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TIME HAS COME TO GIVE ENGLAND HER OWN PARLIAMENT by Jimmy Young.

ST GEORGE’S DAY got me thinking that England has had a pretty rough deal in recent years.
In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, Ross Parker and Hugh Charles wrote one of England’s most patriotic songs.

They called it There’ll Always Be An England and its message couldn’t be clearer: “There’ll always be an England, and England shall be free, if England means as much to you as England means to me.”

But it won’t be free if the anti-England brigade has its way.
I got to know Ross after the war when I began to make my own way in the music business.

He meant every word of his anthem for England but it wasn’t long before the undermining of England began.

Ted Heath did his bit by signing Britain up to the so-called Common Market even though he knew that was actually the first step towards creating a United States of Europe.

We are now governed by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

But the specific downgrading and humiliation of England is a nasty, vindictive act committed by our Labour Government.

To secure electoral victory, the votes of Scotland and Wales are essential to Labour.

So, hoping to cement Labour’s popularity in those countries, our Scottish Prime Minister set off down the road to
devolution.

Scotland was granted its own Parliament and Wales and Northern Ireland got assemblies.
But, despite making up 85 per cent of the UK population, England got nothing. Indeed, in a further act of spite against the English, Labour tried to chop up England into self-governing regions.

They failed only because a referendum in the North-east rejected the idea.

FOLLOWING devolution we now have the bizarre and unbalanced situation whereby 50 million English are governed by a parliament in which Scottish and Welsh MPs can vote on issues that concern only England, even though they cannot vote on the same issues in their own constituencies.

For how much longer will the English put up with being treated as second-class citizens by Labour?

Whenever we discussed this on my radio programme the demand from listeners was for the establishment of an English parliament.

The United Kingdom parliament would deal with UK issues. The English parliament would deal with issues affecting only England.

Labour hates the idea because it would inevitably be weakened. However, the Conservatives have set up a Democracy Task Force to look at the problem. If it recommends the creation of an English Parliament, Labour
will claim that that would break up the Union.

David Cameron should ignore such claims.

Gordon Brown broke up the Union when he pushed through devolution.

An English parliament would reflect the views of the English 85 per cent of the UK population and would balance the existence of the Scottish parliament and the assemblies of Wales and Northern Ireland.

Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: Columnists :: The time has come to give England its own parliament

Jimmy Young, Sunday Express.

Britannist

Former radio presenter Mr. Jimmy Young wrote a similar article in the Sunday Express a couple of years ago.

He is right to call for an English Parliament to be set up.

England must have equality with Scotland within the UK.

Regarding the Democracy Taskforce referred to in the Mr. Young's Express article in the first posting to this thread: As covered in another thread I opened up in this section of the forum - it is said that the Conservative Democracy Taskforce (headed by europhile Kenneth Clarke MP) will not recommend that an English Parliament be established.

Richard the Lionheart

Correction - England must have independence from the UK

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Westcountryman

I'd rather not, if it's all the same to you.

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Britannist

In reply to Richard The Lionheart's posting number three to this thread:

Although we differ on whether England should be in the UK (you want our country out of the UK and I do not) we both want England to have her own Parliament. We share that objective.

We both want the voice of England to be heard and not suppressed by this Labour shower in power who are the most anti-English British Government ever.

Britannist

Quality posting from Eurosceptic Atlanticist (above).

Northumbrian

I know, it's a terribly un-English thing to ask for.

Populist Lee

Can I quote you on your admission?

Northumbrian

That was a sarcastic comment, which of course can be misinterpreted via the written word.

Populist Lee

Attention-grabbing Headline though . . .

>> Free England Party admit they are terribly un-English <<

And if you think a journalist wouldn't; think again.