We campaign for an English Parliament, meaning a parliament for the people of England, for whom England is their chosen or inherited home.
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Jun 12
"New Labour has become the most bossy prober into lives. It comes across as very anti-English. The first thing they did was set up a parliament for the Welsh and one for the Scots. England is Britain according to them."
- David Hockney, 1937-2026
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Jun 12
Twelve years ago today. Are Labour more comfortable with English identity now?
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Jun 10
The St George's Cross 🏴is being treated as a political symbol rather than a national flag. This follows on from Fay Howard the mayor of Swindon not flying the flag of England on St George's Day for reasons of political neutrality.
‘Absolutely crazy!’
Deputy Editor of the Critic Tom Jones reacts to a report from a watchdog that claims immigration officers wearing England badges is ‘intimidating’.
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Jun 10
They were certainly the first people ever called it in official, printed documents: “Brittish” identity was born in Ireland, as part of an explicitly colonial drive.
Jun 10
Some might argue that the Northern Irish are the original British.
See @jameshawes2 on the Byline Times' podcast in which he says that British identity was an elite creation for the plantation of Ireland.
bylinesupplement.com/p/is-th…
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Jun 10
"Keir Starmer and his ministers insist on being photographed in front of union flags. There is little evidence from the polls that this cuts any patriotic ice with voters. Simply claiming to stand for Britain and British identity is not effective."
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Who is this 'we' Harold Wilson declares has only won a World Cup under a Labour Government? Delving into Labour Unionism @Phil_Football 's @MarkPerryman has a go at finding the answer: philosophyfootball.com/have-…
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Jun 9
Hey @Grok, @lisanandy forgot to locate any of this policy announcement territorially. Which nation/s do the 'National Youth Strategy' and 'National Mentoring Program' apply to?
Jun 9
Every young person deserves something to do, somewhere to go, and someone who cares.
That's the ambition at the heart of our National Youth Strategy: creating more opportunities, rebuilding youth services, and ensuring young people everywhere have the support to thrive.
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Jun 9
Just to add two penn'orth to the to the tedious football/soccer debate.
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Jun 9
"The necessary response: the establishment of a parliament for England; entrenched devolution of power in England; and the re-founding of the union as a voluntary collaboration of nations."
This sounds not unlike the federacy advanced in @Dr_W_E_Bulmer's recent book 'The English Constitution: Refoundation, Restoration, and Reform'.
May 12
The Struggle to Belong – Woolf Annual Lecture
Last week, we were honoured to welcome former Labour Cabinet minister, Professor John Denham, to deliver the annual Woolf lecture.
His talk explored the roots of ‘Englishness’ and ‘Britishness’ and how these have increasingly come to reflect different values in contemporary society, divisions exacerbated by the exclusion of England from structures of governance. The necessary response: the establishment of a parliament for England; entrenched devolution of power in England; and the re-founding of the union as a voluntary collaboration of nations.
The lecture was followed by a response by Professor Michael Kenny (Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge) and a Q&A.
Particular thanks to our speaker and to Dr Mohammed Ibraheem Ahmed for facilitating the event.
@BennettInst
#interfaith #englishness #nationalism #publicpolicy #policy #belonging
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Jun 9
"If we want government to work better, we must ask it to do less. Making the state more efficient is not enough; we must also reduce the range of responsibilities it assumes."
Then let England govern itself and let Westminster concentrate on Britain.
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Jun 9
Utter nonsense. Here's Starmer singing Jerusalem.
youtu.be/jevQhBNHM3E?si=qtPn…
Jerusalem loud and proud in USA. If this was Britain the place would be shut down immediately by Keir Starmer. #englandaway
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Jun 6
10 million free breakfasts served where?
#SayEngland #ThatsDevolved
10 million free breakfasts served is a massive achievement.
It's not just about the breakfast, it's the club too. A softer start to the day that gets children ready to learn and helps parents juggle work and family life.
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Jun 6
You know it's 10 million free breakfasts served across England by the way @Keir_Starmer says 'the country'.
If there's any ambiguity, it's almost always to avoid having to #SayEngland.
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Jun 6
"The emergence of “welfare nationalism” in the UK has created striking differences in benefit entitlement that result in a Scottish family on a low income receiving £15,000 a year more in state support than an identical household over the border in England."
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As the Mayoral Council is an England-only body, it would be great if both the Union Flag and the Flag of England were displayed side by side at future meetings.
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Jun 6
The Bank of England, being the UK central bank, is concerned with celebrating the UK, not England in particular. Could we therefore have a Capercaillie on our notes even though Scotland has its own bank notes? It's not a huge issue but it's another demonstration of the Anglo-British nature of UK institutions.
"Announcing the consultation, Victoria Cleland, the chief cashier of the Bank of England, said the new imagery would “demonstrate the rich variety of wildlife we have to celebrate in the UK.”
Jun 5
The Bank of England axed historical figures such as Winston Churchill from banknotes after being told they were “elitist and divisive”, The Telegraph can reveal.
Read the full story here ⤵️
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Jun 5
This is interesting from @KemiBadenoch:
"How we define Englishness, in my view, is very complicated. There are two sides to it. There is a side that is down to ancestry, ethnicity, your parents being from here perhaps for hundreds, if not thousands of years. And there's another side of it, which is civic, which is about the culture, which is about the values, the behaviours, the norms, the commitments to place. And I think those two things go side by side."
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Jun 5
Gosh. @nicholaswatt interviewed @lisanandy about Englishness and didn't ask why she rarely talks about England in a political sense.
At the 2024 Labour Conference, Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (a substantially devolved portfolio), managed to give a speech to conference without even mentioning England. She dropped the word ‘England’ from the title of Arts Council England. She also neglected to mention that the Football Governance Bill is for England, that Labour’s policy on youth hubs is a policy for England, or that it is England’s national curriculum she was referring to. She did not want to talk about England, she wanted to talk about Britain. Her speech contained 15 mentions of the/our country, 3 mentions of Britain and no mention of England, despite it being largely applicable to England. It is almost impossible to imagine a culture minister for Scotland or Wales (or any other nation, for that matter) failing to mention their nation’s name.
Why not ask her about that? Why not ask her if framing all politics, even England-only policy, in the language of Britishness helps normalise Eng;ish identity?
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@nicholaswatt must be aware that politicians routinely fail to locate policy in England because he's a long-standing BBC journalist, and the BBC has strong guidelines on locating a news story territorially. They often add the missing context from a politician's speech and inform us whether they were talking about England or England & Wales, despite the politician only mentioning Britain.
So why no question about *why* they do that? Why not ask whether England is a polity, a political nation that should be spoken about outside the context of football or race and ethno-politics? Could the occlusion of England by Westminster's Britishness be a contributing factor in any of this? Ask Nandy that!
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