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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September
11, 2006 (1234 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2669 US - 118 UK - >300,000? civilians - 25 media
September
22, 269 (1245 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2695 US - 118 UK - >300,000? civilians - 25 media
Labour
ready to surrender more power to Brussels
By
James Slack - Home Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, September 22,
2006
Britain
is poised to surrender to another EU grab of its sovereignty in
a policy U-turn, this time on law and order. The Government will
today begin talks on transferring control of sentencing for serious
crimes, court procedures and even the rights of crime suspects.
Justice
Commissioner Franco Frattini has demanded member states should
give up their existing veto over Europe-wide crime, justice and
home affairs policy. Despite Tony Blair's promise that Britain
would retain control of criminal law, the Home Office is expected
to agree.
It
will allow the EU's Council of Ministers to impose policy on the
UK from Brussels. Its jurisdiction would include setting the length
of sentences that could be handed down by British courts for terrorism
and organised crimes.
Opponents
say the EU is also likely to seize control of the rights afforded
to crime suspects. The power of the European Court of Justice
over criminal law could also be increased. And foreign police
are likely to be allowed to operate in the UK.
Last
night, an ICM poll for the Open Europe group revealed that 72%
of British voters want to keep the veto over law and order policy,
rather than move to a system of qualified majority voting. Shadow
Attorney General Dominic Grieve said: "This confirms that
the public are overwhelmingly against any such move. So any acceptance
of these damaging proposals would not only be a clear breach of
the Government's many promises to keep the veto, but would also
mean a total disregard for the public's views."
The
grab on sovereignty is being promoted by Brussels as vital in
the fight against organised crime and terrorism. Mr Frattini says
the current system, where all members have to agree before a justice
policy is implemented EU- wide, is inefficient and slow. He is
demanding its replacement with a system of qualified majority
voting. It would, in theory, allow the EU to force policies on
Britain to which it did not consent, provided the bulk of other
member states were in favour.
Many
EU states - notably Germany, Denmark and the Irish Republic -
are concerned by the move, which is being debated at informal
meetings of interior and justice ministers in Tampere, Finland.
But the Home Office, which has sent junior minister Joan Ryan,
admits actively considering the plan.
A
Home Office spokesman said: "We share an interest in increasing
efficiency and speed in decision making within the EU. It is still
very much under discussion to see whether this would be a suitable
way of achieving this. We would not consider agreeing to any proposal
that we did not believe was firmly in the UK national interests."
Officials
say that, if the veto is swept away, Britain will insist on replacing
it with an 'opt in' agreement. This would allow Britain to only
sign up to measures it agrees with, but it has yet to secure any
deal.
A
final decision is expected at a later date in the Finnish presidency,
possibly next month. To be passed, all member states will have
to agree.
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You
are far more important than you think you are. We need to
make this country a better place for your children and their
children and their children's children.
If
you dont act now, what are you going to tell yor children
in 10 or 20 years from now, when the EU has taken away our
freedom? That you could have made a difference but you sat
back and did nothing? I know you wouldn't want to live with
that guilt. So act today. Don't let your children down;
don't let down all those people who died trying to save
our country in World War I and World War II. And most of
all - don't let yourself down. Visit www.vernoncoleman.com
now.
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