England as a nation‏

The present Prime Minister's predecessor once characterised Scotland as "a proud historic nation": sentiments which the Prime Minister would doubtless share. Under devolution, the people of Scotland, Wales and even Northern Ireland are reaffirming their historic nationhood and taking pride in their new national governmental institutions. England, too, is a proud historic nation; and a great many people living in England - perhaps the majority - view their national identity as English in the first instance, and British only secondarily. In the light of these trends, we believe the government should state explicitly whether it regards England as a nation in its own right or not. It goes without saying that any acknowledgement of nation status, however qualified, for England should be accompanied by the acknowledgement of nation status for Scotland and Wales, at least - Northern Ireland perhaps being a special case. Equally, if England is not to be regarded as a nation, the same should apply to Scotland and Wales.

An online petition has been created in order to get a reply from Gordon Brown to a serious question - Does he recognise that England is a nation.
It is a short-run petiton, in order to get his response, but only petitons with 200 or more signatures will be recognised. Therefore, please would you sign the petition, so that he cannot dismiss it and has to answer the question? It will be invaluable for shaping campaigns and hopefully we might get a few useful quotes from it. Fingers crossed.

SIGN THE PETITION HERE

Thanks to Della from the Armchair activists.
"To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life"