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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EU
treaty is simply the old constitution reborn, says creator, Giscard
d'Estaing
By
James Chapman - Deputy Political Editor, Daily Mail, July 18,
2007
The
proposed treaty on how Europe will be run is essentially the same
as the rejected EU Constitution, an architect of the original
document said yesterday.
Valerie
Discard D'Estaing, the former French president, admitted the changes
made were 'few and far between ... and more cosmetic than real'.
Mr D'Estaing, who has compared his role in drawing up the blueprint
to that of America's founding fathers, said the term 'constitution'
had been dropped simply to 'make a few people happy'.
His
frank remarks will pile pressure on Gordon Brown to hold a referendum
on the treaty after Labour promised a vote at the last election
if the constitution was reintroduced.
Appearing
at the EU Parliament's constitutional affairs committee, Mr d'Estaing
warned that a referendum in Britain must be avoided because the
outcome would be 'uncertain to say the least'.
Both
Mr Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair have insisted Britain's
'red lines' have been protected in the treaty so that the trappings
of a constitution have been dropped from the deal, meaning a referendum
is not justified.
Downing
Street has instead said the treaty will simply be ratified by
Parliament. Opposition MPs fear the treaty will herald a fundamental
transfer of power to Brussels, creating a permanent EU president,
and ending the British right to veto proposals in dozens of key
policy areas, including migration, tourism, transport and energy.
It
will also give the EU the power to sign international treaties
in its own right for the first time in history, undermining the
authority of member states, critics say. France and the Netherlands
rejected the original blueprint in polls in 2005. Four years ago,
in a ballot organised by the Daily Mail, nine out of ten Britons
demanded a say on the issue.
EU
leaders including Germany's Angela Merkel have lined up to boast
that the new 'amending treaty' is the old constitution in a new
form. "The substance of the constitution is preserved,"
Mrs. Merkel told MEPs last month. "That is a fact."
The
president of the European commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has
declared the document will usher in 'the world's first non-imperial
empire'. Formal negotiations on the new treaty begin behind closed
doors later this month, leading up to a summit of foreign ministers
in Portugal in September.
The
final document is expected to be ready to be signed by heads of
state in October. The Tory leader in Brussels, Timothy Kirkhope,
said: "Gordon Brown says there are no constitutional elements
to the treaty text on the table - that is now confirmed by Giscard
as spin and deception. Gordon Brown has made much of the fact
that he will not indulge in spin, which was the hallmark of his
predecessor. Giscard's comments today simply reinforce what every
other European leader has said about this new treaty - the constitution
is back."
"We
will keep up the pressure on Gordon Brown to come clean with the
British people and offer the referendum they were promised by
this Government."
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