ENGLISH DEMOCRATS

English Democrats - Protecting our Communities - Protecting our Environment

Scotlands Right to choose.

Over the next few years Scotland will be going to the polls to decide if they want: -

1) Independence 2) More fiscal autonomy 3) To stay part of the United Kingdom

As a nation Scotland has a right to determin its own future whether that be part of the United Kingdom or not, it is for the people to decide. The English Democrats are very envious of Scotlands Parliament and the Democratic processes that allow them to choose their nations future. The English Democrats campaign for the very same rights, to have an English Parliament and the Democratic processes in place that will allow the people of England to decide both theirs and their nations future in a Democratic society

Campaign Against the Seriously Flawed HS2 scheme - www.51m.co.uk

"There is an alternative to the costly HS2"

Despite widespread opposition from Conservative M.P.'s / Councillors & others, the Government is expected to give the go-ahead for a new £32billion high speed rail route
from London to  Birmingham (and beyond) - HS2.

The recent report by Network Rail (N.R.) into alternative  solutions to the construction of HS2 -including expanding capacity on existing lines, further electrification and
longer trains said "that patchwork upgrades to the existing rail network will not resolve the huge capacity challenges we face." This of course makes major assumptions
about a continued massive growth in long distance rail passenger travel, with construction of the proposed HS2 line taking 8 years (until 2026 to Birmingham & 2032 to Manchester!). We are also told that "in just over a decade the West Coast Main Line ,Britain's busiest-will be full, with no more space to accommodate the predicted growth in demand".Again based on major assumptions ,with I.T. development /Video-Conferencing deflating future growth?

What seems a glaring omission in all this HS2 hype is just where in these economically stretched times will the money to pay for this "white-elephant" project come from?
As journalist Christian Wolmar (RAIL magazine 661) says "concentrating on a desire to have a prestige line to match those in Europe" (HS2) "isn't what's required"
Also, with existing main rail routes between London ,the Midlands and the North crying out for infrastructure investment why build a totally new route across an unspoilt landscape in an already grossly overcrowded country that England has become?

Their are already 4 existing main rail routes between London and the North (with 2 to Birmingham) so why do we need yet another?
We in the North West English Democrats feel that all this emphasis on developing further passenger capacity misses the point,as what our Country really urgently needs is
the means to expand our manufacturing exports , with grossly congested roads hampering growth. Only rail can provide the solution to allowing a re-balancing of our economy
to occur. Unfortunately, our politicians have a blind-spot regarding Rail-freight -hence HS2! Ironically, if they developed a new dedicated High Speed Rail-Freight Route to serve the Midlands/the North and beyond using an expanded/upgraded line (Midland Main Line-orMML) most if not all long-distance Rail -Freight could be diverted off our existing Main- Lines freeing-up paths for future passenger train growth -thereby destroying the case for HS2!

To quote Lindsay Durham, Freightliner Head of Rail Strategy on the House of Commons Transport Select Committee Report"Priorities for the investment for railways" RAIL
magazine638 Feb2010  - "Sometimes the importance of Rail- freight to the U.K. economy can be overlooked, as containers don't vote"

So what do we propose?

Instead of committing huge amounts of public money we don't possess on an environmentally disastrous prestige project,we would work with the Private Sector Rail- Freight industry to develop a High Speed Rail-Freight Route  to connect the existing HS1 line in London (recently passed for International Rail- Freight traffic) via a short spur line into the MML. Northwards from here an expanded/upgraded i.e. electrified dedicated rail-freight route via Leicester/Nottingham/Derby/Sheffield & on to Manchester using a
re-opened Woodhead Tunnel. Further links using existing routes passed for larger containers from our major ports (Felixstowe/Southampton/London Gateway/Mersey etc.)
and the proposed East-West Link to the MML,would enable a large proportion of long-distance rail-freight to use the dedicated HSRFR.
By agreement between the HSRFR CONSORTIUM and Government owned NR a project could be financed by the Private Sector,NR only providing the routes trackage i.e. at no cost to the Taxpayer (unlike HS2!).

The MML would be electrified earlier and again at no cost to the Taxpayer! At a later date it would provide the option of a Privatisation of the MML, meanwhile this HSRFR would finally enable our neglected Rail-Freight Industry to thrive,allow our manufacturers to expand much needed exports and England's environment to greatly improve!

As the (then) new Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said on his first day on the job June 2010- "We must learn to do things differently because the era of easy public money is over" "we must sweat the assets much better than we have done to extract as much value as possible for the taxpayer and rail user","new and innovative ways of funding would be needed because public money was going to be tight"

So why January 2012-HS2? and why not a privately funded High Speed Rail-Freight Route?

For further details check out our Greater Manchester link at the top of this page and select the council in you area.

Th e so-called Cuts ignore the vast cost of the EU and

International Aid.
Nothing short of criminal.

This is NOT racist, it’s Facts that you can easily verify!!

How angry do people have to get? - Read this and weep!

HOW TRUE
we’re "broke" & can't help: -
Our own Senior Citizens,
Our own deserving Troops,
Our Orphans,
And the Homeless
etc . . . etc . . . . etc. . .
In the last month alone we have provided aid to: -
Haiti - again!
Chile ,
China
India
Turkey ,
Greece ,
Pakistan - again. . .
amongst others

Our pensioners are living on a 'fixed income'
Receive no aid, or get any breaks, while our
government and religious organizations pour
Hundreds of Millions of ££££££'s
and Tons of Food
ALL too Foreign Countries!
We have thousands of adoptable children who are shoved aside
WHY . . . .
To make room for the adoption of foreign orphans!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Britain - a country where we have: -
Homeless without shelter,
Children and adults going to bed hungry,
Elderly going without 'needed' medication,
The mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.

YET...................
They are requesting donations for the people of Pakistan . . .
A country that trains British Muslim extremists
how to BOMB & KILL us!!!!
A country that ploughs millions into its nuclear programme!!!
A country with hundreds of millionaires who do sod all
for THEIR own countrymen!
The same country that has passed laws so these
rich people don't pay ANY taxes!!!
The same country where most of the aid sent
DOES NOT reach the ones in need!!!
....and we have - Yet AGAIN. .
TV stations that are spouting WE are letting these people down!!!
Whilst OUR ships and OUR planes
(laughably some are Military ones)
All lined up to fly and crammed full with:
Our food. .
Our Bottled Water!!! . .
Our New Tents. .
Our New Clothes . . .
Our New Bedding . . .
OUR NHS Doctors & Nurses
and OUR medical supplies. .
Whilst UK cancer patients are denied life saving drugs!!!
And some of our OWN - from children to pensioners -
go to bed hungry!!!
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US'
the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn't it?

English Democrats - "Putting England First!"

Chief Executive of Salford City Council has now

validated the petition for a Mayoral referendum a

nd we await the date of the ballot.

Salford's Chief Executive Admits to breaking the law

We are now in the process of writing to the Secretary of

State and the Electoral Commission over this clear breach of law.

Referendum triggered by English Democrats in Salford 

Stephen Morris English Democrats N.W Chairman and

Geoffrey Berg the Referendum Petition Organiser

Some Politicians really need to know the difference

Discrimination Against the people of England continues

Prescription charges to increase

by 20p to £7.40 per item in England

Devolution has been good for Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland but has left us in England without the same Democratic Rights, seriously disadvantaged, financially worse off and in some cases affecting the very health of English patients.

Whilst prescription charges are FREE in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland

we in England pay £7.40 per item.

Cervical Cancrer screening in women starts at the age of 20 in Wales and Scotland

whilst in England the age is 25 (Remember the Jade Goody case)

Never trust a pledge from a Lib Dem as students found out to their cost over tuition fees which are free in Scotland, capped at £3290 in Wales & N. Ireland

but English students have to pay up to £9000 per year.

Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland all have their own Parliament/Assemblies  to look after their own countries interests whilst England is blatently Discriminated against by the British Government because we have no such Parliament or Assembly.

True Fairness and Equality within the United Kingdom

Is the English Democrats way

Democratic fairness for England is needed, via a referendum on the creation of an English Parliament, Executive and First Minister with at least the same powers as the Scottish Parliament, Executive and First Minister within a federal UK and a reformed Second Chamber at Westminster.

There should be fiscal devolution so that the English, Scottish, Welsh and N. Irish parliaments become responsible for financing their own expenditure. This will save the taxpayers of England a substantial amount of money

We reject the plans for regional assemblies because, among other things, they will promote disunity and conflict within England. The English Democrats will study the future findings of the English Constitutional Convention (ECC), and may accommodate ECC findings within future party policy.

We demand action on the following matters:-

England to be recognised and treated as a unified country.

Scotland and Wales have been recognised as countries and their people given the opportunity to vote in referenda for devolved government. Scotland now has a parliament, and Wales an assembly. In contrast, the people of England have been denied the opportunity to choose an English Parliament. Instead. We find this discrimination unacceptable. England should be a political entity with its own parliament and executive.

English Democrats say - only a Parliament with a First Minister and Government for
England with at least the same powers as the Scottish ones will fairly settle the unfair
constitutional mess that we are now in and also ensure that our politicians give
proper attention to our Nation s needs.

Counterfeit Cameron denies recognition of England

On Monday, the 17th January 2010, David Cameron delivered a speech which had been touted as "Prime Ministers speech on modern public service" but which, in fact and as widely reported, was about the Health Service in England.

True, he also mentioned "our schools", but they and "our hospitals" have been devolved matters since 1998 and as "Prime Minister" he can only have been referring to ENGLAND's hospitals and ENGLAND's schools! Yet not once did he use the word ENGLAND.

Yes, this deceitful person got by with evasions such as "our country", "Britain", "our schools and hospitals", "countries like ours", "our public services", "Take the NHS", "NHS budgets", and "Health inequalities in 21st century Britain".

This is the man who had the gall to say: "The right were guilty of focusing too much on markets. The left were guilty of focusing too much on the state. Both forgot that space in between – society." but who could not bring himself to mention English society, the very society he and his cronies are singling out upon which to inflict their dubious policies!

The people of England cannot look to David Cameron and his British gang for fair treatment. Real change will only come once the strangle-hold of the CON-LIB-LAB axis on Parliament has been broken and their Post War "pass-the-parcel" practice of passing power solely amongst (or between) themselves stopped in favour of putting first the interests of the majority in Britain.