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Unlike the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who have all been given the opportunity and have chosen to set up their own democracies and national governments, the people of England are governed as the rump of the UK with English interests regarded as indivisible from the interests of the UK as a whole. This leads to the situation often referred to as the 
Above: The Joint Ministerial Committee: Members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments meet the UK Prime Minister (June 7, 2010 - Photo by WPA Pool/Getty Images Europe)
As the prime minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron – and before him Gordon Brown - does not, and cannot, fulfill the same role for England as Alex Salmond does for Scotland. As if to underline the fact that England has no voice and no one to speak on its behalf, David Cameron stated before he became Prime Minister that “I do not want to be the prime minister of England”. 
The UK Parliament has failed to defend England’s financial interest. This means that today the average English person gets £1600 less per person per year from central government than a resident of Northern Ireland, and £1500 less than a denizen of Scotland. Wales is similarly disadvantaged.
The origins of Scotland's high levels of public spending has its roots way back in the 1880s. The Conservatives opposed Home Rule for Ireland partly because they feared it might also spread to Scotland. Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Goschen, who had defected to the Tories in opposition to Gladstone's policy on home rule for Ireland, came up with a rule designed to push money towards Ireland and Scotland in a bid to buy off independence. Many people believe that this policy of 'Killing Home Rule by Kindness' is still in effect today.
Professor David Bell of Stirling University has analysed the impact on Scotland of the Welsh Assembly's Holtham Commission report into a needs-based funding formula to replace the Barnett Formula. He calculates that a move to a needs-based formula could lose Scotland £4.5 billion a year of Treasury funding. We at the Campaign for an English Parliament do not campaign for lower funding for Scotland and Northern Ireland; we call for fair and transparent funding for all irrespective of national borders.
MPs and Ministers elected outside England are not directly democratically accounatable to English voters in important areas of governance such as Health and Education (see full list), yet they have the same voting rights as English MPs and equal opportunity to serve in government.
It is also the role of your MP to help furnish and maintain Government and Opposition so that the business of parliamentary 'democracy' may proceed. The Government of the day calls upon all its MPs, irrespective of the nation in which they were elected, in order to conduct its business. It is for this reason that Parliament divides along party lines rather than national lines, which means that the UK Parliament can never properly function as a dual mandate English and UK Parliament. Although Parliament has a majority of MPs elected within England there is no such thing as an ‘English MP’ because no MP is elected as such, and consequently, because Parliament divides along party lines, there is no ‘English majority’ that can be relied upon to protect England's national interests. For MPs in the UK Parliament, elected on a UK manifesto, the national interest is the national interest of the United Kingdom. And given the nature of Parliament, which is essentially an electoral college that selects the UK Government, the majority of MPs can be expected to put the interests of the UK Government above those of England. - Headlines and essential links
- Introduction A harsh reality for the people of England
- No Parliament Who rules England?
- No voice Who speaks for England?
- No equality Who fights for a fair deal for England?
- No accountability Where do your MP's loyalties lie?
- English Parliament NOW! National Voice. Equality. Representation. Accountability. Recognition
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Introduction to the CEP
The CEP campaigns for an English Parliament that will represent all those for whom England is their chosen or inherited home and who are entitled to vote.
The CEP is not linked with any political party but is a cross party organisation that seeks to influence and inform.
Devolution has created a United Kingdom in which Scotland has its own national parliament and Wales and Northern Ireland each their own national assembly as distinct nations.
England has nothing. The British government refuses to give any such political and constitutional recognition to England. The Scottish Parliament has made Scotland at least 70% independent of the rest of the UK in the most important areas of government like Health and Education, and Wales and Ireland are demanding that same degree of Home-rule. But England as a nation has no such political and constitutional recognition in the UK at all. What is worse, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs can now make decisions on the internal affairs of the people of England, even be ministers for England's internal affairs, while no English MP has any such power in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom is now a most unbalanced Union, in favour of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and against England. It is a great injustice to the English people. Just consider a small sample of the huge benefits their own parliaments have been able to deliver to Scotland and Wales. Scottish students do not have to pay university fees like English students do, and that even when they are at English universities. Scottish pensioners in nursing homes get free personal care, they don't have to sell their houses to pay for it like English pensioners do. In Wales everyone gets free prescriptions. £1300 more is spent on health, education and social services per head in Scotland and Wales than in England. Little wonder the 1998 Devolution legislation states that the Scottish and Welsh parliaments will be 'the forum for the nation, able to debate all matters of concern'. The CEP aims to put this right. And you are most welcome to join in. All recent opinion polls show the majority of the England people are now demanding their own Parliament. If you agree, join the CEP and be counted. There has been a decisive resurgence in English self-identification and awareness. This tide will not be turned back. The English flag is now everywhere. Love of England is as legitimate as love of Scotland and Wales. The people of England includes everyone for whom England is both home and future irrespective of ethnic origin, religion and culture.E-Petition
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