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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June
16 , 2006 (1133 days since war ended)
Death
Toll: 2500 US - 113 UK - >60,000? civilians - 25 media
United
by Gordon's hypocrisy
Peter
McKay - Daily Mail, June 26, 2006
Next
year, January 16 to be precise, is the 300th anniversary of the
1707 Treaty of Union between Scotland and England. Will we garland
each other with flowers and dance in the streets together on that
happy day?
Not
if the present mood is any guide. Thanks to Messrs Tony Blair
and Gordon Brown, the ancient grumbling between us has become
real, festering distaste. The matter of Scots not supporting England
in the World Cup is merely a trivial symptom of Anglo-Scottish
dislike; the weekend opinion poll saying
two-thirds of 'British' voters think that Scots should lose their
annual subsidy - they get £1,500 more per head of public
money than English taxpayers - is the real poison.
Just
as all this comes to the boil - and the union's tercentenary looms
- a Scotsman (from a Scots constituency), Gordon Brown, manoeuvres
himself into position as Labour's next Prime Minister.
The
question isn't merely why any English voter should accept Scots
MPs voting on south-of-the-border matters when no provision exists
for Sassenachs to exercise this right north of the border - why
should they accept as PM one of the Scots MPs who has enjoyed
this privilege, and who had done and said nothing to acknowledge
its unfairness?
Brown
is a howling hypocrite who clings to all things Caledonian - he
insists his children are born there and he'll wear formal dress
only north of the border - while blethering south of the border
that he values Britishness.
As
a Scot who has spent most of his life in England - Brown will
soon be in the same position - I am torn on the question of independence.
But, on the whole, I think the union has been good for Scotland
and England and regret Labour's sleazy Parliamentary hybrid in
Edinburgh, which is designed to defend the party against the Scottish
nationalists.
For
Brown, the Scottish Parliament is simply a means of preserving
Labour's Parliamentary majority at Westminster. So he must be
privately horrified at the suggestion this weekend by former Tory
Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth that Caledonian MPs spend two
days a week in Edinburgh and the remainder at Westminster.
Having
a Scots MP as PM is bad enough; having a Scots MP as a PART-TIME
PM would surely be completely unacceptable. None of this would
have been necessary if Labour had been prepared to face Scottish
Nationalists in a clean fight over the Treaty of Union. Instead
they characteristically opted to salami-slice their union treaty
principles and offer a halfway house to independence in the form
of a grotesque, time-wasting, money-burning parody of a parliament.
To
our great discredit, a majority of Scots settled for this ignoble
compromise. Personally, I'd have sooner backed Alex Salmond's
Scottish Nationalists than this greasy cabal of backside savers.
Thanks to 'devolution', the Scots and English remain married but
are living apart with neither a divorce nor reconciliation being
considered.
This
is a recipe for deeper problems not a way of promoting peace and
harmony. When we focus on who is responsible, Gordon Brown is
the obvious candidate. He did not personally arrange devolution,
or for the unfair subsidy enjoyed by Scots at English expense.
Neither did he insist, against the advice of colleagues, that
Scots Labour MPs retain full political rights over English affairs
while English MPs are shut out of Scottish questions.
However,
he is the beneficiary of this crooked system. He has done nothing
to change it, or indeed to acknowledge its unfairness. On
top of all that, he has an egomaniacal urge to rule all of Britain
while preserving his pocket of privilege in Caledonia.
So
Gordon Brown must never be allowed to seize No 10 on the nod.
His piffling attempts (while south of the border) to promote Britishness
are so self-servingly crass that they unite Scots and English
in disgust.
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