English Commonwealth supports The Campaign for an English Parliament‘s call for an English Parliament.
We are not English exceptionalists. We believe that England is a nation like any other and would benefit from its own discrete democracy and voice like any other. This is not an unreasonable demand. It is the right of all nations.
The call for an English parliament seems unexceptional. I support it and want the idea to be put to a referendum. – Anthony Barnett
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in flux. Just as unionists in 1921 were forced to rethink the logical territorial boundaries of the Union (with the secession of the Irish Free State) today’s unionists are coming to terms with home rule in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and new territorial limitations on the extent of Westminster power. But though power has moved from Westminster to the devolved nations in a way that damages English voters, England is denied equal treatment, we are denied home rule and our own voice.
I think there could be some benefit in having an English parliament, where we could focus on issues in England. – Caroline Lucas
Devolution to all parts of the United Kingdom except England has redefined England politically, once again, as a discrete national community, but only negatively. In a political, constitutional sense England exists only as that part of Britain that is governed entirely from Westminster, by the UK Government; that part of the union with no national voice and no legitimate political means of articulating its feeling of nationhood. We believe that the growing English consciousness demands political recognition and that refusal of such recognition risks damaging the cohesion of England’s multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society.
English Commonwealth 