Coronation Street - Anti-English To The Core!

1960s heyday - Coronation Street before it turned against the English and began licking Scots' bottoms.

We published a post on here a few days ago about the furore surrounding a Scots character slagging off a Scots football team in the ITV1 soap opera Coronation Street. A few Scots football fans complained, and Granada took out the offending words. However, Granada kept in other offensive words about the Scots character hating the "English" national anthem (in reality the British national anthem, there is no English national anthem).

From our original post:

Of course there is NO English national anthem. Officially, God Save The Queen is the national anthem of Britain - which includes Scotland and Wales.

However, Scotland and Wales sing their own anthems at football matches, leaving the English teams with the British anthem - which is absurd. But some English people do perceive God Save The Queen as being the English national anthem. When hoary old ITV Granada soap Coronation Street recently scripted a character as commenting that he hated "warm beer, the English national anthem, and Glasgow Rangers" the line was edited out. Not out of any respect for English monarchists or beer lovers, you understand, but because the show simply did not want to offend Scots football fans.

But now we know that only the comment which was offensive to Glasgow Rangers fans was removed. The racist, anti-English comment was left in. Imagine a Corrie character stating that he/she hated the national anthem of any other country. Can you imagine the uproar? One of the sickest shows on the box for some years, Corrie now turns on its own country of origin.

Still, it's heyday was the 1960s and it's been in decline ever since. Now it's apparently in its dotage. But are people really upset about crumbly old Corrie allowing anti-English bile in its episodes?

After the episode was broadcast tonight, we almost immediately received this comment from Alfie:

"I BLOODY KNEW IT!!!!

They kept the reference to 'The English national anthem in!!!!

Fascist bastards!!!"

The reference to the Scottish football team was certainly less offensive than the anti-English comment. And yet in deference to a few whingers Granada took out the words. The feelings of English viewers were ignored.

Coronation Street is now very sick indeed - apparently encouraging hatred against its own home nation, and casting Scots in a bad light too for making such bigoted comments.

Surely it's time to pull the plug on this rambling, bigoted, mess?

Cornwall Is Not A Country - But Anti-English Tesco Says It Is...

Cornwall is a county of England. Despite the racist cries of those fancying themselves as "pure blooded Celts" (no such thing) and others simply concerned that Cornwall should be independent, it is still a county of England. And should remain one until a referendum decides otherwise. Until the people have spoken.

We have friends born in Cornwall who firmly believe they are English and that Cornwall is an English county. But Tesco, rabidly anti-English, have decided to butter up the racist fantasy "Celtic" clique in Cornwall by slapping a Cornish flag on their "finest" range.

This makes no sense at all. Cornwall is not a nation. And county flags are missing from all other Tesco produce.

What on earth is Tesco playing at?

Read the whole tale at Waking Hereward.

Ed Balls, Bigot, Would Rather Mislead The Public Than Mention England...

Ed Balls - anti-English/anti-England racist bigot.

From the BBC:

Schools are being given advice on how to prevent pupils becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism.

Guidelines are being made available to primary and secondary schools in England to help them discuss the issues surrounding extremist views.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls said schools could play a "key role" in getting young people to reject extremism.

And from BT Yahoo news:

Ed Balls: "Dealing with violent extremism is nothing new for the UK and we have learnt from past experience that a security response is not enough."

"For the UK"? But your remit does not cover the UK, Mr Balls - only England. Should a man who obviously hates England and the English so much he can't even bring himself to mention the words when they are strictly relevant to the subject being discussed be allowed to co-ordinate policy to help steer young minds away from bigotry, hatred and extremism?

Jim Murphy - Another Smug Scots Parasite - Feeding Off The English...

Jim Murphy: Scotland is a proud, historic nation... I'll do all I can for Scotland... I love Scotland... Scotland is the most wonderful place on earth... we Scots are so great I could wee myself, etc, etc...

How do we afford all these MPs? And how come so many are for Scotland only? There's Scots over-representation at Westminster, MSPs, Euro MPs, and now a new full-time Scottish Secretary of State - the un-admirable Jim "Gob" Murphy. The admirable Secret Person points out that Scotland, on top of all this, also has a regional minister - like the ones forced on England to ensure our country's break-up by the Scottish Raj at Westminster.

So, we know that these Scots MPs are out to further Scotland's interests and couldn't give a hang about England or its people, and it's good that Jim Murphy should immediately reveal his Little Scotlander personality on his new blog:

"I will work with anyone who wants to advance our interests. In Europe I worked with centre-right and centre-left governments, with conservative and nationalist. I even enjoyed working with the Communist President of Cyprus. I know from experience the importance of building alliance to achieve real progress. But I will also vigorously oppose ideas and actions that will damage Scotland and her people. I love Scotland. I am passionate about its past and optimistic about its future. No political party has a monopoly on patriotism and I will challenge anyone who says otherwise. We have a great diversity in Scotland but we can all be united by the Saltire."

Not the Union Flag, rammed down our throats in England, you understand, but the saltire. Much as we admire the Scots Parliament's work on encouraging an inclusive non-Celtic-myth Scottishness, Jim Murphy, as a UK Minister, completely ignores the UK angle and makes it plain that Scotland is simply in it for what it can get out:

"As Secretary of State I will be relentless in my pursuit in the interests of Scotland. I will be out and about, criss-crossing the country. Travelling from north to south, to cities, towns and villages to meet businesses and voluntary groups, to visit workplaces and factories, to host round-tables and hold debates. I will listen, learn and act. I will passionately put the case for our current constitutional settlement. Ours is a great nation, with a proud history and a great future. I look forward to meeting you and talking to you – and most of all hearing from you. This is the first of what will be a regular blog."

Jim Murphy, like so many in so-called UK politics, you are a smug, exclusive and unscrupulous git with your hand in English pockets and a determination to make your fellow countrymen into even more of an elite than ever.

Health apartheid, the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula is not enough, is it? Like it or not, this is all about the UK being run primarily for the benefit of an elite - the people of Scotland.

Gordon Brown, "our" non-representative PM, may have appointed this man to try and shut Salmond's gob a bit. But from the sound of Jim Murphy's fairly constant flow of smug, exclusive Scots nationalist verbal diarrhea so far, Gordy may have picked a dud.

Jim Murphy - Scottish Secretary Of State - Snout In The Trough As Gordon Brown Honours His Pledge To Put Scotland First...

In recent years, the UK Government post of Scottish Secretary was cut down to part-time. Why should Scotland have a Secretary of State at all, some of us asked? 75% of legislation passed by the UK Government no longer affects Scotland, and England doesn't have a Secretary of State and NOBODY speaks for England as a nation - MPs supposedly representing English constituencies are too busy guzzling at the trough to speak up on issues like the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula, health apartheid, etc.

And now, not content with having its own parliament and part-time Secretary of State, Scotland has a full-time Secretary again - thanks of course to English revenue and Scots greed.

From the CEP News Blog:

Jim McMurphy, the new Secretary of State for Scotland, has got off to a flying start.

He apparently told Gordon McBrown that he would only take the job on the condition that it was full time and not combined with another cabinet position like it was with Des McBrowne. At a time when the British government has the least relevance to the people of Scotland as it has for over 300 years, appointing a full-time minister for Scotland is quite bizarre. Especially when taking into account that there is no Secretary of State for England and no England Office despite the British government having absolute control over England.

Gordon Brown, you really are honouring the 1989 Scottish Claim Of Right that you signed way back then, aren't you? You really are putting Scotland ahead of the rest of the UK in all you do?

And stick your snout in the trough, Jim Murphy - join the rest of the pigs!

Country Life Butter Attacks The English!

Illustration from the Fair Flags Campaign site.

We have some old VHS video cassettes taped from TV in the early 1980s, and one of the most oft-repeated advertisements is that for Country Life English Butter.

Remember the cartoon yokels?

"Oh we are the lads from Country Life and you'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife, if you 'aven't any in 'ave a word with the wife and spread it on your toast in the morning! Oh it's English, fresh and creamy too..."

English? Not any more it isn't. Country Life Butter is now "British":

A British claim enables us to credibly use the British flag within communications without causing confusion. The British flag has a more positive association with consumers than the English flag.

Eh? But the British flag is the chosen flag of the odious and highly racist BNP!!

See? This is their logo.

And how dare Dairy Crest, manufacturers of Country Life, suggest that England's national flag, the Cross of St George, is not as positive as the Union Flag, with all its imperialistic/racist connotations?

A couple of us here were partial to a bit of Country Life.

Not any more. We strongly recommend that this anti-England/anti-English product is now boycotted. It is not enough for the company to remove the "English" tag from the product - it also casts slurs upon our national flag and opines that the flag used by a racist organisation is superior.

Huge hat- tip to The Fair Flags Campaign.

Happy days - 1981 newspaper ad for Country Life English Butter.

"Keep Celts Onside, Seb!" Says Angharad Mair Of Wales On Sunday - What A Racist Notion!

It always makes us smile when we witness the rampant double standards and mythology perpetrated by certain individuals from our neighbouring countries. In today's Wales On Sunday, Angharad Mair advises Lord Seb Coe to "Keep The Celts Onside"!

But the Celts were an ancient white tribe and nothing to do with modern day Scotland and Wales. Indeed, there are doubts that the Celts ever reached these islands en-masse! So, what's she on about?

Wales and Scotland are not Celtic, and are most certainly not all white nations, which, carried to its logical conclusion is what Ms Mair is saying. There is a feeling of some kind of exclusive club comprised of Scotland and Wales to the exclusion of all others in this kind of racist cosying up. The origins of the Scots nationality are not the same as those of the Welsh.

Indeed, up until a few hundred years ago, the Scots and Welsh were never even called "Celts"!

Angharad Mair you are in our opinion, perhaps unknowingly, a racist. But in these days of devolution and a Scots and Welsh elite, your type are going to be challenged more and more.

Council House Sales - Not All Thatcher's Fault...

Norfolk Blogger writes about Margaret Thatcher and the Right To Buy. The Credit Crunch is all her fault, he reckons. But the Right to Buy issue is more complex than that - and sales of council houses did not begin under Thatcher...

Most secure tenants of local authority houses in England and Wales gained the Right to Buy their homes at a discount with the enactment of the Housing Act 1980 (in Scotland the relevant legislation was the Tenants' Rights, Etc (Scotland) Act 1980). Local authorities had been able to sell their homes before this; indeed, permission to sell houses with Ministerial consent was granted in the Housing Act 1936 and in the 1950s a general consent was given enabling councils to notify the Minister on completion of a sale.Between 1957 and 1964 some 16,000 council houses were sold in England. In 1968 a circular was issued imposing a limit on the proportion of stock to be sold annually in the major conurbations and the general consent was replaced with a quota system. The restrictions imposed in 1968 were overturned by the incoming Conservative Government in 1970. In the 1970s the issue of council house sales grew in political prominence as theConservative Party was increasingly identified with policies designed to encourage council tenants to purchase their homes. The number of council houses sold in England grew from under 7,000 in 1970 to almost 46,000 in 1972. The February 1974 Conservative Manifesto made a commitment to introduce the Right to Buy, subject to an appeal on specified grounds. In October 1974 the Manifesto promised legislation to give secure tenants of three or more years' standing the Right to Buy at one third less than market values with a five-year pre-emption clause.

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Anti-English Coronation Street - Happy To Offend The English, Whilst Crawling To The Scots...

Of course there is NO English national anthem. Officially, God Save The Queen is the national anthem of Britain - which includes Scotland and Wales.

However, Scotland and Wales sing their own anthems at football matches, leaving the English teams with the British anthem - which is absurd. But some English people do perceive God Save The Queen as being the English national anthem. When hoary old ITV Granada soap Coronation Street recently scripted a character as commenting that he hated "warm beer, the English national anthem, and Glasgow Rangers" the line was edited out. Not out of any respect for English monarchists or beer lovers, you understand, but because the show simply did not want to offend Scots football fans.

From the BBC:

Coronation Street bosses have changed the script for an episode of the soap after complaints from Rangers fans.

Supporters complained after the character Tony Gordon - played by Scottish actor Gray O'Brien - made a jibe about the Glasgow club.

O'Brien's character had said: "I could no more be interested in Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers."

An ITV spokeswoman confirmed that after "dozens" of complaints, the script for a forthcoming episode had been changed.

ITV said that line seemed "to have caused some upset".

One of the character's lines in a future episode - reported to be a remark that he was allergic to "warm beer, the English national anthem and Glasgow Rangers" - has now been dropped.

The spokewoman said: "Both comments were in keeping with the character of Tony Gordon.

"But we have to bear in mind that it does seem to have caused some upset so the decision was made to take the line out.

"It doesn't compromise the drama of the episode and if it did then the line definitely wouldn't have been taken out."

She added: "We also felt in the absence of a character balancing things up on the other side of the Old Firm, it was a line not worth repeating."

The complaints from the Scots football fans are typically selfish and immature.

There's far too much kow-towing to the Scots and crapping on the English going on. "Our" PM represents a Scots constituency, and around 75% of legislation his government passes does not affect his own constituents. You can now die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland. And MPs representing Scots constituencies force legislation onto England. Prescriptions are free to all in Wales and soon to be in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England, they rise and rise in price.

And let's not forget that England subsidises Scotland and Wales via the Barnett Formula, which even its creator, Lord Joel Barnett, has declared as being unfair to England.

Or that Gordon Brown signed The Scottish Claim of Right in 1989, vowing to always put Scotland's interests first. This is surely bizarre for a UK PM, who should be treating each UK nation equally.

And now Corrie is kow-towing to gobby Scots, whilst ignoring English sensitivities?

Personally, we thought the show, which was in its heyday in the 1960s, went completely down the pan in the early 1990s. But it seems new lows are still possible.

Oh, and if you think the ignorance of the Coronation Street scriptwriters' is a little beyond the pale and that there should actually be a national anthem for England, take a look here.

Thought Crime

Spooky times! Surely nobody in their right mind would agree with Frederick Toben's claims was our immediate reaction. But to arrest him for them? What sort of precedent is being created here?

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Holocaust denial is not a crime in this country. So why are we arresting people for denying the holocaust? Laugh at them and poke them with sticks I understand, arrest?

Since when did Germany decide what was a crime in this country? Since when did people think that thought crimes should exist? I know Tory MP Theresa Villiers does because I watched Question Time a few years ago where she said so. But does the average person think someone should be arrested for questioning what is generally perceived to be true? That is straight out of a dictatorship and I do not want to live in a country where what you think and what you say must fit in with some pre decided list.

Read it all here.

Campaign For An English Parliament: Gordon Brown's Claim To Fairness Must Be Accounted Sheer Hypocrisy

'40 times Gordon Brown made the claim to fairness in his speech to the Labour Party conference. No less than 40 times in one speech he used the word. Now that has to be counted as sheer unadulterated hypocrisy, nothing less, when it is applied to England.' That is the message Michael Knowles, media spokesman for the Campaign for an English Parliament, has sent out to all CEP members and supporters, and to all the people of England. 'His claim isn't just untrue. Coming from the Scotsman who was the driving force behind Scottish devolution and who had made a public pledge to put the interests of Scotland before everything else in everything he did, it simply beggars belief. What is possibly even worse, it must be seen as Brown's way of hiding the truth, the very unpleasant truth, of how as Chancellor of the Excehquer and now as the Prime Minister, he is treating England. He is using his office to exploit the English people to benefit his own Scottish people. He is a disgrace.

'How can anyone claim to be a fair Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when he gets for the Scottish people, his own Scottish nation, free university tuition, free hospital parking, free personal care for the elderly, free eyetests, free water piped to every home, all of which in England people have to pay for? How can he claim to be fair when in Scotland there is a freeze on council tax while council tax in England increases year in year out more than inflation? How can he claim to be fair when his own Scottish nation, precisely as he engineered in the 1998 devolution legislation, which he took through the UK parliament, is 70% independent of the rest of the UK, independent in every single matter internal to Scotland like education, health care, the legal system, agriculture and and fisheries? How can he claim to be fair when he operates a legislative system in Westminister that enables Scottish MPs to legislate for England and be ministers for England while no English MP can be a minister in the Scottish parliament or take part in any legislation that affects Scotland's devolved matters which make up 75% of actual government? Gordon Brown's conference claims must be accounted sheer hypocrisy. And it isn't as if he doesn't know the score. He knows it all too well. He engineered it. The situation is grotesquely unjust and unfair to the people fo England.

'How can anyone claim to be a fair Prime Minister for the United Kingdom when to pay for all these benefits which the Scots receive he maintains a taxation system in which each English taxpayer pays an extra £281 per annum; and when each Scottish man, woman and child receive in expenditure on health and education etc £1600 more than people in England receive, thanks to the Barnett Formula. The Scottish people has been given formal constitutional recognition as a distinct nation by getting its own parliament, so has the Welsh through getting its own national assembly. While Brown openly and adamantly refuses to consider a parliament for England. The injustice, the unfairness, the discrimination is outrageous.

'And it is not as if somehow it is all an oversight affecting just a few people. The injustice, the unfairness, the discrimination is imposed upon 80% of the UK population, which is what the people of England are. Gordon Brown is using all the levers and powers of his position as UK Prime Minister to put the people of Scotland first and make their interests paramount precisely as he pledged he would when on March 30 1989 he signed what he and his fellow Scottish MPs and MEPs called the Scottish Claim of Right.

'Brown's repeated claim on fairness must be recognised as grotesquely wrong and untrue. It is nothing less than outright hypocrisy.

Contact:

Michael Knowles

Head of the CEP Media Unit.

tel. 01260 271139

Email: michael-knowles@ tiscali.co.uk

"Fuck 'Em!" - Seb Coe On The Scots And Welsh, And Gordon Brown's Fellow Countryman To Head 2012 Olympics Football Team...

We're staggered that the squeaky clean geek runner from the 1980s, Seb Coe, knows language like this but in his arrogant determination to ignore the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations' rejection of a British football team at the 2012 Olympics, he has announced such a team will go ahead anyway. And what of the un-English objectors? "Fuck 'em!" was unexpectedly foul-mouthed Sebby's alleged response.

Good grief! Didn't this man advertise wholesome Horlicks back in the 1980s? Wasn't he the man many little sporty types wanted to be? Our idol has feet of clay, chaps and chappesses! What a swizz!

So, once again, the English are to be submerged by the "British" tag - and our sheep-like Nivea boys will be mincing for Britain.

And, thanks to Gordon Brown and Sebby, the said mincers will be managed by a Scot - Alex Ferguson, no less! Said Gordy:

"We will see who wants to be part of this and then we will get a manager that everybody will be happy with.

"And I know Alex Ferguson has been approached by Seb Coe, and I have spoken to him about it."

And Gordy also said: "Britain is the home of football, which we gave to the world, and people will be surprised if there is an Olympic tournament in football and we are not part of it."

Wrong, you arrogant, anti-English git, ENGLAND is the home of the football!

And as somebody wrote on the comments thread for the Sky News article linked to:

Ferguson? Brown has got to be joking! Remember how Ferguson coached foreign teams in order to get England knocked out of the World Cup!

As the CEP News Blog points out: A British football team is to be created consisting only of English players with a Scottish manager. Sport truly is a microcosm of society.

Staying with the CEP News Blog, we discovered the following:

The MoD press notice last Friday sounded sweet and innocent enough: ‘The Royal Navy frigate HMS Campbeltown left her base port in Plymouth last week for exercises off the Scottish coast’, until, as CEP Secretary and West Country organiser Veronica Newman pointed out to her Devon members, one read the next line: ‘The ship is currently heading into Rosyth for a 12-month overhaul.’

‘What that means,’ stated Mrs Newman, ‘is that multi-million-pound refit work on a West Country warship has been switched from Devonport to Scotland. It is the first time that a refit of any Type 22 frigate has been undertaken outside Devonport since the ships entered service in the 1980s; and what it means is more employment for Scottish naval shipyards and, as the GMB convenors in the Devonport dockyards have said, a loss of work for those in England.

‘It isn’t an accident that this has happened. It is all taking place under the watchful eye of the UK Scottish Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne MP for Kilmarnock. It is his department, and specifically his department’s Surface Ship Supports arrangements section, that has agreed with Babcock Marine this switch of work from England to Scotland. Babock Marine has been responsible for warship upkeep since it took over Devonport Management Ltd (DML)’. It paid £350 million for DML in July 2007 but then in February of this year announced plans to axe up to 600 posts – more than 10 per cent of its Plymouth workforce.

‘Mr Browne’s decisions are all part of a pattern’, stated Mrs Newman. ‘There is growing evidence of preference for employment in the Scottish naval shipyards over those of England, even though historically it has been the English navy over centuries which has defended these islands and English sailors who have been among the greatest naval explorers and sea captains in world history. England had a navy under Alfred the Great when Scotland was still just a country of scattered clans. Only in July of this year Mr Browne’s ministry announced that Scotland will get 64% of the work on the two new giant aircraft carriers while England, with 80% of the UK population, will get a mere 34%.

It's like a nightmare. But as The Jam said, back in 1980: "The Public Gets What The Public Wants". Until people are willing to stand up to these arrogant anti-English/anti-England swines infesting Westminster, we're going to get a lot more of the same - Scots MPs feathering Scotland's nest at the expense of every man, woman and child in England.

Whilst MPs supposedly representing English constituencies stick their snouts in the trough and don't give a damn.

Well, to (allegedly) quote Lord Coe - "fuck 'em!" and fuck him, too. But may we suggest a very long barge pole for the job?

Anti-English David Cameron Cosies Up To Gordon Brown

Conservative leader David Cameron offered to suspend political hostilities to help the Government deal with the crisis in the financial markets.

He was aiming to avoid a British repeat of the wrangling in Congress which blocked George Bush's 700 billion-dollar (£385bn) plan to rescue US banks.

In an emergency speech to the Tory conference in Birmingham, Mr Cameron offered his party's support for Government legislation to tackle the crisis and urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown to speed it onto the statute books when the Commons returns on Monday.

He announced that he was dropping Tory objections to a key element of the Government's Banking Reform Bill to ensure it passes smoothly through Parliament.

A sombre-faced Mr Cameron won applause from activists as he told the conference: "Let us not allow the political wrangling that took place in America to happen here in our own country. In Britain we are all in this together, so in Britain let us stick together and together we will find a way through."

Whatever the merits and pitfalls of Cameron's current choice of action, the fact is that as Opposition the Tories are useless anyway.

And the Party simply will not speak up for the people of England - as the most outrageous discrimination is practised against every man, woman and child in England, David Cameron insults those seeking justice "sour Little Englanders!" (in the linked article, Cameron chooses to tell lies about the Poll Tax in Scotland. The true facts are here) and bangs on about "Scottish blood" in his veins (what a racist concept!) and the fact that whilst those of us in England must be "British", his ancestors' apparently took part in the "Scottish Empire".

Cameron - you are an anti-English politician, one of many currently infesting Westminster, and you are one of the most dishonourable and unprincipled Opposition Leaders it's ever been our misfortune to encounter.

Die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland?

The West Lothian Question? The Barnett Formula?

"In Britain we are all in this together," you say. Well, you, Sir, are a liar - and like every other MP who refuses to speak up for the people of England, you have blood on your hands!

The UK Government: Polls Show A Majority Support Establishing An English Parliament, But WE SAY NO. And Asymmetric Devolution Is Fine...

A No 10 Poll we somehow missed signing - results in another denial of democratic right by the UK Government, acting expressely against the wishes of the vast majority of people in England:

The Government supports the Union of the United Kingdom. The Government recognises that the devolution settlement is an issue of continued public interest, but does not believe that there is a groundswell of support for an English Parliament at present. Consequently, the Government does not believe that it is necessary to establish an English Constitutional Convention.

No "groundswell"? Even a BBC Poll shows that the vast majority WANT an English Parliament!

Most people, including those in Scotland, think England should have its own parliament, a BBC poll suggests.

Newsnight found 61% in England, 51% in Scotland and 48% in Wales agreed with the idea.

So what, in the UK Government's opinion, constitutes a "groundswell of support" for an English Parliament?

Scenes like this? Will we see mass violence on the streets again before our masters will listen to our pleas for democratic rule?

Big hat-tip to Tommy English.

When Did The Anti-England/Anti-English Ethos Begin?

Winston Churchill was aware that any mention of England was simply not acceptable.

Since the 1970s there has been assiduously cultivated amongst the academic elite and media class, a habit of public belittlement of England and the English. For a country who has produced so many Nobel Prize winners in every field of human concern, and has culturally influenced the modern world more than any other, there is an astonishing lack of national identity.

writes Oliver Haiste in an otherwise excellent article about the modern day plight of England. But the anti-England/English ethos actually pre-dates the 1970s.

"There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is ENGLAND" - WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1874-1965.

So, when did it all begin, and just what's with this tendency to make out that EVERYTHING, good or bad, began in the 1970s? Time and time again, we examine the true facts and find them different.

The Carlisle Artists' Hub - More Anti-English Bigotry - And Land Stealing

Abomination - the fake sign erected by the Carlisle Artists' Hub outside Carlisle. In an era where you can die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in subsidised Scotland, such "fun" is, in reality, nothing short of crass.

Not content with the Scottish Parliament's undemocratic rule over the River Tweed and its tributaries, nor Scots' attempts to grab Berwick-Upon-Tweed, the Carlisle Artists' Hub, a group of twittering anti-English PC English folks, Scots and "wannabe Scots", have decided to open up a "fun debate" about whether Carlisle should be in Scotland.

They've erected a fake road sign outside Carlisle, proclaiming "Welcome To Scotland".

From the CEP News Blog:

Any CEP members in the Carlisle area might like to pay a visit and correct the offending sign which, if placed on the roadside, falls foul of the Traffic Signs Regulations and can be corrected by a member of the public by any reasonable means. Such as replacing the word “Scotland” with “England” for example. Just for fun, of course.

The Carlisle Artists' Hub are a bunch of anti-English twits, who are totally out of touch with the realities of health apartheid, the Barnett Formula, the West Lothian Question, etc.

Their idea of "fun" is viewed as highly offensive here at WENAP Towers - and to any democracy loving soul in modern day England.

Get the bloody sign down and tell the Carlisle Artists' Hub where to stick it!

It has been suggested by one CEP member that someone should take a trip to Edinburgh and plant a “Welcome to England” sign as Edinburgh was once part of the Kingdom of Northumbria. Something tells me the natives wouldn’t find it quite so entertaining.

The Carlisle Artists' Hub - More Anti-English Bigotry - And Land Stealing

Abomination - the fake sign erected by the Carlisle Artists' Hub outside Carlisle. In an era where you can die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in subsidised Scotland, such "fun" is, in reality, nothing short of crass.

Not content with the Scottish Parliament's undemocratic rule over the River Tweed and its tributaries, nor Scots' attempts to grab Berwick-Upon-Tweed, the Carlisle Artists' Hub, a group of twittering anti-English PC English folks, Scots and "wannabe Scots", have decided to open up a "fun debate" about whether Carlisle should be in Scotland.

They've erected a fake road sign outside Carlisle, proclaiming "Welcome To Scotland".

From the CEP News Blog:

Any CEP members in the Carlisle area might like to pay a visit and correct the offending sign which, if placed on the roadside, falls foul of the Traffic Signs Regulations and can be corrected by a member of the public by any reasonable means. Such as replacing the word “Scotland” with “England” for example. Just for fun, of course.

The Carlisle Artists' Hub are a bunch of anti-English twits, who are totally out of touch with the realities of health apartheid, the Barnett Formula, the West Lothian Question, etc.

Their idea of "fun" is viewed as highly offensive here at WENAP Towers - and to any democracy loving soul in modern day England.

Get the bloody sign down and tell the Carlisle Artists' Hub where to stick it!

It has been suggested by one CEP member that someone should take a trip to Edinburgh and plant a “Welcome to England” sign as Edinburgh was once part of the Kingdom of Northumbria. Something tells me the natives wouldn’t find it quite so entertaining.

England Expects - Silenced By The EU

England Expects

Our message to the EU: Try shutting us up, you undemocratic... people.

Big hat-tip to Tommy.

Remembering The Turmoil Of The 1980s - But What Outrages People Now?

We often think back to the sheer naked havoc that was the 1980s. Were you at Greenham Common? Were you a miner or a yuppie? Just where did you stand politically? Chances are, you would be making it obvious.

Nowadays, of course, people don't seem very motivated when it comes to politics. "Politicians have failed us!" they wail, and go out and buy a new ipod, some 1960s style wallpaper or a rustic style cruet set.

Or whatever.

Meanwhile, the politicians get bolder and bolder. England? We don't care about England! No, you can't have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty! WE know what's best...

And so on.

And so on.

Oh, to be in the 1980s now that autumn's here...

Campaign For An English Parliament Press Release: Gordon Brown ready to sacrifice HBOS jobs in England to carry out his 1989 pledge to Scotland

Monday, 22 Sep 2008 08:49

'The real face of Gordon Brown has at last been exposed. As the financial crisis bites deeper and deeper and jobs are threatened in their thousands both in Scotland and England by the imminent Lloyds takeover of HBOS, his declared support for Britain has been shown to be very second place indeed. What really matters to Brown is not Britain but just one part of it. What matters to him is Scotland first and foremost. And if ever there has been a reason for England to have its own parliament which will defend its people, it is now.' That was the warning and the call issued to Campaign for an English Parliament members in Shropshire by Stuart Parr, member of the CEP National Council.

'The UK Prime Minister Mr Gordon Brown MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath in Fifeshire is now carrying out the pledge he made on March 31sat 1989 when he signed the 'Scottish Claim of Right' drawn up by the Scottish Constitutional Convention together with 132 other Scottish MPs and MEPs including Michael Martin the Speaker of the House of Commons.'That Claim of Right read as follows: "We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs, and do hereby declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations their interests will be paramount".

'Gordon Brown has been the engine driving the Lloyds takover of HBOS,'' stated Mr Parr. 'No one can blame him for that. However, what the Times online has reported today is that page one of the formal takeover document promises that "the management focus is to keep jobs in Scotland; and there is no such reassurance about England". Not even about Halifax itself, the birthplace of the Halifax Building Society which employs thousands of English men and women. 'How little Brown cares for England! How else can anyone possibly explain that clause in the takeover document?' asked Mr Parr. 'And how unacceptable it is coming from the UK Prime Minister. The interests of just one of the nations that make up the UK should not be paramount to him, should not come first and foremost. Not even to a UK Prime Minister whose future will be decided by the bye-election soon to be held in the Glenrothes constituency next door to his own. Such narrow politiking should not enter into a takeover document of the immense UK-wide importance of the Lloyds-HBOS merger.

'Clearly England now needs its own Parliament, its own Government and its own First Minister to defend the legitimate interests of its people and restore balance to the Union. England simply cannot trust the UK Government as it stands. Britain is failing England'.

Contacts:

Mr Stuart Parr. CEP National Council member. Tel: 07973296118
Mrs Scilla Cullen. CEP Chairman Tel: 01438 833155

JK Rowling - Traitor To The Needy In England And Completely Out Of Touch With New Labour... And Harry Potter Stirs Memories Of The 1980s Mole...

Millionaire authoress JK Rowling, sitting up there comfortably in the land of plenty, Scotland, has just donated one million pounds to New Labour.

She believes that New Labour has done a great job for under privileged children (they haven't really), and said:

"I believe that poor and vulnerable families will fare much better under the Labour Party than they would under a Cameron-led Conservative Party."

Like those of us scrimping and saving for prescription and hospital car parking charges in England, Ms Rowling? Or dying for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland but being blocked by NICE in England? Or those of us paying tuition fees at the behest of MPs representing Scots constituencies?

Not very bright, are you? But then as the lovely CBBC online service points out:

JK, who is friends with Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah, said she didn't agree with some of the Conservatives' ideas.

Well neither do we. But friends with Gordon and Sarah? How cosy for you, JK Rowling, you completely uncaring baggage.

Ms Rowling's act is simply beyond our comprehension. If she really cared for under privileged children, why didn't she donate the money to appropriate charities?

We can't judge Harry Potter on his merits. As soon as we saw the character, we were reminded strongly of Adrian Mole, the brilliantly funny 1980s book and TV teen - and we simply couldn't take the Potter hype seriously.

But after this we can make one promise: not a single copy of one of Ms Rowling's works or of the DVD spin-offs will ever be brought by us. And we'll take every opportunity to do some metaphoric egg chucking.

Rowling is a traitor to every needy person in England.

From the TV Times, 1985 - Adrian Mole - created by Sue Townsend as "Nigel Mole" in 1980, published in book form in 1982 and on our tellies in 1985.

Adrian Potter?

Nick Clegg - Undemocratic And Deceitful

Doesn't it make you sick when politicians begin speeches like this:

My grandmother was a Russian exile.

She fled the Russian revolution as a child, escaping through Europe and finally settling here in Britain.

My mother spent part of her childhood in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Indonesia.

My mother and my grandmother – their lives torn and reshaped by the great wars and upheavals of the twentieth century.

And they found a home in Britain because ours is a nation of tolerance, of freedom, and of compassion.

And what my mother and grandmother endured taught me the extraordinary, precious value of those beliefs.

They understood that beliefs matter. They make all the difference between war and peace. Beliefs shape our world, for better and for worse.

That was Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg. He then went on to make a speech which was designed to ignore glaring inequalities like asymmetric devolution, health apartheid, the West Lothian Question. It was, in fact, a blatant attempt to muddy the waters and delude the English into believing devolution hasn't happened, or at least has had no great impact.

Mr Clegg's party website then ground the down-trodden people of England further into the mud by demoting the country to "some sections of the UK" in a footnote.

Nick Clegg - you clearly have not learned anything from your forebears. We cannot believe that they were as undemocratic and deceitful as you are.

Big hat-tip to Britology Watch.

"Come Into My Arms My Beamish SiteMeter..."

After yesterday's horrifying Jabberwocky version, SiteMeter is back to its old, friendly, thoroughly usable format. Thanks to those at SiteMeter HQ who listened.

Now, can we work the same magic on "UK" MPs?

Tax Payers' Alliance And The Continental Shelf Act

The Tax Payers' Alliance has been answering criticisms of its recent report on the Barnett Formula - all good stuff. As the Alliance states, total North Sea oil revenue has for the vast majority of the time not covered Scots' expenditure and there is another issue there.

When the oil was discovered, it was thought that revenue would be shared throughout the UK.

The North Sea Oil issue needs resolving.

In the 1960s, the UK Government passed the Continental Shelf Act - which altered the maritime border between England and Scotland, placing formerly English waters (and oil) in a "Scottish Sector". The electorate in England was not consulted as apparently the UK Government felt that any oil revenue would be equally shared - we were, after all, the "UK".

This sharing of revenue has not happened and if Scotland is being treated as a separate country whenever it suits itself, then England needs a voice as a nation too - not UK MPs running the country into the ground.

The maritime border must be corrected (it was originally, under international law, a continuation of the land border) and England, Wales and Northern Ireland need their own parliaments, on a par with Scotland. These needn't cost more - because the UK Government will be so honed down, there will be no extra expenditure.

Then, at last, the nations of the UK will be on an equal footing. And a lot of the hugely expensive quangos and non-accountable Westminster wallies (think of the West Lothian Question) will be gone forever.

We'll probably make enormous savings.

And in the meantime the attitude prevalent amongst some Scots of "what's ours is ours, what's yours is also ours" needs confronting and debunking at every opportunity.

We musn't meekly accept the warped facts, bile and nonsense any more.

Big hat-tip to The Secret Person.

Sir Alan Beith - Another Traitor

Alan Beith is Lib Dem MP for Berwick-Upon-Tweed. Sadly, he doesn't have Berwick's or England's best interests at heart.

“I don’t see what an English Parliament would offer Berwick and the people of the north. We would still be in the minority with no more power to make decisions which affect the area. It’s hard to see how Berwick would benefit”.

Having proper national representation so that MPs from Scots and Welsh constituencies could not push through legislation in England against the will of England's MPs would not benefit Berwick?

Having MPs who would speak up for and look after England's national health service and be representative of the people would not benefit Berwick?

Having MPs representing England's electorate to decide the structure of England's internal political layout would not benefit Berwick?

Having issues like the Barnett Formula swept from under the carpet and properly resolved by MPs representative of the interests of the people of England would not benefit Berwick?

Alan Beith is another smug, selfish MP who refuses to listen to the people. Several major polls have now put support for an English Parliament at well over 60%. Alan Beith prefers to follow his party's line - which is to regionalise England out of existence - despite the massive NO vote in the North East.

The man is an absolute bloody disgrace. The fact that he is also sitting on the Justice Select Committee which has (apparently) been looking into the effects of devolution shows what a farcical and disreputable state "our" politics is in today.

Alan Beith has shown himself to be undemocratic. The people have said NO to regionalisation, YES to an English Parliament. He ignores them. So what on earth is he doing sitting on a "justice committee"?

Alan Beith wishes for the implementation of regionalisation - something which those allowed a say heartily rejected - and stands in the way of an English Parliament - something which recent polls show the vast majority endorse.

Die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland. Scrimp and save for medical prescriptions - they're free to millionaires in Wales. Have non-representative MPs (including the Prime Minister) foist legislation on to you which will not affect their own constituents.

Alan Beith simply wants to break up England. He follows his party's line. He rides the gravy train. Like so many UK rump MPs elected in the country formerly known as England, Alan Beith has no conscience.

Health apartheid? The West Lothian Question? The Barnett Formula? Not issues, say the likes of Alan Beith. And they're not issues because we're so comfortable on the gravy train.

Let the rabble rot and keep muddying the waters, eh, Sir Alan?

You evil toad.

Big hat tip to the CEP News Blog.

Tesco Cafe - It's Scottish, It's British, It's UK - But It Sure Ain't English!

We did our supermarket watch today - on the menu was Tesco's and in the cafe we found just what we were looking for - another example of Tesco anti-English bias:

On the menu was:

Scottish Red Cheddar Macoroni Cheese

British Beef Steak, Ale and Mushroom Pie

UK Sourced Roasted Half Chicken

But nothing English, of course.

From the Scottish Government site:

Speaking at today's launch at Glamis Castle, Mr Lochhead said:

"Consumers are becoming increasingly interested in the provenance of what they buy. They want to know where their food comes from and they want to support local producers.

"Supermarkets recognise this increased demand for Scottish food. I know that one leading supermarket has increased sales of Scottish products in Scotland by 20 per cent and in the rest of the UK by 14 per cent in the last year.

But we can't help wondering how much these supermarkets, which absolutely refuse to recognise England, thus pandering to Scots and Welsh anti-English racists, are losing in revenue from their former English customers, who are now shopping elsewhere.

By the way, do try your local markets for cheap English produce. We've been very pleasantly surprised both by quality and prices.

Ben Bradshaw - UK Health Minister - LIAR And TWISTER

Health Minister Ben Bradshaw is one of that band of UK rump MPs (there are no English MPs, constitutionally England doesn't exist) who is happy that people in England can die for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland, or scrimp and save for prescriptions free to all - including millionaires - in Wales. And he wants to twist the facts.

Mr Bradshaw is basically a traitor to the English people - a career politician who bends his knee to the Scottish Raj, and doesn't give a damn about the West Lothian Question or health apartheid.

From the BBC:

An English health minister who criticised health policies in Wales has returned to the attack.

Ben Bradshaw told a conference the English NHS provided a better service despite spending less per patient than the health service in Wales.

Mr Bradshaw attacked Welsh policies of free prescriptions and free hospital parking again and said ruling out using the private sector was "dogmatic".

The Welsh Assembly Government said it was "putting the patients first".

Earlier this year, Mr Bradshaw sparked a row between the assembly and UK governments by saying the money spent on free parking would be better spent on improving patient care.

His keynote speech to a CBI conference on health in London on Thursday threatens to re-open tensions between Cardiff and Westminster.

He told delegates the benefits of the English approach would become clearer in time.

He said he was "fed up" with being told that England suffered from health apartheid "because millionaires in Wales get their prescriptions free or Scotland plans to allow anyone who wants to park in busy hospital car parks for free."

Mr Bradshaw said: "What about the fact that in England you can get your operation much more quickly, you don't have to wait for more than four hours in A and E any more and it is easy to see a GP when you want?

"These things matter more to the public. We are already delivering them in England and we have been doing so while spending less per head on health than in Scotland and Wales."

Actually, Westminster MPs representing Scots constituencies decided that there would be Foundation Hospitals in England. There will be none for their constituents in Scotland.

And judging by the state of the hospital wards we now work on, this has been no good move for England.

People now lie in wet beds for unacceptable lengths of time because we are understaffed.

Errors occur over medications - due to staff tiredness.

People who cannot feed themselves are often left with their meal and it is later collected completely uneaten as we do not have time to feed them.

MRSA is rampant.

Ben Bradshaw is doing the people of England a major disservice in trying to make out that there is an English health service. There isn't. There are Scots and Welsh health services and a UK rump health service - that's right, the one which has no Barnett Formula to help provide good standards of care, on a par with Scotland and Wales.

It isn't a matter of the UK Rump NHS providing a more economical service that is the issue - it is the fact that Scotland and Wales have far more money lavished on them, and that the UK Rump NHS, which covers England, is of an unacceptably low standard.

It is that the Government is simply not prepared to spend as much on lives in England as it is on lives in Scotland and Wales.

But Ben Bradshaw is such a twister - he never mentions the Barnett Formula!

We Say: Ben Bradshaw - lying, twisting career politician - you are a complete and utter bastard!

Big hat tip to Kev.

Conservatives: We're Doing Well In The Polls, So Who Gives A Stuff About Equality For England?

The Tories, headed by David "Scots blood in my veins" Cameron, have decided that the Barnett Formula - which sees such delightful things as English lives being valued less than Scots ones, free prescriptions in Wales whilst fees rocket in England, etc, should not be allowed to interfere with their Unionist obsession.

As they are riding high in the polls anyway, why give a stuff about England? They are quite blatant about it, too:

The party now enjoys a large opinion poll lead. Polls had suggested that reform of the Barnett formula could have an electric effect on voters - similar to last year's inheritance tax cut - but that the risk was no longer necessary. Ridley Grove made the case on Monday that large opinion poll leads are discouraging radicalism in Tory policy.

Reform could jeopardise talks with the Ulster Unionists. The focus is often on Scotland but as the graphic above shows, the biggest beneficiary of the current settlement is N Ireland. David Cameron has high hopes for Owen Paterson's co-operation talks with the UUP and unpicking the Barnett formula could greatly undermine the appeal of UUP-Tory candidates in their first General Election campaign.

Reform could be a gift to the SNP. Alex Salmond believes that reform of Barnett would be a massive gift to his hopes for independence. A poll earlier this week found that - regardless of Barnett - a quarter of Scots would be more likely to vote for independence if there was a Tory government.

Reform could hurt the Conservatives' Welsh revival. Although the party may not win many more seats in NI or Scotland there is a real chance of big gains in Wales. Conservatives in Cardiff fear that reform of Barnett could kill those chances. As part of the Tory commitment to Wales the Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan has already defended the continuation of the Welsh Office.

Evil, Self-Serving, Racist Bastards.

The Tax Payers' Alliance Report On The Barnett Formula - Unfair Scots Screech "Not Fair, We're Lovely, We Do Subsidise You..." Yeah, Right...

From The Tax Payers' Alliance report:

KEY FINDINGS

Identifiable public spending per head in England is £7,535 pa (2007-08). But in Scotland it is 22 per cent (£1,644) higher, Wales 14 per cent (£1,042) higher, and Northern Ireland an extraordinary 30 per cent (£2,254) higher.

Just over the last two decades (since 1985-86), higher spending in the three devolved territories has cost UK taxpayers a cumulative £200 billion (£102 billion in Scotland; £43 billion in Wales; £57 billion in Northern Ireland).

North Sea Oil has not funded the Scottish spending gap, despite Scottish Nationalist claims to the contrary. In only five of the last 23 years have North Sea Oil receipts exceeded the cost of higher funding paid to Scotland. Even with current high oil prices, the income from the Scottish share of North Sea Oil only just covers the spending gap, and North Sea Oil output is projected to fall by 50 per cent by 2020.

Of course, on comments threads across the Blogosphere various Scots folk are screeching "That's not fair! We're subsidising YOU!! How dare YOU!"

One desperate soul even comes up with the following little gem:

Does the formula take into consideration the tax and national insurance contributions from the Welsh Scottish and Northern Irish natives who live and contribute to the English economy?

Er, so contributions paid by Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish people domiciled in England should be counted as Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish funding, should it? Perhaps the same should apply to English people domiciled in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

But what if, like Chris, you have one English parent and one Scots parent? Ower, Missus!!

Perhaps Scots, Welsh and Irish contributions paid by those who live in England should be sent back home?

Potty! If you opt to live in England, you opt to live in England.

Of course, controversy rages most over the North Sea Oil.

"IT'S OURS!!" screech some very vocal Scots.

Well, actually it isn't. Since the Act Of Union with England, Scotland has benefited hugely. The first act was England bailing Scotland out of bankrupcy. Then the Scots became overly-involved in the Empire, and various subsidies have seen Scotland taking an unfair wedge of the cake ever since.

"But this part of England subsidises that part of England!" some Scots scream, failing to see that as England is a nation in its own right (or should be) it's none of their damn business!

Then there was the Continental Shelf Act of the late 1960s, which allocated formerly English waters to a "Scottish Sector". At the time, it seemed that the "UK" was going to benefit AS the UK from the North Sea Oil revenue. But that has not been the case. The English were not consulted about gifting some of their natural resources to Scotland, Scots MPs were involved in the decision (surprise, surprise!), so obviously the Continental Shelf Act needs examining and the maritime border needs restoring to its pre-1960s state.

The fact that the oil is a bone of contention at all surprises us - it goes against the grain of what the UK was supposed to be about in the first place.

The Tax Payers' Alliance Report is very important indeed.

The people of England must stand firm against the illogical and frankly bloody unfair braying and bellowing coming from North of the Border.

Some people have been bred on anti-English bigotry. Reality is painful. And some Scots are absolute pros when it comes to projecting an air of long abused martyrdom.

Read all about it and follow the links at the CEP News Blog.

Well Done To Roger Federer! Many English People Were Cheering You All The Way!

Happy and stylish - the wonderful Roger Federer (right). Trappy Scottish chappie Andy Murray (left) looks vaguely disgruntled. HOORAY FOR ROGER!!

Big hat tip (I've nicked your pic, hope you don't mind!) to The Cross of St George blog.

The Anti-England BBC - At It Again...

After all the crap spouted by the BBC during the Olympics (the atheletes were Scottish, Welsh or British, apparently) Auntie has decided it would be fun to look at the subject of UK sub-nationalities because Andy Murray has been referred to as an "Englishman" in America.

GASP!!

Of course, that wouldn't have happened here. As the BBC proved during the Olympics, if it had been reporting the event he would have been referred to as 'Scots' or the 'super scot' or 'the flying Scotsman'.

Or 'Welsh' if he was Welsh and perhaps even 'The Welsh princess' if he was a woman...

Or 'British' if he was English.

It was infuruating. But credit where it's due - Auntie does recognise herself to be at fault at times.

And the BBC is one of the main culprits, says Mr Maxwell. This was perfectly illustrated when one interviewer asked sprinter Usain Bolt to give a message to "the whole of England watching" after his Olympic triumphs.

"It's a continuation of England and Britain being the same thing," says the MSP. "There's an excuse for people far away to not know their geography but the fact remains that the BBC not knowing it is beyond the pale."

So there you are. The BBC mentioned England ONCE during the Olympics. And Mr Maxwell picked up on it, although, amazingly, he didn't pick up on the bizarre fact that the BBC referred to the Scots and Welsh atheletes as Scots and Welsh and the English as British.

Fancy letting itself down by mentioning England even ONCE - shame on you, BBC!

But don't worry. The rest of the time the Olympics were all about Britain and Scotland and Wales, etc. Never a mention of the English or England.

But blind and deaf Little Scotlanders (they must be if they didn't notice what the BBC was up to during the Olympics) jump into the comments thread to have a whinge:

I've always had a warm reception in the USA when I say I'm from Scotland and most people seem to sort of understand that it's not England. The thing that drives almost all Scots mad is when English people use the word Britain when they mean England and England when they mean Britain - and there's no excuse for this from the bbc or politicians.
Lisa, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, UK

Lisa's whinge was published by Auntie, of course, but this wasn't:

The English suffer worst of all. The BBC always refers to the English as "British" - the coverage of the Beijing Olympics was a disgrace. Why does the BBC have such appalling double standards?

The sooner we're independent the better.

The BBC is the anti-English BIGOTED BASTARDS CORPORATION.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent In Telford...

Telford Town Park was given to the people of the town with covenants protecting it as a park with free and open access for all in perpetuity.

says Wonko.

But Telford and Wrekin Council have a different view - they believe they are the "land owners" and if they want to harrass people distributing leaflets or people without children simply walking they can:

In the case of distributing leaflets in the Town Park, we ask that individuals or organisations wishing to do so request permission by completing an application form and supplying us with necessary supplementary documentation. This information will give us, as Land owners, the reassurance that the activities requested by outside groups will not compromise our duty of care to young people and the more vulnerable.

Note: "Land owners". The council isn't maintaining the locality as elected representative of the people it believes it owns the land!

And this seemingly fascist organisation preys on fear with a heap of pious twitterings to try and justify its stance and get people on side:

I make no apologies for putting the safety of our children and young people first. Unfortunately there are people at large in our society who are unable to be trusted in this context and we have had unfortunate incidents in the Town Park which we have had to deal with very sensitively. If this means that we have then to take precautions which some people feel are “over the top”, then so be it. We would prefer in these instances to be as safe as possible beforehand, rather than sorry afterwards.

So, if you are without children and want to walk in the park, you can't. And if you want to dress up as a penguin and distribute leaflets on climate change in the park you can't. At least not without a CRB check and various restrictions being imposed.

Sounds like Telford is sleep-walking into something quite terrifying.

Rather like the rest of England.

If you use the park, or simply value freedom, join the protest - Wonko has the details here.

American Films And TV - Anti-English Bigotry And Jean-Luc Picard...

We were chatting to an English Star Trek fan the other day, who commented of the Next Generation series, which began in 1987:

"I always called Jean-Luc Picard 'Jim Luck Picard'- he was so English, sitting there with his cup and saucer, coolly and calmly dealing with crises."

But the character, who seemed thoroughly English to us too, and was played by the English actor Patrick Stewart, was not English. The show's writers gave him a French name and a French background.

Why the fuck was that? Why is it that on American television and in American films the English are usually represented by shifty, untrustworthy characters and massive rewritings of history? Anybody for Mel bigot Gibson in Braveheart?

America has so many English influences - in its political system and culture - yet we are ignored or subjected to character assasination by its media. Meanwhile, plastic Irish and Scots Americans wave flags and foam at the mouth on St Patrick's Day and "Tartan" Day.

Seems like home, doesn't it?

God Bless America? How about fucking grow up, America? It's time we started speaking up for ourselves - and we don't mean as British - we mean as English!!

The BBC: All British Citizens Live In England

Big hat tip to the CEP News Blog for pointing out, via their excellent new Media Watch project, yet another example of the BBC's determination to pass England off as Britain, and English citizens as "British" - whilst inferring that the Scots and Welsh are not British:

An elderly couple from north London are being taken to court for refusing to pay the levy on their council tax bill which will fund the 2012 Olympics.

For two years Thomas and Rita Glenister of Barnet have withheld £33.35 of their annual bill, the amount they said would be their contribution to the Games.

The couple said all British citizens should contribute, not just Londoners.

They are due to appear before Hendon Magistrates' Court on 15 September in relation to non-payment of council tax.

Barnet Council confirmed the couple had been summonsed to appear in court over the matter but said it could not provide more specific details of individuals' accounts.

Since 2006 Mr and Mrs Glenister have paid all of their £2,320 annual council tax bill except what they have calculated to be the "Olympic surcharge".

Mrs Glenister, 74, said: "It isn't the money - we can pay - but I finally thought that it is time to stick my short little legs down and say 'up with this I will not put'.

"If everyone in England pays it then I will, but the fact that it is just Londoners paying it seems very unfair. I'm not going to run round the track, I'm not going to benefit from this 'legacy'.

Note that Mrs Glenister stated that if everybody in England paid the tax then she would, but the BBC mis-reported what she said in its opening paragraphs, twisting it to the couple saying that all British citizens should pay the tax.

All British citizens don't live in England, surely? In our book, the the BBC should have simply reported that Mrs Glenister said "everyone in England" or "all English citizens".

A simple mistake, easily put right?

But the BBC were contacted on the subject at lunchtime today and have simply left the article as it is. So, as with the BBC's coverage of the Olympics, it seems that only the people of England are British.

The BBC has been showing its dislike of England and the English rather a lot lately. It can only be a matter of time before this disreputable organisation, which distorts the truth and takes our money whether we view and/or listen or not, is kicked into touch.

The discontent is swelling from below. It is only a matter of time before it bursts to the surface.

We haven't forgotten that BBC Wales had no trouble changing British to English in a recent episode of Dr Who, to smear the English with a reputation for racism. When Auntie wants to be racist, spiteful and have a good old scapegoating session, the English and England exist. The rest of the time...

Campaign For An English Parliament Press Release: Hospital Parking Charges To Remain In England

The British Government is failing England - hospital parking charges are the latest example.

The Welsh Government has already abolished hospital parking charges. The Scottish Government announced yesterday Tuesday Sept 2nd that it will abolish them in Scotland. Both governments agree that these charges are not good for the health of patients because they put strain upon their families and friends and reduce visits. However, in response Mr Ben Bradshaw, British Minister for Health in England –he has no jurisdiction anywhere else in the UK- issued the statement that they will remain in England. Once again the British Government has failed England. Once again the British Government has shown that it considers England first and foremost purely as an employment park, purely as a place from which to extract government revenue.

‘I am appalled at the way the British government is treating our sick and elderly in England.,’ stated Mrs Della Petch CEP organiser in Yorkshire, in a message to all Yorkshire members,. ‘As well as free prescriptions, Wales and Scotland are abolishing hospital car parking charges and NI is to follow suit. But they will still stay in England.

‘The government says that Scotland and Wales now have their own national governments and can choose what to spend money on, but it doesn't take a genius to spend more money than the English are allowed. Funding is based on the Barnett Formula and on the very generous extra grants the British Government makes to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. Speaking in blunt language it comes down to this: whatever England gets, Scotland and Wales get more. Our Scottish Prime Minister Gordon Brown signed the Scottish Claim of Right in March 1989, in which he pledged ‘always to make Scotland's interests paramount in everything he did’. He is certainly carrying out that pledge.now.

‘Will someone please explain to us in England, why it is in Scotland's best interests for English cancer patients to die for lack of the most modern of cancer drugs made available in Scotland, and our elderly to go blind for lack of the latest eye medicine also available in Scotland? Where in the Labour manifesto does it say that Labour policies will be implemented to benefit Scotland and Wales more than England? Shame on England's MPs who do not rise up to protest at the unfair and unjust way the people of England are being treated. There’s not a spine between them. The British Government is failing England and our English MPs do nothing and say nothing’.


Contact:

Michael Knowles
CEP Media Officer. Tel: 01260 271139

Email: michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk