An English Parliament

The following is a letter published in the Wolverhampton Express & Star on 1 September 2005:

Outside the British Isles, England is often, erroneously, considered synonymous with the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and even with the entire United Kingdom. In many ways England has seemingly been absorbed within the larger mass of Great Britain since the Act of Union of 1707.

The Campaign for an English Parliament aims to put this right. There has been a decisive resurgence in English self-identification and awareness. This tide will not be turned back.

Love of England is as legitimate as love of Scotland and Wales. The people of England include everyone for whom England is both their home and future, irrespective of ethnic origin, religion and culture. For our nation our own parliament is our constitutional right.

We call on all MPs from English constituencies, all political parties and on every citizen to campaign for an English parliament.

Alan Davis, Hall Street East, Darlaston.

I wholeheartedly support the tone, content and intention of this letter and I urge any of you who agree, and particularly those of you in Sussex, to write with similar sentiments to your local newspaper(s).

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