Get out of Europe, stop long term immigration, reduce numbers of immigrants by deporting illegals and those here for criminal disruptive or fraudulent purposes. Then the English people will start to have a little faith in those who purport to represent them.
If this does not happen I think that a charismatic English leader will emerge and the English will take back their country by less diplomatic means. Non payment of council tax would do it in a month or a general strike would do it in a week.

Reply: I doubt it, and do not recommend such direct action. The last general Strike was not a success. Proceed by democratic means.

If you really care about England and the English then break away from the useless Tories (remember john they are a unionist party not a copy of Nu Liebour) and form a true opposition and fight your corner then maybe just maybe a may have some respect for you.

John Redwood cares for England and the Engish I don't believe you do

Much of this discussion, including your original post, are very much centred on the politicians and the institutions of government; for instance, whether it would be better for England to have an additional / alternative layer of governance in the form of an English Parliament, or whether it would be better to have our decisions taken for us by some variant of an English Grand Committee.

However, the really important point about an EP is that it would enable the English PEOPLE to vote separately on English matters, not just the politicians, i.e. for there to be distinct manifestos and party positions on England-only matters and UK-wide ones that the people could decide on separately – e.g. vote Tory on English policies but vote Labour on matters concerning the whole of the UK. Your solution would effectively turn UK elections into two (or rather four – five, including NI) in one, as you'd have to have separate manifestos for each country with the sections on currently devolved matters being different for each. But then you would have the sort of conflict I've just described, with many voters genuinely preferring one party's policies for their own nation and another's for the UK. If you're going to have separate parliamentary bodies (albeit 'virtual' ones under the auspices of a single Westminster parliament), then the logic is that they need to be elected separately. This is also the way to avoid the type of conflict of loyalties for MPs between a UK party / government position and the preferences of voters in the individual UK nations that some objectors to your ideas have raised: who would they be accountable to – the people of England who actually voted for them or the whole of the UK? So you need separate elections.

Another reason why an EGC would not work is the Barnett Formula. This is what legitimises the participation of Scottish and Welsh MPs in voting on English matters, as spending decisions in England determine the budget for their countries. So you need separation of the financing of devolved matters alongside separation of electoral accountability: parliamentary representatives for each country voted on policy areas devolved to them and accountable to the electorate in those countries for the decisions they make and the money they spend. You can't have a half-way house (which the current set up is) where there is an inequality of representation and expenditure, for which MPs are not accountable to any electorate.

Independance would make stuffing us into the EU that much more difficult so they want a Partially Fragmented union with English Scots and Welsh Bickering at each other, Hence the funding Differences.

The Europhiles are Creating a new race of People called ' Europeans' with Mass mass mass Immigration, ontop of (many -ed) abortions.(Words left out that cast aspersions on Labour figures)
Jack Straw Harriet Harman, Peter Mandelson, John Reid, John Prescott are all former British Communist Party members.

This is what Communist One Worlder Jack Straw had in mind when he said, 'the British are not worth saving as a race'

We, the EUropean Elite are Creating a New Race of voters called 'Europeans'
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

I would be perfectly happy that all this be in the context of a continuing United Kingdom with an overarching British parliament.
Bearing in mind the totality of British government expenditure along with its colossal built in waste it is a bit mean to deny the English a democratic parliament on the basis of the relatively inor cost savings , if any.

John , your proposals for dual mandate "English" MP's at Westminster are , I suppose, just one of the stages of the argument that has to be gone through, if only to be examined , found wanting in numerous ways and then rejected. I am sure that you are well aware of the absurdity of the idea and also of the idea of abolishing the Scottish parliament.

You are steadily travelling the logical an correct end point ie an English Parliament.

You and your colleagues should be making it a constant thorn in Labour's side

No, I would say that an increasing number of English nationalists would prefer a full English parliament INSTEAD of a UK one. Most of us are sick to death of our country being shafted for the sake of a disfunctional union and want INDEPENDENCE.

And this is my country with 1000 years of history to be considered too!