England's largest nationalist party, the English Democrats Party, have formed an alliance with five other parties on a pro-English parliament and EU-sceptic platform.

The Alliance for Democracy is an Anglo-Christian Democratic Alliance of Political Parties in England, Scotland & Wales, set up to fight the corrupt and incompetent "Traditional" UK Political parties in the 2010 General Election.

The founder members are:-

• Christian Party
• English Democrats
• Jury Team
• Popular Alliance
• UK First Party
• Veritas

It is anticipated that the Alliance for Democracy will field 360 Candidates in the 2010 General Election.

Policies to include:-

1. Withdrawal from the European Union.
2. English Parliament.

Officers of the Alliance:-

• Leader: Sir Paul Judge (Jury Team)
• Deputy Leader: George Hargreaves (Christian Party)
• Chairman: Petrina Holdsworth (UK First)
• Vice Chairman: Elaine Cheeseman (English Democrats)
• Treasury Chairman: Carl Faulkner (Veritas)
• Policy Chairman – Marcus Thiele (Popular Alliance)
• Campaign Manager – Steven Uncles (English Democrats)

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Do you consider this to be a smart strategic move by the English Democrats?

Yes

No

Too early for me to say

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In June 2009 English Democrat Peter Davies was elected Mayor of Doncaster. It is believed that Peter Davies capitalised on the anti-politics mood by pledging to slash his mayoral salary from £73,000 to £30,000, a pledge that he fulfilled immediately upon taking office.

Several prospective English Democrat MPs have now followed the Mayor's lead by pledging to donate half their wages to good causes if they are elected.

Chris Snape, the EDP's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Orpington, has pledged donate 50% (£35,000) of his MP's salary to Westcombe Park & Orpington Sports Club in the first year, and 50% of his salary to a different local good cause in the second year.

Another English Democrats' hopeful, Steve Uncles, the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Sevenoaks, has pledged to donate 50% of his MP's salary to Sevenoaks Rugby Club in the first year, and 50% of his salary to New Ash Green Rugby Club in the second year.

If a prospective MP pledges to trouser only half their wages and donate the remainder to a good cause of their choice, would you be more likely to vote for that candidate at the general election?

Yes, unreservedly

Yes, depending on the good cause specified

No

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Fred Bishop's speech to the 2008 English Democrats Party Conference.

I am no longer a member of the National Council so I am taking the opportunity and liberty to present a purely personal opinion and I should like take the opportunity to thank our leadership for giving me this opportunity, and in doing so displaying their true English grit and courage. I do this before they throw me out of the party.

Now the Interpretation act is an umbrella piece of legislation. It explains that in legislation man includes woman and vice-versa. So when I use the familiar ‘Englishman’ or ‘he’ it also includes our ladies. In fact it includes anybody wearing a skirt unless of course yet another Scotsman has infiltrated yet another English institution.

The presentation you have just seen is designed to help set the scene and understanding for what I am about to say.

The idea of a united kingdom was good but it required the good will and commitment of all involved. That was never forthcoming and will certainly not pop out of the fairy godmothers wand at this late stage.

Flag waving patriotism is fantastic. The stirring sight of masses of our flags is truly inspiring.

St Georges Day---magnificent, Jerusalem, red & white shirts and an English bull terrier great. But these are just symbols, important symbols but people have to identify with them before they become meaningful.

I think that it is now obvious that we are not going to get English self-determination and a return of our nationhood by appealing to English pride and patriotism.

For too long our people have been conditioned to recoil at the sight of anything English. They have been denigrated, denied an identity and ethnically washed away in a tide of artificially generated guilt and denial.

It is a fact that sophisticated people in middle England gave twice the number of votes to the Monster Raving Loonies, than to a party with English in its title.

That is justification enough to say that appealing to the patriotism of people that are either ashamed of their nationality or not aware of it is not going to be very productive.

I say that with due recognition of the great injustice that is being thrust on the English people. I say English people deliberately; I do not say the people of England. That is because it is us ethnic English that are in process of being marginalised in our own country. There is an attempt to rewrite history and claims are made that there are no such people as the ethnic English. The anti English British Government trip over their two left feet to recognise the ethnicity of the Scots, Welsh, Irish, the Australian aborigine, the new Zealand Maori, the American Indian, Gypsies and every recently constructed state of the Balkans but not yours.

You, like the Yeti, are a myth.

But……. In their desperation to deny English ethnicity the British government have to recognise it.

They cannot obliterate or discriminate against that that does not exist.

They have to recognise the target in order to direct their discrimination against it.

They have to admit the existence of the English in order to be able to direct their attacks against us.

In order to be excluded you have to be identified and it most certainly is not all of the people in England that are being racially discriminated against, it is the ethnic English that are the target.

The way that we are identified and excluded is not by naming us but by naming every other group and designating them an ethnic minority. Identification by exclusion.

What is now required is that the English themselves recognise their own ethnicity. Our party needs to recognise that.

I think that I have always loved England. I say think because until the last decade I never had to think about it.

I, like most English people was not into overt flag waving.

So why the change from benign patriotism to political activism?

It wasn’t because I suddenly fell in love with the English ideal.

It wasn’t because I smelt the first dews of an English spring, a cuckoo or the rolling hills of our lovely counties.

It was not the sight of the English flag or a picture of St George.

It wasn’t a proud patriotic awakening or voices rendered hoarse by the strains of Jerusalem.

It was the realisation that the voice of authority and representation in England was turning into a clipped Scottish brogue of relentless demand.

My television spoke to me in short barks of Northern authority. My telephone seemed to connect me north of Hadrian’s Wall every time I sought advice or needed to make enquiry.

The voice of advertising and public opinion took on a song that became to me a grating relentless whine that made me dive for the TV remote.

It was also the realisation that the streets of our cities and towns were becoming enclaves of conversations in languages that I could not understand.

What turned me was rage! It was anger! Outrage at what is being done to me personally, the lowering of my living standards, the attack on the very roots and fabric of my identity, the imposition of second class status on me as an Englishman.

The denial of choice in the matter of immigration, the lack of choice as to who I want as my neighbour. The use of my hard earned money to support Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Europe, an American war, African dictatorships and friends of politicians without consultation or even a modicum of consideration.

The deliberate and cynical destruction of the counties of my childhood and the wanton dilution of our traditional neighbourhoods.

The betrayal of my father who lies buried in a war cemetery in France. It is a personal insult from creatures that are not even of the same genetic species as the people that built the nation that they are currently trying to obliterate.

The utter contempt that these people have for me as an Englishman and the casual dismissal of my existence makes me feel murderous. That contempt is well illustrated in the presentation that I showed to you a few minutes ago. A contempt that the cowards dare not show to a convicted foreign terrorist, yet they are comfortable and confident to ceaselessly throw the insults contained in that film at us because in their eyes we are of no consequence because we are without voice.

That is what changed me from a passive British man to a fighting Englishman. It is personal, very personal!

I care for Britain as Britain cares for me.

I care for Britain as the other constituent nations of the UK do, except for me Britain is not a platinum credit card giving access to an ATM machine connected to someone else’s bottomless bank account. It is a voracious bloodsucker that is hell bent on destroying my very being, my memory, and a future for my descendants.

Britain is the machinery that enabled bitter enemies to deprive, rob, abuse, deny my very existence and my worth. It is the vehicle of annihilation being used to wipe out my past, present and future.

It’s primary use, to serve the interests of the minor countries of the UK and provide status for the midgets that inhabit Westminster.

Some 15 years ago I became aware of what was happening. I perceived an anti English creeping aggression that became more obvious by the day. It was war by increments waged by slowly advancing enemies wearing the mantle of friendship.

Clandestine enemies are always dangerous enemies and it was not until we became aware of their efforts that we began to see the truth of what they were up to.

Now, they have been so emboldened by the complacency and tolerance of the English that they don’t even try to hide it.

Despite us being the oldest settled people of Europe, with a rich history of achievement these political maggots have wriggled their way into the carcass of Britain to deny us voice, choice or national existence. The political establishment have used Britain to render us voiceless and virtually powerless. They have used it to secure the nationalist aspirations of their own people. They no longer even bother to hide their obvious contempt for the English people.

In 1997 Labour gratefully took the reigns of power from the brotherhood of the political establishment and the first thing they did was to isolate England to protect the remaining countries of the UK from the collateral damage that would inevitably occur as a result of the planned destruction of England.

They did it by granting virtual independence and distancing Westminster from any decision making in Scotland and giving sufficient status to Wales and Northern Ireland to ensure protection from long term damage.

In effect they took them out of Britain leaving us English to wave the Union flag alone. Then as soon as Blair conspired his way into number 10 he scrapped the Party rules requiring re-nomination of leader thus ensuring his tenure for the duration of the plunder years.

They also scrapped the laws relating to treason. Now if that was not self interest I do not know what is.

These people explain the benefits of Britain to their own countrymen as the ‘THE BRITISH DIVIDEND’

Well for the Scots the British dividend has been 11 fat years of plenty.

Hundreds of Billions of pounds in direct grants,

Over 200,000 jobs created in Scotland,

Nepotism by those ensconced in England has ensured lucrative jobs in public service, media and Institutions for their own likeminded compatriots.

Massive capital projects in Scotland,

A vast amount of money has been spent on tourism improvement to ensure future wealth creation,

Huge research grants and investment into the education system to secure their future good fortunes.

A national parliament combined with a very generous British government under the control of confirmed Scottish patriots.

Shelter from the destructive policies imposed on England.

The gift of 30% of English territorial fisheries, oil and gas reserves.

Recognition as a nation and the opportunities for referenda on future self determination.

A voice in Europe.

CHOICE!!!

For the Irish

Hundreds of billions of pounds in reparations for their own terrorist activity.

Direct grants under Barnett, & £50billion to form a government.

The biggest per capita gain from the Barnett fiddle,

£1.2 Billion bribe to save Brown’s neck on the 42day detention vote.

Shielding from destructive policies imposed on England.

An Irish assembly to give voice to Irish interests.

A voice in Europe.

The promise of a future as a nation.

Opportunities for referenda on future self-determination

Membership of the Celtic club with access to the British Dividend.

And again CHOICE!!

For the Welsh

The gift of the English county of Monmouthshire.

An assembly with increasing powers to ensure that the people of Wales are heard.

Billions of pounds in direct grants, jobs, inward investment, capital projects.

Membership of the Celtic club with all its benefits.

Recognition as a nation.

A voice in Europe,

The opportunities for referenda on future self-determination,

Again CHOICE!!

And Britain’s gift to the English ?

Well first of all the distinct honour of financing the Celtic Club.

Near Bankruptcy at the hands of the Member for Kirkaldy & Cowdenbeath.

Denial of self determination,

Massive targeted inward immigration.

Geographical fragmentation into regions ruled by unelected Quangos.

Racial Discrimination on a scale that dwarfs that supposedly directed at any other group.

Minimal social and health care,

Exportation of jobs,

Crime rates of epidemic proportions,

Rule and representation by leaders who have signed public oath to use England for the benefit of their own country,

A prime Minister elected in another country and not accountable to even one English voter.

Loss of the English County of Monmouthshire along with 400,000 English nationals and 500 sq miles of English sovereign territory

Loss of our farming, loss of our industry, loss of 30% of our sea resources

Loss of national identity

The worst educational system in the developed world,

Loss of our borders and the right to control inward immigration.

An electoral system that judges have declared to be so corrupt as to equate to third world banana republics.

The inability to oppose the dictatorial European Union.

Over 500 traitors ensconced as our representatives at Westminster.

And no say in our own future, dependent on the will of foreigners both here and in Europe.

These are predations that historically can only be achieved by war and conquest, by invading armies. It matters not that we have generously supported them to a better standard of living than we enjoy for ourselves.

It matters not that generations of Englishmen have accepted, nurtured and welcomed them to share our prosperity and brotherhood. All that is history, the only morals are exploitation and greed.

You do not hear our fellow Scottish, Welsh and Irish Britons protesting at the way their English British brethren are being treated, instead they are demanding more cash and greater freedom to decide how to spend it. They stand in satisfaction watching the discomfort of a nation, they watch with a glee that matured in their mother’s milk and their own institutions.

These people were never friends and we have to recognise that in the modern Briton, constructed by the Westminster infiltrators, our neighbours here and on the continent are rivals.

AND YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR RIVALS THE KEY TO YOUR STOREROOM.

Now I quite glibly allowed the word billion slip off my tongue. Just a few hundred billion pounds to Scotland, a few billion more to Wales, a few hundred billion to Northern Ireland and a few to our friends in Europe.

Does anyone know what a billion looks like?

I do not mean how many noughts.

What is the feel of a billion.

Well if you wanted to save a billion pounds and you put a pound in your piggy bank every second of every 24 hours of every day you would have had to start saving a few years before the Suez crisis. (clip of Vauxhall)

If you were not so well off and could only afford a pound a minute, you would have had to start saving before Jesus was born. ( Jesus Clip)

Now if you could only afford a pound an hour you would have been standing in line with the dinosaurs and very lonely because mankind had not yet arrived. (Dinosaur clip)

Now that is one billion, we are talking about countless hundreds of billions, at a pound a day the earth had probably not been formed. That explains why you have to sell your kids inheritance to get aged care for which you have already paid many times over and it explains why your standard of living is nowhere near that which you would expect from one of the worlds leading economies.

Mismanagement and theft on a cosmic scale and our friend Gordon was conducting the symphony at the time. The tune he played was the British National Anthem. He called the tune and we should ensure that he and his fellow instrumentalists pay the piper at some future time.

We are the English, we are nice people, we do not like to offend anyone so we take pride in defeat and play the game so that the opposition can enjoy it. We keep a stiff upper lip, turn the other cheek and have great humility; we would rather make fun of ourselves than denigrate others. Now that is a lovely quaint image that paints a lovely national image of those people who used to be called the English.

For too long we have played the English gentleman.

I have had enough of standing back whilst others trample me down and empty my pockets. I do not want these foreign burglars in my house handing my life’s work, my precious memorabilia, and my family heirlooms out the window to their friends and accomplices outside.

For me the time has come to change, I am no longer prepared to have a nasty little nationalist like Gordon Brown tell me that I can't have a nationality, that I am a nobody. I am not having him tell me that I can't be represented by a parliament of my own people whilst he and his fellow infiltrators climb on my back in order that they can set up an infrastructure in their own country to secure a firm base for their inevitable independence and future well being.

He is not doing that on me.

By accepting and promoting a British identity we have connived in a plot to destroy ourselves.

Whilst we have been waving the union flag and singing ‘God Save the Queen’ they have been busy doing exactly the opposite. We sang God Save the Queen whilst ‘Scotland the brave’s’ fifth columnists stole our pensions, our future, our education, our resources, our health service, our wealth our national identity and our streets. They have destroyed our ability to grow our own food, to manufacture our own goods.

As part of a well orchestrated plan they are busy selling us so hard into Europe that we are now almost impotent, unable to resurrect our own nation or national fortunes.

We are supposed to keep a stiff upper lip we are expected to turn the other cheek we're expected to thank the Tartan Mafia at Westminster for our unelected regional government, for our Ministers of the Regions, we should be grateful for the opportunity to finance the peripheral countries and endure the daily sight of own people dying through lack of drugs and aged care whilst reading of the wonderful lifestyle that we are financing for our fellow pseudo- Britons. We are powerless to stop them concreting over our countryside to build millions of houses in a country with a declining native population.

Immigrant towns that are designed to ensure that inward migration stays south of the border.

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. AND WE SHOULD ALL BE SHOUTING “WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH”

My anger is not confined to these creatures and their supporters that have such a grip on our country. It is a sobering thought that from the whole of England we struggled to get the attendance that you see here for this, the only forum for English political voice.

I am angry at the complacency, ignorance and inconsequentiality of our people, 50 million people who could only muster 200 to stride through the streets of our capital city demanding justice for their own Country. I am angry that an English nationalist party cannot get funding or sufficient activists to raise the effort to whimper in protest. I am angry that every year 400,000 people who care about their quality of life and future try to secure it by running abroad for sanctuary leaving their country ripe for colonisation.

I am angry that they can live in the shadows of their warrior forefathers and wilt in front of a few northern invaders, a small group of hate-filled predators that are absolutely astounded at their own success and unexpected good fortune against the auld enemy that used to be worthy of at least respect.

I am angry at our failure to mobilise our people. If we had the English people behind us as the Scots, Welsh and Irish have theirs the destructive malignancies that inhabit Westminster would not last a week.

It is time for the people of England to take our country back and make our politicians do what the people demand of them not the other way around and if they don’t they should be made terrified to leave the relative safety of their homes.

Consider if the roles were reversed and the English tried to do this to the Scots.

There would a Tartan Republican Army ferrying truck loads of agro chemicals down the M6 to the tune of bagpipes before we could even say ‘What’s that whining sound..

If anyone tried to pull the same stunt on the French every lamppost down the Champs Elise would be decorated with a politician.

Maybe it is time that we English changed from full English to porridge oats for breakfast or perhaps a baguette and cheese.

The English nationalist community, including our party now need to take the gloves off, abandon politically correct claptrap, say it as it is, and start speaking the language of nationalist’s intent on freeing our country from foreign domination.

Scilla Cullen of the Campaign for an English Parliament addresses the English Democrats Conference.

THE CAMPAIGN FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT

Foundation
The Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) which was founded in 1998 in a private house by 6 ordinary members of the public. This was in response to the Devolution Acts of that year when they realised the gross political and constitutional disadvantage to which the people of England would subsequently be subjected.

Aim & Policy
The aim of the CEP is a Parliament and government for England on the same basis as that granted to Scotland. A fundamental principle of the CEP is that the English Parliament would represent all the people of England who were legitimately living here and paying taxes to the British government whatever their ethnicity or however they chose to identify themselves.

First meeting
The first meeting of the CEP took place in London in June 1998 and members subsequently leafleted the three main British Political parties (Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative) at their conferences in the autumn of that year. The campaign was incorporated as a not-for-profit company in September 1998 and has no party political affiliations.

The newsletter was started in summer 1999 and in June 2000 about 50 members lobbied their MPs at the Houses of Parliament. In the autumn of 2003 the CEP mounted a conference in London called "Parliament or Partition", which was addressed by the Liberal Democrat MP, Simon Hughes. This was in response to the government's intention to hold referenda on devolution to Regional Assemblies, which are 20th century artefacts. We opposed this on a number of grounds but principally because it would have destroyed the ancient unity of England as a country. England with its shire system of local government at over 1,000 years old is the oldest unified country in Europe.

In August 2004 the CEP joined the English Democrats as the two founder organisations of the English Constitutional Convention. The press launch took place in a meeting room of the House of Commons and further meetings have taken place there and in the House of Lords including a patrons evening in October 2006. In autumn 2005 the CEP organised a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Blackpool, which was well attended. In that year also we made a submission to the Power enquiry which sought to investigate the "disconnection between the governors and the governed. Now sunk without trace, no website,

In 2006 we were one of the founder sponsors of the English Music Festival and in 2008 we organised the second national open conference on the future of England. Speakers included Simon Hughes MP, Canon Kenyon Wright, formerly chair of the Scottish constitutional convention, who now supports an EP and other academics such as Dr Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Hull University and Professor Hugo de Burgh, Professor of Journalism, Westminster University.

This year we have also made a submission to the Justice Department’s Committee on Devolution ten years on and were invited to give oral evidence. We have also made a written submission to the Calman Commission on the future of Scottish devolution pointing out that it impinges on England also.

MAINSTREAM ACTIVITIES

The CEP continues to lobby and campaign for an English Parliament and has demonstrated outside the Houses of parliament regularly since 1998, takes stands at shows, attends meetings, appears, from time to time, on local and Scottish television and radio, contributes to ‘phone-ins, writes letters, makes submissions to enquiries and speeches at conferences. In other words we try to make sure that every time the establishment attends to the devolution issue we are always in their faces.

STRENGTH

The CEP is a single issue organisation that campaigns for an English Parliament on the model of that of Scotland and this aim is also part of your manifesto. The CEP and the EDs are complementary. The strength of the CEP is that it is non party political and thus attracts members from the three main political parties and can thus have representation within them. As illustrations we have had speakers at our conferences from the Liberal Democrats and potentially Labour and contributors to our publication from all three main UK parties and have had a presence at their conferences.

This year one of our members organised stands at the spring and autumn Liberal Democrat conferences and a fringe meeting there last Sunday, where the question ‘Will an unresolved English Question lead to the break up of the United Kingdom?

Was debated. Speakers were our vice chairman, KCW, John Hemming MP for Birmingham Yardley, Andrew George MP for Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, Prof. John Curtice - Strathclyde University, Guy Lodge – IPPR. All agreed that the current situation was untenable but had no solution, although their only real opposition to investigating the formation of an EP was that there was no groundswell of support from the population. JC said there was no call for one and quoted the British Social Attitudes Survey. We have also organised a stand at the Conservative Party Conference and will be leafleting the Labour Conference.

Nevertheless, in order to maintain this strength we have no formal links with any political party. As Caesar’s wife we must be above suspicion.

STRATEGY

The CEP’s strategy is to assemble the most powerful coalition of expert and public opinion possible with a view to securing an English referendum on the question of establishing a Parliament for England.
Ultimately, an English Parliament cannot come about without the co-operation and agreement of the House of Commons. The CEP’s role is working with academics, business groups, trades unions, think tanks and the media to create the conditions where MPs see that there is no alternative to holding a referendum.

CURRENT SUCCESS?

So how are we doing? In that question I include your organisation. Your strength lies in the fact that you can be on the street persuading people to move their vote away from those who clearly do not represent them and by doing so putting the frighteners on complacent MPs.

While as a minority party the EDs cannot immediately change the knee jerk voting reaction of most of the people of England who unfortunately would vote for a monkey if it was dressed in the right colours nevertheless your very presence brings a new dimension to English politics.

OPPOSITION

It is sometimes said that there is no need to campaign for an English Parliament because with the Welsh Assembly, Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly, the UK Parliament is in effect an English Parliament. That is a mistaken view, voters of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have dedicated elections following which domestic policies are decided, whereas English voters have no such facility and remain in a democratic deficit. The Westminster Parliament continues to be the Parliament of the United Kingdom and to contain MPs from throughout the UK and is a hybrid body charged with pursuing the internal and external interests of the whole UK. Both it and its MPs are under no obligation to pursue or protect specific interests relating to the whole of England and there is no body through which those interests can be voiced.

For that reason and that UKMPs follow their own interests by supporting their parties’ policies is why the 85% of UK MPs who represent English constituencies cannot represent England. In addition, we have notable current and former MPs of all three major British Political Parties representing English constituencies who have expressed positive antipathy towards England.

FORWARD MOVEMENT

We cannot tell how much our campaigning has influenced Establishment thinking but it is clear that it now exhibits the writhings of death throes in order to avoid answering the English Question let alone the UWLQ. Nevertheless with the probable advent of a Conservative government of the UK we must never let up on our struggle. It is a mistake to complacently believe that the conservatives will institute any parliamentary or constitutional reforms that have permanence, address the English Question or truly recognise the unique identity of England.

Some objections to an English Parliament suggest that it would be almost as big as the UK Parliament. That demonstrates a fundamental and unnecessary assumption that the UK Parliament would need to be of the same size as it is now. That assumption ignores or denies that the work of the UK Parliament would be very substantially reduced and thus a much smaller Parliament would be capable of representing the constituent parts of the Union. We already have the anomaly of the number of UK MPs from areas outside England, who cannot initiate, debate or vote on domestic matters that affect them and their constituents, yet they are being paid the same salary as UK MPs from English constituencies.

The Conservative Party claim that we do not want another layer of politicians and bureaucrats and we cannot afford them but, of course, with a much reduced UK Parliament that would no longer be the case. The Conservative line would, nevertheless, engender more respect if they intended to abolish the 297 extra politicians (129 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 60 Welsh Assembly Members and 108 Members of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland) that do not represent 85% of the electorate, who have been, without their consent or even consultation, expected to support since 1998.

Others say that there is no demand. Clearly, until an honest referendum, with the same question as those of Scotland and Wales, takes place that assertion cannot be demonstrated. However, 12 of 14 polls since 2001 indicate that the majority of the people of England might vote for an English Parliament if asked the same referendum question as that for Scotland and Wales.

Some accuse us of trying to break up the Union. That process was initiated by the Devolution Acts. The Union can now only be saved by urgent attention to the democratic deficit experienced by the people of England. Our campaign is a response to the democratic deficit we face today. We have no voice, no forum in which to speak for England, we have no Minister of State to lobby for us in the UK parliament.

We have all come a long way since 1998 when the issue of England’s governance was never raised let alone discussed by the British Establishment or the Media. Our letters to MPs and the media were never acknowledged let alone printed. If we lobbied our MPs we were either given the brush off or regarded as racists for having the temerity to mention the word England. Some of that still persists but the tide of events is turning our way.

CONFLATION

Why do we have this uphill struggle? Perhaps it is because England is the largest country in the United Kingdom and has suffered from having its identity submerged into a “British” identity since the 1707 Act of Union. The emergence of Scottish and Welsh nationalism in the 20th Century and especially since the Second World War did not result in a similar emergence of English nationalism. Conversely the people of England have continued to be conditioned to think of themselves as British. This denial of political identity has been starkly revealed in the discriminatory devolution settlements.

Where this denial of identity is intentional it could be called cultural destruction or cleansing. This was a policy of the Ancient Egyptians, Romans and Soviets who destroyed memorials and airbrushed out of history those, the memory of whom, they wished to eliminate. In Latin this destruction was called damnatio memoriae.

Indeed conflation of England and Britain is common not only abroad but here and this bias is all pervasive. Reporting the Beijing Olympics, the media, and in particular the BBC, continued to announce medal winners as Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and British, but not English. In its CEEFAX August 19th 2008 bulletin the BBC described Chris Hoy the triple gold medallist as 'the Scot'. However, it described Victoria Pendleton the triumphant women's sprint cyclist Olympic champion from Bedfordshire as 'British', not once as English. In the first week of the Games both BBC reporters and BBC CEEFAX described Nicole Cook who took the first gold medal for the British team as Welsh, but Rebecca Adlington who achieved two gold medals in swimming only as 'British', never English.' What is the agenda for denying the identity of England and English achievers?

The presenter of a recent BBC programme called Thomas Tallis and other mediaeval English composers British when they were unequivocally English. Dr. David Starkey’s series based on his book the Monarchs of England was billed as a series on British monarchs! When were the monarchs, Macbeth, Malcolm and the James of Scotland ever called British?

For that, I believe, the BBC is particularly guilty and so much so that it has issued guidance to presenters that they should be sensitive to the difference. (PRODUCERS GUIDLINES. STYLE & LANGUAGE. Be careful when using the word British and English. They are not interchangeable. Say British when you mean British and English when you mean English). Rumour has it that that guideline was in response to complaints from Scotland as that “sensitivity” is not apparent when it comes to respecting English identity.

Other current examples are supermarkets that routinely use the national flags of Scotland and Wales but not England to mark their wares. English produce is marked with the British flag and the English Folk Group “Show of Hands” were described as a UK act on posters for the Womad festival whilst Scottish, Welsh and Irish bands were billed as Scottish, Welsh or Irish folk..

The deliberate or ignorant conflation of England and Britain and English and British is as insulting to England as it is to Scotland, Wales or any other part of the UK.

There are numerous other examples of the suppression of England and the conditioning of people either to confuse or conflate England and Britain, or to use the terms interchangeably so as to submerge English identity or merge them both.

In addition there is the false and insulting accusation that the English flag is racist. This has led to gross infringements by those in authority, such as the policeman who required a motorist in Wiltshire to remove the flag from his parcel shelf on pain of a £30 fine, the binman in Lancashire who was told to remove it from his bandana and yourselves, a registered political party, who were told to remove the flag from their display, later, I understand denied when under challenge, when canvassing in the Henley by-election. These are just a few of the examples of intimidation and harassment experienced when the English flag is displayed. There are no reports of such harassment when flags of other nations are raised.

COVERT AGENDA

This leaves an undeniable impression in England that there is a covert and unspoken agenda to merge or submerge England into Britain thereby to suppress or deny the unique and ancient culture and achievement of generations and the current population.

While this might have been acceptable when all the people of the UK were assimilated into a British culture and identity now that distinct national cultures and identities are encouraged, not least by dedicated fora in which they can be expressed, to deny the people of England the same right implies cultural prejudice.

England is a proud, historic and ancient country and arguably the oldest unified country in Europe. It must not be regarded as a convenient job provider, hotel, parking lot, building plot, cash cow, commercial centre or theme park to be used or abused at will.

We must struggle against the vested interests of British Political Parties who cynically choose to appease and appeal to those whom they fear to alienate or whose goodwill they crave. Although they claim to be in favour of the Union they issue different manifestos in Scotland and Wales, and offer different benefits to each country and camouflage the discrimination against England by issuing the manifesto for England under the guise of the UK or GB. Fewer and fewer people are willing to vote for those who do not represent their interests.

In addition and just as importantly we must challenge the evils of indifference, apathy and complacency. How often do we hear and take part in conversations in pubs and on the street with strangers bemoaning the status and treatment of England? Do they do anything about it, do they join our organisations that are endeavouring to represent their views? Even within our own ranks we find that there are the usual few activists who are willing to undertake the thankless task of organising and staffing events.

How many of the people of England are complacent with an “I’m all right, Jack” attitude. Unwilling to act until it is too late! How many refuse to engage their brains but adopt the stereotypical attitudes to England that they have been conditioned to hold? How many refuse to identify with England at all and this includes many so-called English MPs.

Perhaps, we have allowed our MPs to accept being overruled by MPs from Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh constituencies on matters that are important to the people of England but will not affect the constituents of those Northern Irish, Welsh and Scottish MPs. We must no longer allow them to connive at or acquiesce in the destruction of our country.

Whilst we have seen many encouraging changes in the attitudes of some thinkers, those with power are still entrenched in their prejudice. As Churchill said at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon, following the victory at El Alamein in November 1942 “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Ladies and gentlemen in every generation there comes a time when individuals must stand up for their rights. Now is the time in our generation. It is the duty of every one of us, for the sake of our fellow countrymen and women and future generations that will call England their homeland to stand up for our right to an English Parliament.

I say to all those who would oppose us we will not go away. What started as a whisper became a murmur, then a muttering must now become a clamour and finally a mighty roar.

STAND UP FOR ENGLAND!

Scilla Cullen
Chairman, the Campaign for an English parliament
September 2008

The Free England Party
An interview with Andrew Constantine
Interviewed by Tony Linsell, 26th May 2008
Published in Steadfast Magazine, December 2008

TL You have seemingly emerged from nowhere and quickly created a political party. Is there something in your personal background that has influenced your political development and led you to adopt a political life?

AJC My father brought me up as an English nationalist. He was career RAF having joined up in 1939 and we often moved around, and we lived abroad in Singapore, Malta and Italy. Our family was, and still is, very close and the fact that we moved so much and lived abroad in some ways reduced outside influences.

I am a 52 year old Yorkshireman, descended on my father’s side from some 250 years of Constantines living in Sheffield as metal workers and tradesmen. None of my family had been to university, nor had any professional qualifications, and both my parents left school at 15 or 16. I was the lucky one, for with no money in the family, I still had the benefit of a world class - grammar school - education, and being a natural scholar of history and literature got to Cambridge.

TL What opportunities were opened for you by your degree?

AJC My obvious career should have been the law or the civil service, but I started work in 1977 training as a chartered accountant. As soon as I could, I got out of audit and accounting and became a corporate tax adviser, which is as much based on law as accounting.

I work in the City for one of the large banks and run a tax compliance team. My personal philosophy in relation to tax - and other areas of life - is that we should seek to follow the broad spirit - intention - of laws, as well as the detail or fine print. A civilised society requires individuals and business to pay their fair share of taxes.

TL How and why did you get involved in English nationalist politics?

AJC My father’s influence was important. He helped form my strong sense of Englishness and my passion for preserving what is good about our country. Those who are hostile to any expression of Englishness are likely to think this means I am obsessed and inward looking. On the contrary, while we need to analyse and tackle our own problems, we also need to be outward looking and learn from others and appreciate “Abroad”. I lived in Singapore, and can appreciate the remarkable achievements and success of the Singapore government following independence. In Glamorgan as a schoolboy, I was force-fed Welsh and Owen Glendower, but despite, or because of it, I have a very great respect and affection for Wales, and, well, everyone likes Italy.

But what turned me from just having a very strong English identity and a deep interest in politics and modern history was a bit of personal bad luck. In 2005, I had a holiday in Florida. After flying back, I found that I had “economy class syndrome” (the full works: DVT and large clots moving to the lungs) and was soon close to death. After three weeks spent in the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, I left it - almost able to stand on my feet - but now determined to change the condition of my country.

TL In what way?

AJC Big picture stuff, where the key to changing England lay in creating a proper democracy where those who governed us and made our laws were accountable to us, the people. Membership of the EU is a big barrier to achieving that. With greater control of our political, economic and social affairs it will be possible to make the necessary radical reforms.

I had believed for years that we have to stop further immigration - from whichever source - and that the State needs to lead in protecting the rights of the law-abiding against the criminals, as well as to intervene to move the underclass into jobs and well, into a decent life. Spending three weeks in a large hospital ward in a poor area of London gave me a ring-side seat to some appalling behaviours and the losers from Blairite capitalism.

That illness also caused my assumption of a healthy and long life to be rudely undermined. If you want to make a difference, to do good, to help others, then that experience told me you should crack on with what you think is important.

Anyway, I was a within a few months of that episode standing - just about by then too! - for UKIP in the May 2006 local elections. When I notified UKIP and the English Democrats (EDs) that I belonged to both parties, UKIP told me to quit the EDs or else. In contrast, Robin Tilbrook was his usual affable self and soon after that the EDs put me on to their National Council (NC), where on the unexpected death of their national Treasurer I inherited that role and was also soon chairing their London Area.

TL You left the English Democrats (EDs) in January 2008. Why?

AJC As background, in December 2007 Garry Bushell stood down as their London mayoral candidate. I then became the unannounced replacement mayoral candidate. Then Matt O’Connor of Fathers for Justice (F4J) appeared out of the blue. The usual three senior EDs who control the party, seem to have seen him as a saviour, and they then in effect sought to de-select me.

What pushed me not to stand in a primary against Matt O’Connor was a surprise withdrawal of support from two other ED NC members. What required me to resign from the EDs in January this year was their appointing Mr O’Connor as the mayoral candidate. I felt that I could not belong to a party which thought Mr O’Connor was a suitable candidate for public office.

TL Creating a political a party is a big commitment in time, energy and usually money. What led you to make that leap and set up the Free England Party?

AJC After resigning from the EDs, I had about one week of total freedom from activism, which was an odd but very enjoyable time - like being on holiday.

I then approached the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP) to see whether they would like me as an official. But I also caught up with another former English Democrat and member of the CEP, Richard Aitkins, who has been a keen advocate of English independence and we quickly decided to set up a new independence party. I wanted to be an official of the new party, but Richard expected me to become party leader and so it went on from there. The name of the party “Free England” was Richard’s choice too. We work very well together, and with our other colleagues. It’s a happy ship - and long may it stay so!

TL Why set up another political party? Surely it’s a head-banging exercise?

AJC Some people are best suited to pursuing their political and social objectives through a political party and some are better suited to working in other ways. If you are campaigning for a political cause, you have to decide whether to do so via a non-party campaign group, or via a political party. It happens that I am familiar with political parties and love taking part in elections, so it was an easy decision. And in some ways, a political party gives you the best of both worlds. If your policy platform is attractive to people, you can force the other parties to tack in your direction.

In view of my unhappy experience with the EDs and my belief that it would be futile to work for change from within, I saw the creation of a new party as something positive, worthwhile and necessary. Differences between the FEP and the EDs include a different approach to immigration. There is also marked difference between our policy of independence for England and their policy of an English parliament within the Union. We give equal emphasis to a wide range of policies whereas the EDP is seen as a one issue party.

It is better that the English people have a choice of parties - it will enable them to express a preference for one approach or the other. In the not too distant future, I expect to see the traditional UK parties replaced by, or to evolve into, English parties of different political moulds.

Despite the competitive nature of politics, I am on good terms with Chris Nickerson (who is the leading campaigner for English independence of many years’ standing). And I retain respect for Robin Tilbrook of the EDP and so on. But the new Free England Party is unique in that while we are a decent and civilised civic nationalist party, we are also radical and very passionate about our policy platforms, and the leadership are keen to stand in elections. After all, if you do not like elections, then why be in politics?

TL You say that yours is a ‘decent and civilised civic nationalist party”. This provokes several questions. What do you mean by ‘civic nationalism’? Does it mean that like the EDs you promote an inclusive Progressive English identity founded mainly on place? Or do you believe that there is more to being English than place of birth or residence? Are you implying that ethnic nationalism - for example Kurdish, Palestinian, Jewish, Tibetan, English - is not decent and civilised?

AJC I understand the point you are making and can best answer it by saying that I accept the word ‘English’ has many meanings and that there are several kinds of Englishness. People and things might be called English because of their association with England - this is an inclusive place identity, which is sometimes called a civic identity - which it isn’t because there can be no English civic identity until there is an English state, Second, in law, there is an exclusive English racial group identity. Third, there is ethnic English identity, which is founded on a common history, ancestry, culture and communal identity.

The Free England Party does not promote any particular English identity but we look forward to the day when there will be an English state and an English civic identity - an English citizenship. That civic identity will be an additional English identity - it will not replace nor diminish an ethnic English identity.

The next point is that I used ‘decent’ and ‘civilised’ in a careless way - I was being defensive. I suppose I meant respectable and positive. The problem - as you will know - is that our enemies promote the perception that English nationalists - unlike wholesome Irish or Tibetan nationalism - is thoroughly nasty - as indeed are English nationalists. It is a form of successful negative political propaganda that we have to contend with.

TL Free England is clearly different from the EDs in that the Free England Party campaigns for England to become a sovereign state, whereas the EDs are federalists who wish to see an English parliament within a reformed Union. What other differences are there?

AJC Apart from being a new party and still much smaller, I think we have a different outlook. Our role is to provide the sparks that set England alight and we will in the immediate future focus on building up a party structure and fighting local elections. I would like the party culture - the working atmosphere - to be better than the EDs.

I wish to see the Free England members to behave like a band of brothers and sisters who get on well with each other, who will give a message of optimism and hope to voters, and who will be respectful of nationalists in other parts of the UK. So I can see genuine cultural, organisational and policy differences between the parties already.

Sometimes the differences between the Free England Party and the EDs are ones of emphasis. For example, over the amount of subsidy Scotland gets under the Barnett formula. I think Scotland is a successful nation already, and no one really knows how to split the UK tax-take between the home countries - the figures are simply not available.

So while I do make reference to unequal treatment for England, I am not fixated on it. Better democratic and independent and poor, than rich and ruled by the EU and/or a British government that takes no account of our interests or wishes.

But the choice between freedom and wealth is not one we have to make. Independence for England, Scotland and Wales would, after a period of adjustment, make them all better off in economic, democratic, social and cultural terms.

And while I have very strong views on both the EU and immigration, I can see both sides. I assume that the generality of officials working for the Commission will be hardworking and honest - I just wish for an England that is not part of the European project.

Despite all that has been done to it, England is still a very good country in which to live, so it’s no surprise that half the world wants to move here. Immigrants are sensibly pursuing their best interests - it is for us to pursue our best interests. We are the fools for losing control of our borders.

TL Why did you establish “The English Claim of Right” this April 2008?

AJC One of my few real talents is the ability to produce good ideas and initiatives and then to effectively take them forward. I have at any one time four of five of these ideas and I just need some free time and, usually, an able website developer to get them off the ground.

In this case, Fred Bishop had produced some time ago some fine research on the Scottish Claim of Right, Richard Aitkins was pushing me to build up the Free England Party and Marcus Stafford of The England Society then worked with me and produced a stunning and functional website for the Claim. (English Claim of Right - Home)

I should add that Marcus is launching a forum for those who have signed the Claim, with the intention that we will have a community of English nationalists who will push the political classes into holding an English Constitutional Convention and hence creating an English Parliament. I feel that the Claim will be instrumental in achieving this.

TL What other initiatives can you tell us about?

AJC I would like to sponsor a new association and attached website dedicated to Anglo-Saxon England, and generally I think it is wonderful that there is such a huge increase in Anglo-Saxon studies. This has helped raise English national consciousness, and I find the life of, say, Alfred the Great a wonderful inspiration and one that repays study. There seem to me to be obvious parallels between England in his period and today.

TL You seem willing to accept advice and give credit to others - you also have energy and a strong sense of Englishness, which indicates to me that you might have what it takes to be leader of a successful political party. What we don’t know yet is whether you have the spark of leadership. How do you see your role as leader?

AJC The whole point of an organisation, whether it’s a business or a political party, is that it is a means of allowing a number of people to work efficiently and harmoniously together, with the idea of producing their desired outcome. I see my task as being the person who makes this possible.

In a business, employees work to produce profits. In our party, English nationalists are encouraged to co-operate with other like-minded people and to shape a shared vision of an Independent England.

Although there are many similarities between a business and a political party there are also many differences. This especially so in a small political party where those who show flair in any area need to be given freedom to develop their talents and not made to feel that they have to refer everything to a person or persons who control every aspect of party activity.

I must add that I have been surprised and touched by some senior English nationalist statesmen who have got in touch with me and offered advice and help of all sorts. If I may address a brief request to them, I really do wish to benefit from your advice and knowledge. The more help you give to us, the more surefooted and effective our campaign will be.

TL Why did you make an apology on behalf of the English nationalist community for some EDP “anti-Scottish” posters?

AJC Because someone needed to, and fast! I felt the posters were crass, crude and ill-judged. I believed that I spoke for decent Englishmen in making that apology to the Scots.

I would add that the Union has arguably robbed the Scottish just as much as, maybe even more than, the English of national independence. I am wholly sincere in looking to the other nationalists whether in Wales or Scotland and working with them to despatch the UK. I believe that as Alex Salmond said: “The English and the Scots should be the best of pals, the closest of buddies with equality of status”.

Many living down South do not appreciate just how unpopular Labour is in Scotland. I would prefer the English to fight for and to gain national independence by their own efforts. But Alex Salmond might be taking Scotland out of the Union soon after 2010 or 2011 and so England would then get her independence by default.

TL Let us look forward to a time when England, Scotland and Wales are independent states - what happens next?

AJC Policy is a passion with me and so I can easily reel off a list of what an English Government might wish to do, with this one prior explanation. I believe it is a logical fallacy that a liberal democracy has to treat its enemies with kid gloves. So what would I suggest:

- Enact legislation to leave the EU and cancel all EU legislation and case law;

- Legislation to make English traditional freedoms and liberties a bedrock to our lives;

- Follow the Swiss example and go for neutrality - I do not see any benefit, nor purpose, to England being the world’s policeman or America’s poodle;

- Bring back our brave servicemen from Iraq and Afghanistan and other foreign commitments;

- Work to keep good relations with the other nations in these Islands;

- Force foreign owned media to sell to English business and reform the BBC;

- Go for organised crime (drugs, various rackets etc) with a drive and force that will destroy it;

- Codification and simplification of all our laws;

- New English citizenship law along with a generous English state pension;

- An immediate stop to all immigration, expulsion of most EU nationals, the foreign rich and failed asylum seekers;

- Create the factors that will aid the rebuilding of family life and traditional communities;

- Make public transport so good that the private motor car will dramatically decline;

- Use all the options available to us under WTO rules to rebuild English manufacturing behind tariff walls. Do whatever is necessary and practicable to achieve the aim;

- Grammar schools for the academic: superb technical and vocational training for most and English history - with a focus on Anglo-Saxon period - and literature and culture for all;

Generally England has lost so much ground in so many areas of national life that I think we should study other countries and see what we might usefully learn and copy.

TL I can see difficulties with most of these policy proposals but they show the general direction in which you would like to take the Free England Party and England. Are there any closing remarks you would like to make?

AJC Politics is above all about building rapport and trust with others. You have to look outwards to others, you have to be on “receive” and not just “send” mode and you have to be passionate about what you believe in. And leadership is about serving others.

But I am very optimistic: there is still Anglo-Saxon bedrock to England and much of the damage caused in recent years - whether to English society, to our democracy or to our country - can be reversed. I think the English are awakening. I would do anything for England and I know many others will to. We are English after all. It is our right and duty to preserve our identity and way-of-life."