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

May 31, 2005 (761 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 1,657 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

October 11, 2005 (895 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 1,956 US - 96UK - >>6,164? Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media

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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.

STOP PRESS

The 'aggressive children' of teenage mums

By Dan Newling - Daily Mail, October 17, 2005

Children of teenage mothers are more likely to be aggressive later in life, it was claimed yesterday. Young parents lack the 'emotional maturity' to teach their children why they should not act violently, say experts. They suggest these aggressive children are then more likely to bring up dysfunctional children themselves - creating a 'cycle of violence' that spirals down the generations.

The warning comes from educational charity: the Wave Trust. This week it will release results of a nine-year project to analyse psychological, sociological and criminological research into violence from across the English-speaking world. It's report, called Violence and What to Do About It, concludes that the key element to preventing someone acting aggressively is a sense of empathy.

Chief executive George Hosking, a clinical criminologist, said: "Most people are able to understand the feelings of other people when the other person is in pain - they feel the other person's pain as if it were their own. That is empathy and it is what stops people committing violent acts. However, a proportion of people grow up without empathy - these people are more likely to be violent."

Mr Hoskins claims that the ability to empathise is learnt from parents and problems emerge when parents are unable to pass on that skill. He said: "Children learn best in the first 18 months of their lives. If during this time the parent is cruel or if home life is chaotic or if the parent is very young, then the child can grow up without this sense. This can have a devastating effect. Too often young parents have not developed the emotional maturity themselves to pass on to their children. Either that or they are simply too busy growing up to pay sufficient attention to their young child."

Mr Hoskins went on to claim that young parents are contributing to a cycle of violence whereby bad parenting and aggressive behaviour is passed down the generations. He said: "Unsociable children grow up to be unsociable adults who have unsociable children."

Latest statistics reveal that 42,183 children were born to girls aged under 18 in England and Wales in 2003. Norman Wells, director of the charity Family and Young Concern, said: "It takes a certain maturity to care for a child and there are few teenagers who have that. In many cases the parents will not be in a steady relationship and so the child will grow up without a father figure. This too is related to a number of negative outcomes."

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