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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May
28, 2006 (1114 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2464 US - 111 UK - >60,000? civilians - 25 media
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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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Another
study questions the MMR vaccine
From
Emily Cook in Montreal - Daily Mail, June 3, 2006
Measles
has been found in the intestines of children with a form of autism,
it emerged yesterday. The study supports the work of Dr Andrew
Wakefield, the discredited scientist who first suggested that
the MMR vaccine may be behind autism.
Campaigners
latched on to the research, claiming it was clear evidence of
a link. One of the scientists behind the findings warned, however,
against making such a 'leap'. Dr Stephen Walker, of Wake Forest
University Medical Centre in North Carolina, said: "We haven't
done anything to demonstrate that the measles virus is causing
autism or even causing bowel disease."
He
said the findings replicated Dr Wakefield's in establishing a
strong association between measles and autistic children with
bowel disease. But he added: "Even if we showed association
between measles virus and bowel disease and we published in a
peer reviewed journal, the conclusion will be simply that there
is measles virus in the gut of a large number of children who
have regressive autism and bowel disease. End of story."
Richard
Halvorsen, a London GP and childhood vaccination expert, claimed
the results were 'incredibly significant'. He said: "This
may not be proof of causation, but we have confirmation that there
is a association between MMR and autistic children. The Government
needs to have a little humility and accept there could be an issue
and as a matter of urgency re-address their vaccination programme."
Dr
Walker presented his initial findings at the International Meeting
for Autism Research in Montreal yesterday. The study - being led
by New York University School of Medicine - involved 275 U.S.
children. They all had bowel disease and regressive autism, where
a normal child suddenly loses skills. Gut tissue biopsies were
carried out on 82 of the children and 85% showed signs of the
vaccine strain on the measles virus. Thirty five of the cases
were confirmed by DNA testing.
Dr
Walker, who hopes to finish the study this summer, added: "There
are lots of viruses in the gut and any one of them could be causing
inflammation. If it truly is from a vaccine and this virus causes
inflammation and a chronic bowel condition in some susceptible
children, then that's something that needs to be known.."
Dr
Wakefield, who now works in Texas, welcomed the research yesterday.
"The findings are immensely reassuring in as much as they
conform the validity of our original study," he said. "Everything
that we reported in the original paper in 1998 has been supported
by independent replications. In an effort to maintain vaccine
uptake and protect susceptible children against autism I believe
that the Government should, at the very least, make single vaccines
available again."
The
controversy has scared some parents off the measles, mumps and
rubella jab. Uptake is now as low as 70% in some areas.. Jackie
Fletcher, founder of vaccination pressure group, JABS, said yesterday:
"This appears to be further compelling evidence linking the
MMR vaccine to autism. It confirms that the measles virus is present
in the gut of these children when it shouldn't be. The Government
should reinstate the single vaccines immediately. They have failed
in the care of their children."
The
Department of Health insisted the latest study had no validity
because control groups were not used. "The same investigation
in Dr Wakefield's own laboratories showed no evidence of measles
virus in bowel tissue from autistic children," said a spokesman.
"Several properly conducted studies that include control
groups, have failed to find measles virus persisting in the blood
cells of autistic children. We believe there remains no convincing
epidemiological or virological evidence for MMR play a part in
causing autism. MMR remains the best form of protection against
measles, mumps and rubella, and it is recognised by the World
Health Organisation as having an outstanding safety record."
Last
year an analysis of 31 MMR studies by the respected Cochrane Library
found no association between the jab and autism.
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