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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June
29, 2006 (1146 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2529 US - 113 UK - >60,000? civilians - 25 media
A
collapse like the fall of Rome. What one expert says will be upon
us soon
by
Sam Greenhill - Daily Mail, June 12, 2006
Britain
and Europe face being overrun by mass migration from the Third
World within 30 years, a senior Royal Navy strategist claimed
yesterday. In an apocalyptic vision of security dangers, Rear
Admiral Chris Parry forecast 'reverse colonisation', where migrants
become more dominant than their hosts.
He
said seeds of the problem were spiralling population growth and
environmental destruction. In the competition for resources, many
would flee their homelands and head en masse for better places
such as Britain. The Internet, cheap
foreign travel and free international phone calls would hasten
the demise, he said, because new migrants would stay connected
with their homelands rather than assimilate into the host country's
culture.
His
prognosis is that Western civilisation faces a threat on a par
with the collapse of the Roman Empire after the 5th century invasion
of Rome by the Goths, the East Germanic tribe. And he said the
process could start within ten years with African pirates attacking
yachts and beaches in the Mediterranean.
Admiral
Parry is head of the Minister of Defence unit tasked with identifying
future threats to Britain's security. He said: "Globalisation
makes assimilation seem redundant and old-fashioned. The process
acts as a sort of reverse colonisation, where groups of people
are self-contained, going back and forth between their countries,
exploiting sophisticated networks and using instant communication
on phones and the Internet.
Admiral
Parry, 52, an Oxford graduate who was mentioned is dispatches
in the Falklands War, warned in a presentation last week that
the world was heading for a cataclysmic security breakdown. Although
it would start in the Third World, the instability would seep
into the West via the Mediterranean. "At some time in the
next ten years it may not be safe to sail a yacht between Gibraltar
and Malta," he warned.
He
predicted that as flood, water shortages, agricultural decline
or starvation strike, the most dangerous zones would be Africa,
especially the northern half, and the Middle East and central
Asia. The flashpoints would also be regions affected by radical
Islam.
With
rural areas of Third World countries falling into ruin, millions
would be forced into towns and cities, with the result that large
metropolises such as Mexico City face becoming ungovernable. In
an effort to control population growth, some countries might be
tempted to copy China's 'one child' policy, but with the widespread
preference for male children this would produce a ratio of boys
to girls as much as 150 to 100.
"When
you combine the lower prospects for communal life with macho youth
and economic deprivation you tend to get trouble, typified by
gangs, and organised criminal activity," he said. He
pinpointed 2012 to 2018 as the period when the current global
power structure was likely to crumble, with the United States's
superpower status challenged by the rise of nations such as China,
India, Brazil and Iran.
Admiral
Parry, whose slogan was 'old dog, new tricks' when he commanded
the attack ship HMS Fearless, delivered his vision in the presentation
to senior officers at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
He did not claim all the threats would come true, but warned what
was likely to happen if problems were not addressed by politicians.
Lord
Boyce, a former Chief of Defence Staff, said of the analysis:
"Bringing it together in this way shows we have some very
serious challenges ahead. The real problem is getting them taken
seriously at the top of the government."
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