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.

December 28, 2005 (959 days since Iraq war ended)

Death Toll: 2,172 US - 98UK - >>30,000? Iraqi - 25 media

Janyary 16, 2006 (978 days since Iraq war ended)

Death Toll: 2,219 US - 98UK - >>30,000? Iraqi - 25 media

February 4, 2006 (993 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 2248 US - 101UK - >>6,164? Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media

Tony Blair should know that respect comes by example - from the top. If a country's leader has no respect for the rule of nternational 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

STOP PRESS

Lost army of Britain's failed asylum seekers

By James Slack - Home Affairs Editor, Daily Mail, February 4, 2006

More than 230,000 failed asylum seekers have vanished off the Government's radar, figures revealed yesterday. In a staggering admission, the Home Office said it has lost contact with 80% of the failed asylum seekers living in Britain.

Fewer than 50,000 of the 285,000 asylum rejects report to immigration officials the figures show. This gives ministers little chance of kicking the rest out. The only hope is that they will either go home by themselves or be trapped in a random raid on illegal immigration.

The revelation last night prompted fresh claims that Tony Blair has lost all control of the asylum system. Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migration Watch UK, said the number of people the Home Office could not trace was more than twice the size of the British Army. He added: "It comprises people who have no right to be in Britain at all. That is a measure of the extent to which the Home Office have steadily lost control of the asylum system."

The figures were slipped out in a written parliamentary answer. The Home Office said the missing failed asylum seekers have either gone underground or moved without telling the Immigration Service, or no record of their case exists. It comes as a blow to Mr Blair's promise to cut the huge backlog of asylum rejects.

The Prime Minister promised that by December last year, more would be booted out than there are new unfounded claims. By November last year, ministers were already admitting they would miss the target, and set a new day of February this year. Even if there are nor new arrivals, the backlog will take 20 years to clear.

Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green said: "Evidence is piling up that the Government simply doesn't possess the most basic facts to allow it to run a credible and fair asylum policy. No wonder they are missing their targets to remove failed asylum seekers when they don't know where over 200,000 of them actually are."

A Home Office spokesman said the number of failed asylum seekers removed from the country had increased by 10% in the past year. In the same period, the number applying for asylum had fallen by more than a quarter (27%). She said: "No government has ever been able to produce an accurate figure for the number of failed asylum seekers who are in the country illegally. By its very nature it is impossible to quantify accurately, and that remains the case."

She added the figure for the number of people still in contact with the Home Office 'does not included dependents, those reporting to police stations or those who are subject to electronic monitoring processes'.

The figures came amid controversy over the Home Office's decision to ban the use of the word 'alien' to describe failed asylum seekers. The legal term has been in parliamentary use for 100 years, but is deemed 'offensive; by Immigration Minister Tony McNulty.

Tory MP Philip Davies said: "Alien is not an offensive term. It is perfectly accurate and been in use for many, many years. If the Home Office spent more time actually trying to remove these people and less time worrying about what is offensive and what is not, we would all be a lot better off."

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