Campaign For An English Parliament Conference 2008

CEP Press Release: England Outraged By Scottish Attempt To Grab English Territory

The members of the Campaign for an English Parliament will resist with might and main the attempt being made by the Scottish Nationalist Party to grab Berwick on Tweed which has been part of England since the 13th century - over 700 years- and make it part of Scotland.

Scottish Nationalist Member of the Scottish Parliament Christine Grahame supported by fellow SNP members is lodging a vote in the Scottish Parliament in support of this land-grab.

Already the Scottish Parliament has claimed rights over all English rivers such as the River Till in Northumberland which flow into the River Tweed, even though the Tweed is the boundary river between the two nations of England and Scotland and belongs to neither. And the Scottish Parliament has been able to move southwards the boundary between England and Scotland which till devolution has always run along the very centre of the Solway Firth. To date the United Kingdom Government with its Scottish Prime Minister and Scottish Chancellor of the Exchequer has done nothing to stop these successive land grabs.

"The Scots are stirring up a hornets' nest of real trouble within the United Kingdom with these policies. And we will take them on," stated Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the Campaign. "The people of England will not put up with any more of it. Already Wales has been given the English county of Monmouthshire and even a part of the city of Chester in what is the county of Cheshire. It is already intolerable that devolution for Scotland has granted it huge benefits denied to England such as free university education, free personal care for the elderly, free prescriptions, as much as £1500 more spent on each Scot per annum than on any person in England and access to cancer drugs not obtainable in England. What the Scots are doing is sowing the seeds of real anger and dissension within the Union. They are sowing the wind. If they try to grab Berwick, it will be the Union that will reap the whirlwind.'

Daily Mail Deceives Public Over Caroline Flint's Role

I noticed whilst reading this Daily Mail article by James Chapman -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512354&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments

that the paper has not mentioned ANYWHERE that Caroline Flint's authority is not UK-wide - that she is only housing minister for England.

Several people that I know of wrote to the Mail yesterday pointing this out, as I did myself, but none of the e-mails have been published. Today I have sent this:

Ms Flint is not responsible for housing policy in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, which have their own devolved governments/assemblies. So why isn't this pointed out? This newspaper's staff are either trying to deceive the public into believing that devolution has made no difference, and so bolster up New Labour's Unionist lies, or your so-called "journalists" are simply thick.

Whatever the truth, this article is garbage, the fact that Caroline Flint only has control of England's housing should be pointed out as a matter of course.

I have written before with this point, but you haven't publish it, and I am now advertising that fact on my blog.

It really is time the corrupt British Press was MADE to tell the truth about devolution.

Supporting People (Communities and Local Government)

The recent outrageous comments from Caroline Flint, UK Government Housing Minister responsible for housing in England only, has set us thinking. The most terrible things are happening to social housing across England. Take the vulnerable: all involved on this blog have worked in registered community homes for people with histories of mental illness and learning disabilities. In recent years, tenants of these homes were sold a downright lie by this government: become deregistered, leave the safety of being a Social Services monitored establishment, transfer to the auspices of a government agency called “Supporting People”, and you shall have more, lots more, financial input, including staffing, they were told.

These people are highly vulnerable and were basically told a whopping great lie.

Many community homes for people with histories of mental illness and learning disabilities are now falling into disrepair as maintainence budgets are slashed; staffing hours too have been cut - in some cases up to 50%, and vulnerable adults used to and IN NEED OF 24 hour staff support must now spend the night with no staff on the premises.

Supporting People covers its actions well, pretending to be interested in “encouraging independence”. All of us at WENAP have been involved in social care work since the early 1980s and that has always been the aim. But under Supporting People we find this “aim” is now a thin cover for savage cutbacks.

Staff are being forced to take on duties above and beyond their training, salary scale and job descriptions as social care agencies compete for tenders on a vicious open market where the cheapest bid wins - and to hell with standards.

And staff have it written into their contracts that any speaking out will face disciplinary action and dismissal.

And all this has happened not under Thatcher, not under Major, but under Blair and Brown.

As old Labour voters and care workers we are bloody angry.

Visit Supporting People - http://www.spkweb.org.uk/

We’re absolutely committed to exposing this corrupt UK government agency, which is wreaking havoc across England, for what it is. You may never have heard of it before, but now that you have please keep your eyes and your ears open. Do not believe the facade. If you have a relative or friend in a social care home provided by a housing society or local authority, please monitor standards. Question the staff and management closely about anything you are unhappy about. Encourage your friend/relative to speak up. Was 24 hour "sleep-in" cover previously provided by staff? Has it been cut or is it about to be? In your opinion, are the people in this home of the state of mind/physical ability to be left alone over night?

What about decoration/maintenance/cleaning standards/furnishings?

Many of the people living in these homes have been institutionalised for long periods of their lives and are unused to speaking up for themselves, and so this government, via Supporting People, is making hay.

Please join us in fighting to restore decent levels of care and support to those in need of it in community homes across England and bring about an end to Supporting People.

Shout loud about it. Ask questions. refuse to be misled. This is one of our anti-English UK Government's harbingers of evil which has so far managed to slip underneath the search beams of those seeking justice and parity for England in the modern day UK.

Let's change that.

Now.

Please.

Caroline Flint

Caroline Flint, new Housing Minister in her "I Love The 1960s" trousers. She's another of NuLabour's smug twisters and liars. They've got a million of 'em!

Has everybody seen THIS?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512354&in_page_id=1770

Whatever you think of the concept (we personally think it stinks) you have to admire Ms Flint’s brazen attitude in making out that her remit covers the whole of the UK and that she is seeking a “national consensus”. Meanwhile, we must pity the moronic tendencies of Adam Sampson, chief executive of Shelter, who seems unaware that it is not “Britain’s unemployed” who are the subject of this latest proposal, but ENGLAND’S.

BBC Propaganda - Again

Over at the Waendal Journal, Tony has been a witness to a slab of BBC propaganda, this time from Mark Easton, "Home Editor", happily giving his own opinion regarding recent record levels of immigration on air. Read it here.

Fiona this morning caught part of the feature on that issue - hard-pressed maternity services struggling to cope with the recent huge rise in immigration, being covered on BBC breakfast TV. Fiona heard a female reporter saying something along the lines of: "It's ironic that without migrant workers the hospitals would not be staffed."

Chris Abbott has written of his concerns about migrant workers being used as slave labour, and as all three of us here sometimes work in nursing roles in NHS run hospitals in England, we can definitely add that this latest BBC statement is yet another piece of spin and propaganda.

The reason for high numbers of immigrant workers in jobs in the English NHS is that the work pays so appallingly, and after many years of cut-backs, which have accelerated beyond belief under New Labour, nursing and care work are no longer an option for many seeking a satisfying career.

So, people just arriving here are used and abused to keep up staff numbers.

The BBC increasingly beggars belief.

ENGLAND VICTIMISED YET AGAIN BY UNITED KINGDOM GOVERNMENT

Campaign for an English Parliament Press Release: Monday, 28 Jan 2008

The Council tax in England will be going up in April by just under 5%, more than twice the limit on pay increases being imposed by the Union Government. The average Council Tax bill in England will go up by £115 per month. Meanwhile in Scotland the proposal of the Scottish Parliament under its Scottish National Party leadership is to freeze council tax, and for that the overwhelming majority of Scottish councils are fully in support.

The injustice to England since devolution just goes on and on. In addition to having itself acknowledged under the Union Government as a distinct nation enjoying Home Rule Scotland now enjoys free eye care, free dental check-ups, free access to cancer drugs, and free personal care free travel countryside for the elderly. With a Scottish Prime Minister and a Scottish Chancellor of the Exechequer Scotland is getting benefits denied to England,while it is the English taxpayer who is paying for them.

The injustice does not stop there. Despite the council tax increase local services are being cut back. The Union Government under Brown and Darling, while making more and more demands up local councils even as the cost of existing services and the council’s wage bill increase, is not increasing central government subsidy in line with increased costs.

‘Little wonder a recent Yougov poll found that the Council tax is the most unpopular tax of all. ‘67% of people in England resent it more than any other’.’, says Veronica Newman, secretary of the Campaign for an English Parliament. ‘The way England is being victimised just has to stop. The people of England cannot just be expected to pay for the benefits of devolution which Scotland is getting while getting none of them themselves and no parliament of their own either. The people of England should be able to decide for themselves how their money is to be spent. It’s time England had a patriotic government with patriotic MPs just as Scotland has.’

Yellow Swordfish: If In Doubt Blame The '80s!

When Yellow Swordfish finds a car parked almost in the middle of the road, he blames the 1980s! Yes, the selfish '80s, you know, that quaint decade of inner city riots, CND marches, environmental protest, Red Wedge, etc, now reviled as the cause of all modern ills.

In the early ’70s, my neighbour used to park his car on the pavement, completely blocking our gate. In fact, there were cars on the pavement all over our road, blocking pram, pushchair and wheelchair users and forcing them onto the road. And this was 1972!! What does Yellow Swordfish blame it on? Ted Heath? The 1970s 1950s revival? Sorry, the ’80s were crap, but they just weren’t that influential as to be able to extend their influence backwards. Until we start looking to now and ceasing the priggish, hypocritical nonsense about the ’80s, we’re going nowhere.

I was vehemently anti-Thatcher - but that's the difference between the '80s and now, people were vehement then, not always looking to blame the past and write a load of harping nonsense!

Yellow Swordfish writes of more "innocent times" before the '80s. I do hope he's not referring to the '70s - one look at the media of that decade reveals one very sorry truth: the '70s and '80s go hand-in-hand as possibly the two naffest decades of the twentieth century - the so-called '70s revival has been bolstered up to the hilt with '60s and '80s pop culture, and the actually rather non-influential '80s, complete with pantomime hair and daft clothes and pantomime "boom" era, have made such a wonderfully convenient scapegoat for the woes of now.

Including bizarre people parking their cars in the middle of the road, it seems.

MARIA

Nick Clegg Lets Down England

CEP Press Release: Thursday, 24 Jan 2008

Nick Clegg, the new Lib Dem leader, has hardly been in office when he has already done a U-turn on his promise to make free personal care for all the elderly in England part of the Party’s policy programme. He came into the party leadership saying he supported Scottish-style free care for all elderly citizens regardless of income. Now he’s dropped it. Outlining plans for what he is calling ‘a people’s health service’ in preparation for the Lib Dem Spring Conference in March in Liverpool, he is now proposing that the elderly match government input pound for pound, unlike in Scotland where the Scottish Parliament pays the lot.

‘The injustice inflicted upon the people of England by devolution for Scotland and Wales,’ says Michael Knowles member of the National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament, ‘has reached incredible proportions. Elderly people in Scotland get free personal health care, not one single elderly person in England. Everyone in Wales gets free prescriptions. People in England have to pay £6:85 per prescription item. Scotland and Wales have home rule. England not only does not have home rule but it is the people of England who are paying for all the benefits Scotland and Wales are getting out of having their own Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. Each English taxpayer pays an extra £281 each year in income tax to subsidise the extra benefits Scotland is getting within the Union.’

Our Kingdom: The Trouble With Fascists

The mind boggles. “Our Kingdom”, which has published some of the most ghastly, anti-English drivel known to humankind, has moved to smack a pathetic fascist on the nose with the headline English fascist.

Of course, the e-mail writer was wrong, but if we published articles about every drop of anti-English drivel we receive at WENAP, it would run and run. There would be about two dozen articles on this blog entitled "Scots/Welsh Fascist" and a couple entitled "Cornish Fascist". We have received e-mails about how pure the "Celts" are and how mongrel are the English!

Nobody should condone fascism. And yet publishing material about how England doesn’t deserve equality because it apparently has no moral vision and articles presenting its history in a purely negative light is all fine and dandy for those lovely upstanding folks at Our Kingdom.

Our rights to make decisions about how our country is governed, to have equality in health care, democratic representation, etc are poison to Our Kingdom. We have been stunned at some of the material they have published.

And what's all this bizarre waffle about the "Celts" and "Celtic nations" which the site happily lets pass? Surely, English, Welsh and Scots are nationalities, not races/pure ethnicities?

We thinks there are more than a few British anti-English/England fascists behind the scenes at Our Kingdom. It shocks us that they cannot see their own faults.

Two wrongs don’t make a right!

Drew and Fiona (in Chris Abbott's absence)

David Marquand

Over at Our Kingdom, Mr Marquand claims that England must have a "moral vision" before qualifying for democratic rule. By that, he means converting to his own warped version of "socialism". "Think as I do". Mr Maquand then applauds the Scots and Welsh for their own visions.

Rubbish. The Scottish and Welsh nationalist movements are riddled with misconceptions of the past and Anglophobia.

The current set up is racist, pure and simple. The last time I checked (back in the days of the CRE) racism could be on grounds of nationality! Just think, people can die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland, the English public services and NHS are underfunded, other UK MPs foist legislation onto England, people in England scrape together money for prescriptions available free to millionaires in Wales.

It’s spite - some kind of “pay back” for perceived injustices in the past. These “injustices” are far from clear cut when closely examined. It’s simply that the perceived wrongs of “Britain” are heaped upon England.

There is no noble vision. It is a racist elite (the pure “Celt” thing is terrifying and inaccurate) ruling a “great unwashed”. That people cannot see the racist element in all this worries me intensely.

England must have its own parliament.

David Marquand is an arrogant racist, out to butter his own parsnips in seeking to ensure that the current undemocratic and corrupt system of governance is upheld.

England Excluded From Affairs Of The Union

CEP Press Release: Tuesday, 15 Jan 2008

Today January 15th behind closed doors in a room in Portcullis House in Westminster in London, England’s capital, six of Scotland’s MPs and MSPs will meet to decide what further powers to give to the Scottish Parliament. England, which makes up 80% of the Union population, has 550 of its 650 MPs and contributes 85% of its wealth, is being totally excluded from the discussions. No English MP is invited. This will be their second meeting, the first was in November of last year

The Scottish Six are: Des Browne Labour MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun and (part-time) Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael Lib-Dem MP for Orkney and Shetlands, David Mundell Conservative MP for Dumfrieshire, Clydesdale and Tweesdale, Wendy Alexander Labour MSP for Paisley South, Annabel Goldie Conservative MSP for the West of Scotland and Nicol Stephen Lib-Den MSP for Aberdeen South.

They are meeting in a state of intense inter-party anxiety. One thing unites them, their opposition to the Scottish National Party. The latest You-Gov poll for the Scottish Daily Express has put the SNP nine points ahead of labour in the constituency vote, and of course streets ahead of the Lib-Dem and the Tory parties. They meet under the banner of defence of the Union. Their principal concern however is the survival of their parties in Scotland.

In 1997 the Labour Party led by Scottish MPs Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Donald Dewar, Robin Cook and Des Browne was convinced that a devolved Scottish Parliament would kill off the SNP for good. It did not. The Scottish First Minister is Alex Salmond. They believed that giving to Scotland complete power over all its internal affairs such as health and education would stop the rise of Scottish nationalism in its tracks. It achieved the exact opposite. They believed that keeping the power of Scottish MPs in the Union Parliament to legislate in every single matter for England while excluding English MPs from any say in Scotland’s internal affairs would go unnoticed by the English people. But the last ten years of devolution has dramatically witnessed the biggest rise in English patriotism ever. In addition the resentment of the English people against the rampant injustice inflicted by the 1997 legislation upon them is now filling every MP’s postbag. 58% of English people want Scotland to go independent, 72% want their own separate English Parliament.

The Scottish Six are meeting behind closed doors, no English representation allowed, to decide what extra powers to give to the Scottish Parliament to keep the SNP at bay. What lessons they might have learned over the past ten years are their business. What is England’s business however is the knowledge that these Scottish MPs think they can play fast and loose with United Kingdom constitutional matters without consultation with England which is 80% of the Union. What is England’s business is the sheer brass of these Scottish MPs giving even more powers to Scotland and even less say for England in Scottish matters while keeping for themselves the right to legislate for England in every single thing.

‘The next ten years,’ says Mrs Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament, ‘will see all this put right. The constitution of the United Kingdom cannot be made to serve just the interests of Scotland’.

Gordon Brown Dictates Nuclear Power Stations For England, But His Own Constituents In Scotland Are Not Affected...

Since 2006, England has lived under threat of the imposition of a new generation of nuclear power stations being built across the country. It was bad enough when Blair, a PM elected in an English constituency, was leading the call, with the knowledge that Scotland, his homeland, would not be having them. It was bad enough when Alastair Darling, an MP elected in a Scottish constituency, was announced as being the man to "oversee the details". And I was stunned when it was announced laws would be changed in England to help prevent Local Authorities and environmental protesters being heard.

But Gordon Brown, our unelected PM, whose constituents up in Scotland will be unaffected by the new generation of plants, shows incredible arrogance in trying to push the plans through.

Take a look at the BBC.

This is truly shocking.

Personally, I am not in favour of nuclear power. The benefits may be great when all goes well, but side effects like leukemia pockets and the danger of a nuclear accident, outweigh the advantages to my mind.

But if a new generation of English nuclear power stations was the democratic will of the majority of people in England, and this was proven, I would be a lot happier.

Some say that the English WOULD vote for a new generation of nuclear power plants.

Fine. But they MUST be given all the facts and the OPPORTUNITY to decide.

More and more the Scottish Raj is showing just how arrogant and, I believe, unhinged its members are. The Raj's disregard for democracy in England on a number of fronts is sick, nothing more, nothing less. More and more so-called English MPs and the so-called "opposition" parties are showing just how anti-English or apathetic they are.

I make no apology for including again the Times Chernobyl cover from 1986. Nuclear power is a serious business.

The people of England must be allowed to decide.

See my 2006 post on the subject here.

The Scot-Brit Rulers Of England

Interesting times. UK PLC takes precedence over equality for the people of England, David Heath, MP, from Nick Clegg's brave "new" Liberal Democrats Party, has asserted, NO English Parliament (the majority appear to want it? Well TOUGH!!) and Gordon Brown has announced an NHS Constitution - but ONLY for England, although he has tried not to mention the fact. His own constituents in his Scottish homeland will not be affected one jot by what he does. And it never seems to be mentioned that health outside of England is far better funded.

As the Scot-Brit establishment works to keep England dissolved and the English under the thumb, as English MPs lick arse (have you seen Jack Straw's brown neck?) and ride the gravy train, Gordy is intriguingly referring to "responsibilities" before one qualifies for NHS treatment in England. This will not apply elsewhere. Having free marketed the health and social care services in England (ever heard of an odious Government agency called "Supporting People", which promises vulnerable adults in supported housing schemes across England much if they become de-registered, then savagely slashes staffing and other budgets to keep things "competitive", leaving people with histories of mental illness and institutionalisation to basically fend for themselves for long hours, particularly at night?), Nu Labour now intends to see that the people of England DESERVE NHS treatment.

If not, what? If you're too fat, used to/do smoke, etc, are a drug addict, what then? What's the message from the Scottish Raj at Westminster? "Drop dead, sassenach bastard!" seems to be the answer.

Don't You Just Wish Google And The Rest Of The PC Crowd Would F*ck Off?

As a care worker I'm not on holiday. In fact, it's likely to be a very busy time for me. But I will make time to attend a Christmas church service and pull a Christmas cracker.

But the above and other ridiculous motifs, with a "happy holidays from Google" tag, are what the slimiest, most politically correct, patronising and thought controlling search engine in the world are marking Christmas with.

The vast majority of people will be celebrating Christmas. But it's not good for us to have that fact recognised.

Christ, I hate Google!

Hasten the day when we see an end to these idiots trying to submerge our culture and control our lives in the name of "inclusiveness". I note it's not ethnic minority groups carrying out the vanquishing of Christmas - it's the usual smug, superior and arrogant arseholes who consider themselves above the common herd, above following tradition or endorsing any particular religion.

Rant over.

Gordon Brown - No "English Question"

Gordon Brown is at it again, sneaking in and signing the EU Treaty without the promised referendum (not the same document at all? The Waendal Journal lists insiders' opinions here) and rejecting calls for an English Parliament, making out that we all value the Union far more!

Gareth has this.

When will the politicians start listening? Do we need a return to 1980s style street riots before anybody takes notice? God forbid - but even our modern day fragmented, shallow and consumerist electorate will only take so much.

The Break Up Of England

When the North East of England voted 78% NO to regionalisation, we thought that was it. The end of the regionalisation project. This was the only area allowed a referendum and the electorate had spoken. Silly us! The wishes of the people count for nought and regionalisation continues apace. It suits the anti-English Union Government, headed by Gordon Brown, to dismember our country (we didn't vote for him) and it suits the EU (we didn't vote for that, either).

So we now have Yorkshire, Europe. Actually that's not really the old county of Yorkshire - it's "Yorkshire and Humber", an EU/NuLab region. Not UK. Not England. A tinpot region to be ruled from on high in Brussels.

More here .

David Cameron

David Cameron in Edinburgh yesterday: "This is where I stand, here in this great and beautiful capital, an English politician in a Scottish city saying clearly today and for all time that Britain comes first."

Ooh, strangely bursting with pride about Edinburgh this "English politician", isn't he? One would almost think he was Scottish. Perhaps that's because he is. Scottishness is a state of mind, like Englishness or Welshness, and Cameron, who brags about ancestors who were "Scottish Empire builders" "conquering all sorts of parts of India" and "Scottish blood" (there's no such thing) in his veins, is clearly not English.

And so, in his speech in Edinburgh yesterday, Mr Cameron underlined his plans for the English under his government:

1) England can NOT expect an end to health apartheid if it threatens the Union. Just go on dieing or going blind or suffering with your cancers, dears.

2) England can NOT expect an end to the Barnett Formula if it threatens the Union - just go on forking out and getting crumbs in return, dears.

3) England can NOT expect an end to the West Lothian Question if it threatens the Union - just go on accepting dictates, dears.

And then Mr Cameron tried to crawl up the backsides of the Welsh - claiming a Welshman designed the NHS - (the English had nothing to do with the concept, did they, dears?) and ignoring the fact that the NHS no longer exists. Health apartheid is rampant. The "NHS" in England is NOT the same NHS as in Scotland or the same NHS as in Wales!!

David Cameron does not give a damn about England. He doesn't care if you die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland, or scrimp and save for vital prescriptions free to millionaires in Wales. He does not speak for you. I cannot help wondering if the guy is suffering from some sort of mental illness, so blinkered and jaundiced is his view, so uncaring, insensitive and basically racist is his outlook.

But he can't be as mad as the Conservative Party. Is the gravy train so comfortable that its MPs never want the bother of governing again? What on earth are they playing at, letting David Cameron lead them?

Supporting People

A letter received today:

I work for a housing association as a mental health support worker and I can tell you it stinks.

The association was established in the late 1960s, and for years provided general purpose and special needs housing. In recent years, the majority of the mental health projects have been de-registered. Their vulnerable tenants were promised higher staffing levels and better overall financing, but under the auspices of an odious government organisation called "Supporting People", services have actually been slashed, staffing drastically reduced (some homes which previously had 24-hour cover now leave vulnerable tenants alone overnight, with various medications sought after by drug dealers on the premises) and staff are dismissed instantly if they share their concerns outside the organisation. Concerns shared WITHIN the organisation are dismissed with glib comments such as "you must adapt".

These housing associations now compete against each other for tenders under New Labour legislation and services come as a poor second. Many organisations are now reduced to a level of service which is grave cause for concern, but with staff gagged, a lot of what is happening is shielded from the public gaze.

Supporting People, another odious New Labour venture in England - http://www.spkweb.org.uk/

Read Between The Lines: David Cameron hates England.

Here's David Cameron in the Daily Telegraph today speaking about his family background: "My father's side of the family by being Camerons are predominantly Scottish. On my mother's side of the family, her mother was a Llewellyn, so Welsh. I'm a real mixture of Scottish, Welsh and English. Her grandmother's side were Scottish Empire builders - conquered all sorts of parts of India, I think."

WHAT?! "SCOTTISH Empire builders"?! I thought we were all supposed to be BRITISH?! Mr Cameron certainly reveals his true Little Scotlander motivation here.

Mr Cameron seems to think that his mixed family background is a good reason why we should all be British. And perhaps why England should not have a parliament. But surely people in Scotland have mixed roots? And yet they have a parliament. And they call themselves Scots.

Mr Cameron again: "I would rather have an imperfect Union rather than some perfect constitutional construct that would threaten the Union." Roughly translated, this means that discrimination against the English is fine, so long as the Union is preserved. The well-being and fair representation of the electorate in England is NOT the priority.

On the funding issue he admitted: "Increasingly it looks unfair and increasingly people are questioning it. I say to English audiences of course the time will come when we have to look at it, but do not believe that there's some pot of gold here. It's not those perfidious Scots taking all our money.

"If you replace Barnett with a needs-based formula then Scotland will still get a large amount of money. Don't treat it as a big grievance."

I'm afraid a government dominated by Scots IS looking after Scotland at the expense of England. It IS a big grievance.

Cameron: "Point one, an imperfect Union is better than anything that threatens it. The Union always comes first. Point two, I always say to my party yes of course there are things that can upset you - like different spending levels, but remember, the Union comes first and don't blame the Union, blame the government. Third, I want to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom not England."

This last comment is an unacceptable thing to say. It's almost offensive. Will you award England its own parliament with it's own First Minister, then, Mr Cameron? Because that is what's required if the Union is to continue. And just WHY is the Union so essential?

Here's a quote from the article:

The question of money is what can cause most anger, with Scotland getting a higher share of public spending per head than England (although regions in the North of England do get higher spending than Scotland.)

Wrong. "Regions" in the North of England have far larger populations than Scotland's, but proportionally spending is much lower. England does not benefit from the Barnett Formula. It is not apportioned on a "regional basis" but to the "nations" of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the inference clearly being that England is not a nation. This paragraph of the Telegraph article is either lousy research or a downright lie.

Cameron - regarding the West Lothian Question: "It is something I would like to sort out. It would help add to constitutional stability and it needs to be done in a careful way. We haven't decided what path to go down but the Rifkind plan does not create two classes of MP. It is no good saying that the answer to the West Lothian Question is to stop asking it. We will be putting forward a plan for dealing with this issue."

It is amazing that Malcolm Rifkind is also a Scot, is it not? On an island of some sixty million souls, only five million of them Scots, that Mr Cameron selects a fellow Scot to deal with his party's approach to the English Question? How British you are, Mr Cameron!

Back to Cameron: "Think of 1940, Britain standing alone to defeat Hitler. Think of the proportion of the Armed Forces that were made up of Scots, Welsh and Irish." So what? That has nothing to do with modern day devolution issues.

Mr Cameron says of the West Lothian Question that it is "not one of his top five issues" - illustrating again how out of sympathy and out of touch with the electorate in England he is. Remember, this is the man who called those of us demanding parity with Scotland "sour Little Englanders", the man who went to Glasgow and slagged the English off, whilst making bizarre statements about the greatness of Scots.

My advice to the Tories is ditch him. David Cameron is an anti-English Little Scotlander who is hiding his motives behind "Britishness" just as much as Gordon Brown is.

He won't get you elected and will simply cause further rifts in your beloved Union with his ridiculous, barely concealed anti-English nonsense.

"Solve Everything - Dissolve England Into Regions!"

I’ve never understood the “regions instead of an English parliament” argument.

For a start, regions would not solve the West Lothian Question, Barnett Formula, non-representative MPs problem. And whilst those who argue for regions profess to be liberals, terrified of an “over centralised” state, it is far more “over centralised” and indeed downright undemocratic for the UK Government to foist regions onto the electorate in England.

First, England needs its own, totally representative, national parliament. Then we work out the nuts and bolts of internal governance in England.

As for the EU angle, I’m all for integration and interaction with the rest of our tiny planet, but I don’t approve of the way the EU is going - it is undemocratic.

And surely everything being controlled from Brussels is rather more over-centralised than England having its own domestic parliament?

Gareth is on the subject over at the CEP News Blog.

Missing out on devolution is far worse for England than being left out of the union flag is for Wales

CEP Press Release: 29 Nov 2007

The Welsh MP Ian Lucas has called for the Union Jack to be changed to incorporate a Welsh symbol. He wants the flag to reflect all the four nations of the UK and not just England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. And Margaret Hodge Minister of State at the Dept. of Culture, Media and Sport, has come out in support of the suggestion.

‘If MPs and members of the Government want to bring about equality and fairness in the Union,’ the Campaign for an English Parliament has retorted, ‘then it’s about time it concerned itself with getting rid of far worse inequalities and injustices between the four nations than just what’s on a flag’

‘This government’s Devolution legislation gave self-rule to Scotland, to Wales and to Northern Ireland. Absolutely none whatsoever to England. England is the only nation in the Union without any home rule at all, the only one without its own parliament or assembly. In fact it is the only nation in the EU without its own parliament or assembly.

‘And that is not the only injustice being done to England. Under the now infamous Barnett formula each person in Scotland, Wales and NI has £1500 more spent on them every year than what is spent on any man or woman in England –be it in education or the health service or social services. In addition people of England have to pay for prescriptions, they don’t in Wales and shortly won’t in Scotland either. Students in Scotland get free university, but in England they have tuition fees and top up fees, causing them to leave university with debts up to £20,000.

‘Union MPs should get their priorities right,’ is the demand of the Campaign. ‘What’s on the Union Jack is a very secondary issue. Welsh MPs and UK ministers should regard Justice for England, a Parliament for England, as their first necessity if they want to make the Union a fair and equal partnership of nations’.

Nick Clegg: Abolish England Into Regions, Don't Give The People Any Say In The Matter...

Heavens, can't politicians waffle? Here's Nick Clegg during a BBC question and answer session:

Q: Do you support the establishment of an English Parliament, or at least sessions of the English Parliament to sit at Westminster without MPs from the other British nations. If not - please explain what you mean by federalism. Doug , Edinburgh

A: There is a real anomaly in the way Scottish MPs vote on English matters - but it is only one of countless anomalies in our electoral system, and they all need to be addressed together as part of a new constitutional settlement. Focusing on the West Lothian issue alone just plays into the hands of people who want to break up the United Kingdom.

The real English Question is in a sense the same as the Scottish Question or the Welsh Question - it’s about breaking down an overbearing, over-controlling central state and returning power to local communities and to individuals. I don’t think that English people primarily see this as a question of exact symmetry - the question is one of democratic control. The answer isn’t to try and divide MPs into sheep and goats and risk creating problems whereby one party is in government, but doesn’t have a majority for English affairs. We need to move beyond this sterile debate and look to devolve power within England, and continue the push for a whole new constitutional settlement. Remember - every decision not taken in Whitehall is a decision where the West Lothian Question doesn’t apply.

Mr Clegg basically wants England broken up into regions and abolished. He is not interested in noting the results of recent polls, including one on the BBC itself, which indicate that around 61 to 67 per cent of the English want a national parliament. He is happy to put words into the mouths of the English electorate and ride roughshod over them.

That's a slightly rough but absolutely accurate translation of Mr Clegg's reams of waffle.

Victoria Derbyshire

Paid for by your licence fee, another BBC PC ignoramus prepares to broadcast to the nations and regions. Don't let it vex you - you HAVE to pay her salary.

I've no time for radio presenter Victoria Derbyshire - I remember a St George's Day debate she was involved in a few years ago, where she harassed a black English caller - trying to get him to state that he was not English, but British, everybody was British, including her. The man refused to back down, fortunately, but it rather put me off Victoria.

Now, as concerns grow about the impact of recent mass immigration on schools, Ms Derbyshire is showing her concern and in-depth grasp of the facts relating to the situation on 5 Live...

Here's a snippet relayed by the Waendal Journal:

Caller: "In one school children are speaking 34 different languages!"

La Derbyshire: "Is that a problem?"

Good grief, what planet do some of these people live on? It's all so oblivious, smug and removed from reality.

Reminds me of Trevor Phillips' recent statement about David Cameron's speech on immigration:

"He is asking the 21st Century question about immigration. But unfortunately, he is giving the 20th Century answer in proposing that all of these issues can be solved by capping numbers.

"Rather, we need to meet head on the challenges of rapid and diverse population growth.

"We need to find ways to capitalise on the injection of energy that new migrants bring and bolster our infrastructure and public services to cope with the new demands."

Words like "small island" and "jobs" and "financing" come to mind. Also, employers paying slave wages to immigrants. This is not a desirable state of affairs. This is not how things should be.

And just what are the practicalities and the impact on our environment of Mr Phillips' desire to play Lord Bountiful? Just how does he know that everything in the garden is/will be lovely when he hardly ever experiences real life as lived by the vast majority of us?

A friend of mine who lives in a council flat, had his kitchen renovated last month. One of the workmen, a recent Polish immigrant, spoke to my friend about the wondrous publicity in his homeland about coming to work in England (his term).

"The money seemed very good, but nobody told me how expensive it is here - I can barely afford to live and I can't send any money home."

Instead of slating "idle English" people who won't take poorly paid jobs, this Government should be ensuring that employers pay living wages - and stop importing slave labour.

Then there are those long-term inhabitants who feel the effects of rapid mass immigration. One woman I spoke to recently told me she feels "displaced" at times. New Labour and the PC crowd would pronounce her "racist" or a "Little Englander", but the fact is it is these same New Labour/PC folks who have backed national bodies for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, charged with "invigorating" those countries traditional cultures, and also created dreadful inequalities like health apartheid and the West Lothian Question.

Double standards and rank hypocrisy.

Immigration? Yes. A thousand time yes. I'd hate to live in a stagnant pond. The current situation? No - it's absolute madness, we're too small, not wealthy enough and a lot of it is happening against the will of the electorate. What is New Labour trying to do? The slave labour angle is obvious, but are they also trying to create such a state of flux here that their chances of retaining power are enhanced? If you don't like the electorate (and let's not pretend that New Labour has any affection for England), change it? With record numbers leaving the country, I can't help wondering.

Big hat tip to Tony Sharp over at the Waendal Journal.

Scots Who Still Won't See The Injustice Of Devolution And English MPs Who Won't Do Their Jobs...

In the Scotsman today...

This is funny:

“The Union has to be seen as looser, more flexible, more diverse and modern and in turn allow the issues at the heart of devolved government - sovereignty, identity, democracy and nationality - to be better understood and made more relevant to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England.”

Despite the first three nations already being showered with devolution goodies, despite the fact that health apartheid is rampant, England is still last on the list.

And this is sickening:

“It [the Union} has within it different nations and regions with views and attitudes towards the Union that vary widely.”

The Union is not composed of regions.

It’s time England was independent. That certain Scots still think they can seek to impose a different set of rules on England to those enjoyed by themselves, and all this posturing and preening - “Scot of The Year” - I mean YUCK!! - shows that insight and fair mindedness is far too lacking for the Union to continue.

When you put these people together with the selfish and greedy English MPs, refusing to act in the interests of their constituents, the message is clear:

End the “Union”.

Then Scots meddlers can mind THEIR OWN business and English MPs will be forced to get on with WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING - representing their constituents’ interests in England.

You never know, the "Scot of the Year" might actually be somebody who lacks the bigoted "auld enemy" mentality and actually sets in motion an end to the devolutionary mess... but don't bank on it.

Big hat tip to the CEP News Blog.

Some Scots MPs Would Like To See England Abolished...

Despite the North East, the only area of England allowed a referendum, voting 78% NO to regionalisation, Ian Davidson, a Scots constituency MP totally unaccountable to the electorate in England, believes that England should be abolished as a unified nation.

"I think the proposals that we had before for regional assemblies seemed to me to be a way forward.

The ‘English votes for English issues’ proposal is a recipe for some degree of chaos. We should be looking for some way of devolving power to the English regions. The first time we had a referendum for the Scottish Parliament, we didn’t get it - so just because the referendum in the north-east [of England] went against the plan, it doesn’t mean it should be rejected completely."
Ian Davidson, Labour MP for Glasgow, reported in the Scotsman.

You can let Mr Davidson know your opinion over at the Scotsman. His phone number is 0207 219 2610.

Regional devolution to England does not solve the West Lothian Question. The internal government of England, whether it should be delivered by our ancient counties, regional bodies or something else, should be decided by MPs representing the people of England in its own national parliament, not by non-representative MPs in the current UK parliament. I boggle at the attitude of some these Scots MPs - it's incredibly arrogant. England's own national parliament is the first priority for restoring democratic rule to the so-called "UK".

Hat tip to the CEP News Blog and the England Project.

Campaign for an English Parliament Press Release: English Parliament Is Only Answer To West Lothian Question

CEP: English parliament is only answer to West Lothian question

On Wednesday November 14th the the House of Commons Justice Committee of MPs taking evidence from invited experts on constitutional matters was informed by Professor Robert Hazell, the Director of the Constitution Committee, that ‘the closest to a complete answer to the West Lothian Question was a separate English Parliament’.’ It was a statement with immense political significance. moment. The Constitutional Unit, located within University College London, had been set up with Professor Hazell as its Director in 2000 with full government backing to address the complex constitutional issues arising out of the 1998 Devolution legislation which had set up the Scottish Parliament and he Welsh Assembly but which had granted no devolution to the English nation whatsoever.

The so-called West Lothian Question has become the most difficult issue of all caused by that legislation. The Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly have created a totally unfair and undemocratic situation for the English. Scottish MPs in the Union Parliament in Westminster are still entitled to vote on such very important matters as health, education and transport for England, even to be cabinet ministers of health, education and transport for England, while no English MPs can do the same on the same issues for Scotland. It has enabled Scotland to vote for free prescriptions for all Scottish people, free personal care for the elderly, no university fees for Scottish students and free bus travel throughout Scotland for all its pensioners. The Scots each get £1500 more spent on their health and education than people in England. Nothing has created more disunity in the United Kingdom and friction between England and Scotland than the West Lothian Question since the Act of Union of 1707, three hundred years ago.

When the Constitution Unit was set up in the year 2000 its Director Professor Hazell, in his ‘State of the Union’ lecture at its inauguration stated that an English Parliament was not the way to resolve the West Lothian Question. He declared that an English Parliament would mean the end of the United Kingdom. Now, after seven years of investigation, his influential Unit has informed the House of Commons that an English Parliament physically separate from the United Kingdom Parliament is the best way to resolve the very question that is creating tension and break-up within the Union. It is a political conversion of Road-to-Damascus proportions, and all the more significant and reliable for that reason.

Come To Wales - Come To Chester...

The Scottish/Welsh imperialist project is getting ridiculous. First we read that the Scots have colonised England, then we discover that the Welsh have taken Chester. The postmark above is absolutely bloody daft and should not exist, but it has greatly upset one CEP member, who sent it to Drew and Fiona with the command "Send in the troops!"

Ironically, the postmark was on an envelope containing the latest CEP "Think of England" newsletter...

Professor John Curtice - "We survey the English about public spending in Scotland, don't tell them the facts, and THEN they think it's OK."

Professor Curtice

I'm paraphrasing in the post title above, but this is what Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University actually told the House of Commons Justice Committee:

“…The other grumble in England, allegedly, which is about public spending - it’s not as obviously a grumble - or at least it’s not obviously as salient a grumble as perhaps you might imagine.

“What we’ve done here with this question is to simply ask people: Do you think Scotland gets more or less than its fair share of public spending? and we’ve asked it on both sides of the border.

“WE DON’T TELL PEOPLE - as most commercial polling evidence is done - that actually…what the difference in level of spending is, because that leads people, that makes it obvious to them what the difference is, OK?"

You are clearly saying that you don't inform people of the facts. No that IS NOT "OK"! How could you think it?

Here, the Constitution Unit describes Professor Curtis as a "polling expert". Not as I understand polls. They don't usually depend on not furnishing people with relevant information. And furnishing people with relevant information is not "leading them".

I'm indebted to Al Wilson on the CEP comment thread here for highlighting Professor Curtice's warped and hugely unfair sense of logic.

Robert Hazell

Robert Hazell, Director of the Constitution Unit - habitual liar who has done great harm to the prospects of democratic rule for the people of England over a long period of time.

I'm picking Mr Hazell out for particular comment because he wandered into my sights this morning, via this BBC article, spouting the great lie, not for the first time, and I wished to let him know that we are looking. We are hearing. The electorate in England has awoken from its coma and the kind of manipulative nonsense he and his like have been spouting for years is now being noted and seen for what it is by large numbers of people beyond his priviliged clique.

From this morning's BBC online article:

The “closest to a complete answer” would be a separate English Parliament but no “heavyweight” politicians had come out in support of such a move and there was “no significant public demand for that,” he told MPs on Tuesday.”

“No significant public demand”? When last I looked there were polls showing sixty one to sixty seven per cent in favour of an English parliament! The BBC's own poll in January this year showed sixty one per cent (see it here).

What WOULD be “significant” in your view, Mr Hazell?

Anti-English Channel Four Lies Again...

Channel Four is at it again, back on its old familiar anti-English track, blurring and muddying the facts of devolution. By delving into spending between the English regions, by trying to state that Scotland owns all the North Sea Oil and should benefit from it, by generally playing down the West Lothian Question.

The "English regions" are part of England and do not benefit from the Barnett Formula. The English have never voted for regionalisation. These government-imposed regions should not come into the equation. England is a unified nation. Its county (and note I say COUNTY) spending allocations should be sorted via a nationally representative parliament. Not the current UK set-up, with non- representative MPs (like Gordon Brown) holding sway.

All UK resources should go into the UK pot, but if we're on the subject of North Sea oil and gas, the majority of the gas is England's, and about ten per cent of the oil - probably more if tales of the UK Government tweaking the maritime border in the 1960s are true.

Channel Four doesn't dwell on health apartheid, makes light of the West Lothian Question, which should serve to underline the fact that its loyalties do not lie with the people of England. As if we needed reminding - this is the whole back catalogue, as recorded on this blog.

What's most disturbing is the bare faced twisting of facts and smugly anti-English stance of this TV channel. Time and time again.

Still, as this was the channel which set out to be different and succeeded - bringing us the likes of The Mini Pops and Big Brother, perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.

Feedback is welcome at Channel Four - you can e-mail - Faisal.islam@itn.co.uk

England 2007

An England 2007 tweaking of a scene from the charming 1979 film, "Alien". Apologies to the squeamish. It was the best photograph of Gordon Brown I could find at short notice.

I sometimes think the “Britain”/UK Government thing is like that scene from “Alien” - with the UK Government “thing” bursting from the stomach of England and killing it stone dead.

The UK Government is something that doesn’t seek to serve England. Come to that, I’m sure it’s now regretting devolution for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The UK Government is something very ugly, very self serving, very dangerous. It exists for itself, its own perpetuation is its prime concern. It is in no way a representative organisation, it is a monster, its primitive instincts completely egocentric.

As well as killing off the country of England by imposing regionalisation, the UK Government is quite content to play favourites so that English citizens can die whilst Scottish citizens do not as health apartheid spreads.

CEP Press Release - Senior Government Ministers Oppose Solutions To The English Question

Michael Knowles of the Campaign for an English Parliament and Head of its Media Unit has criticised Gordon Brown, author of the Queen's Speech, for failing even to mention the biggest constitutional issue in the UK today, namely the English Question, and three of Brown's senior government ministers for opposing anything being done about it.

The English Question is the situation the UK is now in in which Scotland, Wales and NI each have formal constitutional and political recognition as distinct nations and self-rule, which they did not have before devolution, while England has neither. As a consequence Scotland, Wales and NI can grant themselves such benefits as free prescriptions and free university education, denied to the people of England. In addition Scottish, Welsh and NI MPs have kept their right to make laws for England's internal affairs like health and education while English MPs have no say at all in the internal affairs of Scotland, NI and Wales.

In the Queen's Speech the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, MP for Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath in Scotland, excluded all mention from the Queen's Speech of the discrimination England is being subjected to. In the Common's debates that followed, both the Lord Chancellor/Justice Minister Jack Straw and the Secretary of State for Wales Peter Hain have expressed total opposition to England having its own parliament like Scotland has and even to English MPs alone being able to make laws which affect England only. Mr Straw claimed that either solution 'would wrench the UK apart' even though he and his party were the MPs who gave Scotland its own parliament and Wales its own assembly.

Mr Straw and Mr Hain, both Labour party ministers, oppose devolution for England because they fear that it would be the Conservatives who would hold a majority in an English Parliament. They also oppose English MPs alone having the right to make laws for England's internal affairs because they calculate that without Scottish and Welsh MPs Labour would not be able to rule in England. In other words they regard the issue of England purely from the perspective of party advantage.

Mr Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer and MP for Edinburgh South West, has called for an end to any discussion of the English Question. As a Scottish MP he looks at the English Question from the perspective of what is of advantage to Scotland. His worry is that devolution for England, particularly in the form of an English Parliament with the same powers and responsibilities as the Scottish Parliament, will reduce Scottish influence over English matters and the number of Scottish MPs in the Union parliament. The Campaign for an English Parliament has written to Mr Brown and his colleagues demanding that England is treated in the Union equally with Scotland.

Trevor Phillips Says Everything's Lovely - Let's Have Loads More Immigrants, Peter "Apartheid" Hain Slags Off Nigel Hastilow... Hypocrisy Rules...

Peter Hain - only backs apartheid when it is levelled against the electorate in England.

I believe that Nigel Hastilow was an absolute twit. Sorry, Nigel, not that I imagine my thoughts will cost you a wink of sleep, but it seems to me that apparently condoning a speech perceived by many to be racist is a fool way of going about opening up the issue of mass immigration. And plays right into New Labour's hands.

"You racist!" screams that party, which has put into place a system of devolution which ensures you can die in England for want of medication available on the NHS in Scotland. "You racist!" screams that party which has put into place a system of devolution that ensures you can scrimp and save for prescription charges free to millionaires in Wales. "You racist!" screams that party which has put into place a system of devolution that ensures non-representative MPs, MPs representing a privileged elite outside of England, including Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, can dictate policy for England.

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And apparently Peter Hain, digging up cricket pitches in his native South Africa in 1969 in protest at apartheid, but fully backing it when it is levelled against the electorate in England, has also been having his two penny worth.

How sickening. The hypocrite's hypocrite.

But I find comments like this from NuLabour "Equality" quango poodle Trevor Phillips far more worrying...

Speaking of David Cameron's speech on immigration, Mr Phillips said:

"He is asking the 21st Century question about immigration. But unfortunately, he is giving the 20th Century answer in proposing that all of these issues can be solved by capping numbers.

"Rather, we need to meet head on the challenges of rapid and diverse population growth.

"We need to find ways to capitalise on the injection of energy that new migrants bring and bolster our infrastructure and public services to cope with the new demands."

Words like "small island" and "jobs" and "financing" come to mind. Also, employers paying slave wages to immigrants. This is not a desirable state of affairs. This is not how things should be.

And just what are the practicalities and the impact on our environment of Mr Phillips' desire to play Lord Bountiful? Just how does he know that everything in the garden is/will be lovely when he hardly ever experiences real life as lived by the vast majority of us?

Something else that springs to mind, as with Mr Hain and the NuLabour Party in general, is Mr "Human Rights" Phillips apparent complete approval of the health and democratic apartheid levelled against England, post-devolution for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Like Mr Hain, Trevor Phillips is a complete and utter hypocrite. I wonder how these New Labour minions sleep nights.

Evil, deceitful, self-serving bunch.

Rant over.

Scotland - Give It ALL The North Sea Oil, Including England's Share, And It Almost Breaks Even...

Interesting article in the Guardian...

Tax revenues from Scotland almost match the country's £49.2bn a year public spending - although only if all North Sea oil and gas revenues are attributed to Edinburgh, a controversial allocation.

I've been waiting for the North Sea Oil issue to come to the fore.

A couple of problems I have with it...

1) Scotland does not own ALL the North Sea oil as things currently stand. Some of it is in English waters. So why should calculations be done based on it claiming England's oil?

2) Controversy persists about a claimed "tweaking" of the maritime border between England and Scotland in the 1960s, the border being altered in Scotland's favour. The English were not consulted. Concerns about this issue must be addressed.

3) UK resources should be shared UK-wide. Subsidies should be paid to needy localities, NOT whole nations and there is no justification for the current system of health and higher education apartheid. Scotland has benefited hugely from the so-called Union, with the Darien bailout and access to English markets via the British Empire, to name but two things. The last amplified its (usually anti-English) voice on the world stage enormously and sprayed the country with vast amounts of money. Is what's Scotland's Scotland's only, despite the so-called Union, but what's England's is also Scotland's?

4) If the UK Government gives Scotland English oil revenue, is that fair? And what happens when the oil runs out? Do we have Scots claiming that the dastardly English deceived them, fobbed them off with the revenue, then left them sitting on the cold hard ground?

In my view, the best answer is to end the UK. Pure and simple.

Unfortunately, the Scottish Raj, sheep-like English MPs and undemocratic die-hard Unionists are determined that this should NEVER happen, no matter what the people want.