SIR - D S Boyes (T&A, November 14) was right to point out the disparities suffered by the English in the wake of Scottish and Welsh devolution, but I am not convinced clinging to the idea of a so-called United Kingdom is the answer.
The letter accuses SNP leader Alex Salmond of stirring up racial hatred, but in reality what Mr Salmond has really done is to reawaken English nationalism and the question of English identity. Some English, although regrettably far too few, have cottoned on to the fact that while the rest of us were being force-fed a diet of multicultural madness, a generation of Anglophobic Scotsmen have been systematically destroying any notion of a what it is to be English.
We have reached a stage where English people can no longer sign or state English as their nationality on official forms.
One of the oldest countries in the world has been reduced to less than that of regional status in Labour's headlong rush to embrace all things foreign.
The only solution, if England is to remain part of the UK, is for England to reassert its status as a self-governing and autonomous country.
This has to start with an English Parliament for the English people.
A J Clarke, Halifax Road, Odsal
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