David Cameron has finally said that purely English issues would only be voted on by English MPs. He promised to set up a special English-only committee at Westminster which would be closed to MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and which – apart from exceptional circumstances – could not be overruled by the Commons as a whole. ‘For English-only legislation, we would hav...

I'm a supporter of an English Parliament and a federal United Kingdom. However to move along in that direction English Votes on English Laws would be a start. ( There are various reasons why things won't end there, for example a UK executive that can't pass English Laws but has responsibility only for English devolved matters is unstable. ) Anyway there are only a few hours left to ...

The English Democrats have been a largely benign force in English politics for a few years but recently they’ve become more aggressive in their self-promotion and in doing so have become toxic to the cause of English nationalism. Anyone criticising the English Democrats, and particularly Steve Uncles, is generally treated to threats of legal action or

As a supporter of the Campaign for an English Parliament I might today be expected to vote for the English Democrats Party who support an English parliament. This special election day post reveals why the English Democrats will not be receiving my vote. The latest survey from YouGov (pdf) indicates that the English Democrats enjoy

Via the Witanagemot club and the Cross of St George blog I read that the English Lobby have launched a legal team to tackle anti-English discrimination. The English Lobby seems to have been around for about three years and their director is Robin Tilbrook, chairman of the English Democrats Party. They have previously undertaken letter writing

"English votes for English matters" is a non starter, it contains so many problems that it will cause more animosity and strife than it could possibly resolve. What is an English matter? Under the current system few are, because if expenditure is involved (be it spending more or less) it has Barnet consequentials for the finances of the devolved bodies! What happens to things that are neither

Happy day. Should of course be an English bank holiday. Should of course be celebrated by English people everywhere. I am English, and like many English people I am rather of mixed blood, one Welsh grandfather and one Scottish one. The Celtic heritage shows in the hair and in what Billy Connolly called a "pale blue" complexion. But English is what I am. London born, as were my parents. Urban Engli...

Writing in the Birmingham Post on the need for English regional government, Phil Davis, of the abolished Campaign for English Regions, has this to say on English national government: As for England as a country, an English national council formed by the regions could also speak on purely English matters, avoiding tortuous and unworkable Parliamentary exclusions

Channel Four are to show a four part series set around the English civil war, and this has prompted Ronan Bennett in the Guardian to pen a piece on the English revolution. He disputes that the Commonwealth of England was an aberration in English history, and argues it changed things fundamentally, despite the return of Charles

The raw deal of the English There is a perceived problem in England that the English are getting the raw end of the deal in the Union. The Scottish have their own Parliament that votes on issues exclusive to them while the English have no such thing. Yet Scottish MPs can vote on English