Silent Majority Speaks
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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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Illegals
working in security doubles to 11,000
By
James Slack - Home Affairs Editor - Daily Mail, December 14,
2007
More
than 11,000 illegal immigrants were wrongly given jobs in the
security industry - double the number first claimed by the Government,
it emerged last night.
Despite
the huge number of cases uncovered since Ministers learned of
the scandal in April, there have been only 15 arrests. The Home
Office refused to say how many of this tiny number had been
deported, indicating it could be a handful or even fewer.
The
department originally indicated that 5,000 illegal immigrants
had been cleared to work as security guards and door staff by
the Security Industry Authority. But, in an update to MPs yesterday,
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the true total would be far
higher.
She
said 6,653 illegal immigrants with no right to work have been
positively identified. A further 4,447 cases have been unearthed
where immigration officials strongly suspect the person has
no right to work in Britain.
That
makes a total of 11,100 who should not have been given SIA licenses.
They represent one in every four non-EU citizens cleared to
work in the UK. Of these, 12 had been subcontracted to a company
that provided staff to guard locations under Metropolitan Police
contracts. Others were employed at ports and airports.
Ministers
then ordered a trawl of all people from outside the EU who were
granted licences in the wake of the revelations, but the result
was only made public last month.
Shadow
Home Secretary David Davis gave Miss Smith - already under pressure
because of the police funding row - a mauling when she updated
MPs yesterday. She was battered with a list of questions - many
of which she ducked, including the number of illegal immigrant
guards to have actually been deported. She said only that 409
licences had been revoked and more than 10,000 letters 'instituting
revocation' had been sent.
Miss
Smith also declined to say if any of her staff had informed
Downing Street about the fiasco, saying only that she had not
personally told Gordon Brown.
Mr
Davis taunted the Home Secretary: "Does she accept that
this was a massive policy failure by her department? Does she
accept that the SIA led the industry to believe that it checked
immigration status? The SIA held these documents for up to three
months. In some cases, they were presumably forgeries. How was
the Security Industry Authority able to mss up to 11,000 forgeries?"
He
added: "Who is responsible for this failure? Will there
now be prosecutions in every case of providing forged documents?
The application form provides for the applicant to give a National
Insurance number. In how many cases was an illegal immigrant
given a National Insurance number?"
A
Home Office spokesman said: "Already the Border and Immigration
Agency has carried out 328 intelligence-led investigations and
as a result carried out 101 enforcement operations. The Agency
plans to carry out another 400 enforcement operations by the
end of January."
The
Home Secretary promised in future to insist the SIA ask job
applicants to declare on the form they are here legally - a
question not currently asked.
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409
licences to work in the security industry have been revoked
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