FORMER LABOUR CABINET MINISTER CALLS FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT
John
Denham, the former Labour Cabinet Minister, who since leaving
Parliament has become a Professor of English Identity and Politics at
Winchester University and who has been leading a campaign for Labour to
take England and the English nation much more seriously instead of
dismissing both as symptoms of racism, has recently given a speech
setting out where he now is on the issue of English nationalism. Here
is the link to his speech >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zun7oTXMNPg&feature=youtu.be
You
will see he does now call for an English Parliament although he hasn’t
as yet got a separate electoral system for it. He is thinking that this
can develop as a process of reform, rather than move straightaway to a
full separate English Parliament.
I
don’t think that this halfway separate parliament is a constitutionally
viable proposal. I also understand that the Constitution Unit of
University College London also don’t think that that is a viable
option. It is nevertheless an important step in the right direction for
such a senior Labour figure to call for an English Parliament.
John
Denham has of course been lambasted by the Left and by various others
supposedly on the Right, who in fact turn out to be anti any element of
Englishness (often because of their own ethnic origins).
The
other key point which John Denham makes that is worth considering is
that he thinks that the failure to allow a proper voice for the English
Nation has led to people who are basically English nationalists but
perhaps in many cases haven’t fully realised it, to have, in
psychological terms, “transferred” the object of their frustrations from
the real cause which is the British Political Establishment, on instead
to the EU. He suggests that this “transfer” has therefore led to the
Brexit vote.
He is partly correct, but fails to state had Englishness been encouraged we would had a fair devolution settlement for, not had untouchable racist grooming gangs, a better EEC deal etc etc.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for him and his type it is too little too late.
Only the break of the UK and the breakup of the EU will save England. Then after that all seditious and subversives of whatever national or ethnic origin can be harshly dealt with.
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