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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April
30 2009 (1429 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3351 US - 146 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media
This
site has had 
visitors
Matron
made the nurse
On
February 16, my mother was admitted to Pinderfields Hospital
in Wakefield, W. Yorkshire, with a chest infection. She
was cared for very well while awaiting a bed on a respiratory
ward, but then had the misfortune to be transferred to
a geriatric ward. Within three days, she and many other
patients on the ward, caught clostridium difficile. Two
of them died.
The
ward was closed for two days and a great fuss was made,
ensuring visitors applied antibacterial handwash. But
not one doctor, nurse or ancillary staff used the wash
provided in mum's room. Not only did she catch this horrendous
bug but the treatment she received was nothing short of
neglect.
Her
meals were left just out of reach. If she could reach
the food, she hadn't the strength to cut it up and had
to contend with an oxygen mask permanently across her
mouth. It was obvious she couldn't manage on her own but
she didn't like to ask for help.
When
the C-diff caught hold, it was a horror story. When she
was lucky enough to be left her buzzer within reach, no
one answered it. AT the nurses' station, there were four
nurses chatting away while the buzzer beeped unattended.
My
sister and I stayed with mum round the clock, taking it
in shifts, as mum was frightened and ill. We couldn't
rely on the nurses ever looking in on her. Mum was in
such pain that eventually the doctor prescribed morphine
through a syringe driver.
Every
time mum came round from the morphine, she would have
to beg for a nurse to give her another injection - sometimes
having to wait nearly an hour. The day before she died,
one nurse refused to give it to her even though the doctor
had prescribed it.
Mum
was so poorly that the doctors had withdrawn all treatment
apart from the morphine. You would think they would have
made her comfortable till the end, but my sister and I
had to fight for mum's basis right to be pain-free. She
died on March 10, on C-diff and septicaemia.
I
feel that if she had not been admitted to that ward, our
mum would be alive. Mother had been a nurse and would
come home with her hands red and sore because she had
washed them so much. She lived in fear of Matron. The
modern NHS is guilty of murder by negligence because a
few basic hygienic rules and lack of discipline, which
should be second nature, were not carried out.
From
Lyn Gledhill, Stafford - Daily Mail, May 2, 2007
Lady
of the lamp
If
Miss Florence Nightingale were reincarnated as Matron
of an NHS Hospital, super-bugs would be banished in a
short space of time and thousands of lives would be saved,
Human
rights lawyers would be queueing up to represent people
who had been made redundant or fired for incompetence,
MPs would be raising questions in the House, union leaders
would be calling for strike action and NHS finance officers
would complain about extra laundry costs.
Patients
would be very happy about bug-free wards and improved
efficiency all round, but who cares about them?
From
Eric Nichols, London, SW5 - Daily Mail, May 2, 2007
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