-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEWS RELEASE: Wednesday 20th June 2007 - For immediate release
Gordon Brown must drop his Claim
When Gordon Brown was an ordinary Scottish MP he signed the declaration of the “Scottish Claim of Right”. This document was a public oath committing those who took it to put the interests of the people of Scotland before all other considerations.“How can Gordon Brown, who took this oath, become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?”
Now Gordon Brown is to become Prime Minister for the whole of the United Kingdom, the Campaign for an English Parliament is calling on Gordon Brown to publicly declare that he will not put the interests of any one part of the United Kingdom above any other part of the United Kingdom.
We, gathered as the Scottish Constitutional Convention, do hereby acknowledge the sovereign right of the Scottish people to determine the form of Government best suited to their needs, and do hereby declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations their interests shall be paramount.
CEP Chairman, Scilla Cullen, said, "There is another nation within the UK- that of England. Will Gordon Brown extend to its people the right of self-determination that he espoused for his own nation when he signed the Scottish Claim of Right?"
CEP Vice Chairman, Tom Waterhouse, said, "The Claim of Right was a public oath, and those who took it pledged to put the interests of the Scottish people before all others. How can Gordon Brown, who took this oath, become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom? He must declare that he will put the interests of the whole of the UK before those of Scotland".
National Council, Campaign for an English Parliament.
Contact: cep-mediaunit@thecep.org.uk
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clearly being at heart both a conservative and a Conservative I was never in favour of the Scottish Parliament or the Welsh Assembly; having said that I am honest enough to admit that if I had been born either Scottish or Welsh I would probably have been strongly in favour of either/both; that said now that they are actually in existence some sort of balance is essential: how is it right or even logical that some have the 'natural born right' of self-determination but others do not, especially those 'others' that form 85/90% of what was the United Kingdom. Even worse, the soon-to-be supreme leader of said United Kingdom has pledged on oath to favour another 'nation'...his own nation.
2 comments:
Has someone from the CEP set up a petition on this Span? If so could you publish a link so we can all sign it. I think we (the English, Wesh and Northern Irish, not to mention miscellaneous Channel Islanders, Orcadians and Manx folk) need that commitment from him! BEFORE he starts!
Not sure Gav, I'll look into it. I'll mail CEP too.
Post a Comment