The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Monday, March 06, 2006
The Witenagemot Club
Today we joined the English patriotic blogroll called the Witenagemot Club to add our voice to the growing chorus for a separate Parliament for England. In my opinion this is a basic matter of democratic justice, and one wholly in keeping with the British tradition of devolution to parliaments constitutionally established in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa...to say nothing of the ones now established in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Let’s face it: we owe England much. England was not only the backbone of British power and prestige that once protected our settlements over the world’s palm and pine – it bequeathed us our whole system of parliamentary democracy following a thousand year struggle that predates even the Model Parliament of 1295; to the Witenagemot, the local wise-men (witans) assemblies that organized and administered Anglo-saxon kingdoms prior to England’s unification, and that served as a valuable check on royal power.
An English Parliament will no doubt cause an even further receding of our collective British memory into the foggy mist of history, but that is not England’s fault so much as Westminster’s. Governing structures based on the over-centralization of political power are not natural end states, and must eventually reform or see their power erode over time. The British Empire ended because the imperialists could not foresee sharing power with mere colonials; they could not confederate the Commonwealth before the nationalists started to clamour for independence.
A true lasting union requires the voluntary coming together of equals to do the business that one cannot effectively do on one’s own. Things like defense, trade and foreign affairs. But the rest can be done by the locals thank you very much. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have no business telling England how to run their domestic affairs.
It is not unBritish for England to ask for its own Parliament, for Englanders to take control of their own destiny. On the contrary, it would be unBritish to deny them this.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:32 p.m. | LINKS |
Today we joined the English patriotic blogroll called the Witenagemot Club to add our voice to the growing chorus for a separate Parliament for England. In my opinion this is a basic matter of democratic justice, and one wholly in keeping with the British tradition of devolution to parliaments constitutionally established in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa...to say nothing of the ones now established in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Let’s face it: we owe England much. England was not only the backbone of British power and prestige that once protected our settlements over the world’s palm and pine – it bequeathed us our whole system of parliamentary democracy following a thousand year struggle that predates even the Model Parliament of 1295; to the Witenagemot, the local wise-men (witans) assemblies that organized and administered Anglo-saxon kingdoms prior to England’s unification, and that served as a valuable check on royal power.
An English Parliament will no doubt cause an even further receding of our collective British memory into the foggy mist of history, but that is not England’s fault so much as Westminster’s. Governing structures based on the over-centralization of political power are not natural end states, and must eventually reform or see their power erode over time. The British Empire ended because the imperialists could not foresee sharing power with mere colonials; they could not confederate the Commonwealth before the nationalists started to clamour for independence.
A true lasting union requires the voluntary coming together of equals to do the business that one cannot effectively do on one’s own. Things like defense, trade and foreign affairs. But the rest can be done by the locals thank you very much. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have no business telling England how to run their domestic affairs.
It is not unBritish for England to ask for its own Parliament, for Englanders to take control of their own destiny. On the contrary, it would be unBritish to deny them this.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 5:32 p.m. | LINKS |
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