EU Dictates, Scots Bigotry, UK Greed and Corruption - An Evil Brew...

Gerry writes...

You seem to blame the Scots for a lot of England’s woes. Maybe you have a point. But what about the EU? Aren’t you concerned that the Government’s pushing of the EU’s regional agenda is aiding the destruction of England, and that the Government refuses to allow the electorate a say on the EU, whilst our rights and civil liberties are continually eroded by EU dictate?

Gerry, I don’t just blame the Scots, or more correctly a large number of Scots MPs, for "England’s woes". Read through this blog and you will find me railing against Politically Correct English people, UK MPs, the CRE, the BBC, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and the EU.

I am greatly concerned about the EU’s influence and its increasingly autocratic stance. It scares me. So much at the moment is covert, hole-in-the-corner. I distrust the UK government just as wholeheartedly. I don’t say that the UK must go, but we must go back to basics in England with our own parliament - the people must be represented again.

At the moment, uncaring career politicians skip around, many of them riding the UK government’s corrupt gravy trains, or with an eye on a lucrative EU career. Politicians are supposed to be for people. They are not.

Things must change and the time will come when they will. I don’t believe that history will look kindly upon the EU dictatorship or the UK politicians of the current day.

Politicians simply seem to be getting away with what they can whilst they can, relying on voter apathy. There is no integrity, no loyalty to the electorate.

I do believe that the Scots angle is important. The UK Government appeared to have bought off Scots Nats (or so it hoped!) with the Scottish Parliament, at great cost to England. It also meant that the Government’s EU agenda could go forward. England could be carved up into regions and the Scots, believing themselves a nation, would be quiet.

Things are not turning out that way.

I believe that we live in frightening times, that politicians are out of touch with the people, that the majority are greedy, uncaring and corrupt and that the EU project should be halted. I am not an isolationist - interaction and integration is fine - but dictatorship is not.

People seem to be awakening, very slowly, from a long sleep. I remember, having an absolutely frantic time as a Socialist in the 1980s, attending protest after protest - the miners, Red Wedge, Clause 28...

I felt burned out by the early 1990s, and yawned my way dazedly through the Major era. I celebrated the arrival of Blair. But things were not what they seemed. New Labour is not Labour.

Society is now far more fragmented than in the 80s, but people are beginning to wake up. I believe that the day is coming when the electorate will demand an accountable government.

In the meantime, I do a little for the cause by writing this blog. I do believe (as a half-Scot myself) that Scottish bigotry is a major contributory factor to the plight England now finds itself in, but I do not see it as the only factor - far from it.

Please take a closer look at this blog. I would be happy to answer any further queries.

UPDATE...

Sylv from Salford...

The EU is evil. I don't know how it gets away with it. But it would be nothing without the likes of the UK Government and Opposition parties, selling our souls for their MPs career advancement.

What a glittering stage to prance on - and stuff democracy!

There are loads of wrongdoers spotlighted on 'ere, not just the Scottish - including Channel Four, British Gas, the National Mint... perhaps you need an eye test, Gerry? Great if you live in Scotland...

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Google Edits Out Christmas and The Union of The Snake...

So, Christmas looms. And next year promises the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union. You know, the Union which saw the abolition of England and the raising of the Scots and Welsh as elite "races" of the "UK" (no DNA tests necessary) - complete with superior health services, public spending and a dicatatorial role for their MPs in running the "regions" of the UK - formerly England.

Let's keep spreading the word.

I note that Google is doing its Politically Correct "Happy Holidays" bit again this year. Surely, the vast majority of people will be celebrating Christmas - whether as a religious festival or an excuse to pig out? If Google finds the tastes of the majority so unappealing, perhaps it should just stick to being a search engine and spare us its patronising and offensive cartoons and messages?

See you next year. Merry Christmas all - and here's to 2007...

UPDATE - 23/12/2006

Sue Campbell...

It's worth remembering that Google edited out England in its recent children's competition, Chris. The idea was for kids to draw images of "Britain", but Google recognised Scotland and Wales, and carved England up into areas with much larger population sizes so that the competition was immediately unfair to kids here. As it was a UK based comp, why wasn't the UK carved up into equal population sizes, and ALL sub-nations ignored?

As usual, it was only England...

Merry Christmas, matey. See you next year!

Ta, Sue. Yeah, Google is pretty priggish and bigoted, isn't it? And all this "happy holidays" stuff makes me think it's July and I'm off to Brighton.

The Politically Correct elite really need discarding. As I say, Google should stick to being a search engine. Their offensive and nonsensical greetings are just not needed.

Merry Christmas

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Posting For Great Britain?

Has anybody else received recent letters/Christmas cards franked by the Post Office "Great Britain"? And if so is this normal?

I don't recall "Great Britain" being franked on my mail in previous years, and can't help wondering if the PO is jumping on the Gordon Brown "let's preserve the Union for the sake of Scotland and my political ambitions and stuff you lot in England" bandwagon?

The liberal elite considered "Great Britain" to be a most outdated and Imperialistic title last time I checked... what's changed? Is the continued denial of democratic rights via the complete submergence of England in the "Union" now seen as more pressing?

Let me know if I'm barking up the wrong tree. I wonder if "Great Britain" is now franked on mail in Scotland? Still, it doesn't matter if it is. They are already recognised as a distinct part of "Great Britain".

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Say Cheese, Tony!

Tee-hee - I like this set of jottings over here...

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The Witanagemot Club - England United

I've just joined the Witanagemot Club - a growing group of bloggers who are dedicated to getting democratic rule restored to England.

http://www.toque.co.uk/witan/

Read this blog. Read the others. Think about it. You know it makes sense. There is a tremendous amount wrong with the way that England is governed. Some of the issues are frighteningly unfair.

Together we can be heard for miles around. And that is what's needed.

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100% English - Channel Four Reply To Accusations of Anti-English Bigotry...

I wrote to Channel Four last week about their disgraceful English-bashing 100% English programme...

Dear Channel Four,

"100% English" was disturbing. Using Nazi-style criteria, the makers set out to rubbish the concept of Englishness. Of course, Scottishness and Welshness escaped unscathed.

My brother-in-law, fully aware that the English are as genetically mixed as people from elsewhere, applied to be on the show - but was turned down as he refused to act like an ignorant moron.

The show did not prove that Englishness is an inclusive thing, transcending race and colour, something I wholly endorse, it simply made out that Englishness did not exist.

The Commission for Racial Equality states that Englishness does NOT depend on DNA. To be ethnically English, one must have blood ties here dating back to before the Act of Union in 1707. To be of English nationality, one must simply be a permanent citizen of England.

But Channel 4 has stated that Englishness cannot exist without rigid, Nazi-style DNA tests from a company in America.

This is not the case according to British law. Also, the dating of components of the DNA quoted in the programme is not exact - some of it may date back to before there even WAS an England, let alone an English people. But Channel 4 did not explain that. The programme deliberately misled viewers.

Scottishness and Welshness exist and those countries now have their own nationally representative bodies to prove it. And yet the Scots and Welsh are ethnically mixed and capable of extreme racism - as events in Scotland in the summer proved - when a disabled man was dragged from his car and beaten and a seven year old boy was punched in the head by a grown man. Their crime? Simply wearing England football shirts.

And yet Channel Four commissions racist propaganda from a company, Wall To Wall, headed by Alex Graham, a Scot!

So, no national civic English identity for us in England, we're just a bunch of "mongrels" (according to Channel 4). Is this why our lives aren't valued by the Government as much as those in Scotland and Wales?

Cancer treatment drugs are still being made available on the NHS in the rest of the UK, but not in England.

Non-representative MPs from Scottish constituencies still force legislation onto England.
Many reasonable, ordinary English folk wrote into Wall To Wall, the production company behind "100% English", fully aware of the diverse genetic background to their Englishness, requesting to take part in the programme, but were rejected.Wall To Wall had an agenda. Shame on Channel 4 for giving it air time.

I am campaigning for a nationally representative parliament for England and ALL its people, however they define themselves - in line with the Scottish Parliament. I have written more about Channel 4's racist behaviour on this website - http://englandparliament.blogspot.com/

Please be aware that any replies you send to this letter may be published on the website.

Channel 4 has become a horribly sensationalist and, in fact, downright dishonest and politically correct "anti-fascist fascist" television channel, always out to scapegoat and ridicule those who would define themselves as English.

In these devolutionary times there will soon have to be an English dimension to UK politics.

It's about time Channel 4 grew up and moved into the new century, and began to keep up with the changing patterns of life in the UK, instead of acting like anti-English Scots bigots or politically correct English prigs of the 1990s.

I shall not be watching Channel 4 again.

Yours sincerely,

Christopher Abbott

And Channel Four replied, in depth as ever, having taken each of my points on board and being well able to justify their Nazi-style bile:

Dear Christopher

Thank you for your email

We are sorry to hear that our programme 100% ENGLISH was not to your taste. Your comments have been logged and passed on to those responsible for it.

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to contact us with your comments. We always like to hear from our viewers, critical or otherwise.

Kind regards

David Warren

Viewer Enquiries

Sheesh, thanks, Channel Four. Good to know you always have a reasoned argument for showing what you show.

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BBC DVDs "English? Leave it Out!"

From Sue Campbell...

I've just been to my local HMV looking for some telly viewing, Chris, and have been peeking at the BBC's DVD collection.

Gerald Harper, who is described in the packaging synopsis as something along the lines of an "ever-so-British actor", is on parade in that 1960s saga Adam Adamant Lives, and if we look to the 1980s we find Auntie has supplied the tale of "Britain's wealthy boating set" - Howards Way. Auntie doesn't mention the fact that the tale is set in England or, come to that, that it's from the 1980s. Another no-no.

Gerald Harper always played terribly English gentlemen - it was the same in Hadleigh. Howards Way was as English as could be. So, Auntie Beeb once again ignores us and substitutes "Britain/British" for our country and nationality.

The BBC has joined the government in denying any glimmer of an inclusive civic English identity, but seems to be implying in its Adam Adamant synopsis that to be very British, that apparently wonderfully inclusive nationality, smothering Englishness and blanketing us all, you must actually be a traditional English gentleman.

How inclusive in that? Better if Auntie had written "English" in the first place.

Thanks, Sue.

Auntie is an anti-English prig. Remember how overly-represented the Scots are on its services? Remember racist rambler Kirsty Warks' comments on discovering that her ancestors were not all Scottish?

"At least they weren't English!"

The BBC didn't raise an eyebrow.

Auntie stinks.

I must admit I smiled at your 1980s comment. I sat through the BBC's I Love 1970s series, which apparently portrayed the pop culture of each 70s year, but in reality stole fads from the adjacent decades like nobodies business, shoving in everything from the Space Hopper (a fad from the late 1960s onwards) to the Walkman (invented 1979, released in 1980 in Britain as the "Sony Stowaway") - and there was LOADS of other stuff.

Auntie is just as adept at rewriting history as she is at rubbing England and the English out.

I'm sure if the classic 60s version of Dr Finlay's Casebook is released, then doctors Finlay, Cameron and Snoddie, not to mention dear Janet, the housekeeper, will not be referred to in the synopsis as "British".

I must have a look at Howards' Way again... it was unashamedly wonky... the characters were unashamedly upper class English twits... it was unashamedly 80s... I've had enough of the Prig Brigade.

But what a shame I must line the BBC's pockets - the Beeb, of course, being part of Prig Central Command, for another glimpse of those shoulder pads...

UPDATE

Sandra from Histon

I viewed series one and two of "Howards' Way" and could not believe Tim Teeman of "The Times", who "moderated" commentaries on several episodes. Having established his own credentials as a "Cornish person" (what nonsense!) he then goes on to submerge all the English aspects of the show as "British", including the accent of one its stars - a great "British accent" apparently. Would that be Scottish, Welsh, Pakistani, Italian, Polish or what, Tim?

What a horrible, anti-English bigot - especially with all this business about cancer drugs, etc!

More likely to be a Politically Correct prig, I feel Sandra, and not dependent on the NHS in England or anywhere else. Great to see the show again, though.

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British Gas Hates England and the English. Apparently.

Re: the last post:

Sue Campbell has been in touch to inform me that it is only the English and England that are ignored by British Gas. Their website contains a Welsh logo, a Scottish logo and a British logo, but no English logo.

So, British Gas have abolished England.

Might be time for England's people to find a new gas supplier and abolish British Gas!

This is clear discrimination.



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British Gas And Scottish Gas - But Not English Or Welsh

When is British Gas not British Gas?

When it's in Scotland, of course!

The British tag obviously would not do for the racist elite in that fine, historic nation!

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Another Cancer Drug For Scotland But Not England?

Another cancer treatment drug could be set to join the growing list available in Scotland but NOT England, if NICE, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, has its way.

United Kingdom? I find the elevation of the Scots and Welsh into a racist elite, whose lives are worth more than ours, terrifying.

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100% English: Alex Graham, Scot, Behind Wall To Wall Channel 4 Attack On The English...

The English Democrats Party have interesting news...

"We have discovered that the Chief Executive of 'Wall to Wall' the company which produced "100% English" ~ a Mr Alex Graham ~ is a Scot, which may go a long way to explaining the patently anti-English bias which manifests itself here!"

Oh dear. Why doesn't this surprise me? Being a half-Scot myself, I know how horribly bigoted my Scots family (or at least the vast majority of it) can be when it comes to the English. That there is a Scot (no DNA test necessary) behind this latest attack on the English is not surprising, but still distressing.

It doesn't excuse Channel 4 for allowing this racist outrage to be broadcast. Who was calling the shots there, I wonder?

UPDATE..

"Sylv from Salford"...

So, the 100% English was a racist swipe against the English by a company headed by a Scot? There are so many Scots and Welsh jingoists/racists/bigots about in politics and the media now - it's scary.

Well, if there are actually no English people, there won't be any Scots or Welsh either, not if subjected to the rigid American DNA test, so the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly should be disbanded immediately and Britain returned to normal. We can all be simply British.

No? Then there ARE English people, there IS an England, and England needs fair recognition politically.

The Scots are becomingly frighteningly fascist. Ethnic purity, Mr Alex Graham of Wall to Wall? Whatever next? And Channel 4 is one of those PC "fascist non-fascist" organisations. Is it really clever to give a mouthpiece to a Scots racist and attack the English, the only people in the UK with no national recognition, no voice?

How brave you are, Channel 4 and how "right on". If the Nazi dream happens to be the ideal, that is.

UPDATE 2

18/11/2006

"Dave The Gadgie" from Newcastle

It occurs to me to consider the make-up of Britain. There are fifty million people in England, eight million in Scotland and Wales, combined.

And yet Tony Blair, Scottish born PM, has surrounded himself with Scots and Welsh folk in his cabinet...

The Deputy PM - Welsh

The Chancellor - Scottish

The Speaker of the House of Commons - Scottish

The UK Culture Minister - Scottish

The Home Secretary - Scottish

The Transport Minister for England - Scottish

The Lord Chancellor - Scottish

And yet Scotland has its own Parliament, independent of the UK in 75% of all matters, but Scots MPs, most unaccountable to the electorate in England, are ruling England.

And English people musn't and in fact cannot be English. But Scottish and Welsh people can be "proud" of being Scottish and Welsh DESPITE equal (and in fact disproportionately higher on the part of the Scots) involvement in the old British Empire which England and the English are being scapegoated for.

Now the English are being written out of existence and Scots and Welsh racists rule Britain. No DNA test necessary for them.

Personally, I believe that any citizen of England can be English, regardless of race, colour or creed. And the people of England must get together, because with the West Lothian Question, health apartheid and Barnett Formula all working against them, it really is time they woke up!

It's the 21st Century. This should not be happening. And the media, including the BBC, sits in the Government's pocket and actively colludes to hide the facts from the general public!

More on the subject of Channel 4 and Wall To Wall's 100% English here.

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Will Francome, Wall To Wall - Ignore What Doesn't Suit Your Agenda, and Channel 4 - 100% English? 100% Anti-English Racist Bile!

The Channel Four programme 100% English pooh-poohed the whole concept of Englishness. Despite letters from many people aware of the diverse genetic make-up of the English to the programme makers earlier this year, Channel 4 went for a hatchet job. Here is my brother-in-law Drew Brent's letter, sent before the programme went into production, which Will Francome, of Wall To Wall, ignored.

Dear Mr Francome,

My point is that there IS such a thing as pure Englishness - it is the mongrel breed that inhabits this country of ours - myself, recent immigrants and all. Since devolution, concepts of Englishness have changed. I see people of many ethnicities sporting the Cross of St George emblem on their sports clothes, flying that flag and discussing England and Englishness.

Britishness, Scottishness and Welshness are just as false when placed under the microscope. So why pick on Englishness? It is likely simply to cause ill feeling. Remember, Englishness pre-dates Britishness and our system of government, and many of the institutions in England were in fact originally English.

Watching a TV programme where innocents are shown their family history and told they are not English, they are "mongrels" does not appeal to me. The show should be open to the increasing number of people of all ethnicities in England who define themselves as English.

Scapegoating and ridiculing Englishness is a form of racism. Would you make such a programme about the Scots? There is a problem with racism in that country, too!

Drew's letter hinged totally on the concept of Englishness as a nationality. That's fine, when you consider that the founders of Englishness were Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others! The English have never been of "pure ethnicity" - and know that. Even the oft-used Anglo Saxon tag is simply shorthand - English people know that there is more to Englishness than that genetically, and that Englishness has evolved, and continues to evolve.

But, according to Wall To Wall, the English do not exist. No possibility of a progressive, civic nationalism, but an excellent job done by politically correct morons, employing Nazi-style criteria, flying in the face of the Commission for Racial Equality, to try and ensure that England and Englishness continue to lay buried in the vaults of Unionism and that we continue to see the UK Government valuing Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish lives over those in England.

And yet, all this wasn't evident when Wall To Wall invited people to participate. The show was promised to be an exploration of English identity today.

Just like Mongrel Nation, Channel 4's other anti-English effort (surely all nations are made up of diverse influences?) in 100% English the English were given a right pasting.

A handful of not-exactly-typical people, including a bigot or two, were picked out and smacked hard by an even bigger bunch of bigots, the show's makers, determined to see that a whole nation is destroyed and that its peoples are never given national voice again.

And this with certain cancer drugs available in the other UK nations on the NHS but not available in England!

With NHS patients from England receiving inferior treatment to those elsewhere in the UK.

With public spending lower in England than the other nations of the UK.

With MPs from the other UK nations dictating policy in England.

You'll help us to fee bad, nasty and non-existent here in England, won't you, Channel 4? Serve us right for being nasty "mongrels", eh?

Nice one!

English Democrats Party Press Release...

Channel 4 endorses Nazi race purity theories

On Monday 13th November at 8 pm Channel 4 is screening a programme entitled “100% English.” That programme is not a programme about who is English and who is not. It is a programme about the race and ethnicity DNA purity tests produced by a DNA company based in the deep south of the United States. Channel 4 has warmly endorsed those DNA purity tests as the tests for establishing a person’s race and ethnicity in total opposition to the tests laid down by the UK judiciary under the Race Relations Legislation. Just like the Nazis endorsed the work of earlier scientists to undertake a purity of race and ethnicity categorisation, Channel 4 has done likewise. Channel 4 has allowed the English racial identity claimed by the participants to blind it to the true implications of its programme.

For continuation, click link below...

Link -> Channel 4 endorses Nazi race purity theories

UPDATE

Sue Campbell

Good to see you back, Chris. Did you read Carol Midgley in The Times regarding 100% English: "this programme did little to challenge my long-held belief that people who protest long and loud about being English (“not British!”) are a bit strange."

What a disgrace. And yet people can be Scots or Welsh and not British and Carol Midgley doesn't mind that at all? And she bases her opinion on the handpicked bigots on 100% English?

Carol Midgley is a British anti-English racist. The CRE recognises the English, unfair devolution has made many English people sick of the "British" thing, and yet she just wades in and negates us all, having watched some sensationalised anti-English rubbish on the telly?

What would have happened if she'd made the same comment about the Scots or Welsh?

It's easy to see that Ms Midgley does not rely on the NHS for her healthcare! She is totally cut off from the discrimination levelled against England by the Scots-dominated UK Government today.

UPDATE 2

Greg from Cumbria

So, out of all the nationalities in the world, Channel 4 is claiming that to be English the fact most be proved via a rigid DNA screening programme? But to be Scottish, Welsh, French, Polish, American, Canadian, etc, etc, you just have to say so?

What sort of dreadful Hitler-esque nonsense is this?

Why are they picking on my nationality?

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It's England's Oil

From the latest Campaign for an English Parliament newsletter…

The SNP once again recycles the same tired argument about North Sea Oil and gas subsidising the rest of the UK. Conveniently, they fail to mention that the maritime border was moved heavily in Scotland’s favour a couple of decades ago and that a lot of “oor oil” is actually England’s oil gifted to Scotland by a British government desperate to pacify nationalists.

International convention says that a maritime border between two countries is an extension of the land border. The land border between England and Scotland points upwards on both the east and west coast. The maritime border used to follow this convention putting a large portion of North Sea oil and gas in English waters. Should Scotland ever achieve fiscal or full independence, it would be unacceptable for the maritime border to remain where it is now. Moving the border was nothing more than a bribe. The English weren’t consulted and their permission was not sought to donate their natural resources to another country. A lot of the North Sea oil and gas rightfully belongs to England.

Stuart Parr

Fascinating. Another incident of the British government treating Scotland as a country in its own right and England as the rump of the UK. The people of England should have been given a say in this matter and the maritime boundary must be corrected.

So, next time some bombastic idiot begins the “it’s oor oil” routine in your hearing, you know what to say!

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David Cameron: Scottish Poll Tax Lies

Tory leader David Cameron's speech was basically an anti-English rant, designed to appeal to the most insensitive and bigoted of Scots bigots, and its references to the Poll Tax as an "experiment" imposed on Scotland a year before England, as already pointed out on this blog, were pure myth, but added fuel to the anti-English flavour.

Now, Tory MP Malcolm Rifkind has put the record straight in a letter to The Scotsman -although a well-known anti-English bigot himself, and therefore agreeing with the majority of David Cameron's bile, Mr Rifkind does not let the Poll Tax myth pass unchallenged. Will David Cameron now have the good grace to apologise for his disgraceful outburst, for misinforming the Scots, and fuelling further anti-English hatred in Scotland?

Or will it take further incidents of seven-year-old kids being thumped or disabled people being dragged from their cars before Mr Cameron realises that inciting hatred against the English in Scotland is simply not on?

Mr Rifkind's letter from The Scotsman (22/9/2006)...

I have read your report (16 September) of David Cameron’s remarks, and I very much agree with his general observations. But you report him as saying, on the community charge or poll tax, that “the decision to treat Scotland as a laboratory for experimentation in new methods of local government finance was clumsy and unjust”.

It has sometimes been suggested that the decision to introduce the poll tax in Scotland a year earlier than in England was to enable it to be tested. This is untrue, as those active in Scottish politics at the time will confirm.

The background is well known. Scotland, which had suffered a rates revaluation, was in uproar about the unfairness of the domestic rates system. Rates were also unpopular in England and the government decided to abolish them and replace them with the community charge or poll tax throughout Britain.

For various technical reasons it was going to take much longer for the legislation to be prepared in England than in Scotland. George Younger, who was then Scottish secretary, persuaded the Cabinet that the legislation should be introduced as soon as possible in Scotland and should not have to wait until the English were ready. His Cabinet colleagues accepted this request.

At no time was its timing pressed on Scottish Office ministers by Margaret Thatcher or English colleagues.

I, and my colleagues, have long recognised that the introduction of the poll tax throughout Britain was a serious political mistake. Introducing it a year earlier in Scotland was also a mistake, as we should have anticipated the damaging claim, however incorrect, that the government was using Scotland to test the new reform.

That does not alter the historical reality that the earlier introduction in Scotland, wise or foolish, was decided by Scottish Office ministers because of the unpopularity of domestic rates and not because of any pressure from Mrs Thatcher or other colleagues.

(SIR) MALCOLM RIFKIND, MP
House of Commons
London

Cameron should apologise to everybody in England.

And then resign. His raging Anglophobia makes him unfit to be Conservative party leader. Perhaps he could join New Labour?

More on the Poll Tax history here.

Hat tip to the England Project.

UPDATE...

Greg from Cumbria - howdy!

I hate the way English MPs and England were blamed for "forcing" the Poll Tax onto Scotland early. I remember that smug Australian Clive James stating on TV that the current situation was "Scotland's revenge for the Poll Tax". Stupid man.

Now at last the truth is being publicised - and, by the way, Cameron is not the only one guilty of blackening the reputation of English MPs in Scotland over the Poll Tax. A few years ago, Tony Blair was up there, going on about the West Lothian Question and saying that it was "not the same as English MPs railroading the Poll Tax through in Scotland". I think it was quoted on the CEP site or News Blog

It's not just David Cameron who should be apologising!

Thanks, Greg. Anybody got a copy of the Blair comment?

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The NHS - British - Not English, Even When It's English - Gordon Brown Twists Facts - Again.

It's amazing that Gordon Brown was once again referring to the "British NHS" on the Daily Politics recently - the NHS he was discussing was simply the one in England.

He has no problem separating English from British when he's in Scotland, does he? This type of thing simply heightens my distrust of the man no end.

He's doing himself no favours at all.

Meanwhile, BBC Online recently mentioned Gordon's "Scottish roots" as being problematic for him in his ambition to become PM. Nonsense. Tony Blair has Scottish roots and he's PM, and there are plenty of MPs with Scottish roots in England.

Gordon's constituency is the problem, as the BBC well knows.

The BBC is one of the biggest stirrers of already muddy waters around. And we HAVE to pay for it. It's dictated.

I suggest that if Gordon Brown becomes PM and the vast majority of England's electorate continues to sit back and do nothing, we really will pay - big time!

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David Cameron's Anti-English Chickens Come Home To Roost...

Conservative Party leader David Cameron's disgraceful vote whoring in Glasgow last week has not, as he probably hoped, gone unnoticed in England.

Mr Cameron's attack on the English was totally uncalled for and totally unfair. Now UKIP have published the illustration above on their site, harking back to anti-English horrors in Scotland earlier this year.

All Mr Cameron has done is stir up negative memories and feelings this side of the border.

What a nasty little man he is.

Hat tip to Sarah at the CEP News Blog.


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David Cameron and the Conservative Party Ditch England

Oh look - lovely new Conservative Party logos (thanks to Stuart Dickson, via the CEP News Blog).

There's one for the Scottish Conservatives. One for... I think it means the Welsh Conservatives (actually, the vast majority of people in Wales do not speak or read Welsh, so I won't be alone in not being able to decipher it) and the last one is for the Conservatives.

None of them are aimed at us here in England, but it's nice to see them all the same. I hope the Tories do very well in Scotland and Wales.

Little Scotlander David Cameron's new policy of alienating and insulting the English puzzles me, but I hope it works well for him. I was fascinated at his rewriting of Poll Tax history as a Scottish experiment and I'm sure his growing number of supporters in Scotland have much else to look forward to!

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Conservative Leader David Cameron - Outed - Anti-English Bigot of the Highest Order!

Conservative leader David Cameron has good advice for the English today. They must start respecting the Scots.

Because Scots have "gripes about their place in Britain".

This is the country with its own parliament. The one with five million citizens which pushes the one next door (of 50 million citizens) around.

Mr Cameron has been watching the Bill, a TV soap opera, which has apparently portrayed some drunken Scots in its storylines. This, he has decided, will not do.

Well, Mr Cameron, quite a high proportion of street drunks around where I live in Cambridgeshire do happen to be Scottish. I don't know why. Is my area not typical?

If Mr Cameron disagrees with something on TV, he should write to the company concerned, not kick out at the English and reveal his biased nature.

Being half Scots/half English, my own findings are that apart from the odd flippant use of the word "Jock", my English relatives accept the Scots as kin. But from the majority of members of my North of the Border family, vitriol against the English regularly spews forth. It can be alarming.

Remember people being attacked in Scotland for wearing England shirts this year, including a seven-year-old child?

This is how Mr Cameron's outrageous planned speech is reported in one Scottish newspaper:

David Cameron will today tell the English they are ignorant about Scotland and will challenge the stereotype "that always has a Scot as the drunk on The Bill".....He will add that one aspect of Scottish-English relations he wants to address is attitudes, "and in particular, the ignorance of English people about Scots and Scotland...It matters because the Union is supposed to be a relationship of equals. Not in terms of size, obviously [Nor voting privileges or health, transport and education funding]. But certainly in terms of that most precious of commodities – respect."

The insertion belongs to Gareth of the CEP News Blog.

Mr Cameron has already stopped his party from looking into the democratic deficit facing England. He has already told us that the Barnett Formula is justified because the Scots and Scotland bring so much to the UK. He has already blethered on about the Scottish blood in his veins.

So, despite declaring himself English in his speech, it is clear that Cameron is, in reality, a rabid Little Scotlander.

I'm very puzzled by one statement in the Scotsman article:

David Cameron will today tell the English they are ignorant about Scotland...

But his speech is in Glasgow and will, in all probability, not be reported in England.

Brave Mr Cameron. Bigoted Mr Cameron. Slimy Mr Cameron.

UPDATE

Well, what a speech!

Superhuman Scots? A mangling of the situation regarding "British" sports men and women? A viewpoint that is so plainly bigoted Scot that no amount of David Cameron crying "I'm English!" or going on about "respecting" each corner of the UK will disguise it?

It's all there and reads like an ignorant rant on the letters page of a cheap Scottish tabloid newspaper.

Oh dear... the Tories will be biting the dust in England as well as in Scotland if this keeps up.

The full text of Mr Cameron's venemous, anti-English rant can be found below....

http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=132019&speeches=1

UPDATE 2

Greg from Cumbria

I believe that the only good Tory is a lavotory, always have, but the Poll Tax did not begin in Scotland a year early because it was an experiment. Plans were well in hand to implement it in England in 1989 [ true, Greg - see here], it was a certainty for 1990, but the early start for Scotland was because of a mid-80s rates re-evaluation - and many Scots believed that the Tax would help.

Cameron apologises for this "experiment" because his grasp of past politics is blurred and odd, clouded by Scottish bigotry and a desire to fan the flames of anti-English hatred in his spiritual homeland. Scotland is the country where a child was attacked for wearing an England football shirt this year. And David Cameron has been stirring the anti-English pot further. What a great man.

Loved the way "nations and regions" sneaked into his speech as reported in the Scotsman!

David Cameron is appealing to anti-English bigots in Scotland - and is clearly one himself. He thinks it's clever to declare himself "proud to be English" but he isn't. Englishness is a state of a mind, like any other national feeling. Cameron is a Little Scotlander - striking out at "sour Little Englanders" (people like me and thee who want a fair deal for England) and slagging us off left, right and centre to his perceived fellow countrymen.

The fact that they wouldn't elect him gift wrapped with tartan bells on is lost on him. And his stock will sink lower in England because of this.

But his heart belongs to Scotland.

It is time the Tories got themselves a decent leader - one dedicated to restoring democracy to the 50 million people who make up the electorate in England, not a shit stirring Little Scotlander.

Must do better, folks.

And here's Sylv from Salford

I reckon you're all over-estimating Dave Cameron. Yeh, the guy might have some romantic Victorian notions of his ancestors tossing their cabers in the bonny, bonny heather, but he's not really pro-Scottish. Or anti-English. He's just a Unionist twit with a huge ego.

"Imagine if I get more Scots to vote Tory - to vote for ME! Imagine what a feather in my cap that would be! Everybody would then KNOW how super I am!"

It's vote whoring, pure and simple.

The fact that he might upset the English with his unfair comments or stir up more anti English crap in Scotland doesn't occur to him.

The fact that the Scots think he's a pathetic Tory twat (and he is) is completely beyond his radar.

He's a bear of very little brain.

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Gordon Brown: Scottish and British are Separate Nationalities

Via Gareth at the CEP News Blog comes hot news from our possible PM-to-be...

The prospect of an MP representing a Scottish constituency becoming British PM is a tremendous blow to democratic rule, but now Gordon Brown has made things even worse by revealing his thoughts on the state of Britain - the British rabble and the Scottish elite...

Gordon Brown has been shooting his mouth off in his homeland, the BBC (but only in Scotland) reports, and it transpires that he believes the Scots are a separate nationality to the British.

On first sight, the article reads like a wonderful rallying call for the Scots as a constituent nationality of Britishness (although his speech does nothing to address the democratic deficit in England).

But then Gordon slips up...

Here's Mr Brown revealing his hand on BBC Scotland Online.

"A Britain founded on both the devolution of power but also on a partnership which brings us stability, co-operation and mutual support is the best way of expressing the aspirations of the Scottish and British people."

At this point, he does not even dignify the English and Welsh nationalities by acknowledging their existence.

Gordon said it himself. So, Mr Brown, you are Scots, not British, so why are you trying to become British PM?

UPDATE

14/9/2006

Sue Campbell

Gordon Brown believes so passionately in the concept of Britishness that he shoots his wife off to Scotland to ensure that his children are born Scottish!

England is "Britain", or "UK" to Mr Brown, there to be used and abused, but his homeland is always "Scotland". Sweet bonny Scotland. Like many Scots MPs, Brown is a twisted dictator.

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England: The Scots Rule Us and Now Some of Them Want To Poison Us...

Creepy news via Wonko, the England Project and the CEP News Blog.

Not content with higher public spending, their own parliament, the right to force legislation onto England, life prolonging/life saving drugs not available in England etc, etc, etc, the Scots (well, at least some of them) now want to poison us. The Scottish National Liberation Army wants to poison England's water supply.

There are apparently details of how to contaminate a city's water supply on the Scottish National Liberation Army's website (although the organisation makes it plain that it is not out to poison the Welsh or Northern Irish, only the English) and they declare "this is a war".

The threat was sent to the offices of the Sunday Times in Glasgow. The English edition of this newspaper has decided to suppress this information.

How many brain cells exist amongst the members of the SNLA? And just what "UK" country needs liberating in reality?

The one with no national representation...

The one whose students are discriminated against by the Scots...

The one which endures spiteful legislation foisted on to it by Scots MPs...

The one some Scots and Welsh people use fake racist purity arguments about being "Celts" to abuse...

The one which pays the most but receives the least in public services...

The one with the collapsing health service...

The one where lives are valued least by the NHS...

The one with the rivers now falling under the non-democratic rule of the Scottish Parliament...

ENGLAND!



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Toyah Willcox - I'm SO Caring Now...

Here's Toyah Willcox speaking about the 1980s in an article in this month's The Word magazine:
"The 80s taught me to keep my eyes open and my ears to the ground, because I think we became incredibly blinkered. We all hated Thatcherism, how the miners were being ripped off, the terrible privatisations, but there was still this attitude of 'I'm alright Jack'. I was a culprit myself and I'll never live by that again."

That is good to know. Toyah, a middle class Punk, starred in a lousy and highly pretentious film called Jubilee in the late 70s, and purveyed middle class Punk to the masses in the early 80s.

But she now has her "ear to the ground". She uses her fame to highlight various injustices: the way NHS Trusts have caused our health service to crumble; the way government-backed health apartheid is levelled against the people of England; the continuation of the Barnett Formula; and the breakdown of democratic rule for England.

Doesn't she?

Personally, in the 80s, I was one of millions who marched for the miners, to free Nelson Mandela, to stop Clause 28, to stop Cruise. I even once threw an egg at Thatcher. I backed Billy and Red Wedge.

What happens nowadays?

Toyah, dear, in the 80s you sang a load of crap, so please don't bore us by talking a load of crap now. There is a lot less social and political concern in the 21st Century, society is far more fragmented.

And if you haven't got any dosh in England things are worse than they've ever been. Kids leaving school can't even claim benefits. An adult minimum wage is not payable until you turn 21 or 22! You have to be almost halfway to fifty to get a decent wage!

And if you're a pensioner...

If you really care about issues, Toyah, (or may I call you "Toilet" for old times sake?) - the way somebody in England can die prematurely from bone cancer for instance, whilst in Scotland that life would be prolonged, put your money where your mouth is and HIGHLIGHT IT, or please SHUT UP about how nice you are now and what an expert you are on the way things were in the 1980s!

Strangely enough, not everybody back then was a pampered pop star, getting up people's noses. We don't all share your experiences or point of view, and the vast majority of us certainly don't share the high opinion you currently have of yourself.

UPDATE

Sue Campbell whizzes in...

This 80s stuff is crap. I'm sorry, but it is. The 80s weren't all about money. The first few years were all about things getting worse than they had in the 70s - and that was saying something.

A couple of years in the middle - say 84-87 were a bit money mad and swanky, but we'd been up the financial creek since the early 70s, so it wasn't surprising that a bit of money suddenly in circulation turned people's heads.

Then, in 88 and 89, we suddenly went eco-friendly potty after the stock market busted in 87, and Acid House and Rave knocked out the shoulder pads.

Throughout all that, the spirit of protest was strong and people cared a lot more than they do today. It pisses me off that people scapegoat the 80s to feel all nice and warm and smug now.

Toyah - you were voted "Most Very Useless Thing" in "Smash Hits" in 1982 (and if you weren't, you should have been), you still fit that title pefectly, so please shut your silly trap or show us you mean what you say.

UPDATE 2

Slyv from Salford...

Was Toyah an "80s star"? I went out to buy a copy of "The Word" after reading your post, must say was most interested - "The Eighties - The Decade That Changed Everything"...

It certainly wreaked havoc - I remember the spirit of protest, the flamin' yuppies, the twonky new technology and the shoulder pads...

I always saw Toyah as a 70s/cusp 80s star. After all, she featured in Derek Jarman's "Jubilee" film in 1977 (or was it 78? It was cobblers, anyway), had a couple of hits in 1981 and 1982 and then vanished. "They wanted me to look like Pat Benatar," she wails. Well Toyah, honey, that was better than looking like David Bowie, c. 1973 - as you often did!

We had original brilliance like New Order, Grandmaster Flash, Propaganda, Billy Bragg, The Smiths, U2, Madness, Pet Shop Boys, Cocteau Twins... who needed thoroughly silly Toyah?

Not sure it was appropriate for "The Word" to ask Toyah for her story - she barely dabbled a toe in the 80s, but I reckon her opinion's hilarious. "I was selfish then, but I'm really caring and spiritual now". When, Toyah? Once a year? On your birthday? Can we come and watch?

At least Billy Bragg speaks up for the good of England at times. Toyah's just a useless old windbag.

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BBC Mangles Islamic Extremist Truth - But Sticks The Boot Into The English...

From BBC online...

A few years ago, anti-English racist Jack Straw slagged us off on the BBC, calling us "violent" and accusing us of "subjugating" the other UK nations (William Hague was simply a bore). The unbiased BBC saw fit to provide a picture of "typical" Englishmen as a background for the article's illustration. Straw remains committed to the oppression of the people of England by the British State, and wastes no opportunity to tell lies about England's history, presenting the country in the worst light possible. Mr Straw also specialises in twisting the facts regarding devolution.

Whilst having no respect for those who identify themselves as English, the BBC will go to absurd lengths, misrepresenting and mangling the news, to appease certain groups in the UK.

President Bush: "This nation [the USA] is at war with Islamic fascists".

The BBC, reporting this statement, removed "Islamic" and altered the wording to "extremists" - because, of course, it is not Politically Correct to offend Islamic fascists. There's more about Auntie and her sick mangling of the facts on Drinking From Home - here and here.

There is one group of people, of course, that the BBC does not care a jot about offending - or spreading hate-filled lies about.

Yes, it's the English.

The BBC views the English as the pits of the UK, and no slur is too low for them to report when it comes to us.

Remember this little gem from anti-English bigot Jack Straw, part of NuLabour's liberal elite?

Cross-party politicians have warned of growing English nationalism following devolution, airing their views in a BBC programme.

Home Secretary Jack Straw says the English had used their "propensity to violence to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland" on the Radio 4 programme Brits. The broadcast is examining what it now means to be British.

Mr Straw will describe the English as "potentially very aggressive, very violent" and will "increasingly articulate their Englishness following devolution."

Straw positively ranted about the English, what he said is inaccurate, offensive and bigoted, but Auntie Beeb happily reported it. No words were tweaked to protect our feelings.

And it seems that Auntie is quite happy to be racist again - exchanging the word "Muslim" for "Asian" in one instance - in its determination to keep the words "Muslim extremists" or, heaven forbid, "Muslim terrorists" out of the news.

I have the greatest sympathy with ordinary, everyday British Muslims, worried about the situation here. But Auntie tampering with the news is just plain wrong.

Just as the organisation's bigoted and irrational hatred of the English is just plain wrong.

The BBC is the arsehole of British broadcasting. It stinks.

UPDATE...

Sue Campbell...

Auntie Beeb recently made a series casting doubt on Christianity - the series was made by a Muslim. This is... what?... 3% of the population?

I am a Christian. England was a Christian country for many years. It is part of our history. The BBC are so hypocritical to disregard the feelings of Christians. No equivalent series will be made on the Muslim faith.

Trouble is Auntie constantly crawls to this single, tiny minority, whilst treating the rest of us like crap, and this makes me feel very negative. Not towards individual Muslims. But I'd like to display some of my "violent" Englishness, as the Bigot Straw puts it, and smash a few windows at the BBC's Broadcasting House.

They force us to pay them so that they can denigrate us and look down their noses at us.

It's not just the BBC which stinks, Chris - the whole bloody country does - from the Scottish Raj to Muslim groups writing letters to Scottish Bigot Blair asking that foreign policy be changed so that we won't be blown up by their fellow Muslims.

The country's in a heck of a mess.

Hmmm... don't get too down, gal. I always find a hot, sweet cuppa and a look at this daft 80s blog helps...

Failing that... CHOCOLATE - LOTS OF IT!

Trouble is, we're not listened to. We're helpless.

UPDATE 2...

Greg from Cumbria...

I always have to laugh when Jack Straw tries to make out that English MPs are still in charge in England and of the funding formula for Scotland. Of course, he never mentions how much higher public spending in Scotland is - or foundation hospitals or top up fees in England and the role Scottish MPs had in imposing them on us!

What a liar and spin master the Strawman is.

Does anybody know why he hates England so much?

UPDATE 2 - 13/8/2006

Slyv from Salford...

The BBC regards those defining themselves as English as the great unwashed. It is an organisation steeped in snobbery, an elite and illogical bunch of idiots, undermining stability and good feelings about this country (heard them on the subject of the British Empire?) and brown necking extremists.

And as for Jack Straw - don't get me started!

I remember the speech he gave to the Hansard Society (I posted on it here). Did the audience just take the nonsense he spouted? Was there a question and answer session afterwards? Was his tosh rejected?

Sue Campbell again...

The BBC is not fit for purpose. It is funded mostly by money from England, but actively attacks the English and pours hated on the concept of England at every opportunity, whilst also encouraging terrorists with mealy mouthed crap.

We should not have to fund the BBC. It is the enemy of every single person living in England today, breaking down our unity, pouring scorn on our history and encouraging hatred against England and the English amongst recent arrivals.

Of course, the BBC treats Scotland and Wales very differently. Perhaps a lot of Auntie's anti-English bigotry stems from those two countries?

Unfortunately, those countries provide only a tiny amount of the Beeb's funding!

The BBC should be working for England too, not pursuing its own bizarre, racist agenda.

I agree, Sue - the BBC does not serve England's interests, quite the reverse. But the organisation is in the Government's pocket and it is dictated that we have to pay the fee. I don't watch any modern TV - only DVDs, but I STILL have to pay the licence fee.

SICK.

Greg...

Channel Five weather is at it now - referring to "nations and regions"...

"We'll look at the nations first, then we'll do the regions".

Nations and regions are such a bizarre concept outside the Scottish Raj's mindset. Look at the huge display of Cross of St George flags recently displayed by people who know that England is a nation. Are there backhanders going on? I don't understand it...

Channel 5 stinks to high heaven anyway. But in these days of NuLabour quangrocracy, I think it's a fair bet there's some government influence here.

You're right - "nations and regions" is a bizarre Scottish Rajist concept, fresh from Gordon Brown's finest select cuts of crap, and for Channel 5 to be attempting to brainwash its viewer (s) into believing in them smells mighty fishy...

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National Archive jumps on the Anti-English Bandwagon...

Via Gareth comes the worrying news that the condition afflicting most Government departments has now spread to the National Archive. Yep, the Archive, which is apparently supposed to cover "England, Wales and the United Kingdom" (what kind of nonsensical poop is that?!) has attributed the Domesday Book, which was a venture covering only England, to Britain.

I've written 'em this, and will keep you informed of any replies...

Your banner proclaiming the Domesday Book as "Britain's greatest treasure" is inaccurate and offensive.

Anybody with any knowledge of English history (pre-Britain) knows that the Domesday Book related only to England.

So your banner is offensive to:

A) The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish - as you proclaim that the greatest treasure in BRITAIN is an English venture.

B) English people - to whom it may seem that you are ignoring the existence of their country.

Personally, I am tired of these kinds of errors, the way that England is airbrushed out of existence, and the anti-English Government agenda, which cuts across all areas of life.

I shall not be reading further.

It is worrying that Government departments concerned with presenting and preserving artifacts from our long history appear to be prepared to sacrifice historical accuracy to jump on the Government's racist, anti-English bandwagon.

Gareth has more here and here.

UPDATE - 7/8/2006

In the midst of a busy day I spared the time to check my e-mails and see if the National Archive had replied to my e-mail above. Not a sausage. How do they justify that? Their banner was inaccurate, my e-mail was reasonable, and they are supposed to serve the public.

Except when we mention England, apparently.

Oh well - there's always tomorrow.

Anybody else had a reply?

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Tips for Avoiding Shopping at Anti-English Tesco

You want to do your bit for England, you want to stop shopping at Tesco - the High Priest of Anti-English Supermarkets, but you can't be bothered.

It's so convenient...

You're not shopping there won't make a difference anyway...

Rubbish!

We must all send a clear message to Tesco - that we are not to be treated as second class citizens. We must demand clearly marked English produce in line with Scottish and Welsh Tesco produce. If Tesco are pandering to anti-English racists from Scotland and Wales, or if their board of directors is mainly comprised of the same, they must be taught a lesson.

We must thwack Tesco straight in the profit margin.

You CAN shop elsewhere.

A couple I know live in a village without a shop. They don't have a car and the local bus service is lousy. There is a Tesco on their doorstep. But they never shop there. How do they manage it? A few tips...

For frozen stuff...

Try somewhere like Iceland. Amazingly cheap, good quality, and a far larger range than Tesco. Excellent frozen vegetables. Small range of non-frozen products - like cheese, bread, salad ingredients. If you have a freezer, shop there once a month, save pounds, and watch the housekeeping allowance stretch.

For fresh veg, also look at local markets and greengrocers - English produce is clearly marked and is often cheaper - yes CHEAPER - than that sold in Tesco, and much of what my friends have bought strikes me as fresher. Things like peppers for stews and casseroles can be prepared and frozen at home - with less loss of nutrition than if they had been sat on a supermarket shelf/in your fridge.

Visit the market/greengrocer once or twice a week. The couple I know manage this without a car and both work full-time. If you have a car and/or don't work full-time, think how much easier it will be for you!

On a budget - economy products. If you depend on the big supermarkets "basic" ranges, then Sainsbury's is better than Tesco. Sainsbury's is also anti-English, but has not yet taken it as far as Tesco. Your "Basic" milk or beans will not be emblazoned with the dreaded Union Flag.

Voila - your changes in shopping habits will not have meant uncomfortable changes to your lifestyle, you will be eating fresher produce, saving money and never having to boost the local Anglo-phobic Tesco store's coffers with your hard earned dosh!

REMEMBER - ANYWHERE BUT TESCO!

Nice one!

UPDATE 4/8/2006

Grace tells us...

Even more important, if you don't run a car, Iceland run a free home delivery service. Great store - wins hands down for freezer food quality and its range of £1 products can't be beat!

I used to be a confirmed Tesco shopper. Thought I'd never beat the habit until they started doing away with the Cross of St George on English products and hyping the Saltire on Scotch products. That's racial discrimination, I decided, Tesco can get stuffed!

And I've never looked back.

UPDATE 8/12/2006

Simon in Manchester...

Came across this blog via a BBC thread - good for you.

We have various cancer treatment drugs which are not available in England, but ARE available on the NHS elsewhere in the UK.

We have non-representative MPs from Scots constituencies forcing legislation onto England;

We have England being broken up into regions - despite the North East, the only area allowed a referendum on the subject, voting NO massively, we still have unelected regional assemblies and their powers are growing.

We have Channel 4 making out that Englishness cannot exist without Nazi-style DNA tests (although apparently this does not apply to any other world ethnicities/nationalities).

We have farmers in England getting a worse deal than those in Scotland and Wales.

And, of course, we have Tesco refusing to recognise just one of the UK nations.

As soon as you say you are English, the PC crowd cry "Racist!" I believe that the English are downtrodden and are the most non-racist nation in the UK - and I have non-white friends who are as English as I am.

You're doing good here. It's all part of a much wider issue, and it needs highlighting.

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England is the Only UK Nation to be denied a "miracle" bone cancer drug freely available in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...

Via the CEP News Blog comes this...

England denied miracle bone cancer drug

By EMILY COOK,

Daily Mail

Bone cancer victims in England will not be given a life-prolonging drug - although it is available to patients in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The drug, Velcade, which can put the cancer into remission and dramatically improve life expectancy, is also available in every other developed country in the world.

But yesterday the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence refused to approve Velcade for use in England on the NHS, saying it is not 'cost-effective'.

We know that the health services elsewhere in the so-called UK are far better funded than in England.

Surely this should not be so? Jack Straw keeps saying that "England will be the big loser" if the UK splits up. Tosh, of course. He will tell any old lie to press his point home.

There are many reasons why Straw should be regarded as a corrupt spinner.

If the man was in front of me now, I would say to him that the NHS in the UK should be the same for all, not operate on an apartheid system - routinely discriminating against every man, woman and child in England.

People want good health care, most want to live as long as possible.

My dear old grandmother used to say: "Every drop of life is sweet".

It's heart warming that this Government agrees with her - at least if you happen to be a citizen of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Is this one of the ways that the UK benefits England, Mr Straw?

How I wish he would answer.

Where is the BBC in all this? Have they reported on it? The last time I saw anything on the BBC News about variations in availability of NHS Drugs in the so-called "UK" (which always works against England), Scotland had been conveniently lopped off the map shown on screen and was not referred to!

Is Auntie doing the right thing and keeping the licence payers informed?

Let me know if you spot anything!

In the meantime, read more and join the discussion at the CEP News Blog...

UPDATE...

Hi to Sue Campbell!

After the Herceptin scandal, this doesn't surprise me. Of course the government doesn't care if people die in England. This government is composed of Scottish and Welsh racists, heaven alone knows what the Northern Irish MPs think, and English MPs are content to sit back and take it for the sake of "Britain" and an easy life.

I've been having chats recently to one of the Blair Government's new slave workers. That's right, a young Polish lad, recently arrived here, happy to work as a bus driver for absolutely shit money. He hasn't been here that long, but already he is saying to me gravely: "Things are very expensive here!"

"Especially on your money!" I always reply. The company is famous for its shit wages and most of the workforce are recent immigrants.

What will happen to them when they want to settle down? Start a family? Unemployment is steadily rising, and somebody (probably another new arrival here) will be willing to take their place. But what better-paid job will be there be for them to provide for their new responsibilities?

And Labour was traditionally "for" the workers!

Anyway, I've had several conversations with the Polish bus driver - he's a bit of a ray of sunshine in the morning, and he's enthusiastic about "England" and "the English". Well, tomorrow I think I'm going to take him a scan of the "Daily Mail" article on the bone cancer drug.

The Government relies on the traditionally quiescent population of this country and the fact that the massed new arrivals don't yet know what is going on to mistreat us, steal our money, take away our democracy, and let us die for want of care and medication.

It's time to start informing recent immigrants what they've come to.

I think we all should make a point of it.

It's the English pleb that's had the shitty deal right through the Union. There were Scotland and Wales with their Secretaries of State, English MPs refraining from voting on certain of their issues and massive subsidies. Scottish industry was going down the toilet in the 1970s - they can't blame it all on Thatcher.

And as for the Poll Tax - many Scots were in favour of it. Didums, did they have it a year longer than us? My heart bleeds. At least we weren't letting their people die for want of medication freely available in England.

We must spread the word about the Scottish Raj and the evil British State, not just keep it to ourselves - let's tell the new arrivals!

Tonight I'm BURNING A UNION FLAG.

UPDATE 2

28/7/2006

Welcome back to Greg...

NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) used to be a UK-wide organisation. These are the bods that have made the current outrageous recommendation about the Velcade treatment.

Judging by their blurb, I don't think they've absorbed the fact that devolution has given Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland their own powers.

Who is behind NICE's decision to let people in England die? Not anybody representing the interests of that country's people, that's for sure.

And the Scottish Raj-dominated UK Government gets to accept the recommendation!

We need our own health bodies, our own government for England.

We're being run by evil, racist bastards, happy to let us die.

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Who Is It?

Here's a capture from a TV-AM programme broadcast in April 1983.

Who or what was it?

A Cabbage Patch Doll reject?

A New Romantic Troll?

Or a big fat prat who later was quite likely to hit you, shag you, or try and break up your country into regions against your will?

Answers on a postcard please to the usual address by 17 April 1946. First correct one out of the postbag wins a copy of the "hit" album Smells Like 1983.


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Muddying The Waters: Jack Straw Lies For Britain (again)...

Thanks to John for this quote:

Mess about with this, and we’d see too the progressive disintegration of the Union. England has benefited most by this in amplifying England’s power worldwide. England would be the big loser.

Yep, it's Jack Straw again, writing in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph about devolution, and why people in England should certainly NOT be treated on a par with their Scottish and Welsh counterparts.

His argument falls apart as soon as you look at it. There's no need to even prod it.

How can a country which does not exist become the "big loser" by being granted recognition, a voice?

As for the Union "amplifying England's power worldwide" - when was that? At the time of the British Empire? How long ago was that? And surely dear little Scotland, disproportionately active at the time of Empire, felt at least just as much benefit as England from the venture? And what about Wales and Ireland?

Whatever the ins-and-outs, that's in the past, all gone - not the basis for modern day decision making on devolution issues. So what the heck is Straw playing at?

The man talks transparent nonsense - relying on the apathy of the electorate not to examine his endless stream of anti-English clap trap.

There are no depths the snivelling government toad will not sink to in his attempts to ensure that the people of England remain under the thumb of the British State.

The game's up, Straw man.

John has more and the link to the original article.

No sooner do I press "publish" than Sue zooms in...

UPDATE...

Sue Campbell...

Straw's ploy seems obvious to me. Not only does he regard the English as being violent, but he also regards us as being Imperialists - and fik (intended spelling). So he thinks we'll be swayed by his out-of-date Imperialist arguments.

We won't grasp the true facts - that we're being dictated to and shafted at every turn.

Of course, the British Government is the true Imperialist force in this country.

Jack Straw is a sick, twisted and utterly evil little man.

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BBC Comedy Guide - "We Don't Love The English"...

Mark from Luton writes:

I'm black - my parents came here in the 60s and I was born here. I'm really interested in the English thing and devolution and enjoyed your article which mentioned Desmond's a few weeks ago. You were right - the characters in that show did not substitute "British" for English. I read this article about Desmond's on the BBC Guide To Comedy site yesterday. It's by a guy called Mark Lewisohn:

Set in a barber shop - Desmond's - situated in the south London district of Peckham, its wry humour was wrung not only from the characters and situations but also from the generation gap and the attitudinal differences between West Indian immigrants and their British-born descendants. Desmond's salon was the Peckham equivalent of the Cheers bar in Boston, with family, friends and neighbours popping in to play out the latest episodes in their life. Little in the way of hairdressing seems to have been done, but as a local meeting place it was second to none. (In this, Desmond's typified many black-run barber shops which, like, say, Italian barber-shops, tend to be more welcoming and friendly, and more of a social centre, than their white-English counterparts.)

Do you notice Lewisohn refers to "British born descendants" of West Indian immigrants and then goes on to say that black barber shops tend to be "more welcoming and friendly, and more of a social centre, than their white English counterparts"?

So, Lewisohn mentions the "white English", but it's negative. White English barber shops are less "welcoming and friendly" than black! And it's OK for him to say that.

Personally, I've never come across a barbers quite like Desmond's - part of the plot was that Desmond himself was not a good businessman. There are friendly black-run barbers and friendly "white English" run barbers. There was one near where I lived in the 80s where the old men were always in there, swapping betting tips, gassing to the owner and generally not having their hair cut.

But Lewisohn paints a stereotypical picture of white English establishments as stand-offish. Where does he get his hair cut? Mayfair?

It's the same with black and "white English" ladies' hairdressers: there's a "white English" one in my road where the regulars all sit around drinking tea and gassing. And some of the regulars are BLACK, Mr Lewisohn.

Is Lewisohn's remark supposed to appeal to we blacks? Because, to me, the guy comes across like a creep of the first order. Patronising jerk. And what colour is he? Why is he prepared to make negative generalisations about "white English" barbers and list the descendents of black immigrants as "British"? Desmond's was never afraid of the word "English".

Lewisohn's a slimeball of the lowest order.

Thanks for that, Mark.

I too have little time for Mr Lewisohn, and I'm fascinated by what you've come up with. I've linked to the BBC Comedy Guide piece you mention.

Yonks ago, Drew and Fiona came across an article on the BBC Comedy Guide by Mark Lewisohn, which referred to the Scots as Scots and the English as "Sassanachs"!

It's probably still there - although Drew & Fiona complained, they received no reply from the BBC.

Definitely a typical bigoted BBC employee.

A further word of warning: Don't take what Mr Lewisohn writes on the BBC Comedy Guide for gospel truth either - I've only skimmed but I've already spotted several factual errors, and writing intelligently about the alternative comedy scene of the early 1980s seems way beyond him.


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