Silent Majority Speaks
Rescuing Democracy in the United Kingdom from our current Elected Dictatorship
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Spin,
not face-to-face confrontations with the voters, is the
Government's chosen method of communication. Ordinary people
are dangerous. Ordinary people might ask a question which
throws a politician 'off message'; the Cabinet member might
reveal himself or herself to be a human being like us, and
not a programmed android. Worse still, he or she might tell
the truth.
Ann Leslie - Daily Mail, September 16, 2004
Blair wants to leave his mark on
history - looks more like a stain to me.
Peter Thorndyke, Diss, Norfolk
- Daily Mail, May 23, 2005
I know I'm me - why do I need an
ID card?
"Sorry, officers, I don't have
an ID card. I never applied for one. It seemed a bit steep
at 300 quid. I do have my free passport, my driving licence
and my London freedom travel pass, each with my photograph.
I have my NHS medical card, with its lengthy number, given
me at birth, my RAF service book with my Armed Forces number,
and a chit authorising me to wear a few gongs -including
a General Service Medal with Malaya bar, for fighting communist
terrorists on behalf of my country, or so they told me.
"I've also got various credit cards and
store cards, all with my signature on the back, generally
good for buying the everyday requrements for life as well
as the odd luxury. If you decide to arrest me, I suppose
I'll have to be photographed and given another number, besides
my PINs.
"I'm afraid I haven't got a pension book;
it was taken away."
"By thieves, sir?"
"No ... well, not exactly. By the Government.
By the way, may I see your warrant cards please, gentlemen?"
Oh dear, they've disappeared. E. Harry Gumer,
Romford, ESSEX - Daily Mail, June 1, 2005
NO means NO
When does NO mean MAYBE?
When it's not the answer the EU wants. With the courageous French
NON resounding in their ears, shabby, undemocratic self-interested
leaders of Europe propose ignoring the part of their precious
constitution that requires ratification by all members and
continuing without one of the biggest founder members to
prevent derailing the gravy train.
As in Ireland, they refuse
to accept any NO votes, ignoring the will of the people,
and re-stage votes until they can engineer the 'correct'
answer. Sadly, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw dances to their
tune like a puppet on a string. With tactics such as these,
how can anyone really believe the EU has our interests at
heart. Letter from Steve Penny, Kingsnorth, Kent - Daily Mail, June1,
2005
Surely the French
result makes the £1million the EU recently spent on
a treaty signing ceremony seem a trifle premature and extravagant.
Letter from Keith Wiseman, Bury, Lancs. - Daily Mail, June1,
2005
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Britain has traditionally
been one of the biggest net contributors to the EU because
we do not get as much money back from Brussels in farm
and regional subsidies as our rivals.
According to Treasury
figures, between 1995-2002, Britain's average contribution
taking the rebate into account, was £2.6billion,
or £43.55 per head of population.
The French - the biggest
recipient of farm subsidies - contributed £1billion
a year or £16.08 per head of their population.
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Tony
Blair should know that respect comes by example - from the
top. If a country's leader has no respect for the rule of
international law and no respect for the truth, how can
he expect anyone to have respect. Letter
from P.J.Atkinson, Ashford, Kent - Daily Mail, January 12,
2006
The
Chancellor's single greatest act of vandalism in almost
nine years in office has been his wanton destruction of
Britain's private retirement industry. By slapping a massive
tax on pension funds, now worth
£7.3billion a year, he has helped to turn
the best private retirement industry in Europe into a basket-case
in perpetual crisis. Together with the adoption of European
accounting rules - which make it much riskier to operate
a company pension scheme - hundreds of firms have shut their
final salary plans to new employees and slashed benefits
to existing staff. From
Allister Heath: "I've seen the future and its grey"
in THE SPECTATOR - April 15, 2006
Nine
years ago the British people were sold a fantasy of clean
and competent government of principle and honesty. Its shiny
wrappings stripped away, the product now reveals its true
nature: Personal greed, arrogance, incompetence, shamelessness,
rash warmongering and an inability to accept - as is clear
to almost everyone else - that it is time to go. Editorial
- The Mail on Sunday, May 28, 2006
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July
4, 2007 (1495 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3586 US - 156 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media
July
8, 2007 (1499 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3605 US - 158 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media
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Why
was 21/7 plot leader given a British passport?
By
Gordon Raynor and James Slack - Daily Mail, July 11, 2007
The
'absurd' rules which allowed a 21/7 bomber to get a British passport
despite serious criminal convictions were laid bare last night.
The only time Eritrean-born Muktar Said Ibrahim used his passport
was to fly to Pakistan for an Al Qaeda training camp.
There
the 29-year-old learned to make the bombs which he hoped would
cause carnage on London's transport system. He had been allowed
to fly to Islamabad despite being on bail for an extremist offence.
And
when he returned to Britain, a warrant for his arrest was not
executed even though he was on an MI5 watch list.
It
also emerged yesterday that all four bombers were known to MI5
more than a year before the attempted suicide attacks, having
cropped up during surveillance on another suspected terror cell.
Ibrahim,
29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28,
will be sentenced today after being convicted on Monday of conspiracy
to murder following a six-month trial at Woolwich Crown Court
in London.
The
jury was discharged yesterday after failing to reach verdicts
on two other alleged plotters, Manfo Kwako Asiedu, 34, and Adel
Yahya, 24. The Crown Prosecution Service will announce today whether
they will face a retrial.
The
Daily Mail has learned that Ibrahim, who came to the UK as an
asylum-seeker in 1992, was granted a passport despite openly listing
his previous convictions on his application form for British citizenship
in 2004. He had been given a 12-month supervision order for indecently
assaulting a 15-year-old girl in 1993, then in 1995 he was sentenced
to five and a half years in jail for two violent robberies.
Home
Office rules on naturalisation, seen by the Daily Mail, recommend
that immigrants convicted of even the most heinous offences -
including rape and murder - are approved for citizenship, provided
they are not caught re-offending for a clear period. In Ibrahim's
case, he was free to apply just 30 months after his release.
The
Home Office does not keep figures on how many ex-convicts are
granted citizenship each year, but the total is likely to run
into the thousands.
Sir
Andrew Green, chairman of the pressure groups Migrationwatch UK,
said: "It is absolutely absurd we should grant citizenship
to those who have committed serious criminal offences. Why should
be give it to them at all?"
Shadow
Home Secretary David Davis said: "A UK passport is a privilege,
not a right. The fact the Home Office has no idea how many convicted
offenders have been given a UK passport is indicative of the shambles
that is the Government's immigration system." Mr Davis demanded
action over failures that left the 21/7 and 7/7 bombers as well
as the allege Glasgow airport car bombers free to strike, despite
members of all three plots being know to MI5.
"This
is yet more evidence that reinforces the case for an independent
inquiry so we can learn the lessons of these events and improve
our security," he said.
The
Mail understands that MI5 had the names of all four 21/7 and 7/7
bombers as well as the alleged Glasgow airport car bombers as
early as April 2004 as contacts of another alleged terror plotter
who cannot be named for legal reasons. They were all photographed
by surveillance officers at a 'training camp' in Cumbria the following
month and three of them were photographed at sermons given by
hate preacher Abu Hamza.
The
names and faces were not matched up until after 21/7 because MI5
were busy investigating dozens of other plots. Ibrahim was allowed
to board a flight to Pakistan in December 2004 despite arousing
the suspicions of a Special Branch Officer.
The
Daily Mail can reveal that Ibrahim was driven to the airport by
a man who was under MI5 surveillance at the time, suspected of
plotting to blow up London landmarks including Big Ben. He cannot
be named for legal reasons.The two other men who were travelling
with Ibrahim were also know to MI5 as associates of terror suspects.
Ibrahim himself was on bail on a public order offence.
The
Metropolitan Police said Ibrahim's bail conditions did not ban
him from travelling. Security sources said MI5 had asked to be
informed when Ibrahim returned to the UK but because he was not
considered 'high priority' he was not placed under surveillance
or arrested.
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