Come along, Ken
From Michael Knowles Sir: So Ken Livingstone objects to The Spectator carrying the leaflet from the Campaign for an English Parliament about its Open Conference on The Future of England in the Conway Hall on Saturday 15 November (Letters, 25 October). He accuses the Campaign of 'vandalising' the Trafalgar Square fountains on St George's Day last year by filling them with red dye at a cost to the ratepayer. He is quite wrong. The Campaign did no such thing. We had no prior knowledge at all of the activity. Ken had earlier been saying he might have the water in the fountains dyed green for St Patrick's Day, so you'd think he'd dive in himself to welcome this free spontaneous contribution to the multiculturalism he famously supports.
As for Ken objecting to us demanding devolution for England, why doesn't he come along and expound his ideas on the matter? It's a completely open conference. England shouldn't be left to those two partymachine hacks Prescott and Raynsford with their schemes to partition it into nine wrangling 'regions'. This will be the first time in its 1,500 years that a national conference is being held to consider England's future. If anyone should be there, surely it should be the Mayor of its capital city.
Michael Knowles
Chairman, CEP Congleton, Cheshire
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