Press Release: Calman Commission
Calman Commission The British government has accepted the recommendations of the Calman Commission to give the Scottish government more powers, including control of taxation. The Scottish Parliament was created following a referendum in 1997 in which the Scottish people were asked: 1. I agree that there should be a Scottish Parliament 2. I agree that a Scottish Parliament should have tax-varying powers Almost three quarters of Scots voted in favour of a Scottish Parliament and 63.5 per cent

CEP Protest and Conference Today
The CEP’s Conference and Parliament Square protest are taking place in London today. The protest will take place in Parliament Square between 2pm and 3pm and the conference is taking place between 5pm and 7pm. The conference is fully subscribed so please do not turn up unless you have applied for and been sent a ticket. All are welcome to attend the 2pm protest but please remember that this is a Campaign for an English Parliament event.  Carrying placards for political parties is not appropriate and is likely to be considered an unauthorised protest b

English railways stations latest pawn in Labour’s election strategy
The British English Transport Minister and one of the Scottish Prime Minister’s many unelected cabinet cronies, Lord Adonis, has announced that 10 English railway stations will receive a share of £50m set aside to improve the most run-down stations in the country. No Scottish stations will receive funding as it is a devolved matter and they have benefited from decades of generous funding courtesy of the English taxpayer-funded Barnett Bribe. The list of stations makes interesting reading when you correlate it with the political make-up of the local authority involved: Manchester Victoria – Manchester City Council – Labour controlled

Denial of England
Devolution Matters is a new blog brought to you by Alan Trench, who aims to bring a little academic knowledge and professional bearing to the debate over our ‘territorial constitution’. I left a comment on ‘David Cameron, welfare and constitutional literacy‘, in which Alan highlights David Cameron’s territorial confusion, but Alan didn’t publish it because he considered it not concise enough.  Rather than consigning my comment to the ether I will reproduce it here because long thoug

Press Release: David Cameron may fairly be accused of double standards
David Cameron may fairly be accused of double standards: One for Wales, a very different one for England Addressing the issue of the demand being made in Wales for a referendum to be held among its people for the Welsh Assembly to have law-making powers equivalent to those enjoyed by the Scottish Parliament, Mr David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, speaking on Friday November 6th, said he would support it if the Welsh Assembly voted for it. ‘It is a very significant statement,’ the National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament has declared. ‘We welcome it. The very foundation stone of our cause is that the three historic nat