A letter a day to number 10. No 1,216 Wednesday 30 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Did Conservative MP James Wharton, the Minister for Local Growth and the Northern Powerhouse, really say, “An industry which has made a loss over each of the last three years would pass that responsibility to the tax payer”? The […]
Month: September 2015
They who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,215 Tuesday 29 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Precariat: “In sociology and economics, the precariat is a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare as well as being a member of […]
If life has a purpose then it is life itself which is that purpose
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,214 Monday 28 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You know, sitting, as you do, in the top 10% or 1% of society, or maybe in the top 1% of the top 1% (I don’t know), it is easy for you to judge us and hand down your […]
No bread for the quick or the dead, but you’re still expected to work
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,213 Sunday 27 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Contrary to popular opinion in what are laughing called the minds of Tories, we are not ‘the common herd’, nor are we ‘stock’, nor are we beasts of burden to be forced into any job vacancy that becomes available […]
Good Grief, Not That Analogy Again
Originally posted on TheCritique Archives:
by Martin Odoni I should know better than to watch BBC Question Time. I have largely stopped watching it, especially over the last two years, as I have become fed up of its thinly-veiled bias – its tendency to give incredibly disproportionate exposure to members of the UK Independence Party…
Hope springs eternal, it’s written in our DNA
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,212 Saturday 26 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Greece’s finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, said on Question Time this week, ‘The problem is that austerity is being used as a narrative to conduct class war. To be talking about reducing the state further when effectively what you are […]
When is a scam not a scam? When it’s government privatisation, silly
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,211 Friday 25 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, When is a scam not a scam? When it’s government privatisation, silly. George Osborne sells us the idea that privatisation is more efficient, cheaper and provides better service, he might even believe it, but if so he does so […]
The law isn’t the only justice in the land, not by a long way
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,210 Thursday 24 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You really don’t understand or even care about ordinary people at all do you? Ashcroft petulantly having a go at you, and your reported comments – ‘a little prick, a stab in the back’ – ‘rather summed up my […]
I wasn’t going to mention that poor pig, but…
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,209 Wednesday 23 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I wasn’t going to mention #piggate but something came up and I feel I must. I’m not going to make any jokes about it, what I want to talk about is treachery, which is what the whole thing with […]
‘Death has become a part of Britain’s benefits system’ – Frances Ryan
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,208 Tuesday 22 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, As a chronicler of the last three and a half years it is truly shocking to witness the appalling rate of decline in the quality of life in Britain. Who could have imagined such a thing, or how much […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 