A letter a day to number 10. No 960 Wednesday 31 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, Under your astonishing misrule Britain has been subject to the most underhanded, vicious, vilification and demonisation of the poor in history. George Osborne was ahead of the game in his 2012 conference speech with: “Where is the fairness, we […]
Month: December 2014
Ordinary people – surplus to requirements
A letter a day to number 10. No 959 Tuesday 30 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, Since you came to number 10 what has become appallingly clear is that you are a party with no human values at all. You support the bankers and the markets which alone crashed the global economy, whilst conducting a […]
The sacrifice of innocents to austerity
A letter a day to number 10. No 958 Monday 29 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, To be poor, sick or disabled in Britain today is to be a Target, that’s with a capital ‘T’. However, to be young is to be a target with a small ‘t’. It must frustrate the hell out of […]
Every Tory vote is a vote against the means of survival of the poor
A letter a day to number 10. No 957 Sunday 28 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, Throughout your reign of terror on the poor there is something vital to life that is conspicuous only in the vilest negative sense and used to demonise the poor. Whilst it is all well and good for Lords to […]
Cameron and the abomination of bearing false witness
A letter a day to number 10. No 956 Thursday 25 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, I wondered if you would have the gall to invoke the Christian message this Christmas. If you are going to invoke the name of God you really should exercise a little more care. Bearing false witness is described in […]
Austerity is robbery pure and simple
A letter a day to number 10. No 955 Wednesday 24 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, I recently received a letter from a debt agency demanding I pay the full outstanding amount immediately despite regular payments to them with not a single payment either missed or late. My response was neither tongue in cheek nor […]
Be gentle with mental illness, fight the real enemy
A letter a day to number 10. No 954 Tuesday 23 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, In my own life I have described mental illness as living with the enemy within. It is a profound experience never knowing when it will strike, no day, indeed no moment, is safe, there is no safety net and […]
80,000 sanctions for Christmas
A letter a day to number 10. No 953 Monday 22 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, According to figures released by the PCS Union, more than 80,000 UK families face a bleak Christmas because their benefits have been stopped. Let’s get that into a reality perspective, more than 80,000 people have had the means of […]
Loving kindness, 365 days a year
A letter a day to number 10. No 952 Sunday 21 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, As we enter Christmas week this is, for me, a moment of reflection. I decided to stop doing Christmas about ten years ago but it was a far from easy process. The first thing to go was the Christmas […]
Stand up to bullying and intimidation, strike back, be creative
Moorcroft Debt Recovery Limited Moorcrof House PO Box 17 2 Spring Gardens Stockport SK1 4AA Your Ref: ****** 19 December 2014 Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for your letter of 16th December 2014 regarding an alleged debt of £622.72 to Bank of Scotland plc. May I remind you that the Bank of Scotland was subject to […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 