Silent Majority Speaks

Rescuing Democracy in the United Kingdom from our current Elected Dictatorship

Write this letter to your Labour MP to get rid of Blair

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 The solution for halting the decline of fish stocks in British waters is breathtakingly simple - remove, with immediate effect, all foreign fishing fleets from British waters. , Letter to the Mail on Sunday from Patrick Carroll, Lowestoft, Suffolk - January 2, 2005

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How is it possible that an island nation like ours is running out of fish? A smaller island nation to our north, Iceland, with its 200 mile exclusion zone, is doing very well. But they do not subscribe to a Common Fisheries Policy(CFP) organised by the European Commission.

The CFP is nothing less than licensed piracy by EU nations in our fishing grounds, agreed by Sir Edward Heath over thirty years ago. The price for joining the "Common Market", as it was then known, was the virtual destruction our fishing industry. This report stresses that: "Restoring National of Local control over our waters is now essential to give British fisher-man a fair deal."

In a letter to the Mail - May 19, 2004, Frank Clarkson from Fleetwood, Lancs., writes:

GET OUT - NOW

"The ten new EU members are to get £200 million to assist their fisheries, the largest sum going to help modernise the Polish fleet. This raises the spectre of vastly more overfishing in the North Sea. Part of this generous gift is paid for out of UK fishing industry taxes and doled out to unelected EU bureaucrats intent on scuttling the British national fleet.

"The insult to our fishermen has gone far enough.

"Blair's fishing strategy unit is one more attempt to bamboozle the voter that it is the panacea to cure our many ills. An 'exit strategy' is needed not only for Iraq, but also for the Common Fisheries Policy and the EU."

Do you agree that we should demand what is ours and withdraw, if necessary, from EU Common Fisheries Policy? Agree strongly Agree Disagree Disagree strongly Don't know Don't care Please click one of the links above to cast your vote Current results

Do you agree that If withdrawal from the Common Fisheries Policy leads to the UK being expelled from the EU, it would be a price worth paying? Agree strongly Agree Disagree Disagree strongly Don't know Don't care Please click one of the links above to cast your vote Current results

Current and prospective Parliamentary candidates of all Parties running for election could share a platform at public forums in every constituency. They would be presented with  the results of polls on this issue expressed by voters in their constituency.

The candidates could be asked if their own views and that of their Party manifesto corresponded with the polls, and if not, how they intended to represent the will of the majority of local voters.  Local and National Press, Radio and TV coverage would be arranged and the results published on this web site.

Here is another powerful strategy for using your vote effectively in the forthcoming General Election. Send your sitting and prospective MPs a letter defining your requirements if they want your vote. This example deals with the proposed EU Constitutional Treaty.

Your letters would end: "If you do not answer this letter, I shall take it that you intend to follow the Government line. I shall act accordingly in the forthcoming General Election."

Blair's defiance of the will of the majority of we, the people of the UK, over the invasion of Iraq must be exposed by voters as a matter or urgency, and not just in the two by-elections we have had this July and the European elections in June 2004. But how can this be done?

The most effective way of getting our deceitful PM to resign would be to mobilise the army of Labour MPs currently in the House of Commons and get them to demand it, the loss of their seat to be a penalty if they did not. All voters in Labour-held constituencies need to write a letter along these lines to their local Labour MPs:

Here's one to get Tony Blair to resign:

Dear Despite his absolute and unequivocal assurances over the past year of the serious risk to our security of Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction', Prime Minister Blair has admitted, that the threat was non-existent. For that critical error of judgement and for his gross incompetence in handling this very important issue, I ask you to take immediate steps to ensure that Tony Blair does the honourable thing and resign without delay.. I would therefore be much obliged if you would propose and help mobilise a Parliamentary vote of 'No Confidence' in Mr Blair which, despite Labour's huge majority, would leave the PM with no option but to resign. If I get no reply to this letter, I shall assume you will continue to support Mr Blair as our Prime Minister. In such circumstances I shall not vote for you in the forthcoming General Election. Signed:

Simple, non-violent, protest letters along these lines on a variety of issues could be the basis for re-vitalising our democracy and increasing voters' interest and participation in politics. Download a printable copy of the above letter here.

Or why not create a questionnaire that you send to all the candidates in your constituency, getting them to give yes/no answers to questions of your choice, and ending it with the same paragraph(above).

Download a printable example of the questionnaire.

It is high time for the people of this United Kingdom to stop allowing themselves to be manipulated by politicians. We need our representatives in Parliament to genuinely reflect the view of the majority in their own constituency, even if this means going against their personal and/or their party's policy. While they may argue their case, hoping to change the minds of the majority in their constituency, they should ultimately be obliged to reflect the majority view of those who elect them. 

It will be argued by politicians of all parties that most voters don't have the knowledge necessary to express an opinion on important subjects at issue, and that our vote is a form of delegated democracy. We should argue that it is their duty to ensure that we voters do have ready access to such information as is necessary to form an intelligent opinion. That, after all, is one main purpose of Opposition Parties in our Parliamentary Democracy.

Most important of all, such proceedings would rekindle in voters their latent interest and obligation to cast their vote,, knowing that the candidate of their choice would be more likely to act in accordance with their wishes. A much higher turnout in elections would be the result.

Contact your local Party Chairman. Gain his support for setting up public forums in your constituency on these, as well as any other relevant topics, well before the next General Election expected in 2005. You should then, depending on the integrity of the candidate of your choice, feel fairly certain that your view on any subject being debated in Parliament will more accurately be reflected by your representative in that assembly.

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