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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18, 2007 (1509days since war ended)
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26, 2007 (1517 days since war ended)
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710,000
immigrants get the right to work
BY
James Slack - Home Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, July 25, 2007
More
than 710,000 foreigners were given the right to live and work
in Britain last year - including 321,000 Eastern Europeans. It
takes the total number of National Insurance numbers handed out
to immigrants to more than two million in the past four years
alone.
Yesterday's
figures reveal that - despite Labour's promise to switch to a
policy of 'controlled immigration' - the number of people being
handed the right to work here is still increasing.
Last
year's total of 713,000 foreigners allocated NI numbers is an
increase of 51,000, or 8%, on 2005/6. The 321,000 Eastern Europeans
arriving was a rise of 165, or 44,000.
It
came as a Tory MP criticised the Home Secretary for not knowing
the level of net migration in Britain each year - which is currently
185,000. James Clappison said he was astonished that Jacqui Smith,
who was appointed last month, was unable to answer such an important
question during her first questioning by Westminster's home affairs
committee yesterday afternoon.
Miss
Smith, who also failed to answer a question abut the number of
homes needed to house new migrants, said she would have to write
to MPs with the details.
The
research on NI numbers, published by the Department for Work and
Pensions, said most of the new arrivals from the former Eastern
Bloc were Poles - with 223,000 arriving last year.
Critics
said the total number of 321,000 Eastern Europeans allocated NI
numbers makes a mockery of the Home Office';s worker registration
schemes, which logged only 245,625 arrivals.
Crucially,
the NI numbers include the self-employed - such as plumbers -
who do not have to sign up with the Home Office. The figures also
showed that 145,000 NI numbers were given to arrivals from Asia
and the Middle-East, 103,000 from old EU countries, 61,000 from
Africa, 33,000 from Australia and Oceana, 32,000 from the Americas
and 16,000 from non-EU countries in Europe.
The
report also revealed that, of the total number allocated NI numbers
last year, 16,000 were claiming out-of-work benefits within six
months of registering. The Tories estimated the bill to the taxpayer
for the handouts could be as much as £80million.
Shadow
Home Secretary David Davis said: "These extraordinary figures
show that over two million new foreign workers have come to Britain
in the last four years - and this is simply the number for those
who are working legally. The numbers coming are not only huge,
they are accelerating. It is impossible for the British jobs markets
to absorb so many people so quickly without causing severe strains."
Tory
work and pensions spokesman Chris Grayling added: "At a time
when Gordon Brown is refusing to provide a pensions lifeboat for
the 125,000 British pensioners who have lost their pensions, I
think people will find it surprising to say the least that so
much money is being spent by our benefits system on people who
are supposed to have come to the country to work."
NI
numbers are required in work - either for an employer or if one
is self-employed - and to claim benefits and tax credits. The
number allocated to foreigners has more than doubled since 2002/3,
when the total was 349,200.
A
Home Office spokesman said: "The number of National Insurance
numbers issued to accession nationals is consistent with Home
Office data and shows that people are coming here from the expanded
EU to work. However, there are legitimate concerns about managing
some of the effects of migration on communities. We are listening
to these concerns." He added: "To obtain a National
Insurance number people have to demonstrate that they have the
right to work."
Last
year, it emerged NI numbers were being given out even when staff
suspected the migrant may be in Britain illegally. The Government
insists this is no longer the case.
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