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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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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May
28, 2006 (1114 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2464 US - 111 UK - >60,000? civilians - 25 media
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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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Guillotine
New Labour's fat, male Marie Antoinette
The
Mail on Sunday - Editorial - May 28, 2006
This
is the twilight of a discredited regime, so swollen with arrogance
and privilege that it has stopped caring, so complacent that it
does not bother to hide its sloth and greed. There is far more
to the picture of John Prescott merrily smiting croquet balls
on the sunlit lawn of his publicly owned mini-palace than meets
the eye.
First
there is the straightforward lie, told by his spokesmen, that
the supposed 'Deputy Prime Minister' was busy in Whitehall when
he was in fact tieless in Dorneywood, wielding a mallet.
In
theory Mr Prescott was deputising for the absent Tony Blair. His
salary, pension and perks are certainly based on this belief.
But nothing else is. Nobody in Whitehall takes it seriously. Are
we honestly expected to believe that, if the Premier were absent
in a nuclear crisis, Mr Prescott would handle the secret launch-codes
for Trident missiles? The idea is laughable. And now we discover
that Mr Prescott takes his deputising about as seriously as the
rest of us do.
The
Home Office is exploding in all directions in unstoppable geysers
of scandal. The Chancellor has so devastated a once-admirable
pension system that we are all threatened with years of extra
toil to pay for shrunken retirement benefits.
These
would be two good arguments for at least pretending to look busy.
But no, the alleged 'Deputy Prime Minister' thinks this a good
moment to amuse himself in a languid, aristocratic playtime, like
a fat, male Marie Antoinette at a New Labour Versailles..
We
know that the man has no shame and that he fought - with all the
tenacity of the trade union blockhead he used to be - to hang
on to his free tenancy at Dorneywood and his grandiose council
flat in Admiralty House. And we know, in squalid detail, that
he has no private judgment. Anyone might have thought that by
now he might have sensed the approach of doom and learned to at
least give the appearance of diligence or responsibility. Yet,
like a heedless idiot picnicking on the lip of a volcano, he carries
on asking for disaster. Well, eventually, he must surely get what
he deserves.
But
the man who should be dispatching the P45 by fast messenger to
Dorneywood - and who should be sending the repossession team round
to eject that mansion's croquet-playing tenant forthwith - is
in his own, separate departure lounge. How Tony Blair's bowels
must have melted in the White House as he listened to President
Bush showing contrition for what must be the first time in his
life.
It
is worrying when the man who once urged you over the top turns
round and begins scuttling back to safety. Mr Blair must be almost
the last human being who has not allowed a flicker of doubt on
the Iraq war to enter his mind. The others are his wife Cherie
and his attack dog Alastair Campbell - who so distastefully autographed
a copy of the Hutton Report.
Nine
years ago the British people were sold a fantasy of clean and
competent government, of principle ad honest. 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.
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