Welcome to the Justice for England blog. You will find details of what we do and why we do it on our parent site. Our aim is to raise awareness, highlight injustice and generally show up or British establishment as the conniving, vidictive viper’s den they are.
Our aims are honourable, just and democratic. We demand a fair deal for spending in England, for our old people, for our students, for our sick & infirm and for every man woman & child in the country. We demand democratic constitutional equality with the other countries in the UK and the end of vindictive anti English policies – right now.
We’ve waited over 300 years for the restoration of our own parliament – that’s long enough. We will not wait any longer. We will no longer put up with being the only country in Europe without our own national legislature. Fifty million people in England have no nationally elected First Minister to fight for the rights of our citizens. Unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – as well as democratically elected First Ministers, they have all been handed national parliaments & assemblies - and generous per head public spending budgets that the English can only dream of.
The winds of change are coming. No one can doubt that the Barnett Formula, the West Lothian Question and the denial of any national democratic representation within England are a systematic attempt to emasculate our country and our citizens. Not even Gordon Brown.
Top tip guy’s. Update your website and get stuck into the new Government. You are correct in saying that there is a conspiracy of silence between the major parties regarding the governance of England. You are likewise correct in saying that the English need their own Paliament. It is only just. The odious maner in which the English taxpaying public is being treated must not be allowed to stand.
That said, the real question that is frightening our Lords and Masters is; What will replace the existing system? If the English gain their own Parliament, the British Parliament will at a storke, be effectly nutered.
The most commonly spoke of model for a new, fairer system is that the present House of Commons becomes the English Parliament. British matters would be discussed in the upper house (disbanded house of Lords), which is where the British Parliament’s would be held. Seems a logical and good idea. All 4 of the home nations own bodies will hold sway in their own country, with delegates sent to London to repesent their peoples in the British (or upper) Parliament.
There is a problem however. Matters which are brought beore the British Parliament will have been discussed by the various parties sitting in the national bodies beforehand. Positions of the various English parties (who will have an eye on an English Electorate) will be taken and made party policy. This policy will then be handed to the Party MP’s elected to the British Parliament. Due to the numbers of English MP’s in the Upper Parliament outnumbering the combined representatives of the other nations and given the fact that the English position already taken in that nations ruling body and therefore known in advance, debate will be nugatory; the British Parliament toothless; and the other nations left without a meaningful voice at National level.
In fact, it is a bloody mess. It is not our fault, but it is our problem. Without putting in place a fair mechanism for the other nations to have a true voice in the British Parliament, we would be guilty of the same lazy thinking as our present crop of Parliamentarians, who got us into this mess in the first place.
Having been a soldier for 35 years, my loyalty is to the nation and Queen I have served for so long. My position is that the Status Quo cannot be allowed to stand and that the treatment of any citizen of The United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland must be seen to be just. The national income must be disbursed in a way that can be seen to be fair to inividuals and families, across the whole of Britian.
We cannot turn back time or unmake the National bodies in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Having served alongside some of the best men these nations had to offer, I feel we would suffer seriously if we started down a road that led to the dissolution of the Union. We must tread carefully then and not follow in the footsteps of the nearsighted short term gratificationists who currently rule us. We must act and be seen to act in the National interest whilst fulfilling English ambitions for a fair and open system where they can be assured their rights are also being protected by their own Paliament.
Or, will you also turn out to be the same short termists that have caused the problem? I feel that your Headlines above may well have been selected as those which are easily explained but superficial; contrived more to heat the blood than spark serious debate.
Your response will be telling! If I can be reassured that you are seriously addressing the core issues and not just getting a band waggon rolling, I would look to your organisation to deliver and be prepared to help, where I could.
By: David Nicholson on April 5, 2011
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