Silent Majority Speaks

Rescuing Democracy in the United Kingdom from our current Elected Dictatorship

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.

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

November 5, 2006 (1270 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 2837 US - 121 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media

November 13 2006 (1278 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 2851 US - 125 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media

STOP PRESS

Extremist Abid Javaid at the Home Office keeps his job

By James Slack and Gordon Rayner - Daily Mail, November 16, 2006

A Home Office official exposed as a leading member of an Islamic extremist group will keep his £40,000 job because Tony Blair has failed to ban the organisation. In the wake of the July 7 bombings last year, the prime Minister promised to outlaw Hizb ut-Tahrir, which refuses to condemn suicide bombers and has called for the destruction of Israel.

But nothing has been done.

As a result, Avid Javaid's bosses at the scandal-hit Immigration and Nationality Directorate are powerless to sack the 41-year-old He will stay on unless it can be proved that he abused his position as a senior executive officer in the IT department.

As Home Secretary John Reid launched an inquiry yesterday, the Kenyan-born father of four was 'working from home' with the permission of senior officials. Any attempt to remove him would almost certainly lead to a costly employment tribunal. Mr Jarvaid from Thornton Heath, South London, will be examined to see if he has accessed any sensitive files without authorisation or used it to assist his political activism.

The extraordinary case, as well as laying bare the consequences of Mr Blair's failure to ban Hizb ut- Tahrir, also reveals a loophole in Civil Service rules. Both the prison service and police can ban their staff from belonging to extremist groups, even if the organisation is not proscribed.

Police Officers, for example, are barred from being members of the BNP. But Whitehall sources said there is 'no such clarity' for the rest of the civil service. It leaves the door open for hundreds of hardliners to secure jobs at the heart of Government.

Tory spokesman Patrick Mercer blamed a huge failure of political will by the Government for the shambles. He said: "This government talks tough but fails to deliver, and here is a prime example. The result is the Home Office doing nothing about somebody working at the heart of Government who could be an enemy of the state."

Mr Mercer warned that - as the rules stand -dozens more extremists could be employed in the Home Office and across Whitehall.

Sources at Croydon mosque, which has been trying to expel extremists, said Mr Javaid was a senior operative for Hizb ut-Tahrir in the South East and helped distribute its literature. Mr Javaid is believed to have worked at the Home Office for some years and is currently in charge of a small team of staff buying IT equipment and handing out contracts.

He was security-cleared before taking the job without concerns being raised. The application form contains a question asking for the declaration of any terrorist groups - but Hizb ut-Tahrir does not fall into this category. It would have to be declared only if was proscribed.

Mr Reid said yesterday: "If there has been a breach of the code of conduct or the Civil Service code by an employee, that will be dealt with and dealt with robustly."

Mr Javaid lives in a rented house with his wife, Wan, a 35-year-old maths teacher, and three daughters and one son. He declined to comment yesterday.

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