Well I have to be honest I find it very distasteful that the beacons of our communities and mouth pieces for democracy are at it again. There is an ounce of hypocrisy here! For example, I dare you try not paying for your TV licence, your taxes or worse still I dare you not to pay your council tax? Now lets start to stretch the imagination here - I dare you to publicly shout down the government about its foreign policy and let's see if you don't get arrested under the Terrorism Act? The minister and his nappies Immigration Minister Phil Woolas claimed for items of women's clothing as well tampons and nappies. The millionairess's £25,000 for security £200,000 profit on taxpayer-funded flat £22,500 to treat dry rot
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Saturday 9 May 2009
The fiasco that is MP's expenses
Thursday 7 May 2009
The Database Nightmare
To me it is simple - this government has lost touch with the common sense that the majority of us need OUR government to have. For example, if you have committed a crime and have been sentenced in a court of law then it makes sense that you are monitored for as long as is necessary.
However, we live in a democracy and the government is there as a servant to the people and not as masters! It is important that we are able to exercise our democratic right because it is this one thing above all that allows British law stand out to protect British citizens....
PassionateVoice
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Tuesday 5 May 2009
Can't you just tell it's nearly elections time!
Apparently I have two MEP's that have been doing a wonderful job for my local area. Now why am I amazed at that? Well for two simple reasons;
- I have never heard of either of them, and
- I have never heard anything from them!
Anyway, upon receiving an unsolicited flyer through my letterbox I decided to give them a call. When I got through I asked whether the person on the other end would he be able to answer my question 'depends upon the question' - brilliant... My question was a simple one - why is it that, whilst Britain has troops fighting on two fronts in the name of democracy, our local MP's and Councillors are seemingly doing little to actively promote local democracy? Where's my evidence? Well ask your everyday Muslim neighbour about what their local authority are doing to engage local Muslims to take some of the responsibility required to strengthen community cohesion between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities and how they are actively promoting local democracy to enable robust debate surrounding the Muslim 'problem'?
Stunned silence. I could feel myself being mentally placed in the 'weirdo' box.
'I'll have to get the MEP's to ring you back on that one!'
My response - 'well we'll see just how desperate they are for my vote because if they don't call back then they will be reinforcing my views that local politics is better off when the 'little man' is kept at arms length....
Monday 4 May 2009
Nu Labour is dead - What next for British Muslims?
There is much scorn over Tony's decision to invade Iraq and I wont digress into his special relationship with George W Bush. The interesting thing here, though, is not that Tony ignored the views of millions of British citizens or the fact the legality of the war was suspect but the fact that when it came to the vote in Parliament many Labour MP's supported the war. There is nothing new here other than the fact that these same Labour MP's probably have a sizeable Muslim population in their respective constituencies that either don't know that their local MP voted for the war or don't care to know.
What's my point? Well with an upcoming general election these same MP's will start their campaigns promoting and celebrating what they have done for their communities whilst all the while praying that no one cares to question their parties views on Iraq, Afghanistan or indeed the Muslim 'problem'. I know of one town, Rotherham, in the north of England where Dennis Mcshane MP backed the war. Dennis will do his best to be re-elected and I know with almost certainty that he will be successful. How? Well whilst the British Armed forces are bravely doing what our leaders are asking of them in the name of international democracy - rightly or wrongly - our MP's will do little to promote local democracy. It is better that British Pakistani Muslims are kept ignorant and do NOT get involved in local politics. Outrage! Of course you know many hundreds of Pakistani Muslims that are actively involved in local politics... This is indeed correct BUT, ask some simple questions - when they were out canvassing for themselves and when they will be out canvassing for their local Labour MP how will they answer the questions about;
- How they justified the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine to their voters - when the Labour party supported them?
- How did they muster local support to lobby the government against the same wars?
- How are they actively promoting local democracy especially with regards to the governments Prevent Violent Extremism strategy in their local area?
PassionateVoice
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