A letter a day to number 10. No 1,164 Friday 31 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It’s really quite novel reading about you speechifying around the world. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, they say, and you do rise to each and every occasion. Only yesterday I wrote about your speech in Birmingham about Britain […]
Month: July 2015
Government extremism, the elephant in the room that must be challenged
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,163 Thursday 30 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Let’s talk about extremism. Now there’s an elephant sitting squarely in the middle of the room. You began your recent speech at Ninestiles School in Birmingham with the following, “Over generations, we have built something extraordinary in Britain – […]
The neoliberal world grab is the greatest heist in history
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,162 Wednesday 29 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It is astonishing that in a world of incredible technological achievement which advances on a daily basis and which is positively drowning in wealth, albeit highly polarised and selfishly contained and constrained, we have a government that is dragging […]
IDS called it a ‘sin’ if people refused any job they were offered
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,161 Tuesday 28 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In 2011 Iain Duncan Smith said it was a ‘sin’ if people failed to take up available jobs. He went further saying that if people were ready for work and if they have a job offer, they should take […]
Hunts U-turn, deception and the power of sincerity. @Corbyn4Leader
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,160 Monday 27 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The difference between attempting to change the law retroactively, as Iain Duncan Smith did with the The Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 which the high court threw back in his face, and Jeremy Hunt reneging on plans […]
The lies that wouldn’t fool a child, only adults
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,159 Sunday 26 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It is astonishing that Iain Duncan Smith can justify savaging our entire system of social security based on the reaction of people watching poverty porn on television and yet completely ignore the ever growing public outcry against the reality […]
Parliaments summer recess, don’t rush back, you won’t be missed
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,158 Saturday 25 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, After George Osborne’s ’emergency’ budget you’ve all swanned off for your summer recess. The media enters what is traditionally called, the silly season, digging up pointless stories to fill its pages in the absence of the antics the Westminster […]
The Tories, not a shred of common human decency
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,157 Friday 24 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Authoritarian Conservatism is a combination of emotionally (anally) retentive Victorian paternalism with the colonial mindset of conquest and ownership. It is socially corrosive and divisive and fundamentally dishonest in its self righteous attitude of ‘don’t do as I do, […]
Even Jesus hadn’t figured on the Tories
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,156 Thursday 23 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, George Osborne has announced a further £20 billion of cuts in November. Austerity is no longer ‘ideological’, it’s a weapon of mass destruction, not so much cuts as an extinction event for the poor. Even Jesus got it wrong […]
Poverty is violence. The welfare reform vote
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,155 Wednesday 22 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What a triumph for the violently malicious and the spinelessly mediocre the voting on the Welfare Bill was. Make no mistake, poverty is violence! That’s the bottom line. And those who drive poverty as policy are no more than […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 