000 and crippling debt on graduation wherever they choose to study in the UK unlike their Scottish and Welsh counterparts who pay no fees. Similarly the people of England are threatened with devastating cuts in funding from the British government of up to 25% whilst it is reported that the grants to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are only being reduced by 6.8%, 7.5% and 6.9% respectively. This inequality of cuts in funding occurs whilst there is asset stripping of England”. Says Scilla Cullen, Chairman, Campaign for an English Parliament

“Unlike Scottish Nationalists, the Campaign for an English Parliament is not committed to independence and hence the destruction of the UK but seeks a new 21^st Century union in which the nations and peoples of the UK are equally enfranchised”. Says Scilla Cullen, Chairman, Campaign for an English Parliament

“Partnerships can quickly disappear when they have grown apart or have financial disputes. This is what we see now in the UK yet MPs remain distant and aloof to these very real concerns as Nick Clegg’s naïve reply shows”. Says Eddie Bone, Public Relations Officer, Campaign for an English Parliament

“The Campaign for an English Parliament urges all the UK MPs and Peers to address the growing national inequalities. An English Parliament is a solution as it would allow the people of England to feel part of the UK again and not just an ignored and despised piggy bank for the rest of the UK”. Says Scilla Cullen, Chairman, Campaign for an English Parliament

For bookings and for more information contact either Scilla or Eddie on

Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament, Scilla.cullen@dsl.pipex.com

Eddie Bone, Public Relations Officer for the Campaign for an English Parliament eddiejbone@aol.co.uk

For further information about the Campaign for an English Parliament please go to our website www.thecep.org.uk

Scots twig nationalism has consequences!

The following is from the Scottish Sunday Mail, linked here, in an article reacting to Matt O'Connor's advertisement campaign for his candidacy in the London Mayoral elections. The ads in question may be viewed on this blog in our postings of 30th March 2008. O'Connor has no plans to back down and his party will unveil the posters at Holyrood tomorrow. He said: "The ads are not racist, they are pro-democracy. "Scots might want to think for a moment how they would feel if they had an English First Minister, English Finance Minister and English Leader of the House creating policies for Scotland. "England is run by a Scottish Raj and we are highlighting the gross injustice that sees the majority of the Union being run by a Prime Minister who inflicts his ideology on England but has little or no influence over what happens in his constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. "We've no intention of pulling what is a witty and provocative campaign." Despite complaints from Scots, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said: "We do not get drawn into this sort of thing."

RIP House of Commons

Barth the butcher of Oradour dies. EU impact - NIL

The BBC has the report here, note particularly the last sentence which I quote: His death has gone largely unnoticed in Germany I have blogged previously on the horror of Oradour-sur-Glane. That post written in the opening days of this pivotal year may be read from here. When Heinz Barth died this week most of Europe was on vacation oblivious to the work of their national governments to neuter their parliamentary democracies through the underhand method of a fake IGC, even now supposedly fine tuning the detail of a mandate which Britain's own Foreign Office confirms has already been precisely agreed (see my posting immediately below). Precisely agreed, furthermore, in negotiations which Britain's former Foreign Office Secretary of State, Margaret Becket, lied to a Parliamentary Select Committee mere days before the trap was sprung, by stating again and again that such were not even taking place. Maybe not by Foreign Office staff, but by Tony Blair's henchmen in their place. What are the mandarins of the FCO doing about that disgraceful state of affairs. Is Queen Elizabeth II really going to extend plenipotentiary powers to her Scottish Prime Minister and his Foreign Secretary, eldest son of one of the most influential marxist immigrants to this country in the last century, in total breach of the commitment to a referendum of the people on which basis they were elected, to sign an agreement which destroys for all time the powers not just of Britain's parliament but the only Parliament England now possesses? The United Kingdom was brought into being by the merging of the Scottish and English thrones, or more correctly their then democracies as protected by their sovereigns. The Queen rules over the UK but Scotland has its own Parliament. As Queen of England I would argue she cannot constitutionally authorise either the present Prime Minister or his Foreign Secretary, neither of whom were present at the negotiations leading to the EU Reform Treaty, to sign that document, especially as the Queen's own Foreign and Commonwealth Office had no involvement for such negotiations, nor are therefore able to offer continuity or proper advice to the new Foreign Secretary, nor even therefore to their English sovereign! This whole thing stinks to high heaven for all of Europe. The Queen of the Netherlands seems to me to have her own dilemma. One thing is certain namely that Heinz Barth died when all his gruesome ideals and presumed beliefs were finally in the process of being achieved.