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CEP: England outraged by Scottish attempt to grab English territory
Monday, 11 Feb 2008 08:33
The members of the Campaign for an English Parliament will resist with might and main the attempt being made by the Scottish Nationalist Party to grab Berwick on Tweed which has been part of England since the 13th century - over 700 years- and make it part of Scotland.
Scottish Nationalist Member of the Scottish Parliament Chrstine Grahame supported by fellow SNP members is lodging a vote in the Scottish Parliament in support of this land-grab.
Already the Scottish Parliament has claimed rights over all English rivers such as the River Till in Northumberland which flow into the River Tweed, even though the Tweed is the boundary river between the two nations of England and Scotland and belongs to neither. And the Scottish Parliament has been able to move southwards the boundary between England and Scotland which till devolution has always run along the very centre of the Solway Firth. To date the United Kingdom Government with its Scottish Prime Minister and Scottish Chancellor of the Exchequer has done nothing to stop these successive land grabs.
"The Scots are stirring up a hornets' nest of real trouble within the United Kingdom with these policies. And we will take them on," stated Scilla Cullen, Chairman of the Campaign. "The people of England will not put up with any more of it. Already Wales has been given the English county of Monmouthshire and even a part of the city of Chester in what is the county of Cheshire. It is already intolerable that devolution for Scotland has granted it huge benefits denied to England such as free university education, free personal care for the elderly, free prescriptions, as much as £1500 more spent on each Scot per annum than on any person in England and access to cancer drugs not obtainable in England. What the Scots are doing is sowing the seeds of real anger and dissension within the Union. They are sowing the wind. If they try to grab Berwick, it will be the Union that will reap the whirwind'
End of press release.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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7 comments:
Isn't it the people of Berwick themselves, with a large Scottish cultural awareness, who are merely looking at joining Scotland - given the better public services etc. offered them by Edinburgh? Put it to the people, not your dogma. While you ponder that, how about prompting the 600 or so ENGLISH MPs in Westminster to chase your parliament?
Oh - the history thing. Pretty sure it was a Scottish port, which - being too successful - was stolen by the English after one of the worst incidents of medieval genocide on record? Yes?
This women cara from north of the border is a prat! & believes in misguided legends & hollywood movies bitter &twisted not welcome with the myths & ramblings of the Mad King Robert! she be saying theres oil under Berwick next!
Eh, 'bitter and twisted'.
How?
Where - in any way - does this come over as bitter and twisted?
God, you're a dreadful advert for English anything.
How about answering the question?
Been following the rants here. Why the hassle?
Berwick - likely settled by Brythonic peoples [p-Celts], then Norse/Angles/Jutes [hence the name], then Scots after the victory at the battle of Carnham?
Edward I did bucther the entire village though, and spared none - historical fact. Even as an Englishman, I'm up enough to admit it.
Well done last poster! History of Berwick neatly surmised there I think.
As it happens, it should go to the people - and they will vote against. Berwick will stay part of England.
And democracy wins!
Been following the rants here. Why the hassle?
Berwick - likely settled by Brythonic peoples [p-Celts], then Norse/Angles/Jutes [hence the name], then Scots after the victory at the battle of Carnham?
Edward I did bucther the entire village though, and spared none - historical fact. Even as an Englishman, I'm up enough to admit it.
Why the hassle?
When will the jocks give back Orkney and Shetland seeing as they're so interested in doing the right thing? Scottish hypocrisy as per usual!
It's a sign of a weak argument when you have to go back to medieval times.
The programme was on last night and has been covered on the CEP blog here.
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