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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August
18, 2006 (1210 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2601 US - 115 UK - >300,000? civilians - 25 media
September
4, 2006 (1227 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2644 US - 115 UK - >300,000? civilians - 25 media
The
Iraq terror myth
Blow
to Bush as report reveals Saddam had no link to Al Qaeda
Mail
Foreign Service - Daily Mail, September 9, 2006
Saddam
Hussein had no links with Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq prior to the
invasion by the U.S. and her allies, a Senate report revealed
last night. It leaves George Bush's case for going to war in tatters.
The
revelation appears in a CIA report released by the Senate's Intelligence
Committee yesterday. There was no evidence of links between the
former Iraqi dictator and the terror network before the 2003 war,
the report said.
Mr
Bush and Tony Blair's main reason for going to war was because
they claimed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But since
no WMDs were discovered after the allied victory, Mr Bush switched
emphasis and focused on the alleged link between Saddam and Al
Qaeda.
The
U.S. President said the presence of the late Al Qaeda leader Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a link.
But the Senate report discloses for the first time an October
2005 assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency that, prior
to the war, Saddam's government 'did not have a relationship,
harbour, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates'.
The
report was released as Americans prepared to mark the fifth anniversary
of the September 11 attack which led to Mr Bush's 'war on terror'
and the invasion of Iraq. Opposition Democrats immediately said
the report seriously undermined Mr Bush's case for going to war.
The
declassified document also explores the role that inaccurate information
supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group, the Iraqi National Congress,
had in the march to war. The assessment in the CIA report was
similar to the conclusion reached by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission,
which found that there had been no 'collaborative relationship'
between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
Democrat
Senator Carl Levin, a member of the committee, said the long-awaited
report was 'a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration's
unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts to link Saddam
to Al Qaeda.
He
said that as recently as August 21 Mr Bush assured reporters that
Saddam had relations with al-Zarqawi. "The President's statement,
made just two weeks ago, is flat-out false," said Mr Levin.
Democratic
Senator John D. Rockefeller said the administration 'exploited
the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in the immediate
aftermath of the September 11 attacks, leading a large majority
of Americans to believe - contrary to the intelligence assessments
at the time - that Iraq had a role in the 9/11 attacks."
Republican
Senator Pat Roberts, the committee's chairman, said it has long
been known that pre-war assessments of Iraq 'were a tragic intelligence
failure'. But he said Democratic interpretations expressed in
the report 'are little more than a vehicle to advance election-year
political charges.'
White
House press secretary Tony Snow played down the report as 'nothing
new'. "In 2002 and 2003, members of both parties got a good
look at the intelligence we had and they came to the very same
conclusions about what was going on," he said. That was 'one
of the reasons you had overwhelming majorities in the United States
Senate and the House for taking action against Saddam Hussein.'
The
decision to close down the CIA's secret prison system for terror
suspects was made as a direct result of pressure from the U.S.'s
allies, particularly Britain, it was revealed last night. It also
emerged that the 14 Al Qaeda operatives flown to Guantanamo Bay
this week after being held in secret CIA jails in Europe and Asia
were all flown to one central point. They were the drugged with
tranquilisers before being flown to the prison camp in Cuba aboard
the same plane.
Mr
Bush is also ready to close the military-run prison at Guantanamo
Bay as soon as he can find a way to deal with the 400 prisoners
still held there. Bush administration sources said last night
that the debate was started after Tony Blair made a personal plea
for the release of British citizens held at Guantanamo Bay, which
was not part of the CIA programme.
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