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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December
26, 2006 (1308 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2978 US - 126 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media
January
17, 2007 (1328 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 3022 US - 129 UK - >650,000? civilians - 25 media
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Ruth
Kelly and the Assisted Places Scheme
Keeping
the poor in place
Letter
from Jane Collins, Fallowfield, Manchester- Daily Mail, January
17, 2007
I
was not at all surprised by the hypocrisy of the Labour Government
as Ruth Kelly opts for private education. How nice it must be
to be able to afford to send one's children to a private school.
I
am the mother of three children, two of whom benefited from grammar
school education because of an
assisted places scheme.
Ruth Kelly and others in the Labour Party disgust me. Why do they
not practice what they preach? The present Labour Government are
not socialists. They are selfish, greedy egotists.
The
assisted
places scheme was the only means parents like myself
had of sending their children to grammar schools. Perhaps Ms Kelly
will contribute to my youngest child's education so she may also
have the benefits of a private education.
The
abolition of assisted
places was the best way to keep people in their
place and not let them aspire to better things. Thank you, Labour,
for keeping us in our place.
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This
is how the rest of us have to cope, Minister
Letter
from (name and address supplied) - Daily Mail, January 17, 2007
My
11-year-old grandson is now out of school. From his first year
at the local primary/junior school there were problems, mainly
social exclusion, bullying and humiliation over untidy work, though
his reading was extremely good.
Despite
repeated pleas, the school refused to recommend him for assessment
of special educational needs. His family took him to an educational
psychologist who diagnosed an IQ placing him in the top one percent
of the population, along with dyspraxia A further diagnosis revealed
Asperger's.
A
gentle, sensitive boy, John wad deeply unhappy. His parents had
no choice but to remove him from the school where he felt so tormented.
We heard of an independent school which had done wonders with
a friend's dyslexic goddaughter. The headmaster agreed to give
John a week's trial and subsequently offered him a place, at approximately
£9,000 a year.
For
two years he made amazing progress. He captained the third rugby
team until he was promoted to the second, took part in school
debates and became popular with his peers. When he passed the
entrance exam for the upper school, the school generously offered
a 40% bursary. John is aware it may not be financially possible
for him to remain at the school where he has been so happy. His
anxiety has led to sleepless nights.
Last September, the local education authority finally agreed to
carry out an assessment. His parent's plea for the £4,800
or so allocated per year per child in state education was completely
ignored. They made it quite clear that without some help with
funding they cannot keep him there any longer. They have already
remortgaged their home.
This
gifted young boy who has suffered so much already, is now out
of school, confused and very unhappy. What a tragedy that this
Government abolished the
assisted places scheme,
thereby denying gifted children from families of moderate means
the educational advantages so many of them are able to buy for
their own.
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