Nationalism seems to be given more space in the media this week ,even if it is swamped with international summit news. Bojo has decided that London will have not only a St. George's Day, but a St. George's week. At last he has found something to give the English a boost. Meanwhile the Plaid Cymru has joined the party season and their leader has raised the issue of Wales having a more powerful Assembly. He has also criticised Westminster for bailing out the financial institutions instead of targeting 'real' industries and jobs. To add to the nationalism fervour, Holyrood MSP's have attended the Welsh meeting and have voiced the view that both Scotland and Wales can become full nation states. But apart from some rather spasmodic celebrations of St. George's Day throughout England, ( not helped by the heads of the government's refusal to recognise England as a nation), no mention of England's representatives looking after English interests. Because we don't have any representation by an English Nationalist Party, why not? Finally, a petition to No10 asking for the signatories to the Scottish claim of Right to renounce their their pledge that the interests of the Scottish people shall be paramount has been turned down. It finishes, after a lot of blather, with -
'There is no question of any participant in the Scottish Constitutional Convention, whether or not they are now a member of the Government, having a conflict of interest.'
And we all beleive what the politicians tell us, don't we?