Silent Majority Speaks
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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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Criminals
freed on probation commit a murder every week
By
James Slack, Home Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, December 14,
2007
One
person is murdered every week by a criminal of probation, the
Government admitted last night. In the past three years, 158
murders and 54 manslaughters were committed by convicts supposedly
being monitored in the community. They also carried out 155
rapes and 38 attempted murders.
The
'catastrophic ' toll came as a separate report by the Ministry
of Justice revealed criminals have the lowest chance of being
jailed for a decade. Those who are receive more lenient sentences.
Lloyd
Edwards, a prolific violent robber, had been freed early
from jail on condition he wore an electronic tag when
he murdered Laila Rezk in November last year (2006)E.
Edwards,
19, had been released two months early from an 18 month
sentence for assault, fitted with the tag and place
under a curfew requiring him to be at his father's home
between 7 pm and 7 am.
The
day before the curfew was due to expire, he attacked
Mrs Rezk, a mother of two, in her home in Kingston Vale,
SW London. He followed Mrs Rezk into the house and repeatedly
punched her, killed the 53-year-old with his bare hands.
He then stole £60 from her purse before leaving.
When
he got hoe after the curfew deadline, he called his
probation officer, claiming that he had been stuck in
traffic. A few days before the attack, Edwards had robbed
a youngster on a train station platform and punched
him in the head.
He
was sentenced t life for Mrs Rezk's murder and ordered
to serve a minimum of 18 years.
30%
- the rise this year in sex offenders breaching their
probation terms.
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The
studies dealt a double blow to Labour's already battered reputation
on law and order. The first showed the total number of convictions
for the most serious crimes by offenders on probation over the
past three years was 1,043.
In
the past year alone, there were 42 murders, seven attempted
murders, 15 cases of man-slaughter and 39 rapes. That total
is certain to rise, with 397 criminals awaiting trial for so
called Serious Further Offences.
Tory
justice spokesman Nick Herbert described the figures as 'shocking',
adding :"Serious questions must be asked about the current
processes for releasing and supervising offenders which are
clearly failing to give the public adequate protection."
Norman
Brennan, director of the Victims of Crime Trust, said: "One
would be awful, but to have hundreds of rapes and hundreds of
murders is catastrophic and completely unacceptable. It is clear
the Probation Service cannot cope and it is also clear they
are not being given the funding and staff levels that are required.
Somebody needs to be held to account if these figures are not
to get even worse."
He
added: "The police service are in despair, the victims
of crime are in despair and public is living in a fear not known
since the Second World War."
A
slew of figures released by the ministry also showed tens of
thousands of offenders breaching their community orders, in
some cases by committing new crimes. Of the 70,580 handed down
by the courts - often as an alternative to jail - 38% were terminated
for 'negative reasons'.
The
number of criminals released from jail on parole who had to
be returned to custody for flouting the rules rocketed by 22%
last year, to 1,210. There were also 220 sent back to jail for
crimes committed while wearing an electronic tag.
The
killers on probation included Damien Hanson, who muderered John
Monckton, a City financier, at his family home in 2004, and
Anthony Rice, who killed Naomi Bryant in Winchester nine months
after he was released from a 16-year jail term.
Earlier
this week, it emerged the first murder had been committed by
an inmate released as a direct result of prison overcrowding.
Andrew Mournian brutally beat his partner Amanda Murphy around
the head with his fists five days after his early release.
The
36-year-old thug had been jailed for 20 weeks for an earlier
attack on the mother of two. But, 18 days before his sentence
reached even the halfway point, he was allowed to walk free.
Five days later Mournian inflicted fatal injuries on Miss Murphy
at their home in West Yorkshire.
A
Ministry of Justice spokesman said protecting the public 'is
of paramount importance' to the Government. He said the rate
of serious offending for higher risk offenders was well under
1% and that the increase in Serious Further Offences was primarily
due to changes in how such crimes are classified.
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