I am against the waste of money on the census. The government tells me they do not like it either, but it was too late to cancel it. They are still going ahead spending more on sending it out and collecting it in. A picture of dumping the forms would have made...
Today I am writing an open letter to the Prime Minister. Dear Prime Minister, The Scottish Parliament will meet to debate the decision of the Scottish Justice Minister over the Lockerbie bomber. When you first took the highest political office in the UK you stated that you wished to restore the Uk Parliament to...
The English Democrats almost lost lost their deposit in a b y election with the two main federalist parties not fielding candidates.You would have thought if their campaign was popular they would have done better here in these unusual conditions than they did.The argument remains true, that trying to make Eurosceptic points by splitting...
The Labour leadership’s astonishing U Turn on a referendum about Scottish independence in Scotland leaves Gordon Brown in an even weaker position over both the EU and England. Up to this point we have been told that big constitutional issues – like Who governs the UK – is a matter for the UK Parliament...
The English question is analysed today in a Think Tank Report, who warn that if the government does nothing to tackle the injustices to England the problem will worsen. Part of the problem is economic, and the economics of the problem are worsening by the day. Between 1998 and 2006 the UK grew by...
Let me try to explain my idea again. This is not official Conservative policy which is still being discussed. The official Conservative policy in 2005 was to create English votes on English issues in the Westminster Parliament to deal with the worst imbalance of Labour’s bodged and biased devolution "settlement". My proposal goes further....
It has taken the Anglican Church long soaked in the views of the international elite an age to discover the cause of England. Despite carrying our country’s name in its own the C of E has regularly adopted fashionable global and EU tropes that are unwelcome to many in a doughty independent island country...
When I took the unfairness of UK devolution to David Cameron as Prime Minister he agreed something needed to be done. The original idea of EVEN, English votes for English needs, was watered down by William Hague and called English votes for English laws. I always assumed choosing EVEL not EVEN as the shorthand...
I am pleased the UK held a referendum in Scotland to see if people there wanted to leave the UK, after years of pressure from the SNP to break up the Union. It was a great contrast with the tactics used by the Spanish government to prevent such a vote in Catalonia over the...
I thought you might be interested in my submission to the BBC Review, dealing with their question of how well they serve national audiences. BBC Charter Review Consultation Department for Culture, Media & Sport 100 Parliament Street London SW1A 2BQ 25 August 2015 Dear Sirs I write to submit my views as part of...