Letter: Shropshire Star
This has been printed in the Shropshire Star …
Who does Gordon Brown think he is trying to make public buildings in England fly the British flag?
Which flag flies from public buildings in his constituency in Scotland? Certainly not the “butchers apron”.
The Prime Minister is currently in his own country supporting the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party (there’s isn’t an English Labour Party of course) at their spring gathering. She intends to lead Labour to victory in the Scottish Parliament – the Parliament that Gordon Brown helped to create in 1997 and the English equivalent of which he actively conspires to deny us.
There are only a handful of buildings in Scotland that Gordon Brown can force to fly the British flag because most public buildings are the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament. However, in England he can – and will – force public buildings to fly whatever flag he chooses to drape himself in to try and cover up the fact he has no mandate in England.
I live in England and I fly the English flag all year round. I no longer consider myself British at all – the British nationalist Labour Party have demonstrated quite clearly that it is only the Celts that matter in this union, not the English.
When the Conservatives took control of Telford & Wrekin Council they replaced the flag of the EU with the English flag. I hope the take advantage of the new relaxed flag flying rules to remove the British flag and replace it with our own national flag, the Cross of St George.
Stuart Parr
Shropshire Branch
Campaign for an English Parliament
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Of course. Commented at my place on this info.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:37 am“Leader of the Scottish Labour Party”
There is no Scottish Labour Party either. It’s just a branding excercise.
Wendy Alexander is the Group Leader of the Labour MSP’s in the Scottish Parliament and nothing more.
Labour party members, Councillors or MP’s in Scotland owe her no loyalty whatsoever.
Interestingly enough the Labour Party is the only one out of Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib-Dems not to have a Scottish organisation.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pmIt is a load of codswallop anyway; there is no Scottish nation. Originally the Highlands were full of Picts, then the Scots came over from Ireland. The western lowlands (Strathclyde) and the western side of what is now classed as England and down to Wales and Cornwall were all Britons, Cymru, Welsh (Wallace was one of these). The rest of southern Britain, from the Firth of Forth down, was conquered by the Anglo Saxons (Edinburgh was named after the Northumbrian English king Edwin). The Scottish Gaels call the Sassenachs (English). Robert the Bruce(De Brus)was Norman English (French)who wanted a kingdom. He used the so called ‘Scottish’ lowlanders to get it for him, then he built castles to keep them under his thumb. Apart from that there are more people of Scottish descent in England than there are in Scotland. Boiled down to it we are really one mixed up nation at loggerheads with each other. No wonder we’re getting taken over piecemeal.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:00 amIt is a load of codswallop anyway; there is no Scottish nation. Originally the Highlands were full of Picts, then the Scots came over from Ireland. The western lowlands (Strathclyde) and the western side of what is now classed as England and down to Wales and Cornwall were all Britons, Cymru, Welsh (Wallace was one of these). The rest of southern Britain, from the Firth of Forth was conquered by the Anglo Saxons (Edinburgh was named after the Northumbrian English king Edwin). The Scottish Gaels call the Sassenachs (English). Robert the Bruce (De Brus)was Norman English (French)who wanted a kingdom. He used the so called ‘Scottish’ lowlanders to get it for him, then he built castles to keep them under his thumb.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:05 amAccording to this we are all one nation under the skin. If we can’t understand this no wonder we are getting taken over piecemeal.
I was told that my posting had been disallowed, so you’ve got two, sorry. I meant to say that the Highland Gaels call the lowland ‘Scots’ Sassenachs (English).
May 8th, 2008 at 6:10 amDOn….Have you considered reading some reputable histories of medieval England and Scotland? I recommend Prestwich, King, Barrow, Nicholson, Woolf, Keen, Duncan, Boardman for starters. Robert I was an Anglo-Norman to a far lesser extent that the Queen is German, Prince Charles is Greek Michael Howard is a Rumanian and Michael Prortillo is Portugese. What made the Bruces a ‘big deal’ in Scottish medieval politics was thge status of his mother, who was a Gaelic magnate.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:54 pm