In the world of IDS child poverty can be eradicated simply by deleting it

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,357 Monday 29 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Regarding child poverty a DWP spokesperson has said, “we’ve always been very clear that we will continue to publish low income statistics.” Odd, given that Iain Duncan Smith was adamant that he wanted to scrap the ‘official measure’ in […]

Glory be to Iain Duncan Smith and the end of the sickness delusion

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,356 Sunday 28 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I entirely understand that the DWP no longer recognises sickness or disability in any form and that supporting people who are living with sickness or disability just encourages them in their delusion and promotes a dependent mentality in which […]

UK government £1 billion investment in coercive programming

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,355 Saturday 27 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Let’s get one thing absolutely clear from the outset, therapy is only therapy if it is client led, if the practitioner has a pre-existing agenda it is ‘coercion’ and whatever practices employed to achieve that coercive agenda are ‘programming’. […]

David Cameron, lacking any moral fibre or common decency

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,354 Friday 26 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Let’s talk about shabby. Referring to Jeremy Corbyn you said in PMQs – “Ask my mother? I think I know what my mother would say. I think she’d look across the dispatch box and she’d say: put on a […]

A government of despots, thieves, liars and vicious bullies

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,353 Thursday 25 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The real threat to our national security, the security of every woman, man and child in Britain, is a government so arrogant it presumes to treat us as less than cattle to be hounded and marketed with no regard […]

The EU referendum is a threat to our national sanity

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,352 Wednesday 24 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, There is a saying, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” It is disputed as to who may or may not have coined that saying, but at least it […]

The free markets, a rigged game for private gain at public expense

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,351 Tuesday 23 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I hear and read a great deal of self righteous indignation and outrage, of the kind: “Why should I (self deluded, hard working, tax payer) pay for ……………. (insert xenophobic hate term of choice). I also hear and read […]

Work coaches in GP surgeries is a death knell for patient care. #DoNoHarm

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,350 Monday 22 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It is little wonder that the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) is now widely seen in Britain as the department of death and despair. Iain Duncan Smith told MPs in 2013 that people on Employment and Support Allowance […]

The government is waging economic warfare and it must end

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,349 Sunday 21 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Since 2010 you have embarked on a ruthless crusade against the people of this country, the unemployed, the young, the disabled, nurses, the fire service, police, people in social housing including the bedroom tax, children, the working poor, the […]

This sick robbery must end

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,348 Saturday 20 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It’s strange, a few weeks ago I retired, it was a good feeling for a few days until I realised that nothing had changed, everyone still wants their pound of flesh. Two months before retirement I was called in […]