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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November
29, 2006 (1294 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2885 US - 126 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media
December
15 2006 (1297 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2938 US - 126 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media
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'7.25
million more migrants in 50 years'
By
James Slack - Home Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, December 7, 2006
Immigrants
will swell Britain's population by a staggering 7.25million over
50 years, Pre-Budget documents reveal. Gordon Brown's predictions
for future economic growth are based on migration adding 145,000
people to the population every year until 2055.
They
will be responsible for three quarters of the total predicted
rise of 9.7million in the number living in the UK. The number
living here in half a century is forecast to be 69.5million.
The
level of net migration expected by the Treasury is slightly lower
than the record levels currently pouring in. Last year, net migration
- the number of people arriving, compared with those leaving -
was 185,000, or 500 a day. But it is still a huge number, particularly
as the Government has admitted having no idea how schools and
hospitals have been coping with the recent influx. It also dramatically
outstrips the rate of net migration when Labour came to power
in 1997 - then it stood at only 50,000.
The
prediction also suggests the Chancellor plans continuing use of
cheap, overseas labour to control wage inflation. Critics have
accused Mr Brown of taking a short-term approach. Instead of attempting
to increase productivity, or lure jobless Britons off benefits
and into work, he instead relies on large numbers of immigrants
to grow the economy.
Most
of Mr Brown's predicted new arrivals are expected to come from
within the EU, including Eastern Europe. More than 600,000 migrants
from the former Eastern Bloc have flooded in since May 2004, with
the influx showing no sign of slowing. Next month, Romanians and
Bulgarians will be able to travel here freely, though Home Secretary
John Reid will initially limit the number of work permits to 20,000.
The
growth being predicted by Mr Brown will be sharpest over the next
three years. It will then decrease, to give an average over the
past 50 years of 145,000.
Last
week, Mr Reid admitted no 'systemic' study is taking place into
whether public services are able to cope with the strain being
imposed upon them by Eastern European migrants. And, despite calls
from MPs and pressure groups for research into the impact they
are having on towns and cities unprepared for their arrival, there
are no plans to find out.
This
is despite the numbers
pouring in being at least 16 times the Government's original prediction
of only 13,000 a year.
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