A letter a day to number 10. No 990 Friday 30 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In written evidence submitted by Department for Work and Pensions regarding sanctions some very remarkable things were said, “It is a mistake to see sanctions as a punitive measure.” and later, “it is in the claimant’s gift to end […]
Month: January 2015
Kerry-anne Mendoza: ‘Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy’
As a writer I appreciate writing as a craft, as an art form. It almost doesn’t matter what the content is, a well crafted book is a pleasure to read. When the content is about something as important as what is happening to our world, the how, the what and the why, painstakingly researched and […]
When greed triumphs over civilisation
A letter a day to number 10. No 989 Thursday 29 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Humans evolved because each (healthy, unimpaired) human is capable of making, obtaining, gathering, from the incredible fecundity of nature, more than they need to live on. If that were not true we simply would not be here. With the […]
The aristocracy of theft
A letter a day to number 10. No 988 Wednesday 28 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I hardly know what to write about today, not because I have nothing to say, but because I don’t know what to do about a rigged game in which the lives and considerations of ordinary people are not only […]
“Give us food or we perish.”
A letter a day to number 10. No 987 Tuesday 27 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What a strange feeling, my birthday is the same date as the liberation of Auschwitz which was 70 years ago today. I had never realised before that I shared a date with the end of such an atrocity. I […]
The rise and rise of the barbarous state
A letter a day to number 10. No 986 Monday 26 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, A report this week revealed that 62% of people sanctioned have mental health problems. The increasingly routine use and abuse of sanctions is unconscionable and unrestrained state brutality, that they are disproportionately being used against disabled and vulnerable people […]
The sadistic pleasure in attacking the poor
A letter a day to number 10. No 985 Sunday 25 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Ukip candidate, Lynton Yates, talking about the poor this week said, “Why do they have the privilege to spend the tax payers hard earned money on a car, when those in work are struggling to keep their own car […]
People are terrified you can see it in their eyes, it’s got to stop
A letter a day to number 10. No 984 Saturday 24 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I am a socialist, body and soul, and every day I grow more into what being a socialist means to me. Iain Duncan Smith and the rest of you seek to control our lives, even down to micro managing […]
Sanction and suicide.
Originally posted on The poor side of life:
We don’t easily get shocked on our weekly demos, we hear so many terrible stories but yesterday was a day that I won’t forget for a while. We were stood in our usual spot and I got called over by a member of our group. “Hiya this…
The Tories are not our masters, they are inhuman thugs
A letter a day to number 10. No 983 Friday 23 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Whatever position you hold in the land, you are no ones master by right of birth, inheritance, education, wealth, fame, vote or infamy. Whatever they taught you at Eton, I am afraid that you were sadly misinformed. I am […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 