Britannist

Eurosceptic Simon Heffer writes in today's Daily Telegraph (brief extract): "How can Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, keep a straight face when he says he wants to hear more regional accents on the airwaves? On Radio 4, you hear almost nothing but them: mainly Scots, naturally reflecting who are the true masters in our country today, but also a smattering of Geordies, and from time to time a genial chap who sounds so much like an impersonation of Paul Robeson that you are convinced he is about to burst into a verse or two of Old Man River. I wouldn't mind if they could do subtitles on the wireless. Too true we need more regional accents on the BBC: and the region I have in mind is called Kensington and Chelsea."

Kevin Adamson

Far too poncy Brit what about a bit of sarff london

Englander 1

What is encouraging is that the in balance in representation of the Scots is finally beginning to start a reaction....its all coming together.

All we ask for is a fair deal....nothing more nothing less!

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Britannist

And we will get it.

Labour - a thoroughly anti-English party - never thought that there would be a rise in England in the feeling of English identity as a result of devolution to Scotland in 1999. Now the English 'genie is out the bottle' Brown is running around like a headless chicken trying to promote 'Britishness' (in England only) as a way of trying to divert attention from the 'English question' his party has opened up (i.e. the question of why Scotland been given a Parliament of her own but England hasn't and that Scottish constituency MPs are allowed to vote on English matters in the House of Commons with English constituency MPs unable to vote on Scottish issues).

Labour fears English-only voting in the Commons (or an English Parliament) because it knows it would find it extremely difficult to get a majority of its own in an English legislature without the votes of Scottish constituency MPs.

A66

If you can not beat the Scots then join them. Thats what the English Democrats did at their Autumn convention with their love in with the SNP !. Keep the Union, stamp out sectarian attitudes!

Britannist

I was very disappointed indeed that the English Democrats invited an MP from the anti-UK europhile Scottish so-called 'National' Party (SNP) to their annual conference at Leicester last September.

The Union of the UK must be kept and defended - but we must have equality for England with Scotland within it.