The British Empire was founded on the wealth of slavery, not something to be proud of !

- Anne, West Midlands EU, 19/4/2012 10:45
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Marine Le Pen remains, among an imperfect choice in urgent times, the only candidate capable of saving France's control over her finances, borders, and identity.

She is the only candidate available to conservative voters advancing the case for an exit from the Euro, the one measure which if executed carefully might yet save France from being swamped by foreign debts amassed elsewhere in a European project largely of its own making.

Despite her flaws, the only responsible vote in France next Sunday is one for Marine Le Pen

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Despite her flaws, the only responsible vote in France next Sunday is one for Marine Le Pen

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I am in my forties and I can state, without reservation, that I have never known a Prime Minister of our country to be so out of touch with the needs of the electorate.

The proof is in the pudding. Since Cameron's NHS and welfare reforms - particularly those pertaining to disabled people, including the terminally ill - there has been a substantial increase in suicides of people who, literally, cannot afford to breathe for a moment more.

We have also witnessed a rise in food banks. Three years ago we had 75 food banks in England, today we have 200-plus and they are springing up on average of three per week.

Shocking, no? Aren't we supposed to be one of those wealthy countries we hear so much about? Well, yes, but we all know that our country's wealth is secured by less than five per cent of our nation.

When it comes to Cameron pushing for such unconscionable acts against the already vulnerable, I have to assume that this is down to being out of touch with the needs of many - just as Ms Dorries says he is. He just doesn't seem to get it. I mean, it's not as if David Cameron wasn't made aware of the dangers of his gung-ho approach to the lives of millions, was it?

It is these actions that really hold them up to the light and reveal them as being people who are out-of-touch with the lives of the British public.

Let us hope that sooner, rather than later, they will also be out of office.

Lets vote labour back in what short memories you have its because of them we are where we are today skint and full of overseas people who have taken your jobs and vote Labour, Easy option lets blame the the goverment trying to clear up the mess left by Labour and Brown. No wonder the Uk is going down the drain.
- What Labour again, spain, 24/4/2012 8:10
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Money doesnt grow on trees Sonia. .. Fact is, the country needs to tighten its belt and DC's job is to do it in a way which will not harm the long term prospects of the country - i.e. driving out business which is what would happen if he made no cuts and just put huge tax hikes on the rich. Of course he cares that people are struggling, but dont forget he didnt get us into this mess. You may think that Mr Blair cared, but in the process he was leading the country to ruin.
- James, NY, USA, 23/4/2012 22:43
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The usual lefty rubbish from Poulton, with a slight variation on her usual staple diet of disability benefit "cuts"! What the Tories are suffering from - again - is the disloyalty shown by some of it's embittered members like Dorries who have been slapped-down for other reasons in the past! Let's hope her constituency party remember her treachery at election time - if she hasn't already scuttled-off to some safe Labour seat by then? Would the majority of people really want to return to Labor anyway, the party which has swamped us with 3 million unwanted people, dug a pit of debt so deep it will take years to fill, and enmeshed a great section of it's citizens into a Welfare dependent client state? I don't thinks so! Once bitten......?
- John Smith, Birmingham, England, 24/4/2012 8:23
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Lets vote labour back in what short memories you have its because of them we are where we are today skint and full of overseas people who have taken your jobs and vote Labour, Easy option lets blame the the goverment trying to clear up the mess left by Labour and Brown. No wonder the Uk is going down the drain.
- What Labour again, spain, 24/4/2012 8:10
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Dear St George,

Happy saint's day - hope you have a good one! True, you won't get a proper celebration like your pals Andrew, David and Patrick. I mean, you're probably not too jealous of Andy being toasted by a bunch of belligerently nationalistic Scots, or Dave being commemorated by Welshmen with daffodils and leeks pinned to their rugby shirts. But Paddy's another matter. He's got the whole world holding marches, dyeing their beer green and pretending that they're Irish. You’d have to be a saint not to be, well, green with envy at that. Oh, yes, of course, you ARE a saint. But still, you know what I mean.

It's just your rotten luck that you’re the patron saint of a country that's dying of self-hatred and shame. Actually, let me rephrase that … You're the patron saint of a country whose governing elite are dying of self-hatred and shame. I don't know quite what it is that’s caused the problem. Maybe it's some sort of guilt at the fact that for centuries the English were really incredibly good at beating other people, taking over their countries, winning wars and generally being top dog. And for some reason our leaders now feel the need to apologise for that.

After all, what did the English ever do for the world? Apart from give it the planet's most popular language, obviously … and the greatest playwright who ever lived (it's Will's day too, by the way) … and parliamentary democracy, common law, the abolition of slavery, the steam and jet engines, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, James Bond and Harry Potter. Yes, but apart from that … and Winston Churchill, Winnie-the-Pooh, Charles Dickens, police officers, postage stamps, the mini-skirt, the Mini car, the Rolls Royce, football, rugby, cricket, tennis, the Spitfire, four of the world's Top 10 universities and the World Service … Apart from all that – oh, and about 100 Nobel laureates – it's quite clear that this is an absolutely rubbish country that should spend most of its time apologising to everyone for absolutely everything it's ever done.

I imagine that you're fairly cheesed off about the fact that even England's flag – which is, of course, your personal flag – is now regarded as a racist symbol. Apparently the problem is that some nasty, racist, shaven-headed morons have appropriated it as their symbol. So now the rest of us have to grovel to anyone we might offend by waving it inappropriately.

The odd thing is, though, that the people who are supposed to be offended, aren't. I don't know if you ever happen to cast an eye on Bradford, but I happened to be there in 2002, a year after the race riots that hit the Manningham area there in July 2001. I was chatting to a local councillor who happened to be Muslim and he was pointing out that all the Asian youth who'd been caught up in the fighting a year beforehand had just spent the 2002 World Cup driving round the city in cars with Crosses of St George fluttering from the windscreen.

And it's not Muslims, or Hindus, or Jews who worry that Christmas, or someone wearing a cross round their neck at work might be offensive.

There's an Indian restaurant in the village where I live. All its staff are Bangladeshi Muslims and every Christmas they hang tinsel in the windows, wish a Merry Christmas to all their customers and stick curried turkey on the menu.

No, the only people who worry about all the ways in which the English might be offending everyone else are the English. As a result, we're just too embarrassed to celebrate your big day, or have an English anthem, or show any of the pride in English culture, English achievements and Englishness that the people of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic show in their countries.

They have absolutely no problem celebrating their saints. And the truth is, nor should we. In the meantime, however, I know it should be your big party, but we seem to be having a quiet night in … Again.

I like the article, so how come if you wear a cross at the Airport, non Christians mainly Muslins, are offended.
- Al, Hants, 23/4/2012 22:09