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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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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May
23, 2007 (1453 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3432 US - 149 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media
June
20, 2007 (1481 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3531 US - 151 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media
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Honeymoon?
More like a shotgun wedding
Littlejohn
- Daily Mail, June 19, 2007
This
column doesn't do honeymoon periods. I first wrote that line right
here in the MAIL the day after Labour's landslide election victory
in 1997. Britain was basking in the euphoria of finally defenestrating
John Major's washed-up, washed-out Conservative government.
Although
I was as glad as anyone to see the back of the Tories, who richly
deserved their humiliation, that game was over. It's not the job
of otherwise unemployable layabouts like me to act as cheerleaders
for politicians. They're never short of sycophants. So Tony Blair's
picture replaced Major's on the Littlejohn dartboard. It was a
joy to be giving someone fresh a good kicking.
Frankly,
ten years on, I'm all Blaired out. The vitriol mine is exhausted,
the rive of bile has run dry. I can't even bring myself to tip
another bucketload on the Wicked Witch. I'm simply sick of the
sight and sound of them.
I
wish I could say that I was looking forward to the Gordon Brown
era with relish. New PM, new target. But switching from Blair
to Brown is like dumping the wife you hate and then shacking up
with her uglier, fatter, even more miserable other sister.
It
beggars belief that anyone is buying into this new broom nonsense.
There's going to be acres of it when Gordon actually gets the
job next week, so I thought I'd get my retaliation in first.
The
coronation of Gordon Brown fills me with as much foreboding as
the funeral of Lady Di. It's Last Plane Out of Saigon time. I
don't know about the honeymoon, but Gordon has been enjoying a
seven week stag night - all capped teeth and Estuary English,
swanning around looking especially pleased with himself as he
conducted his leadership 'campaign'.
Not
that he was running against anyone, of course. Gordon's goons
had put the frighteners on those stupid enough to think there
should be a free and fair election to decide the small matter
of who should be our next prime minister.
This
was Call Me Dave's big chance. He could have condemned this disgraceful
stitch-up, this monstrous affront to propriety and democracy.
Instead, he strapped on the suicide belt, strolled into Parliament
Square and pressed the detonator. They're still picking the body
parts off the roof of the nearest grammar school.
So
we slip seamlessly from a man responsible for the chaos and incompetence
of the last ten years to, er ............
For
the past decade we have bee told that Gordon is the 'real' Prime
Minister - chief executive to Blair's chairman of the board. No
area of domestic policy, however disastrous, has been implemented
without first passing across his desk. He was - and remains -
a supporter of the war in Iraq. His only abiding characteristic
is an unrivalled ability to go missing whenever blame is being
apportioned.
We're
asked to swallow the line that once Gordon takes over, the era
of spin will come to an end. Well, that's a spin. This is the
man who had my old mate Charlie Whelan on the strength when he
moved in to the Treasury. When it comes to spin, Charlie can give
Shane Warne a run for his money. Just study any one of Gordon's
Budget speeches. They are a confection of mendacity, evasion and
obfuscation, which sometimes take several days to decipher.
His
last budget, presented as 'tax-cutting', actually put taxes UP.
'Stealth' is his stock in trade. Don't forget, either, this is
The Man Who Stole Your Old Age by sleight of hand.
The
manner in which the transition has been stage-managed is outrageous.
Blair has been waddling round the world, a paraplegic duck of
a Prime Minister filling his dance card at the expense of the
British taxpayer.
Brown
has been staging ludicrous 'campaign' rallies and posing for PR
pictures in chinos and open necked shirts to try to convince us
he's the new kid on the block.
If
this isn't spin, I don't know what is. Last summer, the REAL Gordon
Brown was photographed wearing a tie while pretending to cheer
on England on TV during the World Cup.
Sure,
we've changed prime ministers before without holding a General
Election. But in most cases that's been because the incumbent
has either been too ill to carry on or has lost the confidence
of party and country. It has always been
carried out swiftly.
This
has been a long-running, cynical carve-up entirely for the convenience
of the Labour Party and because Gordon has decided his turn is
overdue. There is no imperative otherwise.
May
I remind you that when Major succeeded Thatch, a young Labour
MP seconded a motion by Neil Kinnock demanding an immediate General
Election. Guess who?
Precisely.
Yet now Gordon says no election is necessary - even though he
could probably win it.
When
I put this to an MP of my acquaintance, he replied: "Ah,
but people say different things in Opposition." Which pretty
much tells you all you need to know. The fact is, Gordon has no
mandate. Labour was slaughtered in the local elections last month.
They couldn't even hang on in Brown's Dunfermline backyard. Across
most of England they were wiped out.
And
I maintain that until the West Lothian question is eradicated,
no Scottish MP should be allowed to become Prime Minister. It
is scandalous that Brown will be able to impose on the English,
measures that will not apply to his own constituents. Look at
the current row over provision of drugs on the NHS. Treatments
- for instance, for blindness - are available free in Scotland
but not in England.
Does
the MAN WHO STOLE YOUR OLD AGE also want to go down as the MAN
WHO STOLE YOUR EYESIGHT?
If
Call Me Humpty Dumpty can glue himself back together again, there's
an outside chance that Brown's tenure at No 10 won't survive the
next election.
Enjoy
your honeymoon period, Gordon. Sorry I can't make it.
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