A letter a day to number 10. No 1,191 Thursday 27 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In his recent speech on work, health and disability Iain Duncan Smith made a great many extravagant claims, not least the following regarding what you supposedly inherited from Labour in 2010: * nearly one in five households had no […]
Month: August 2015
The traditional brutalising of the poor is as despicable as it is deliberate
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,190 Wednesday 26 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Ken Livingstone recently said on RT news, ‘Before Thatcher 2/3 of British wealth was paid to ordinary people in their wages, now it’s just over half, so there’s been a real reduction in the quality of life for ordinary […]
Iain Duncan Smith – work cures mental illness
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,189 Tuesday 25 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It seems that the DWP has issued Jobcentre staff with pink suicide cards to be waved above their heads when anyone threatens suicide. I have to commend Iain Duncan Smith on this initiative, it is an excellent idea whose […]
Treating poor people like scum and robbing them of any meaningful existence
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,188 Monday 24 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In your one dimensional world in which you know the price of everything but the value of nothing, ordinary people are being driven into a twilight world deprived of all value, meaning and self worth. Whatever spurious reasons you […]
Inequality is corrosive to everyone in society.
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,187 Sunday 23 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Studies of inequality reveal that less equal societies suffer over a wide range of social and economic issues, but what researchers have also found is that people of privilege and wealth are more likely, as Social psychologist Paul Piff […]
There are far too many arrogant, mentally deficient, juveniles in politics
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,186 Saturday 22 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You know, we are going to have to do something about people in politics who look like adults but have the mentality and behaviour of sub-normal children. Although this has nothing to do with you or your party, it […]
Truth, the mortal enemy of lies, you can’t capture a lie, only kill it
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,185 Friday 21 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The latest ‘big name’ to enter the Corbyn debate is no lesser person than the master of hype, bigotry and bull himself, Rupert Murdoch, apparently backing Corbyn. Who knows with what intent and who cares? After five years of […]
The treachery of wilfully and brutally imposed hardship in a land of plenty
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,184 Thursday 20 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In a land of plenty which sees 15 million tonnes of food thrown away every year, a nation in which 13 million are living in poverty, over half of whom are in work, we have a social security system […]
The grey workforce of betrayed and brutalised young people
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,183 Wednesday 19 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Ralph McTell wrote a song, released in 1983, that was inspired from a conversation with Billy Connolly who had watched an Indian Trade Union man address a party political conference with the opening line, ‘A man without a job […]
‘Boot Camps’ – all the appeal of a heart attack, but lacking the drama
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,182 Tuesday 18 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, A more miserable, dingy, soul destroying, prospect I cannot imagine. Your government plans to send young unemployed people to boot camps where, ‘They will get an initial three-week intensive course of practising job applications and interviews, which will then […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 