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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June
16 , 2006 (1133 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2500 US - 113 UK - >60,000? civilians - 25 media
Killings
up 35% under Labour
By
James Slack - Home Affairs Editor - Daiy Mail, June 24, 2006
Labour's
failure to tackle violent crime was laid bare yesterday with figures
showing that 250 more people are killed each year than when Tony
Blair came to power. Academics said it was proof that Britain
has become a more dangerous place to live since 1997, demolishing
Government claims that violent crime is falling.
The
research, by the respected Crime and Society Foundation, reveals
there were 954 homicides last year - more than 18 every week.
In 1997, the total number of homicides - cases of murder, child
killing and manslaughter- was 705, 35% fewer.
The
main causes of death were stabbing, fatal punches or kicks, assaults
with a blunt instrument and shooting, The
figures, which cover England, Scotland and Wales, are hugely damaging
to the Government because, unlike crime figures, they cannot be
subjected to 'spin'.
Richard
Garside, acting director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
at King's College London, where the foundation is based, said:
"So much violence is hidden, which makes estimating overall
levels of violence very difficult. But we can be reasonably confident
about official figures on homicide because you can't really hide
a body. The homicide rate is quite a good starting point for estimating
levels of underlying violence. For behind every homicide will
be thousands of serious acts of violence that could easily have
ended in a homicide.
"The
dramatic rises in homicide rates places in some doubt claims that
levels of violence have been falling in recent years."
Shadow
Home Secretary David Davis said: "This reinforces what we
have been saying for a long time. The crimes that matter to people
most have spiralled out of control under this Government because
of their failure to tackle drugs and alcohol, their failure to
establish discipline in schools, and their failure to secure out
borders."
Norman
Brennan, director of the Victims of Crime Trust, said: "For
the murder rate to have increased like this makes it clear the
criminal justice system is in crisis, but what are the government
and judiciary doing about it? Instead of making the public safer,
they are too busy arguing with each other over who is to blame."
Ministers
have used the British Crime Survey - a random sample of 40,000
householders - to claim violent crime has been falling under Labour.
But this has been contested because of doubts
over the survey's accuracy, particularly its ability to get an
accurate picture of what is happening on tough estates where researchers
are less welcome. A
report from the Statistics Commission watchdog earlier this year
called for the Home office to be stripped of its responsibility
for gathering crime figures.
Police
recorded crime figures show violence has rocketed under Labour,
with more than one million incidents each year. However, the Government
claims this rise is down to changes in the way officers record
crime. The crime foundation research will be officially mad public
on Tuesday in a lecture by its author, Danny Dorling.
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