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The Wessex Constitutional Convention is an all-party pressure group, in the
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, devoted to pursuing a degree of self-government for
Wessex la, Regnum Occidentalium Saxonum , conventional_long_name = Kingdom of the West Saxons , common_name = Wessex , image_map = Southern British Isles 9th century.svg , map_caption = S ...
. It has the following stated aims: # To achieve the broadest consensus on the form of self-government appropriate for Wessex. # To campaign for the implementation of that consensus at the earliest possible opportunity. # To oppose the continuing partition of Wessex between the 'South-West' and 'South-East' regions. # To promote as Wessex the area comprising the eight traditional counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, subject to addition or subtraction according to popular wish. The Convention was formed in Exeter, on 19 May 2001, in response to the perceived failure of the South West Constitutional Convention, meeting earlier that day, to allow genuine dialogue on the issue of regional boundaries. From then until the start of 2005 it published a quarterly newsletter, ''Wessex Voice'', and led the production of ''The Case for Wessex'', the joint response of the Wessex movement to the regional governance White Paper, ''Your Region, Your Choice''. From 2003-2005, the Convention actively participated in the Continuing Commission on the South, set up by the political
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"Devolve!" and chaired by former regions minister Dr. Alan Whitehead, MP. More recently, it has again taken an independent line in presenting evidence to the
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ODPM Select Committee and the Examination in Public into the draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West. In 2007 the organisation called for Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex to support a proposal to change the name of the
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to the "Earl of Wessex Bridge".


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Cornish Constitutional Convention The Cornish Constitutional Convention (CCC; kw, Senedh Kernow) was formed in November 2000 with the objective of establishing a devolved Cornish Assembly (Senedh Kernow). The convention is a cross-party, cross-sector association with support both ...
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Wessex Regionalist Party The Wessex Regionalists are a minor English regionalist political party in the United Kingdom. It seeks a degree of legislative and administrative home rule for Wessex, an area in the south and south-west of England loosely based on the Anglo-Sax ...


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*  {{small, (863  KiB) Political advocacy groups in England Regionalism (politics) in the United Kingdom Wessex Politics of South West England