English Commonwealth
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English Commonwealth is a web-based campaign promoting England as a discrete nation and source of political identity, sovereignty and citizenship in its own right.
#EnglishParliament #YesEngland #SayEngland
https://englishcommonwealth.net/
#EnglishParliament #YesEngland #SayEngland
https://englishcommonwealth.net/
The Covid Inquiry on 'Clarity of geographic scope in messaging'.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Covid Inquiry on 'Clarity of geographic scope in messaging'.
"Grievance with the Union, and how England is governed, continues to suggest that the English feel their voice is not heard, and their culture and identity are not given the attention they deserve."
Happy St George's Day 🤨
Happy St George's Day 🤨
Not a priority to keep the Union together, English voters say on St George's Day
THE attitude of English voters toward the Union have been revealed in a new report published on St George’s Day.
www.thenational.scot
April 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"Grievance with the Union, and how England is governed, continues to suggest that the English feel their voice is not heard, and their culture and identity are not given the attention they deserve."
Happy St George's Day 🤨
Happy St George's Day 🤨
The BBC includes this explainer in their rolling coverage of the UK Government scrapping NHS England.
March 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The BBC includes this explainer in their rolling coverage of the UK Government scrapping NHS England.
A British History of: Wild Boar (4K Documentary) (CC)
YouTube video by WildCamCraig
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March 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Suddenly the debate over English ethnicity has flared up again. But why does neither the Left nor the Right engaged with the issue of making England a democracy?
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I will never be truly English
According to the disgraced former home secretary Suella Braverman, born Sue-Ellen, after J.R. Ewing's alcoholic wife in the hit TV show Dallas, I am definitely not English. In a Telegraph article she ...
www.eclecticblue.org.uk
February 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Suddenly the debate over English ethnicity has flared up again. But why does neither the Left nor the Right engaged with the issue of making England a democracy?
www.eclecticblue.org.uk/i-will-never...
www.eclecticblue.org.uk/i-will-never...
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February 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Latest @lucidtalk.bsky.social @belfasttelegraph.co.uk poll Q on border poll:
If there was a referendum on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the week, how would you vote?
- 48% NI to remain in the UK
- 41% Leave UK and join a United Ireland
- 10% Don’t know
- 1% Wouldn’t vote
If there was a referendum on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the week, how would you vote?
- 48% NI to remain in the UK
- 41% Leave UK and join a United Ireland
- 10% Don’t know
- 1% Wouldn’t vote
NI voters still favour the Union over a united Ireland – but gap narrows to 7%, poll finds
The gap between support for Irish unity and Northern Ireland staying in the UK has narrowed in the past year.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Latest @lucidtalk.bsky.social @belfasttelegraph.co.uk poll Q on border poll:
If there was a referendum on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the week, how would you vote?
- 48% NI to remain in the UK
- 41% Leave UK and join a United Ireland
- 10% Don’t know
- 1% Wouldn’t vote
If there was a referendum on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the week, how would you vote?
- 48% NI to remain in the UK
- 41% Leave UK and join a United Ireland
- 10% Don’t know
- 1% Wouldn’t vote
Preventing the electorate from having a say on the abolition on local democracy in England.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Council shake-up sees elections delayed in nine areas
Angela Rayner says the reorganisation marks a generational power shift but the Tories say it is a
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Preventing the electorate from having a say on the abolition on local democracy in England.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Asked whether Keir Starmer was proud of the English army’s victory at Agincourt, his spokesperson said: “Absolutely, and also proud of our role in the second world war.”"
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"Asked whether Keir Starmer was proud of the English army’s victory at Agincourt, his spokesperson said: “Absolutely, and also proud of our role in the second world war.”"
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No 10 defends decision to change name of HMS Agincourt submarine
Spokesperson denies decision to change name to HMS Achilles was made to avoid upsetting the French
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"Asked whether Keir Starmer was proud of the English army’s victory at Agincourt, his spokesperson said: “Absolutely, and also proud of our role in the second world war.”"
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"Asked whether Keir Starmer was proud of the English army’s victory at Agincourt, his spokesperson said: “Absolutely, and also proud of our role in the second world war.”"
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The system that emerges from reorganisation will be unfit to inherit the name ‘local government’, write the emeritus professor of local government and emeritus professor of local politics at De Montford University.
Steve Leach and Colin Copus: The worst local government white paper in living memory
The system that emerges from reorganisation will be unfit to inherit the name ‘local government’, wr...
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January 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The system that emerges from reorganisation will be unfit to inherit the name ‘local government’, write the emeritus professor of local government and emeritus professor of local politics at De Montford University.
December 21, 2024 at 12:27 PM
UK Labour correct the Daily Express by specifying England.
But Keir Starmer refuses to #SayEngland.
Depending on which source you read, today's pothole announcement can be about England or Britain.
But Keir Starmer refuses to #SayEngland.
Depending on which source you read, today's pothole announcement can be about England or Britain.
December 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
UK Labour correct the Daily Express by specifying England.
But Keir Starmer refuses to #SayEngland.
Depending on which source you read, today's pothole announcement can be about England or Britain.
But Keir Starmer refuses to #SayEngland.
Depending on which source you read, today's pothole announcement can be about England or Britain.
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"England still remains without a common voice on its issues. In the absence of that voice, the question remains: can true devolution ever exist without an English parliament, or will we continue to see patchwork solutions that only address part of the problem?"
Devolution It Is Not: A Closer Look at the English Devolution White Paper
Explore the English Devolution White Paper, its proposed changes, and whether it represents true devolution or a patchwork solution.
medium.com
December 19, 2024 at 3:21 PM
"England still remains without a common voice on its issues. In the absence of that voice, the question remains: can true devolution ever exist without an English parliament, or will we continue to see patchwork solutions that only address part of the problem?"
When UK parliamentarians talk about England as 'the country' it is understandably divisive. Members of a multinational, union parliament should not refer to England as 'the country'. If you mean England, then just #SayEngland.
Mayors from across ‘the country’
On the 12th Dec Rachel Reeves headed up to Darlington to meet with regional mayors to talk about their plans to make every part of Britain better off, and to visit Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) …
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December 19, 2024 at 1:35 AM
When UK parliamentarians talk about England as 'the country' it is understandably divisive. Members of a multinational, union parliament should not refer to England as 'the country'. If you mean England, then just #SayEngland.
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Well, except that yesterday’s white paper does nothing to give England national political institutions like NI, Scotland and Wales have.
Is every English strategic authority really going to be represented on the council of the nations and the regions alongside the 3/4 first ministers?
Is every English strategic authority really going to be represented on the council of the nations and the regions alongside the 3/4 first ministers?
December 17, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Well, except that yesterday’s white paper does nothing to give England national political institutions like NI, Scotland and Wales have.
Is every English strategic authority really going to be represented on the council of the nations and the regions alongside the 3/4 first ministers?
Is every English strategic authority really going to be represented on the council of the nations and the regions alongside the 3/4 first ministers?
Donald Dewar on Scottish devolution: "This is about more than our politics and our laws. This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves".
December 15, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Donald Dewar on Scottish devolution: "This is about more than our politics and our laws. This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves".
Some new quotes over at www.instagram.com/englandquote/
December 15, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Some new quotes over at www.instagram.com/englandquote/
"The government does not plan to enhance the collective identity of the English; instead, it wants to contain it by creating regional identities."
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It's called the English Devolution Bill - but 'devolution' it is not in our lopsided United Kingdom
Ensuring fairness between all the citizens of the UK is a permanent headache for any Westminster government. The word "devolution" implies England will be getting some of what the other nations have g...
news.sky.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:24 AM
"The government does not plan to enhance the collective identity of the English; instead, it wants to contain it by creating regional identities."
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Labour's idea of English devolution. We're going to axe your local council and give planning control to the UK Government or a regional mayor that you never asked for.
Excl: Government will move to scrap district councils in its devolution white paper on Monday, sparking the biggest local government reorganisation in 50 years
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District councils face scrapping in major overhaul of English local government
[FREE TO READ] Devolution white paper aims to create larger authorities and more elected mayors
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December 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Labour's idea of English devolution. We're going to axe your local council and give planning control to the UK Government or a regional mayor that you never asked for.
Why can’t the English realise that their national / regional identity is far more protected within the European Union than within the UK?
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Why can’t the English realise?
European Movement UK recently did a webinar featuring Caroline Lucas and John Denham on the Role of National Identity in the Journey Back to Europe. It’s well worth a watch.In the Q&As th…
englishcommonwealth.net
December 14, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Why can’t the English realise that their national / regional identity is far more protected within the European Union than within the UK?
englishcommonwealth.net/2024/12/14/w...
englishcommonwealth.net/2024/12/14/w...
Reform UK exhibit the same Anglocentric British nationalism as the Labour Party and the Tories.
#ReformUK
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#ReformUK
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Reform UK: Another British Nationalist Party
With Reform UK predicted to win course to win up to a dozen seats in the 2026 Holyrood election, Alex Massie has said “We can no longer claim that Reform is an English nationalist project.…
englishcommonwealth.net
December 14, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Reform UK exhibit the same Anglocentric British nationalism as the Labour Party and the Tories.
#ReformUK
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#ReformUK
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I left a comment on Responsible Rebel's 'Little Englander' . What do you think, should 'Little Englander' a be a badge of honour or a term of abuse?
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Little Englander
Lets make it a badge of honour
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December 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I left a comment on Responsible Rebel's 'Little Englander' . What do you think, should 'Little Englander' a be a badge of honour or a term of abuse?
theresponsiblerebel.substack.com/p/little-eng...
theresponsiblerebel.substack.com/p/little-eng...
Labour's plans would mean the *UK government* would have the final say on approving wind farm projects larger than 100MW, rather than *England's councils*.
This is their idea of devolution!!!
#SayEngland
This is their idea of devolution!!!
#SayEngland
Miliband unveils energy plan with new powers over wind farms
The change is part of the government's new action plan for meeting its 2030 clean power target.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Labour's plans would mean the *UK government* would have the final say on approving wind farm projects larger than 100MW, rather than *England's councils*.
This is their idea of devolution!!!
#SayEngland
This is their idea of devolution!!!
#SayEngland