Letter: Shropshire Star

Let English have own vote over devolution

None of the main three parties have made any commitment to English devolution, leaving only fringe parties and pressure groups to campaign for a referendum on the subject.

Of the national fringe parties, I know of only two that have a policy of English devolution.

The little-known English Democrats (who have a representative in Telford incidentally) have an English-centric manifesto and work closely with the main pressure groups such as the Campaign for an English Parliament to try and force the Government to give the English people the same referendum as the Welsh and Scots that allowed them to vote for devolved governments.

The other is the BNP. Of course, the BNP wouldn't be the BNP without a right-wing racist slant and their plan is for an English Parliament open only to those of Anglo-Saxon descent.

Their lawyer, Lee Barnes, has suggested that people could be DNA tested to prove their Anglo-Saxon heritage.

It's time the English started speaking up for themselves.

The Government insists there is no English nation and believe that people are quite happy being British whilst our friends to the north and west are encouraged to express their own identities.
If there is no such thing as an English nation, how do they explain the sea of English flags at sporting events? How do they explain the England flags in people's cars and bedroom windows? We're fed up of subsidising the rest of the country and getting nothing in return. Write to your MP and demand fairness, equality and democracy for England.

Stuart Parr
Telford