Silent Majority Speaks
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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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visitors
Our
PM has been Mr Bean and a Runner Bean.May he soon be a
Has-Bean .. please!
'Straight
to the point' - from Harry Dodd, Bath - Daily Mail, December
18, 2007
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English
'won't stand for Scots MPs making laws'
BY
James Chapman, Deputy Political Editor, Daily Mail, February 7,
2008
Britain
faces a constitutional crisis over Gordon Brown's refusal to stop
Scottish MPs voting on laws that apply only to England, it was
claimed last night.
Senior
Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind said voters 'simply wouldn't
stand' for a Labour government continuing to push through legislation
affecting key policy areas in England, such as schools and hospitals,
using Scottish MP's votes.
Polls
suggest there is growing resentment over Labour's devolution of
power to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh and Northern Irish
assemblies. Scottish MPs are able to vote on issues that affect
only England, while their English counterparts are not allowed
to vote on the same issues in Scotland.
And
English voters are unhappy that Scots are enjoying benefits not
available south of the border despite being funded by taxpayers
across Britain. Scots do not pay tuition fees, get free personal
care for the elderly and get quicker access to new NHS medicines.
Sir Malcolm, whose plan for 'English votes for English laws' is
expected to be at the heart of of David Cameron's manifesto, warned
that after the next election the issue could cause serious unrest.
"We
could end up with a hung parliament," he said. "If that
was to happen, it is likely to be because Labour had lost a lot
of seats in England. People simply won't stand for a Labour government
which has lost its majority in England pushing through laws only
affecting England, thanks to the votes of Scottish, Welsh and
Irish |MPs. What is a serious problem would become a political
crisis."
M
Cameron is to propose a ban on Scottish MPs having a say on new
laws relating to English schools, hospitals and a range of other
policy areas. The Daily Mail has learned that a task force headed
by former Tory chancellor Kenneth Clarke has drafted plans for
two or three different constitutional arrangements.
Former
Scottish Secretary Sir Malcolm has drawn up one proposal, for
a 'grand committee' of all English MPs. It would meet at Westminster
whenever Parliament is considering legislation deemed by the Speaker
of the Commons to apply only to England.
Convention
would dictate that the Commons as a whole would not seed to overturn
its decisions. Mr Cameron says it is an 'elegant' solution to
the constitutional dilemma known as the West Lothian Question.
Labour
has repeatedly rejected calls for 'English votes for English laws',
saying it will create two classes of MP. But the Tories insist
the current situation has already created two classes of MP.
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