History written by the victors?
The BBC are very proud to announce a brand spanking new history portal for Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history please take a moment to compare and contrast with the English history portal www.bbc.co.uk/england/history.
The BBC have produced two epic series covering Scottish history in the past 12 months: The five part A history of Scotland with another series on the way, Scotland’s Clans – which is in its second series. Not to mention The Scots Who Made the Modern World etc
What about England?
I didn’t listen to PMQ’s today as it has a tendency to ruin my whole day. But I read about it on the Calling England blog.
Graham Brady the Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale asked the following question:
Another “Regional Grand Committee” update
Change of venue to:
Sandwell College, Smethwick Campus, Crocketts Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands B66 3BU.
time and date remain unchanged:
At 6.30pm on Thursday 8th October 2009
“Regional Grand Committee” update
The venue for the West Midlands Regional Grand Committee is Sandwell College, Oldbury Campus, Pound Road, Oldbury, West Midlands B68 8NA.
At 6.30pm on Thursday 8th October 2009
Constituency sizes…
Another raw deal for the English.
From Wikipedia (so yes it could be wrong – but it’s probably not far wrong):
The average constituency size is approximately 74,000 registered voters, but they vary in size from the smallest, Na h-Eileanan an Iar – 22,200 voters, to the largest – The Isle of Wight approx. 110,000 voters.
So when it comes to democratic representation in the house of commons the vote of an uber Scot from “Na h-Eileanan an Iar” is worth nearly 5 times as much as that of an English vassal from of the Isle_of_Wight.
The Campaign for an English Parliament
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Save England’s forests
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Labour party conference
- Here we go
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Happy St George’s Day – England rising edition
- A different approach…
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Sgt Pepperspray: It isn't rocket science to see where the money cou...
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Home Rule for England: If you are so confident in your assertion Dave wou...
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Mr Stephen Round: Why is there no English Government.... Dear Sir...
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Wyrdtimes: Thanks for that Dave. The trouble with that is ...
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Dave: La la 68% of people want an english parliament. Th...
