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 3 , 2005 (765 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,670 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
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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Who's
next for Blair's bully-boys
Simon
Heffer - Daily Mail, October 1, 2005
There
have been few more powerful symbols of the cancerously arrogant
attitude of Government, and all connected with New Labour, than
the manhandling of 82-year-old heckler Walter Wolfgang at the
Labour Party conference. Sadly, none of us who studies politics
for a living will have been surprised by this appalling act of
bullying.
Mr
Wolfgang was given the same treatment that has been handed to
every institution, individual or group that might have acted as
a check on New Labour's elective dictatorship. Mr Blair now has
more powers, and fewer restraints on those powers, than any Western
European leader since Spain's General Franco.
He
treats the Queen, whose has constitutional powers giving her the
right to be consulted, and great wealth of experience, as a rather
tiresome ornament, or like the mad granny in the attic. His cabinet
are expected to agree to whatever policies that he and his team
of unelected advisers decide to inflict on the country.
MPs,
not least his own backbenchers, have become servants of the executive
rather than its master. Debate is stifled and ruthlessly guillotined.
Dissenters are punished by whips or vilified by smear campaigns
orchestrated by Mr Blair's press office. The House of Lords has
been swamped with Blair cronies and overruled on the rare occasions
when peers have done their job as a revising chamber. The Civil
Service has been nakedly politicised. Officials who fail to toe
the New Labour line are bullied or sacked.
And
then, as Mr Wolfgang discovered, even the party conference has
been sovietised. Anyone who fails to join in the orchestrated
adulation is yanked from their seat and put in police custody.
In a pathetic response to the disgraceful scene in Brighton, the
Prime Minister bleated that he wasn't in the hall at the time.
That
is utterly irrelevant, for thanks to the licence Mr Blair gave
Alastair Campbell, his former spin-doctor and current unofficial
adviser, the cynical techniques of smear, bullying and, now, physical
suppression is the order of the day in New Labour.
And,
of course, this pernicious culture extends far wider. The BBC's
slow and almost embarrassed initial response to the treatment
of Mr Wolfgang - ITN and Sky made all the running on the story
- reveals how intimidated some of the Corporation's staff are
by the Government's aggressive policy towards the broadcast media.
This
anti-democratic behaviour would be bad enough at any time. But
coming at a stage when the Government is proposing a whole raft
of restrictions on freedom of speech (ostensibly to trap terrorists
and those who encourage them), it is terrifying.
I
have always believed that existing laws against terrorism, incitement,
conspiracy or treason are more than adequate to deal with the
threat from Islamic extremists. But the way the Home Office is
devoting so much time to finding new ways to end freedom of speech
suggests it has a darker agenda.
And
when I saw the bouncers, whose behaviour was reminiscent of the
thugs operated by that nice Heinrich Himmler, hauling poor old
Mr Wolfgang out of the Labour conference for taking issue with
Jack Straw, I knew I was right.
Incidentally, why is it so easy to detain an 82-year-old man,
but not animal rights activists who now threaten to attack nursery
schools? Do we have to wait until a child is killed by these maniacs
before out hopeless Home Secretary treats them with the same severity
which he now reserves for harmless old people?
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