It’s time we had independence for the English

IT was reported that Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged that the Conservative and Unionist Party would “fight with everything we’ve got” to keep the UK together. The Prime Minister used a speech to the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party conference in Troon, Ayrshire to launch a passionate, but inept, defence of the Union.

Tory backbencher and former Welsh Secretary John Redwood has pointed out that the bigger threat to that Union is not Scottish nationalism but English nationalism.

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond is running rings around Cameron who is offering bribe after bribe to the Scots to keep them in the Union. At the same time, he is ignoring the demands of the English. Chief among these is democracy.

The Tory-led government is blocking English calls for an English parliament. In area after area we see the withdrawal of democracy by the Liberal/Conservative coalition.

A prime example is the secretive Local Enterprise Partnerships which the government has set up without matching democratic oversight. Cameron is going the right way about blowing the Union asunder. The only way to he can save the Union intact is to move to a Federal United Kingdom, with an English Parliament and a Northern Assembly (characterised as ‘coffee all round’), something which he shows no sign of doing.

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.

BRAVO Scotland – how I envy the Scots going for full independence and how I wish England would do the same.

One folk, one country, one Parliament (English) and one leader – this is what we need!