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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January
19, 2007 (1330 days since war ended)
Death
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January
21, 2007 (1332 days since war ended)
Death
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Judge
rages: We have no idea who is in the country
By
BenTaylor - Crime Correspondent - Daily Mail, January 23, 2007
A
judge attacked the Government's immigration policy yesterday and
said: "We have absolutely no idea who is in this country."
Michael
Lawson spoke out after sentencing a gang who smuggled dozens of
migrants into the country using luxury yachts and a speedboat.
He also criticised an apparent loophole in the law which potentially
allows foreign workers to stay in the country illegally.
Judge
Lawson said that the Inland Revenue was handing out temporary
tax registration cards which were then being produced as proof
of residence in Britain. All those applying for the document had
to do was supply two forms of identification - which the judge
feared were not being rigorously checked.
He
added: "For taxpayers in this country we have had further
confirmation that we have absolutely no idea who is in this country.
Or for those who come here for a limited time, where they are
or what they are doing, or whether they return to their countries."
Mr
Lawson said: "We have heard that on production of two items
of identification, the Inland Revenue department is content to
issue a temporary registration card without any apparent concern
for the validity of these documents. Such a temporary registration
card is used by immigrants to be able to work in this country.
This seems to me to be a wholly unsatisfactory situation and something
the Inland Revenue should consider. Because of their lack of care
in checking the identification results in people here illegally
being able to be legitimately, this is wholly unsatisfactory."
A
spokesman for Revenue and Customs said last night that it was
possible that the judge was referring to temporary registration
cards issued to construction workers to allow them to pay tax.
She added that the cards were not designed to reflect anyone's
immigration status, but did say that the scheme was due to be
reviewed in the spring.
Maidstone
Crown Court heard how Moldovan Anatolie Melnicov, 46, masterminded
an operation using two sailing boats and a speedboat worth £35,000
to bring illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe across the Channel
to small unpatrolled ports under the cover of darkness.
The
court was told that forged documents, such as passports, driving
licenses and foreign identity cards would be used to apply for
a temporary tax card. Melnikov's gang, including at least another
three members from former Soviet Bloc countries, made 11 trips
to France bringing back five or six people at a time.
The
human cargo paid the gang £1,650 each for the Channel crossing
netting about £100,000 during ten months from August 2005
to June last year. Alan Kent, prosecuting, said: "People
were collected and then brought back to small ports in the UK
with no immigration officers or police officers."
The
gang first used Ramsgate harbour in Kent from August 2005 before
switching to Rye, East Sussex, last year. Staff at Ramsgate reported
seeing yachts arrive in the early morning and groups of men getting
off. They would then be bundled into waiting cars and driven to
London.
Melnicov,
who was convicted of rape in Moldova in 1982, was sentenced to
eight years and nine months for conspiracy to facilitate illegal
entry, and 15 months consecutively for using false documents.
He will be deported on his release.
Bohdan
Ivaniv, 28, from Ukraine, was cleared of the conspiracy, but had
admitted using a forged Polish passport and driving licence to
stay in this country. He was jailed for 12 months.
Melnicov's
wife, Julija Megne, 29, a Latvian, was also found guilty of the
conspiracy, but her sentencing was adjourned until next Tuesday.
Ioan Sabo, 33, a Romanian who admitted the conspiracy charge before
the trial, will also be sentenced next week.
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