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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Britain's
open door to terror
By Raymond
Hainey - The
Scotsman - Monday 9 July 2007
BRITAIN
was last night accused of leaving the door open to terrorists
after the head of Interpol revealed UK border guards are failing
to check would-be immigrants against a global database of terror
suspects.
Ronald
Noble, the secretary-general of the international police force,
said that Britain had failed to use the huge Interpol computer
database effectively, which includes information on more than
seven million lost or stolen passports.
Mr
Noble spoke out as Britain remains at the second-highest terror
alert level more than a week after the attacks in London and Glasgow.
He said: "This is something which needs to be given the highest
priority now, not something we will get to when we get to it.
The same kind of attention should be given to checking passports
as is given to checking bags to see if they contain bottled water."
Al-Qaeda
training manuals, discovered overseas and in the UK, emphasise
the importance of terrorists using stolen or fake documents. Interpol
records show that Switzerland checks the Interpol database 300,000
times a month, while CARICOM countries, the EU-style organisation
for the small Caribbean states, uses it 80,000 times a month.
By
contrast, Britain, which sees 2.5 million visitors from overseas
every month, checks Interpol records just 50 times a month. According
to Interpol, the UK said it would be too difficult to incorporate
the Interpol database into UK systems.
A
spokeswoman for the Home Office last night declined to discuss
Mr Noble's accusations. But she said: "The UK works closely
with the Interpol Secretariat and with member states to provide
police to police co- operation.
SOCA, which is the UK arm of Interpol, consults Interpol databases
and performs searches on behalf of UK law enforcement in addition
to which, UK police forces have direct, secure access to Interpol
databases." The spokeswoman added that Britain maintained
a "watch list of adverse information on individuals we wish
to prevent from entering the country".
Gordon
Brown, the Prime Minister, yesterday said an expanded system was
required as "a matter of urgency".
"We
do now need more information flowing internationally about who
are potential terrorists and who are potential suspects,"
he said. "I
want the system that we are trying to expand between Europe, a
system whereby we know who are potential terrorist suspects, we
expand that to other countries in the world and then we may have
a better idea of people coming in to different countries, whether
as professional recruits or in other ways, about what the dangers
and the risks we face are."
David
Davis, the shadow home secretary, said Mr Noble's attack highlighted
the government's "lack of competence". He
said: "We welcome the Prime Minister's statements, but they
are undermined by the revelation that Britain is not checking
potential immigrants against an existing database. Yet
again, it's not the government's policy that is the problem, it's
the their lack of competence in delivering on that policy."
Mr
Noble added: "The Prime Minister is saying the watch list
has expanded and would be shared with certain countries, but to
date it hasn't been shared with Interpol." Mr
Noble, a law professor at New York University, was seconded to
Interpol in 2000.
'JOINED-UP
APPROACH'
ALEX
Salmond, the First Minister, said yesterday that the attack on
Glasgow Airport has shown that the Nationalist government in Edinburgh
can work with Westminster. He
was in touch with the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in the immediate
aftermath of the attack to agree the Scottish government's role.
Mr
Salmond said: "The approach of the two administrations has
been fully joined up, and that is also reflected in the arrangements
governing prosecutions announced by the Lord Advocate this week."
Mr
Salmond said the collaboration between the two administrations
was one positive feature to emerge in the past week. He added:
"The extensive contact between Scottish government ministers,
and the Prime Minister, Home Secretary and Justice Secretary at
Westminster has been a significant and positive aspect of the
response to this terrorist outrage."
Mr
Salmond went on: "No doubt I will continue to disagree with
Gordon Brown on political matters, including the constitutional
future of Scotland. But
in times of crisis people rightly expect us to put political differences
to one side and I believe that our two governments have shown
that ability over the past week."
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