tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post4645138412226953799..comments2023-10-01T16:53:17.274+01:00Comments on Cicero's Songs: I'm not looking for a New EnglandCicerohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02090838836212624633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-52437789784364646682007-04-23T09:32:00.000+01:002007-04-23T09:32:00.000+01:00Firstly- of course I am in favour of English parit...Firstly- of course I am in favour of English parity in the Union: I am a federalist. Whether that is an All-England or a regional or even much strong county-based local government is up to the English people to decide for themselves. My point is precisely that English resentment will only grow unless the current incomplete constitutional arrangement is restructured.<BR/><BR/>Love the idea that I am a Westminister village journalist- and I think this comment from Anon is just nonsense: either the Czech-Slovak situtation is useful and relevent or not, it can not be one and not the other.<BR/><BR/>My basic premise is that Scots do NOT want to break the Union, and that therefore the biggest threat to the Union comes from English nationalism.Cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02090838836212624633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-1280516924544049642007-04-22T22:51:00.000+01:002007-04-22T22:51:00.000+01:00Cicero - you speak as the out of touch journo-west...Cicero - you speak as the out of touch journo-westminstervillage-metropolitanelitist you probably are . Try not talking to your own little closed club and get out and talk to some actual English - any part of England . You are dead wrong if you think its just a southern English thing , a typical closed minded journo remark by the way .<BR/> The reference to the division of czeckoslovakia is useful but not really relevant .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-46816869257435680372007-04-21T08:43:00.000+01:002007-04-21T08:43:00.000+01:00An ICM poll commisioned by the Campaign English Pa...An ICM poll commisioned by the Campaign English Parliament today<BR/>shows<BR/>http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2007/04/21/latest-poll-shows-67-support-english-parliament/<BR/><BR/><BR/>and proves that this is not a Southern preoccupation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-8579684006099423842007-04-20T14:35:00.000+01:002007-04-20T14:35:00.000+01:00Quite right Peter, I'd like to add that the Yorksh...Quite right Peter, I'd like to add that the Yorkshire Post and Western Daily Mail were the first News papers in England to take this issue on board.Prior to that we had to rely on the Scottish Press to find out what was going on in the minds of our politicians.<BR/>This link is 60 pages of letters to the press over recent times, there is many more that are not published on line but we know they exist.<BR/><BR/>http://www.crossofstgeorge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7852&start=885<BR/><BR/>enjoy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-91752799583605529802007-04-20T13:36:00.000+01:002007-04-20T13:36:00.000+01:00This came across as an issue in the 2005 election ...This came across as an issue in the 2005 election in a Yorkshire constituency: there is a very widespread concern about (shorthand)the English democratic deficit (/shorthand) and us having a very Scottish leader wasn't a source of joy either. The mainstream parties need to get a grip on this before others of less good will use it as a lever to gain support. Don't dismiss the strength of feeling on this, or the party will be making a grave mistake: there is a disaffected, growing group of English electors out here and they feel no one in the mainstream parties is talking for them on this issue.Peter Mchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03850862887931603954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15037609.post-21113424492744859732007-04-20T13:07:00.000+01:002007-04-20T13:07:00.000+01:00It is not about southern English Conservatives dri...It is not about southern English Conservatives driving Scotland out of the union.It is the English Public that wants parity with in the union and also world status nation hood. On the 21st of January<BR/>the member for Birkenhead put forward Early Day Motion 670<BR/>with these words "That this House notes that those polls that have questioned the English <BR/>report a clear majority in favour of an English parliament; and further <BR/>notes that it is this issue, and not Scottish independence or even House of <BR/>Lords reform, that is the issue that voters now put at the top of their <BR/>priorities for constitutional reform".<BR/>19 MP's from across the parties have signed this motion.It is not enough.<BR/><BR/>http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=32348&SESSION=885Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com