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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Teenager
granted asylum murdered two women in 15 days
Why
can't we deport evil double killer, asks judge
By
Ben Taylor, Crime correspondent - Daily Mail, February 15, 2007
A
Judge has expressed his frustration at being unable to order the
deportation of an asylum seeker convicted of two murders.
Robert
Malasi, 18, stormed into a christening party in August 2005 and
shot a woman in the head as she cradled a six-month old baby.
Just 15 days later, he stabbed to death Ruth Okechukwu, also 18,
because he felt she had 'disrespected' him.
Angolan-born
Malsi was yesterday ordered to spend at least 30 years behind
bars. But it has emerged that he - along with two other members
of the gang involved in the christening murder - will not be automatically
deported at the end of his sentence. Two of his accomplices, 16-year-old
Timy Babamuboni and Jude Odigie, 17, have escaped deportation
orders because of their age.
Fellow
defendant Diamond Babamuboni - Timy's elder brother - is 18 and
therefore can be deported. And Malasi will not be kicked out because
he was granted indefinite leave to remain in Britain before the
killings took place.
Ruth's
mother, Pauline Okechukwu, said: "He should be deported.
He has not only taken Ruth's life but he has taken my life as
well. Ruth was born and bred in the country. I see no reason why
someone who came from another place should come and kill my daughter."
Her
pastor husband, Ben, 60, added: "Ruth is such a wonderful
lady, she would have been 20 at this time. She had so much to
offer the community and the nation. She was very warm forthright
and ambitious."
Asked
about Malasi, he added:"For me personally, as a man of God,
I feel sorry for him and I forgive him because he has no sense
of belonging. He has been left behind by his parents. There is
no relationship between him and other men. He doesn't see human
beings as other human beings. He thinks human beings are animals."
Malasi
was described by Justice Gross at the Old Bailey yesterday as
'evil'. The judge said it was 'unprecedented' for someone so young
to be convicted of two unrelated killings. His murderous rampage
started on August 27, 2005, when he and three others burst into
a hall in Peckham, South London, and opened fire on a christening
ceremony.
Sierra
Leone-born Zainab Kalokoh, 33, who was cradling her niece, was
shot once through the head. As she lay dying the feral gang simply
walked over her blood-soaked body and stole as much money and
jewellery as possible. The baby was unharmed.
The
judge told the defendants: "What you four did that night
was evil. In a cruel irony, many of the guests had come to this
country to escape the violence of Sierra Leone."
Days
later, while on the run, Malasi became involved in a roe over
'respect' with pastor's daughter Ruth. He overheard her apparently
criticising him and vowed revenge. Within days he had sought her
out, and on September 11, 2005, he stabbed her at least six times
after he dragged her from her car in Walworth, South London.
As
the youngster tried to defend herself, he stabbed her through
her hands. He was arrested after walking into a local police station
amid fears for his life.
The
youth - who had been sleeping rough in Peckham - came to Britain
from Angola in the 1990s and was granted indefinite leave to remain
before the killings. Because of this, the judge was unable to
order his deportation yesterday. But he urged Home Secretary John
Reid to consider ripping up his permission to stay. The Babamubonis,
meanwhile, came to Britain from Nigeria and claimed asylum but
their applications were rejected.
They
were helped in their fight to stay in Britain by their local MP,
Constitutional Affairs minister Harriet Harman, despite having
a string of previous convictions.
Nigerian-born
Odigie is also a failed asylum seeker. Malasi was convicted of
the christening murder last December and pleaded guilty to Ruth's
murder last month. The Babamubonis and Odigie, all from South
London, were convicted of Mrs. Kalokoh's manslaughter. They were
each jailed for 16 years with a minimum tern of eight.
The
judge said: "This country has a long and proud record for
offering refuge to those in need of help. From time to time, there
are those like you who abuse this proud tradition. I am satisfied
that your continued presence in not in this country's interest."
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