A letter a day to number 10. No 1,073 Wednesday 29 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In December last year you said your policies were ‘lifting people into work and out of poverty’. Let’s just have ourselves an election special review of Tory policies and action on poverty. The broad strokes are that the poor […]
Month: April 2015
The rich are rewarded and the poor are punished, that’s Tory austerity Britain
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,072 Tuesday 28 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Trickle down economics is a remarkable idea suggesting that if wealth is allowed to flow to and accumulate at the top it will trickle down to the bottom. Hmmm. Given that the richest 1,000 families now control a total […]
Hiding the indefensible behind the ridiculous and absurd
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,071 Monday 27 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It is a measure of how rattled and insecure you Tories are when the political debate is overtaken by the ridiculous and the absurd. The best that Rupert Murdoch and the Sun can come up with is that as […]
Politics, the battle of the many against the corrupt
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,070 Sunday 26 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Nothing could highlight the vile state of politics and the election in Britain today than the utterly absurd, yet malicious, attempt by the Sun newspaper to discredit Nicola Sturgeon as a childhood doll abuser. The smarm, charm, lies and […]
Iain Duncan Smith, arguably the most reviled man in Britain
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,069 Saturday 25 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Charlotte, a fellow activist (read – caring human being or protector), reported yesterday that she met a woman outside a Jobcentre who had been rescued, with her baby, by the police from domestic violence and who was now in […]
Gross inequality feeds the violence of poverty
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,068 Friday 24 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What really angered me about you talking about poverty and having a go at Miliband and Balls was that you expressed irritation or anger at them. In a nation like ours poverty is ideological, your government has relentlessly pursued […]
Cameron – don’t you dare lecture me about poverty!
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,067 Thursday 23 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In your speech, ‘Making Work Pay’, you talked about, “the heart of the country we are trying to build: One based on the principle of something for something, not something for nothing… where those who put in, get out.” […]
The dirtiest election in UK history
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,066 Wednesday 22 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Yesterday Sarah Vine, wife of Michael Gove, wrote: “I fear the goldfish people are going to win. To paraphrase uncle Monty in Withnail and I “I mean to have power even if it must be burglary.” They will unite […]
The lives of the poor are acceptable collateral damage to the Tories
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,065 Tuesday 21 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Margaret Thatcher called workers ‘the enemy within’ and went on to destroy industry in the UK as an act of class vengeance. The nation that birthed the Industrial Revolution was crushed by Thatcher and we have since turned into […]
Lloyds shares scam, flogging us something we already own
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,064 Monday 20 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I see that you’ve come up with a canny election bribe, selling publicly owned shares in Lloyds bank to the public. I’m trying hard to understand this. This is different to privatising public assets like our NHS, public services, […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 