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Thread #101144   Message #2037190
Posted By: GUEST,heed
27-Apr-07 - 11:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Justice For England, English protest songs
Subject: RE: JusticeForEngland, English protest songs
"Justice for England is rather emotive and stirs up the wrong sort of sentiment". Why should it be like that? It's the dreaded E word isn't it? England = nasty? The aims of the march and particularly benign, and non - treatening. It is really about issues such as an English parliament (or lack of it), the Barnett formula etc...

I believe the union is on its last legs. SNP winning the election in Scotland, and English only legislation being decided by a Scottish constituency mp (Gordon Brown will effectively be first minister of England) will bring these issues more to the fore. They can't be ignored but they can be dealt with reasonably.

ref: civic english nationalism
re: http://www.thecep.org.uk/news/ViewItem.asp?Entry=731