Silent Majority Speaks

Rescuing Democracy in the United Kingdom from our current Elected Dictatorship

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.

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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The simple terror checks UK fail to make, by Interpol

By Kirsty Walker, Political Correspondent, Daily Mail - July 9, 2007

Britain's security is under threat because immigrants are not routinely checked against Interpol's list of terror suspects, the organisation's head warned yesterday. The loophole makes it far easier for terrorists to enter here than in many other countries, according to Ronald K Noble.

He claimed that the recent attempted bombings in London and Glasgow could never have progressed so far if such checks were routinely make. At present, 17 countries automatically crosscheck potential immigrants with Interpol when they apply for visas to enter the country.

But not Britain, which has 2.5million foreigners arriving every month. Incredibly, this country only makes 50 requests to Interpol a month - compared to 300,000 by Switzerland.

Mr Noble said: "This is something that should be the hugest priority. The same kind of attention should be given to checking passports that is given to checking people's bags." He pointed out that most of the men hold over the London and Glasgow plot had only recently entered the country.

"The guys detained last week could be wanted, arrested or convicted anywhere in the world and the UK would not know. The UK government really needs to catch up and realise that unless it consults global databases for passports, names and photographs then it risks letting dangerous people roam free."

The Interpol database carries information about 11,000 suspected terrorists and seven million stolen passports. This is potentially vital information as terrorists are often specifically told in training manuals to use false identities when moving between countries.

The Government apparently prefers to check other databases, which include a pan-European system and a 'watchlist' which is circulated to immigration staff. In addition, there is a large counter-terrorist police command which routinely passes information to ports and airports.

Last week at his first Prime Minister's Questions, Gordon Brown agreed he would also look into a border police force - which has long been demanded by Tory leader David Cameron. Yesterday Mr Brown continued to insist he wants more cooperation between countries to share information on terror suspects.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "We welcome the Prime Minister's sentiments, but they are undermined by the revelation that Britain is not checking potential immigrants against an existing global database of terror suspects. Yet again it is not the Government's policy that is the problem - it is their lack of competence in delivering on that policy that is the problem which is threatening our security."

Mr Noble's criticism cam on a day of fresh embarrassments for the Government over immigration. The Foreign Office was criticised for contracting out vital checks on immigrants to a private company in India. Local staff will now undertake the critical task of checking applicants' fingerprints and storing them electronically.

In addition, it emerged thousands of visas are obtained by immigrants from terror hotspots for university courses which they don't attend.

A Home Office spokesman said: "The UK works closely with the Interpol secretariat and with other member states to provide police to police cooperation. SOCA, 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."

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