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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July
8, 2007 (1499 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3605 US - 158 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media
July
16, 2007 (1507days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3615 US - 159 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media
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Follow
U.S. lead and rout the class lout
Letter
from Pat Greenhalgh, Bolton, to the Editor, Daily Mail, July 16,
2007
Let's
compare the alarming decline in British schools today with the
highly effective disciplinary measures taken in Californian schools.
My
daughter is a teacher at a 4,000 strong high school in Los Angeles
which has a step-by-step process in response to bad behaviour,
ensuring remedial treatment for the student and protection for
the teacher.
Swearing,
for example, warrants automatic exclusion from the classroom and
a visit to the Dean's office, where four or five sumo-wrestler
type males stand in wait inside. These formidable figures are
fellow Deans, who mercilessly wipe the floor with any offending
student.
Students
are frequently given five hours' detention on a Saturday, which
involves community service, doing things such as cleaning up the
campus as well as extra study hours. On readmission to the classroom,
any recurrence of the offence makes the student liable to extra
detention and a parental summons.
Often,
the first visit to the Dean's office is enough to render the student
complicit in school rules, respect your fellow students and your
teacher at all times and raise your hand if you wish to speak.
In
my daughter's first year, a student threatened to hit her, not
directly, but within earshot of another teacher. That student
was immediately removed from my daughter's classroom and told
never to approach her again, not even to apologise.
My
daughter's school is the highest-performing charter school in
the U.S.
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Letter
from Mrs Y. E. Metcalf, Lymm, Ches, to the Editor, Daily Mail,
July 16, 2007
It
is true that children's behaviour at school is driving good young
teachers out of the profession. My daughter graduated with a teaching
degree in business studies and information technology in 1995.
She was full of enthusiasm and eager 'to make a difference'. She
tried several posts at various inner London schools until she
was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and couldn't continue
- and my daughter is no wimp.
Apparently,
she had been spat at, sworn at and continually abused in various
ways by the children. She admitted that the children were virtually
unteachable and totally disruptive. Some were carrying knives,
some were on drugs and some were half-drunk by afternoon classes.
Recently,
after working in other fields, she thought she would try teaching
again and arranged some supply work to test the water. She found,
as the day approached, she felt so ill at the prospect that she
has had to abandon the idea of teaching children.
What
a waste, from all points of view.
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