ENGLISH INDEPENDENCE

Early day motion 296, tabled 27 November 2006 by Angus MacNeil (Scottish National Party). Signed by 4 members.

That this House welcomes the recent ICM poll showing a majority in both Scotland and England for English independence; feels that the time has come for England as Europe's largest stateless nation to become visible again amongst the independent nations of the earth whose number has quadrupled over the 20th century from 50 to around 200; notes the benefit to the aggregate GDP of the British Isles of an independent Ireland; and asserts a belief in England's ability to govern itself in the same manner as France and Germany without any direct help from the Scots.

Signatures by party: Labour 2, Conservative 1, Scottish National Party 1.