England?

In my inbox yesterday morning, from the kind folks over at The Campaign for an English Parliament, was a pointer to this:

You can forget about the U.S. presidential election in November. That merely decides who'll run America. Something much more important is happening to England - something that could, incredible as it sounds, bring an end to that country as we know it.

In short, England in danger of being abolished. How could that happen? The answer lies in Britain's curious constitution, which makes England the only major democratic country in the world to be governed by foreigners.

The sorry truth of the matter, well pointed out by those at the CEP, is that England has no parliament of its own and the current danger is that representation will come, not in an equal manner to that given to the other countries in the United Kingdom, but instead by regionalising England. Bite sizing it, resulting in no real equal representation for the English and at the same time giving the government a great deal of copy to fall back on when having to answer The English Question. They will point out that they have recognised the problem and solved it in a way that gives representation to all the regions of England avoiding the issue of not having given real representation to the country as a whole.

An avoidance strategy that relies heavily upon the complete disinterest of the majority of the English which is, after all, the real tragedy of the issue. However, disinterest in the way government of the United Kingdom wishes to structure itself is no great surprise. Why should the average person actually care given that many can no longer even bare to get out and vote? Disinterest and a mistrust of the whole shooting match is par for the course these days and the general feeling of why should we actually care who is in power because they are all as bad as each other is one that does not seem to be in any danger of changing any time soon.

But, and this is the dirt of the matter, why do we not hear English MPs pressing the issue? Why do we not even hear them talking about an English parliament? They sit in English seats, put there by English voters and they are fully aware that, for instance, Scottish MPs are voting on English only issues whereas they themselves cannot vote on Scottish only issues.

Why are they not spitting teeth?