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Way back in June of last year, when Gordon Brown becoming our Prime Minister was just a threat, I reported on the Scottish Claim of Right that Brown had signed and promised to abide by. On this, St. George’s Day 2008, I am proud to have affixed my name to the English constitutional cause.
“We do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the English people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs.
We call for the holding of a national English Constitutional Convention to determine the way forward for a revised constitutional settlement for England.
We declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations the interests of the English people shall be paramount.
We further declare and pledge that our actions and deliberations shall be directed to the following ends:
To assert the right of the English people to live in a sovereign nation state of England, free of foreign control;
To agree a scheme for an Parliament for England;
To mobilise English opinion and ensure the approval of the English people for that scheme;
And to assert the right of the English people to secure the implementation of that scheme.”
As I said in my previous item – this is all about awareness. Until the English wake up nothing will change. You can add your name to the English Claim of Right but you can be far more effective by educating those that do not know.
I nearly signed it, but having clicked the link, I was reminded of all that is bad with England, the piccie at the top of the site showed the god-awful dump that is London, followed by the grey cliffs of Dover, then what looked like the Home Counties.
As someone who was born north of Watford Gap, I don’t want anything to do with promoting the waste, greed and squander that London stands for.
I am English and understand why the Welsh and Scots want independence, because to them – England = London, and having worked down there for a short time, I learnt that to Londoners the world ends at the M25.
Hi
As one of the co-founders of the English Claim of Right, I am sorry if there appears to be a southern or London bias. The website designer lives in East Anglia and simply chose easily accessible pictures.
If I ever commission another website (or we do a revamp of the existing one) I will ask for some shots of my beloved Yorkshire and other great places which are not in the south!
Please do sign – we will need every signature to shift the government into giving us our English parliament.
Thanks, Andrew