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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May 31, 2005 (761 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,657 US - 89 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300 civilians - 25 media
June 3 , 2005 (765 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,670 US - 89 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300 civilians - 25 media
June 17, 2005 (779 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,716 US - 89 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300? civilians - 25 media
June 26, 2005 (788 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,737 US - 89 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300? civilians - 25 media
July 6, 2005 (798 days since war
ended)
Death Toll: 1,751 US - 90 UK -
>6,164? Iraqi - >17,300? civilians - 25 media
August 24, 2005 (847 days since
war ended)
Death Toll: 1,869 US - 93 UK - >>6,164?
Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media
September
29, 2005 (883 days since war ended)
Death Toll: 1,928 US - 96 UK - >>6,164?
Iraqi - >>17,300? civilians - 25 media
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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Votes
for lags - what about OUR rights?
By
Simon Heffer - Daily Mail, October 8, 2005
The
European Convention on Human Rights was set up to stop the oppression,
mass murder and torture that had blighted Europe during and after
World War II. But now that those evils have thankfully been consigned
to history, the Strasbourg Court has been forced to look for other
ways to keep busy.
This
week, it decided that the British Government has been cruelly
abusing the rights of serial killers, rapists, armed robbers and
drug dealers by refusing to give them the vote. To any person
with an ounce of common sense, the idea of giving people who have
willingly put themselves beyond the law the full protection of
that law is little short of mad.
How
long before or human rights obsessed judiciary will be against
such medieval practices as the deprivation of liberty or the incarceration
of people in cells for 23 hours a day? In the real world, however,
sensible people believe that denying a prisoner the right to vote
is a perfectly fair and sensible means by which society expresses
its disapproval of his criminal behaviour.
It
is part of the package of diminished rights that goes with being
sent to prison. It inflicts no harm on the prisoner himself, but
it does remind
the rest of us of the rewards and privileges that we enjoy because
we are honest.
The
judiciary must start to understand that even the most civilised
societies must have tough rules Indeed, societies become - and
remain - civilised only if they have such rules. This is recognised
by Tony Blair, who understands that the human rights doctrine
makes it hard to root out terrorism. But his human rights lawyer
wife fails to see that those who behave wickedly might, for the
greater good, have to forfeit some of the privileges that the
rest of us take for granted.
And
today's pernicious culture of indiscriminate human rights means
that it is not only prisoners who can do as they like. It is now
almost impossible for school teachers to discipline their pupils
because judges have ruled that children should be allowed to express
themselves however they wish.
What
about our Armed Forces? They work so well only because of rigid
discipline and obedience of orders. But how long will it be before
Queen's Regulations become negotiable and the Strasbourg court
gives soldiers the right to refuse orders if they feel it conflicts
with their conscience?
It
Britain does not opt out of this Alice-in-Wonderland Convention,
which routinely favours the guilty, then out society will soon
become profoundly uncivilized. Ultimately, it will become ungovernable
- and the far more important rights of those good citizens who
abide by the law, and in return seek only the protection of the
state, will disappear for ever.
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