What would an English Parliament do for England that the Westminster or UK Parliament isn’t already doing?
For a start, it would return to the people of England that basic human right which they had for the hundreds of years before the Act of Union 1707, namely self-rule and their political and constitutional existence as English. Now, outside of sport they do not have any formal national identity at all. The present situation is nothing less than weird. For example, when there is a Football or Rugby or Cricket World Cup, or the Commonwealth Games or a European Nations Football Cup, the English team is the only one which represents a country which politically and constitutionally does not exist. Because politically and constitutionally their country does not exist. The Isle of Man, each Channel Island, Scotland and Wales, any and every other team wherever they are from, all represent countries and nations which have a political existence. But not the English players. The institution of a national parliament or national assembly gives political existence to a nation. In the case of the Engli
