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
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Write
this letter to your Labour MP to get rid of Blair
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Letter from P.Cove, Aylesbury, BUCKS.-
Daily Mail, January 31, 2005
After a clear
vote against them, we still got eight non-elected Regional
Assemblies. When we vote against the EU Constituion, we'll
get them anyway.
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Regional
assemblies must be stopped
Cornwall
County Council assessing pros and cons of withdrawing
from the
unelected South West Assembly
- cast your vote here
£8m
in MSPs' expenses, but what do we get for it?
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Regional
Madness
Splitting
up the UK was planned in Brussels 40 years ago by EU federalists.
Realising
that British people would resist attempts to dismantle the
UK, it decided to convince unelected political minnows that
the way forward was to establish regional offices.
These
were set up by Government in 1997 and have cost taxpayers
a small forture. The South-East region started with a staff
of five, but now has 55. Hopefully, electors of the NE will
reject this costly layer of bureacratic regulation and interference.
Frank
Clarkson, Fleetwood, Lancs
Letters
- Mail - Oct 28, 2004
North
and South
If
the North East of England won't vote for a regional assembly,
no region will. The assembly was offered as an inadequate
expensive sop to the English for the financial and democratic
disadvantage their country has suffered through Welsh and
Scottish devolution.
What
now will be done to give just government to the prople of
England? The only solution is to ensure that only
English MPs are allowed to vote
in the Commons on laws that affect only
England.
The
shipping in of Scots MPs to help Labour win votes on matters
such as school and hospitals which are dealt with by the
Edinburgh parliament, is a constitutional scandal.
And
with regional assemblies now a dead duck, it must be stopped
forthwith.
Simon
Heffer - Daily Mail, November 6, 2004 - writes:
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Prescott
faces calls to quit after landslide vote against his regional
parliaments
By James
Chapman, Political Correspondent, Daily Mail - November 6, 2004
John
Prescott as facing calls to resign last night after his latest
attempt at constitutional reform ended in humiliation. Critics
said the Deputy Prime Minister should consider his future after
spending more than £10million of taxpayer's money on a plan
for regional assemblies - only to see it thrown out by voters.
The
NE voted by well over 3 to 1against Mr Prescott's cherished plan
to give the region a mini-parliament. Mr Prescott had already
been forced to dump referendums in two other English regions amid
fears that the exercise would turn into another damaging electoral
rout for Labour.
Despite
overwhelmingly rejecting the creation of another expensive layer
of government, local voters will still be left footing the bill
for Mr Prescott's folly. That is because eight unelected 'Regional
Chambers' have been created by Labour at a cost of £30million
a year. They are made up of 70% appointed local councillors and
30% representatives of other bodies. The chambers have taken on
a variety of powers from local government on the presumption that
elected regional assemblies would follow.
But
with that plan now in ruins, Conservatives yesterday demanded
the chambers be abolished and their powers returned to local councils.
They warned that,
left unchecked, unelected chambers would be able to interfere
in the provision of housing, planning and transport.
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We
already have an army of Bureaucrats in the Brussels Tower of Babel
organising our lives in addition to Euro MPs, Westminster MPs,
and a small army of Local Councillors. Do we really need more.
Think of the new building for the Scottish Parliament when you
think of the cost of accomodating all of them, their expense allowances
and their pensions.
The
spiralling cost of the London Assembly should be heeded as a warning.
The annual cost of the Greater London Authority has trebled to
£60million from a projected figure of £20million in
1998. In addition, local taxpayers were also picking up the £120million
bill for the new City Hall.
The estimated cost of the Welsh
Assembly with the Wales Office had been £92million, but
in 2002-2003 the figure hadincreased to £177million. And
the astronomically bloated cost of the Scottish Assembly must
be much more a disgrace than the pathetic Millenium Dome
The
breakdown of State employment, published by the Office for National
Statistics on May 26, 2004, showed that 162,000 new jobs were
handed out between June 2002 and June 2003 - the largest number
yet under Tony Blair's government. They included 88,000 posts
connected to Education and 63,000 in the Health Service. The expansion
of the State sector means that the number of public employees
has reached 5,454,000. This is an increase of 509,000 since 1998,
when there were 4,945,000. More than 18% of workers are now employed
by one arm or another of government. Read the full story
here.
Finally,
wouldn't Brussels love us to have Regional Assemblies! Divide
and Rule will make us much more easily dominated by them - so
much easier to deal with.
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