http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-380599,00.html

The sunday times article regarding DAC Blairs proposed changes to uniform and warrant cards. To remove the cross of St Edward.

my opinion is that newcomers to our country must recognise that we native Britons have our own ancient traditions and it is they who must adapt accordingly. We should let anyone that meets the requirements of citizenship and medical and security + apptitude to train to be a police officer police, but they should be expected to fit into the force, not change it to fit around them.
I’m an atheist, but at the same time I don’t go about demanding religious symbolism be removed from items I use.

How long before universities are made to remove their armorial bearings/coats of arms that feature crosses or symbols of religion or crown?

If we’re not carefull we’ll end up like the US where a local mayor was formerly reprimanded for saying ‘ thank god we got to them in time and they’re all well’ with regards to the recent case of miners trapped in a collapsed mine.

The way this country is going...

quite a lot of reading and links but it demonstrates the problem, that we have allowed an insidious element of fundamentalists and extremists to operate unchecked and spreading their dangerous views within our society.

I am beginning to wonder more and more whether this is a parliamentary democracy with a
constitutional monarchy or a islamic state applying the law of Sharia. Especially with regards to the british government continuing to turn a blind eye to certain 'extremist' elements within the muslim community's in this country advocating violence and recruiting 'soldiers' for jihads abroad. I've been following this closely recently and it seems that the suspected fund raisers and financial contributers to al qaeda in this country are not being extradited to the US, but are just being released by our over liberal law lords.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2159799.stm +  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2161710.stm

As far as i am concerned these people are 'enemy combatants' as bush calls them, and therefor they shouldnt be treated with the same level of 'burden of proof' as a citizen but subjected to military law as POW's.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2113340.stm - should have just arrested him for s5 public order or under the prevention of terrorism act and hoped the home office would then allow the US to extradite him from our custody to theirs. but NO. We're pandering to these extremists.

We should stamp down fast and hard on these extremists.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,739813,00.html

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/england/1833107.stm - my bets are this is going to go ' not guilty' or at least not guilty on appeal. Which is disgusting.