Silent Majority Speaks

Rescuing Democracy in the United Kingdom from our current Elected Dictatorship

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.

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

June 29, 2006 (1146 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 2529 US - 113 UK - >60,000? civilians - 25 media

July 15, 2006 (1162 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 2545 US - 114 UK - >60,000? civilians - 25 media

STOP PRESS

Longer pub hours blamed for surge in violent crime

By Matthew Hickley - Home Affairs Correspondent - Daily Mail, July 17, 2006

Police blame Labour's late-night drinking laws for a surge in muggings and drunken assaults. The annual Home Office crime figures for England and Wales, due out on Thursday, show violent crime has risen for the seventh month in a row. They are likely to pile more pressure on Home Secretary John Reid as he struggles to turn his department's fortunes around.

Figures show a significant rise in overall violent offences and a 10% rise in robberies. They come as the Home Office's crackdown on street crime ends. With cash grants to forces running out after three years, fewer officers will be available to patrol crime hotspots.

Leicestershire chief constable Matt Baggott warned that a growth in late drinking in town and city centres is exposing young people to greater risk of violence. "There is a profit-driven competitiveness around alcohol, and one of its consequences is young people becoming victims," he said.

People say trying to charge or prosecute violent drunken yobs is frustrating, because their victims are often equally drunk and unable to remember what happened when they sober up.

Mr Reid will unveil Labour's latest crime policies to MPs this week, including tougher rules on sentencing and parole, and plans to build more prisons. The figures show overall crime is down slightly from last year, with a reduction in the number of car thefts.

In London, robberies are up by 8% and overall violent crime has risen by 2%. In West Yorkshire violent crime rose almost 10% and robberies were up 15%. violent crime rose almost 3% in the West Midlands. Gloucester police recorded 24% more robberies, with a 10% rise in overall violent crime.

The Met's acting deputy assistant commissioner Alfred Hitchcock said: "We recognise street crime is on the rise again. We are introducing a number of responses to address that trend."

Ministers are likely to blame the increases on changes to how crimes are counted, even though the rules were introduced in 2002. Separate figures show cases of murder and manslaughter have leapt from an average of 601 cases per year in the early 1990s to 737 per year since 1997.

Another Home Office study showed the number of violent criminals escaping justice has soared since Labour came to power. Conviction rates for robbery, serious wounding and rape have plunged below 10%. With an estimated 2.4million drunken assaults last year, alcohol-fuelled violence claimed a victim on average every 13 seconds.

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