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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May 31, 2005 (761 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,657 US - 89 UK - >6,164?
Iraqi - >17,300 civilians - 25 media
June 17, 2005 (779 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,716 US - 89 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300? civilians - 25 media
June 26, 2005 (788 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,737 US - 89 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300? civilians - 25 media
July 6, 2005 (798 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,751 US - 90 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300? civilians - 25 media
August 24, 2005 (847 days since
war ended)
Death Toll: 1,869 US - 93 UK - >>6,164?
Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media
September
29, 2005 (883 days since war ended)
Death Toll: 1,928 US - 96 UK - >>6,164?
Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media
October
11, 2005 (895 days since war ended)
Death Toll: 1,956 US - 96UK - >>6,164?
Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media
October
20, 2005 (904 days since war ended)
Death Toll: 1,986 US - 97UK - >>6,164?
Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media
October
25, 2005 (909 days since war ended)
Death Toll: 2,001 US - 97UK - >>6,164?
Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media
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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December
14, 2005 (959 days since Iraq war ended)
Death Toll: 2,150 US - 98UK - >>30,000?
Iraqi - 25 media
Asylum
system 'out of control'
By
James Slack, Home Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, December 14, 2005
Asylum
system is spiralling out of control, a Government expert warned
yesterday. "Incalculable" amounts of taxpayers' money
are being wasted on complaints from would-be refugees, said public
watchdog Ann Barker. She said the situation was so bad that immigration
staff were being taken off frontline duties at courts and airports
to deal with the complaints. Some cases produced piles of documents
a foot high.
Dr
Barker - chairman of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate's
complaints audit committee - delivered a withering verdict on
Labour's attempts to rein in the chaotic asylum process. She warned:
"The current system appears to be unmanageable and at risk
of spiralling out of control."
Asylum
seekers lodge more than 26,000 complaints a year, 90% of them
over delays in hearing whether they can stay in Britain. "We
have been told about repositories holding thousands of files awaiting
decisions," said Dr Barker. These warehouses hold files on
some of the 285,000 failed asylum seekers waiting to be sent home,
she told the Commons home affairs committee.
Asylum
seekers lodge formal complaints in frustration at delayed decisions,
Dr Barker said. And if MPs were asked to intervene the amount
of paperwork grows. She said frontline immigration officers were
being called in to clear the backlog instead of stopping illegals
sneaking across Britain's borders.
"There
is a large, incalculable amount of money being wasted now,"
she said. "We have got officers at ports for instance, doing
investigations and they are now being obliged to turn away from
their frontline duties to undertake investigations."
Some
500 to 600 complaints are made about individual officers and each
cost around £3000 to investigate. But Dr Barker said the
directorate had no idea how much was spent dealing with 26,000
other complaints about delayed asylum decisions. A team of investigators
should be set up trained to tackle these cases, she said.
The
committee was also told that officials in the frontline of the
battle against illegal immigration have to consider around 50
cases every day. Officers, whose job is to decide who is granted
a visa to enter the UK, are spending only ten minutes on each
individual, said Fiona Lindsley, Independent Monitor for Entry
Clearance Refusals.
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