Silent Majority Speaks

Rescuing Democracy in the United Kingdom from our current Elected Dictatorship

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.

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

May 3 2009 (1433 days since war ended)

Death Toll: 3358 US - 147 UK - >1,000,000? civilians - 25 media

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We're worse off than ever, insist doctors

By Daniel Martin - Health Correspondent - Daily Mail, May 1, 2007

GP services are in worse shape now than before Labour took power, doctors claim. Despite hefty pay rises and fewer working hours, two thirds of GPs believe general practice has deteriorated.

In a survey for Doctor magazine, 69% said the service had worsened, while 18% thought it had improved and 13% believed it had stayed the same.

Seventy percent said they believed the G|P profession was under threat, while only 13% were optimistic and saw great opportunities ahead. Fewer than half (46%) said most primary care would be provided by GPs within five years.

The new GP contract has seen average pay soar beyond £100,000, even though doctors work fewer hours per week and have withdrawn from out-of-hours services in droves. A spokesman for the British Medical Association said: "We do know that GPs are angry and morale is not good. The satisfaction of doing a worthwhile job is much than that about pay. They feel frustrated because their attempts to use their professional clinical judgment on behalf of their patients are frequently thwarted by politically driven initiatives."

Charles Creswell, editor of Doctor, said: "GPs' optimism about the future of the NHS has evaporated. Too often they see bean counting replacing clinical judgment and health policy based on winning votes, not delivering better care for patients."

Last month a survey showed doctors were turning their backs on Labour - with only 7% planning to vote for the party compared to 43% for the Conservatives. And obstetricians warned that mothers and babies could be at risk because the training of doctors was deteriorating.

The Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology said consultants spend less time training junior doctors because of the fewer hours doctors are allowed to work under European rules.

Opposition parties yesterday called on Tony Blair to apologise for Labour's 'wasted years'. Tory leader David Cameron said: "At a time when community hospitals are threatened with closure, when A&E units are being downgraded, when maternity units are threatened with closure .... I think he should be apologising rather than boasting."

Liberal Democrat Health spokesman Norman Lamb said: "Labour has presided over ten years of wasted opportunities in the NHS."

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