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: 2,001US - 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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Let's
nail our own Iraq liars
Peter
McKay - Daily Mail, October 31, 2005
The
current goings-0n in Washington should make us feel ashamed. We
put up with being lied to by our Government and its hangers-on.
Americans do something about it.
Special
Investigator Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to establish if senior
aides to President George W. Bush leaked the identity of woman
CIA agent, Valerie Plame, as an act of spite because her diplomat
husband, Joseph Wilson, was a critic of their based-on-lies Iraq
invasion.
Mr
Wilson incurred the wrath of the Bush camp by describing as rubbish
- after he'd investigated it - a claim that Saddam Hussein was
trying to buy nuclear material from NIger. And who made that claim?
We did. Has anyone been brought to book over creation of our 'dodgy
dossier'? Of course not.
Vice
President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, has been
indicted for lying to a grand jury about this affair and resigned.
Now Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald is investigating the involvement
of Bush's right-hand man, Karl Rove.
Here
it is accepted - even by those who supported the Iraq invasion
- that Tony Blair's Government, backed by beneath-contempt Tories,
told a pack of lies about 'intelligence' to justify the invasion.
Yet nothing 'criminal' can be alleged against our politicians,
or those paid to lie on their behalf, within the precincts of
Westminster. They are above the law, except when - like former
Tory MPs Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer - they step outside
this charmed environment and perjure themselves while trying to
win libel damages.
Dr
David Kelly, a civil servant and expert on weapons of mass destruction,
was hounded to suicide because he'd dared question the Government's
'dodgy dossier' on Saddam Hussein. Bush and his cronies launched
the Iraq invasion knowing Americans would back a war President
in 2004 would tell them he was fighting terrorists abroad rather
than exposing the US homeland to them.
Tony
Blair provided the lies on which it was based.
Now
Americans are picking this great deception apart, but we've gone
to sleep about it. We were advised by Mr Blair that it was time
to move on.
Shouldn't
we, too, have access to an independent special prosecutor rather
than rely on MPs to investigate themselves? And why not restore
the grand jury, before whom everyone - even politicians - has
to appear if summoned and answer questions under oath to see if
their's a criminal case to answer?
We
don't have special prosecutors whose job is to look for criminality
in government, because it doesn't suit our politicians for them
to exist. We the voters are to blame for that. We don't care enough.
We pick our political tribe and stick with them If they commit
criminal acts, we make excuses for them.
Lying
to us - even when it's done in order to take us to war - isn't
considered a criminal act. Neither is lying to allies in order
to help them deceive their people, nor hounding a civil servant
to death for helping to expose such lies.
America's
not perfect by any means, but merely by having a special prosecutor,
capable of destroying its presidency if it's dishonest, makes
us look very small and smelly. It's time to get off our knees.
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