I’ve just signed the petition for a .ENG domain courtesy of DotEng.
The rules on top-level domains are being relaxed and this will make a .ENG domain much easier to secure than previously. If the .SCO or .CYM campaigns for Scotland and Wales are successful that will set a precedent for all the home nations.
We […]

The Ministry of Justice has decided to include Wales in a new bill to introduce specific offences relating to mental and physical abuse in hospitals.  The Welsh government said they didn’t need the law but some Liebour MPs and a peer complained and the MoJ has changed its mind.
I’ve spent a lot more than average […]

On April 1st a new scheme came into force to allow pensioners to have fee off-peak travel around England.
Previously they were entitled to only off-peak travel within their local authority.
Pensioners in Scotland and Wales have been entitled to free public transport at any time throughout their own country for several years and in Northern Ireland […]

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 […]

English lose out in funding of health
Tom Taylor, chief executive of the Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust, has confirmed what the Shropshire branch of the Campaign for an English Parliament has been saying for the last couple of years: Treating Welsh patients in Shropshire hospitals is costing millions of pounds that could be spent […]

According to the Times, Gordon Brown is planning to create a network of London-type mayors in the “English regions” to combat Englishness and promote the Britishness agenda he has become obsessed since being parachuted into the post of Prime Minister without a mandate.
England has always been considered expendable by the Labour Party, hence their willingness to embrace […]

Bob Peedle, Chairman of the Royal Society of St George, has criticised Wayne Rooney for not singing the British national anthem before England games.
Apparently, Rooney doesn’t know the words which Peedle thinks is disgraceful and has offered to teach them to him.
The Royal Society of St George is there to promote England and the Commonwealth, singing […]

No Mandate Brown is grinning and giggling to himself over a report that says all British government buildings should be encouraged to fly the British flag to promote Britishness.
The British government is responsible for a relatively small number of public buildings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but most belong to their devolved assemblies, particularly […]

For years ethnic minority groups have accused the Police of institutional discrimination - now it’s the turn of the majority to make the same accusation.
Former soldier, Craig Briggs, has wanted to join the Police since he was a child and joined the army to get some experience before applying. After serving 4 and a […]

Lord Goldsmith, the former British Attorney General, has told No Mandate Brown that children should have to go through a citizenship ceremony when they leave school and pledge alliegence to the Queen like they do in the US to their flag to promote Britishness.
The Scottish government have, of course, rejected this out of hand and […]

England have lost to Scotland in the Six Nations.
I don’t mind England losing (I’d rather we didn’t of course) just as long as it’s not to Scotland!
Technorati Tags: England, Scotland, Rugby

Tom Yeo, the Conswervative MP for Suffolk South, introduced a private members bill to get the clocks put forward one hour to save lives and energy and increase leisure and social time.
As with previous attempts by various MPs the bill failed with the usual arguments being put forward - the farmers won’t like it and […]

On Monday I pointed out two examples of NHS discrimination in England.
The third example of NHS discrimination this week was announced today - the price of a prescription in England will rise to £7.10 per item.
Meanwhile, in Scotland prescription charges are capped at £5 with 93% being dispensed free of charge.  In Wales, all prescriptions […]

The British government has announced its intention to shut down England’s radio telescope array, Jodrell Bank.
The Science & Technology Fund is facing an £80m shortfall in its budget which it intends to plug by cutting funding.  So far, £8m of taxpayers money has been spent on the e-Merlin project which is an upgrade to the […]

Getting your children into a decent school and getting them a decent education is already enough of a lottery without the latest batshit scheme from British government.
Today saw the introduction of new admissions rules for English schools that will see English children getting allocated places at English schools based on a lottery system.  You may […]

According to that last bastion of objective reporting, the Sun, school children are being punished for wearing clothes with England flags on them or even for being dropped off at school in cars with England flags on them.
Normally I’d take anything the Sun says with a pinch sack of salt but in this case it […]

England had a blistering start with 10 points on the board in the first 13 minutes, 5 of which came from what will probably be the try of the tournament by Paul Sachi.
Jonny Wilkinson’s foot was perfect as usual.
England have played an excellent first half and the statistics don’t match the performance.  France have the majority of […]

The British government plans to allocate every 14 year old child in England a unique ID number which could be tied to the national ID database and will be used to provide access to school records for potential employers and the state.
The Education & Skills Bill - which only applies to England, not the whole […]

It’s only 5 minutes until England’s opening Six Nations match against Wales.
Not so long ago I’d have been looking forward to this game to see how much of a pasting we give the mutton munchers but just lately Wales have become a force to contend with and it’ll be a challenging game.
Jonny Wilkinson is playing but […]

CEP: England victimised yet again by United Kingdom government
The Council tax in England will be going up in April by just under 5%, more than twice the limit on pay increases being imposed by the Union Government. The average Council Tax bill in England will go up by £115 per month. Meanwhile in Scotland the […]

As if getting a decent education in England wasn’t enough of a lottery already, the Brit-Scot government in Westminster has decided that schools in England should be required to take a percentage of their intake from outside of their catchment area with those places allocated by a lottery system.
This means that in over-subscribed schools, a child […]

The British government is changing the rules on parking fines in England.
The Northern Irish Secretary of State for Transport, Ruth Kelly, and her 3 Ministers for Transport (two of which are Scottish of course) are introducing changes to the rules in England so that variable rates of parking fines can be implemented and to remove the […]

No Mandate Brown will announce today that the British government intends to build nuclear power stations in England.
He won’t be making the same announcement about Scotland, of course, because it’s a devolved matter and the Scottish Parliament has decided that Gordon Brown’s constituents and their fellow countrymen won’t be getting nuclear power stations.
Now, I agree with […]

No Mandate Brown has announced that the (English) NHS will start offering health screening for heart disease, strokes and kidney disease as well as increasing the screening for some types of cancer.
Health screening is good but it’s still wrong the Gordon Brown is interfering in the English NHS.  He has no say over the NHS […]

Read this then read the letter I just sent to my turncoat Liebour MP.
Dear David,
Your Prime Minister has somehow, against all the odds, managed to make me even more annoyed today than he has since he was appointed as your leader.
I was pretty incensed when he announced that his priorities as Prime Minister would be the […]

I just sent the following email to Nick Clegg after reading that he has already dismissed a suggestion that we should have an English Parliament by saying that he will devolve power to “regions and communities” rather than the our country as most people want …
Dear Nick,
Could you please tell me what plans the Lib Dems […]

David Camoron gave a speech in Edinburgh yesterday in which he extolled the virtues of the union and dashed any hopes that England under the Conswervatives might ever achieve equality.
Camoron is a tit.  A complete and utter fucking idiot.  The Tories will never be elected in Scotland yet at every possible opportunity, Camoron treks up […]

Kosovo has suffered terribly at the hands of the Serbs ever since Yugoslavia broke up.
For a while now, Federal Europe has provided mediators to try and come up with a solution that would allow Kosovo to remain part of Serbia which would be acceptable to both the Serbs who don’t want to lose Kosovo and to […]

English police are on the receiving end of the same racist treatment as English nurses when it comes to pay increases.
Earlier this year, our nurses were told that they would be getting the same percentage pay rise as Scottish nurses but rather than a single pay increase like in Scotland, their pay increase was to […]

Inspired by Alfie, I put pen finger to paper keyboard once again and asked the RFU to stop playing God Save the Queen before England matches.
Hi,
Our glorious leader has pronounced that deciding which national anthem to play before sporting events is not a matter for the British government and is, instead, the responsibility of the […]

Bloody hell.  When was the last time England didn’t qualify for a European Championship?  Other than when we were banned from European football for having slightly more troublemakers than Vatican United and about 5 million percent less than, for instance, Turkey or Poland.  But that’s another story.
England lost 3-2 to Croatia last night and failed to […]

This is the match that matters.  Israel have to beat Russia to give England a chance of qualifying for next years Euro 2008.  Something you’ll not see very often on this blog - I’m supporting Israel!
Israel has taken an early lead, currently winning 1-0.
Update:
Israel won 2-1 which means England are still in with a chance.
[…]

The first ever guest post on Wonko’s World courtesy of my good lady wife.  I’ll let her introduce herself …
My name is Lesley and I’m 32 years old with four children.  I am married to Wonko and am aka “Wonkoswife”.  You may not believe this but I am not really interested in politics and never have […]

The One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan has proclaimed that all failing schools in England will get a visit from a specialist management team to help turn them round.  If that doesn’t work then a change of “management” will be instigated and if that doesn’t work then the school will be shut down.
It was pointed out […]

The Crossrail project - a huge train network in the south east of England, centred on London - is estimated to cost the taxpayer £16,500,000,000.
The breakdown is as follows:

Building Crossrail - £16,000,000,000
Buying Scottish votes - £500,000,000

Under the Barnett Formula, Scotland is entitled to £500m purely because £16bn is being spent in England.  It doesn’t matter that […]

The media has been awash with stories of the Conswervatives “new” radical plan to save the union and solve the West Lothian Question.
It’s not a new idea though, they’ve been talking about it for a couple of years at least and even then it’s not an original idea - someone told me that it first […]

… Scots.
The Scottish government is abolishing prescription charges in Scotland for all Scots.  At the moment, 96% of all prescriptions are dispensed free of charge.
Abolishing prescription charges north of the border is going to cost the English taxpayer another £70m.
In April this year, the Welsh government abolished all prescription charges in Wales on the same […]

Well, I’d like to say that England outplayed France and the victory was well deserved but it was a bit of a fluke to be honest.
France and England both played pretty poorly interspersed with some moments of excellent play.  The highlight of the match - other than beating France and getting to the final of course […]

A 10 Downing Street petition needs your signature - Hold a general election in 2007.
In order to effectively run the country a prime minister needs the approval that comes with an election. The current prime minister has not been tested by an election. This comprimises his ability to govern effectively as he has no mandate […]

I had a spare half an hour to play with Paint Shop Pro today and came up with the unofficial CEP wallpaper below …

  Widescreen (1440 x 900)
  Regular (1280 x 1024)
 
I also produced quite a few St George’s Crosses with various effects on them if anyone’s interested.  I have them in pspimage format but […]

The Tories are pushing English Votes on English Legislation (EVoEL), their “answer” to the West Lothian Question.
The West Lothian Question (WQL) was first posed by Tam Dalyell, MP for West Lothian in Scotland during a debate on devolution.  The Question is whether it is right that MP’s elected in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland should […]

England showed some real talent at times during tonight’s match against Tonga - it was a pleasure to watch.
Tonga scored first from a penalty, England equalised and then Tonga scored a try.  It was looking a bit dodgy at first but England settled in and played some quality rugby.
That said, Tonga were very dangerous at […]

Bit of a dilema - England are playing Israel in the football and the USA in the rugby.
Both matches should be a walkover, the rugby especially so, but which will be the best game?
Our teams both need to be careful when attacking though.  A shove in the penalty area could very well see the Israeli’s […]

No Mandate Brown, the unelected pretender to the office of First Minister of England, has dealt what may prove to be England’s fatal blow.
The Goblin King has appointed a Minister for each of the made-up regions of England.  Before his coronation as unelected Prime Minister the MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath made noises about resurrecting regional […]

The British government wants to tackle the “English drinking culture” which makes binge drinking, drunkenness and anti-social behaviour acceptable.
Vernon Coaker, a pretend minister at the Home Office, wants to change the perception that it’s “acceptable to drink to get drunk” and the campaign will not only target young binge drinkers out for a night on […]

The treacherous British government has responded to a petition with over 1,700 signatures demanding an English Parliament.
The petition said:
The 1998 Scotland Act has left England uniquely without its own Parliament or Assembly. Simple fairness requires that an English Parliament now be created.
 
The response is below.  To see my comments, hover over the speech bubbles .
Devolution […]

Not much information in the Hansard on the Draft Local Transport Bill - no dissenters, no cries of “NO MANDATE” from the opposition benches.
However, the Hansard for the bill does start thus:
Draft Local Transport Bill
The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Douglas Alexander):
I am today publishing a draft Local Transport Bill, for public consultation and […]

A Road Pricing bill is being put before Parliament today.
This is despite the fact that 1.8 million signed a petition against it.  Despite the fact that the Secretary of State for Transport was elected in Scotland where this bill won’t apply.  Despite the fact that the argument for it is complete bollocks.
According to the British government, […]

The Tartan Taxman is overstepping the mark again and proposing yet more policies for England for which he has no mandate.
To show us his green credentials he’s decided that we should build 5 eco-towns housing 100,000 people in carbon neutral homes built on old industrial estates.
Gordon Brown, of course, can only propose these new lentil […]

The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds has settled a racial discrimination claim by the English Democrats Party (EDP) out of court.
The EDP sued the museum for £5,000 for racial discrimination after they cancelled a booking and declined to offer an alternative date because they were concerned about their reputation if they held an English event […]