A letter a day to number 10. No 1,044 Tuesday 31 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, According to the Rowntree Trust, in 2013 there were 13 million people in poverty in the UK, over half of them in work ‘having suffered a sustained and ‘unprecedented’ fall in their living standards’. Poverty is not a lifestyle […]
Month: March 2015
Iain Duncan Smith’s misanthropic, pestilential and arrogant, misrule
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,043 Monday 30 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Iain Duncan Smith said in response to the leaked secret plans regarding Osborne’s proposed £12 billion cuts in welfare that they ‘did not represent government or Conservative party policy and blamed the leak on a “bitter individual” in the […]
The DWP will starve you to death for trying to pay for your own funeral
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,042 Sunday 29 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The Disability News Service (DNS) yesterday reported that a terminally ill woman “risked being charged with an ‘offence’ and would lose part of her benefits if she used an insurance policy windfall to pay for her own funeral”. What […]
The end of the rule of law by government dictat
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,041 Saturday 28 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I had a rather special letter yesterday with two envelope panes, one showing the address but the other spanning the width of the envelope announcing “You are hereby given official notice”. It was from TV licensing. The last time […]
Treachery at the top and subservience at the bottom
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,040 Friday 27 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There was something incredibly fitting that on the last day of the current parliament you Tories got your knives out but were thwarted in your desire to stick them in the back of one of your own in secret. […]
Surviving the savagery of peace
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,039 Thursday 26 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I know that ministers and ministerial spokes people like to say they cannot comment on individual cases, which is a very convenient way of avoiding or evading difficult issues but no such restraint exists when it comes to commenting […]
Human rights are not conferred, they belong to us!
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,038 Tuesday 24 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Funny (peculiar, weird, strange, not amusing) thing about human rights, given that you want to scrap the Human Rights Act, you can scrap the act but you can’t scrap our human rights. As I quoted yesterday from the Liberty […]
Sanctions and the human rights prohibition on torture
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,037 Monday 23 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There are wide spread reports of the indiscriminate use of benefit sanctions and revelations that at the heart of the benefits system is the desire to punish benefit claimants. Despite the constant denials by the DWP the overwhelming evidence […]
Record numbers of evictions in the Tories ideological war on the poor
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,036 Sunday 22 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, When the Welfare Reform Act was passed it was decided that direct payments to landlords of Housing Benefits would stop and be paid to tenants to “encourage people to manage their own budget in the same way as other […]
Jobcentre mental health care, useless ministers and doughnuts
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,035 Saturday 21 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The BBC reported today that Mental health trusts in England have seen their budgets fall by more than 8% in real terms under your government. Research by BBC News and the online journal Community Care reveals that the cuts […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 