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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November
5, 2006 (1270 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2837 US - 121 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media
November
16 2006 (1281 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2863 US - 125 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media
400,000+
backlog of failed asylum seekers
Home
Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, November 22, 2006
Tony
Blair's promise to clear the backlog of 400,000 failed asylum
seekers living in Britain was in tatters last night after the
number being removed slumped by almost 30%. It means that, rather
than falling, the number of bogus refugees is actually going up.
REID's
RETHINK
Plans
to open a centre for asylum seekers at a disused army
base were resurrected yesterday - to the futy of villagers
who thought they had won a campaign to stop it. John Reid
has earmarked a former defence logistics depot near Bicester,
Oxfordshire, to house up to 750 bogus refuees awaing deportation.
The plans come less than 18 months after the Government
scrapped similar proposals amid local opposition.
THE
NEXT WAVE
In
40 days, Eastern Europeans already in the UK will be joined
by a new wave of migrants from Romania and Bulgaria. Tens
of thousands from these two countries are expected to
head here in search of work after accession to the EU
on January 1, 2007.
The
Government has promised a 20,000 ceiling on the number
of skilled workers. But all Romanians and Bulgarians will
be allowed to enter Britain freely.
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The
Prime Minister pledged last year that there would be more removals
of failed asylum seekers every month than there are new unfounded
claims. But it emerged yesterday that the target has been missed
for the past three months in a row - increasing the number of
failed asylum seekers living here by 865.
The
total number kicked out between July and September this year -
3,635, including children and other dependents - was the lowest
since early 2004. Of those that did to, one in four only departed
because they were offered a £3,000 voluntary removal 'bribe'.
The 28% slump was blamed on the aftermath of the foreign prisoner
scandal.
Immigration
staff, under the personal instruction of the Prime Minister, had
been focussing all their efforts on rounding up and deporting
failed refugees. This allowed them to meet Mr Blair's so called
'tipping point' target for removals every month between February
and June this year. But, once it emerged 1,000 overseas convicts
had been mistakenly freed without being considered for deportation,
their duties were switched to tracking down the criminals.
Immigration
officers have also been hit by a shortage of places to detain
failed asylum seekers prior to deportation because the removal
centres are overflowing with foreign national prisoners. This
has made it pointless to try to catch the bogus refugees, as they
would only have to let them go again.
Critics
said it was clear the Immigration Department is incapable of focussing
on more than one job at a time. Shadow Home Secretary David Davis
said: "These figures expose even more serious failures behind
the Government's rhetoric. The number of removals is down more
than a quarter, showing that John Reid's tough talk since he became
Home Secretary has not been matched by effective action. Not only
have the Government failed to meet Tony Blair's target on removing
failed asylum seekers, but also, in trying to achieve this target,
immigration officials were perversely ordered to ignore other
core duties. This has resulted in a blind eye being turned to
other illegal immigrants and the failure to deport over 1,000
foreign prisoners."
Sir
Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, added: "After
all the talk of reaching a tipping point, the Home Office have
now fallen well short of the Prime Minister's target. We are going
backwards, not forwards."
The
Government was 19% below its 'tipping' target for July to September.
The target is worked out by comparing the number of removals with
a Home Office prediction of how many new 'unfounded claims' will
be processed that month.
For
the last quarter, there were expected to be 4,500 bogus claims,
while there were 3,635 removals. September's was the worst. That
month, there were 1,560 predicted unfounded claims, compared with
only 1,140 removals. Asylum applications for the year to date
were the lowest since 1993, at just under 17,800.
Immigration
Minister Liam Byrne said: "We have seen in the year so far
more failed asylum seekers being removed than predicted unfounded
asylum claims, but there is more still to do."
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