SEERA - QuaNGOs got promoted

SEERA is the South East England Regional Assembly. It is an assembly set up by the Labour government which is unelected but which makes decisions above the County Councils which are elected.

The Regional Assemblies of England are part of the EU's plan of creating a "Europe of Regions" with areas of size similar to the German Lander. The English need a parliament and they don't want these Regional Assemblies. The North East were given a referendum on an elected regional assembly because the government and their Liberal Democrat allies thought that the North East was the region most likely to agree to be split from England. Click here for the result.

Now the SEERA has released a news release stating that they must be consulted (an elected body must defer) on planning applications that have "regional significance". We must remember, dear readers, that these regions have no historic or cultural merit and are designed purely to contain the right number of people. The "regional significance" that the SEERA refers to is a significance that happens to have bearing over an arbitrary area drawn within England.

It seems obvious to me, and probably every other person who doesn't have a vested interest in the EU or splitting the English nation for political ends (for there are significant advantages for Labour in resplitting England along lines other than its real borders which house mostly Conservative voters), that an English Parliament should be making these decisions for us, not unelected 'representatives'.

I found this parliamentary transcript courtesy of Hansard which was transcribed as the Conservatives former MP, Teresa Gorman, proposed an English Parliament to countenance the Scottish Parliament and Welsh assembly in 1998: Hansard transcript. In it Mrs Gorman makes observations and predictions that are spot-on. Some of the things mentioned in the debate have already happened and others are likely to happen yet.

Unfortunately, an English Parliament is not yet Conservative policy, so I urge you to write to your MP. The people of England are the ones who can make a change in this policy which is one of the most dangerous pro-EU policies at the moment.