Johnny Hates Jazz

Dear Mr BBC Wed designer, why is there a

BBC Scotland Politics site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/default.stm

BBC Wales Politics site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...es/default.stm

BBC Northern Ireland Politcs site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/default.stm

But NO ENGLISH POLITICS SITE ???????????

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John Page

They haven't replied yet?

Johnny Hates Jazz

All in hand, we are sending them a Race Relations questionaire, and intend to follow up with full legal action :wink:

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colin smith

Hi English Democrat,
I wish you all the best. While you are at it ,can you ask the BBC why there is a disproportionate number of black presenters on Children's programmes, for example Boogie Beebies. Many Thanks .

Johnny Hates Jazz

Dear Colin

That's a more tricky one to handle

The English v Scots v Welsh v Irish, is less 'Racial', and the evidence of BBC bias against the English in favour of the Celts is far more easy to prove.

Once we get the Celts out of running our Country (England) then we can focus on getting out the EUssr, hence taking control of our borders and putting in a sensible immigration and asylum policy.

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Britannist

I also wish English Democrat (ED) well in his and his party's attempt to get the BBC to explain its obvious anti-Englishness. I would also like to know why there is no BBC Radio England. There is a BBC Ulster, a BBC Wales and a BBC Scotland plus local BBC radio stations within those entities. In England there are lots of BBC local radio stations - but no BBC England.

The BBC will try and say that England is so big it would have to be broken up into 'regions' (in other words, the BBC promotes the view of the europhile Blair Labour regime in ignoring England's existence as far as possible). But England and Scotland are the same size geographically and if a small country (in population terms) like Scotland can have a BBC Radio Scotland (which even broadcasts some programmes in Scottish Gaelic) I see no reason why the BBC should not give England its own BBC Radio England - especially as it would actually be less expensive to set up and run per-head-of-population than the BBC radio stations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

I hope that ED and the English Democrats will ask the europhile BBC not just about the absence of a BBC website for England - but about the absence of a BBC Radio England and why BBC national newsreaders never, ever wear the English Rose on St. George's Day (unlike BBC presenters in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland on the national days of those parts of the UK).

Dan

I'm not sure that I actually want a BBC Radio England. Apart from making a political point, what other purpose would it serve? It'd simply be a 'national' station in the vein of BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live without any of the added value that BBC local radio offers.

A counter argument may be from licence fee payers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as to why England gets local radio stations, yet they must make do with a 'national' one. Despite what Britannist says, there isn't a BBC Radio Glasgow, or a BBC Radio Swansea etc.

adrianwainer

Bring back Mr Whippy is what I say!

And a couple of skateboarding ducks would not go amiss either....!

I wonder what "skateboarding ducks" is in cockney rhyming slang?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_%28TV_series%29

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

Hereward

There is a BBC Scotland and a BBC Cymru (Wales). There is a Scottish Labour Party and a Wales Labour Party, There is a 'Scottish Conservatives' party and a Welsh Conservative Party. Likewise for the Liberal Democrats. Theres is a Scottish TUC, and a Wales TUC. There is a Scottish Women's TUC and a Welsh Women's TUC. The list is endless.

The three main political parties produce separate manifestos for Scotland and Wales, and leave voters in England to believe that we all receive the same manifestos for the election of a British Government. Indeed, none of the Big Three mentioned the word 'England' once in their respective party manifestos for the 2005 General Election, and I believe that this feature was a repeat of what had previously occurred in 2001, save for the possible exception of the Lib Dems, which may have used it once.

Go onto any official or quango website eg ODPM and its successor, and you will not find England as such mentioned - very occasionally the 'Regions of England', but much more likely as 'English Regions'. Scotland and Wales are almost invariably mentioned as being in the 'Nations & regions of the UK'!

Get the picture? It's all coincidental, of course! After all, we are only referring to that part of the UK in which 50million out of its total of 60million live!

In the 2001 Census, different forms were issued in England and Scotland and Wales. Whilst the Irish, the Scots and the Welsh (and others) were given provision to record their origins, no such provision was made for the English. Surely, such provision would have been made if it was desired to collect statistical information about the English? On the other hand . . .

Initially, it was proposed by the OPCS to follow the same arrangement for 2011, and this was announced on a number of news websites including the BBC's but, following a flood of emails from English nationlists, the OPCS said that it had made a mistake, and the categories would include English - we shall see?

Many 'English' store groups (ie those which originated in England) such as M&S and Tesco, and banks etc, display Scottish logos etc in Scotland. None of them have similar English displays here in England.

By all manner of means, the English have been prevented from recording or displaying their nationality in marked contrast to the facilities afforded minority nations. For example, the Mayor of Londonistan gave £100,000 for the celebration of St Patrick's Day in 2004, but nothing, nil, zilch for St George's Day! Last year, in the wake of numerous representations about his unfairness, lack of patriotism etc, he gave money for the organisation of a day of multi culti events on 23 April 2005. This amply illustrates to churlish, official attitude to the English.

The English have been duped into believing that they and the Scots and the Welsh and the Northern Irish are all British. Indeed, we all are British when it comes to securing positions in England, especially in parliamentary constituencies and in Westminster itself and Whitehall; witness for example all the Scots sitting in English seats. However, when the English seek similar treatment, they are rebuffed in all manner of ways, some subtle, others not so subtle. Not one of the MPs in Scotland is English, but over thirty Scots sit in seats in England. By the same reckoning, some three or four of the MPs in Scotland would be English.

These are merely a few examples of what has literally been going on under our noses in an undeclared way. We have been duped because we have treated the Scots and others in good faith, but our trust has been abused.

A long answer I know, but the point I am coming to is that the English have got to draw a line somewhere, and start saying "Where's the English version of that?" In my book, it might just as well be with Radio England and BBC England as anywhere.

colin smith

Hi Britannist,
Is there really any point in having a BBC Radio England ?
England, as you and I used to know and love, doesn't exist any more.