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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Nailed
at last: the lies that led to war
Letter
from Dr David Lowry - Daily Mail, November 10, 2005
The
most important aspect of Sir Christopher Meyer's memoirs (Mail)
is his admission that by late March 2002:
'Tony Blair had already taken the decision to support regime
change, though he was discreet about saying so in public'.
At
a press conference six months ago, Mr Blair tetchily proffered
as truth that he 'took the view that it was best to remove Saddam
Hussein' - while denouncing the suggestion there had been any
cover-up as to his motives.
Unluckily
for him, there are sufficient occasions on the record when he
denied that his policy was regime change to prove that he has
changed his public position on the rationale for war. In a BBC
interview on September 3, 2002, he said: "In
relation to regime change - look, the key objective for us is
to deal with the threat."
Later
that month, when he unveiled to MPs the first distorted dossier
on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, he said: "Regime
change in Iraq would be a wonderful thing. That is not the purpose
of our action; our purpose is to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass
destruction."
It's
clear from both Sir Christopher's memoirs and a leaked memo from
March 14, 2002, by Sir David Manning, then Mr Blair's foreign
policy advisor and now Sir Christopher's successor in Washington,
that Mr Blair privately supported the Bush policy of regime change.
Three days after President Bush's inauguration in January 2001,
Mr Blair presided over a meeting of the Labour Party National
Executive Committee at which, according to NEC member Ann Black,
he said: "We need good working links with the new president
because the Tories will exploit any cooling in the 'special relationship'."
Mr
Bush's former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill records in his book
The Price of Loyalty: "From the
very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was
a bad person and that he needed to go."
I
raised this matter of regime change at a fringe meeting on the
importance of truth in politics, chaired by John Humphrys, at
the Labour conference six weeks ago. A panellist, former Defence
Secretary Geoff Hoon, said my point made him feel as if he was
back on the Today programme - and he pointedly ignored the question.
It's
a resignation matter for ministers knowingly to tell untruths
to Parliament. The Prime Minister cannot be allowed to dismiss
it any longer.
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