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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August
18, 2006 (1210 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2601 US - 115 UK - >300,000? civilians - 25 media
September
4, 2006 (1227 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2644 US - 115 UK - >300,000? civilians - 25 media
Why
marriage is still the best way to raise children
By
Steve Doughty - Social Affairs Correspondent - Daily Mail, September
8, 2006
The
extent to which marriage is still the best environment in which
to bring up children has been underlined in a study for the Tories.
It showed unwed parents who live together are five times more
likely to break up than those who are married.
The
study, commissioned by a Tory party review team, advises strong
political support for the institution of marriage and warns against
attempts to improve children's lives by state intervention.
It
also dismisses Labour's long-standing ideology which says all
kinds of families are as good as each other and rejects the thinking
that has led Tony Blair to propose government interference in
the lives of children even before they are born.
The
findings will put intense pressure on David Cameron to make marriage
the keystone of Tory policies. The recommendations from the Tory's
social justice review group - headed by former party leader Iain
Duncan-Smith - may not sit easily with Mr Cameron's drive to modernise
his party.
Mr
Duncan-Smith said governments which had promoted the spread of
cohabitation had exposed children to family breakdown and lives
of crime, anti-social behaviour, education failure and mental
and emotional disturbance.
The
findings were based on the results of the Millennium Cohort Study,
a survey of 18,000 children born in 2001 and 2002. The survey,
carried out by academics at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies
in London, showed in its first findings published two years ago
that one in six children is born to a single mother who is not
living with the father.
The
breakdown of figures for Mr Duncan Smith's group by researchers
at Bristol University adds to a mountain of research which has
showed couples who fail to marry have a hugely greater chance
of breaking up. It says 3,000 of the 15,000 mothers in the Millennium
cohort Study had become lone parents before their child was three.
The rate of breakdown was 6% among married couples and 32% among
unmarried couples.
Break-ups
ran at 20% - nearly four times the rate among married couples
- for cohabitees.
Three-quarters
of another group of couples, who described themselves not as living
together bus as 'closely involved', parted within three years.
Children of single parents are more likely than those with two
parents to do badly at school, suffer worse health, take drugs
or drink to excess, and to fall into lives of unemployment and
crime.
Mr
Duncan-Smith said yesterday: "By
tacitly promoting cohabitation and undermining marriage, policy-makers
are exposing more children to the perils of family breakdown,
reflected in higher levels of crime, anti-social behaviour, education
failure and mental and emotion disturbance. What is particularly
interesting is the way the report shows that the Government's
assumption that children's outcomes are solely dictated by socio-economic
factors is wrong. The structure in which they grow and and are
nurtured is vital to their well-being."
Labour
set down the Government's view that all families are equal in
1998, thus effectively relegating marriage to the status of a
lifestyle choice. Ministers have removed remaining tax breaks
for married couples, extended legal privileges of marriage to
gay couples and attempted to remove all references to marriage
from Government documents.
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