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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With
600,000 immigrants waiting to be deported, Labour comes up with
another bright idea: Begging them to go by text
By
James Slack - Home Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, March 7 2007
Labour
will get tough on illegal immigrants - by sending them text messages
begging them to go home. Under desperate plans to clear a backlog
of 600,000 cases, their driving licences could also be cancelled.
The
Home Office said the aim was to make their life in the UK 'uncomfortable
and constrained'. But critics said it showed the Government is
incapable of finding and deporting illegal immigrants and is relying
on gimmicks to look like it is tackling the problem.
Shadow
Home Secretary David Davis said: "This is a serious admission
of defeat. John Reid is effectively giving up on trying to deport
the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in this country,
preferring instead to spam them with text messages. As for removing
driving licenses, does he really believe that a person who is
prepared to live in a country illegally is that concerned about
having the correct qualifications to drive in that country? Yet
again we see another pathetic attempt to grab a headline rather
than address a problem. Instead of spin and bluster from ministers,
the public deserve effective action."
Is
that a pay-as-you-stay phone?
asks
Littlejohn - Daily Mail, March 9, 2007
John
Reid is planning to sent text messages to illegal immigrants
asking them to go home. And if they don't co-operate they
will have their driving licenses taken away.
Brilliant.
That should do the trick. What are they doing with driving
licenses in the first place? If you shouldn't be here,
you shouldn't be allowed to drive, let alone take a test.
I would imagine that if someone is here illegally, they
won't be bothered about having a licence.
There
are estimated to be about 600,000 of these people in Britain.
How does the Government know they've all got mobile phones,
let alone know all their numbers? I can't even remember
the number of my own mobile.
How
do they manage to afford mobile phones? Are they on pay-as-you-go?
Or, in this case, pay-as-you-stay.
The
Home Office has come up with ludicrous stunts over the
years. But this takes the Jaffa cake. Say that a failed
asylum seeker, who has paid thousands to a people trafficker
and probably using forged documents, does receive a text
asking him to leave.
What's
he going to do - text back 'Fair nuff I gt my coat?' Dream
on.
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Text
messages will be sent to migrants who arrived in the UK legally,
but whose visas or permission to stay is about to expire. They
will be warned they are no longer entitled to remain here, and
told to 'take steps to leave the UK' or get a new visa.
Those
who do not bother could be sent reminders. But ministers admit
they have to legal right to ask for the mobile numbers of those
applying to travel to Britain and critics insist the messages
will simply be ignored by anyone who receives them.
Other
plans in the 'get tough' enforcement strategy include fining landlords
up to £20,000 for housing illegal immigrants. Government
departments will be told to work more closely to block access
to the NHS and other services, such as benefit payouts. This includes
drawing up a 'watch list' to alert Government agencies if someone
applies for services to which they are not entitled.
Three
NHS Trusts will pilot a scheme where they check immigration databases
before providing treatment to foreign nationals. They will attempt
to secure payment from anyone not entitled to free care.
The
document, Enforcing the Rules, appears to concede some illegal
immigrants will spend years in Britain before being kicked out.
They will be grouped into categories, with those likely to cause
most harm to Britain - such as criminals - targeted for removal
first.
The
document adds: "For others, sanctions will increase with
noncompliance to ensure that living illegally becomes ever more
uncomfortable and constrained until they leave or are removed."
There
are an estimated 600,000 illegal immigrants living in the UK,
including at least 285,000 failed asylum seekers. Efforts to remove
them are being hampered by a shortage of immigration officers,
and lack of room to detain them prior to deportation.
Mr
Reid yesterday insisted that 250 police officers would be seconded
to immigration duties by next year, but the total has yet to be
agreed with chief constables, who say it is too early to talk
about numbers.
Liberal
Democrat home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said: "If tough
rhetoric and gimmicks were enough to sort out our immigration
system, we would have the best in the world. The public wants
quiet competence, not loud incompetence."
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