YesEngland

A campaign for an independent England

[YesEngland @YesEnglandNet]

@Keir_Starmer @England England the only nation in the tournament without its own national democracy, parliament, First Minister or even national anthem.

Make England proud by addressing these injustices.

[The CEP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @thecep]

If an England team, why not an English Parliament?

[YesEngland @YesEnglandNet]

Absolute scenes in Boston as Scotland win the World Cup!

Oh, wait...they just beat Haiti in a group game.

Ah well, congats anyway, boogie on.

[James Hawes @jameshawes2]

They were certainly the first people ever called it in official, printed documents: “Brittish” identity was born in Ireland, as part of an explicitly colonial drive.

[Gerry Hassan @GerryHassan]

Every home should have Tom Nairn's The Break-Up of Britain. I have every edition 1977 to 2021. It is not just abt Scotland. It is abt the fracturing of the UK, the rise of English nationalism, challenge of Europe pre-Brexit & emergence of 4 nation politics. Still as relevant.

[The CEP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @thecep]

@elonmusk Defend? England needs to *celebrate* its culture.

https://t.co/Eou1l2XcBR

[English Commonwealth @ECommonwealth]

All journalists need to do this. We hear lots of complaints about Englishness, English identity and the politicisation of English national identity by the 'bad people', but journos never ask the 'good people' what they are doing in regard to normalising Englishness.

[YesEngland @YesEnglandNet]

Political parties ought to be addressing this (@UKLabour, @Conservatives, @LibDems, @reformparty_uk, @TheGreenParty) but because they all regard themselves as British or England&Wales-ish, England qua England is ignored.

[The CEP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @thecep]

"We cannot duck English nation building challenge by talking about Britishness instead. Britishness is no longer the unifying national identity it might have been under empire." - John Denham

https://t.co/dffJvOJQ06

[YesEngland @YesEnglandNet]

Nationalism has surged through Reform’s radical right-wing British nationalism, as well as separatist nationalism in both Scotland and Wales.
https://t.co/CCZL8aHdRz

[Eoin Kelleher @eoinyk]

Good analysis. The United Kingdom arose more by accident than design to contain Ireland. It has failed to do that and could easily collapse #brexit

[YesEngland @YesEnglandNet]

A turd with glitter on is still a turd.

[ConservativeHome @ConHome]

From @Austen Morgan How you stop the breakup of the United Kingdom with a slightly unpopular tool https://t.co/sRlRoHfJo8

[Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos]

Buried within Andy Burnham’s Northern manifesto, Head North, is a one-sentence summation of the Nairn-Anderson thesis, put forward as his personal opinion, and utilised for differing ends (preserving the Union through devolution towards cities rather than nations).

[The CEP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @thecep]

Interestingly, the parliament the governs England doesn't fly the Cross of St George 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

It's not considered appropriate!
https://t.co/LmluGMarDz

[Adam Ramsay @AdamRamsay]

Left: Alberta, permitted an independence referendum. Right: Scotland, not permitted an independence referendum.

[The CEP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @thecep]

If you want to talk about Britain as a whole, don't use 'everyone wearing an England shirt' as an example.

The UK is a multinational state with four national teams.

[The CEP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @thecep]

What's with the Union Flag if this is a policy for England?

[English Commonwealth @ECommonwealth]

Alberta, a province of 5 million, has more sovereignty than England, a ancient nation over ten times the size.

[YesEngland @YesEnglandNet]

Clearly Brexit has substantially changed the situation. And Better Together did cite EU membership as a benefit of the UK.
https://t.co/i6Gukp9enJ

[Better Together @UK_Together]

What is process for removing our EU citizenship? Voting yes. #scotdecides

[YesEngland @YesEnglandNet]

Well that doesn't seem very democratic.

[Chris Law MP @ChrisLawSNP]

The SNP's landslide victory, coupled with Plaid Cymru's historic victory, have created a constitutional crisis for the UK Govt.

Northern Ireland has a clear and legal mandate to hold a referendum on their future - it is time the Scottish people are given that same right.

[Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing]

“The whole Russian Empire collapsed in a couple of months in 1989 and if we don’t think the UK can go the same way, we’re in cloud cuckoo land.” James Hawes, author of The Shortest History of Ireland, on @BylineTimesPod @jameshawes2 @BylineTimes https://t.co/XQe3WODZLk

[The CEP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @thecep]

There's no reason why Wales shouldn't have the same devolved powers as Scotland. And no reason why England shouldn't either.