A letter a day to number 10. No 1,539 Wednesday 31 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Within the DWP, as Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) casually informed us at a parliamentary hearing, people receiving social security payments are known as ‘stock’ and, infamously, David Freud said, “people who are poorer should be prepared to take the […]
Month: August 2016
The utter contempt of those in power for ordinary people
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,538 Tuesday 30 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, What is happening within the Labour party has repercussions for all of us, but more broadly what the parliamentary Labour party and you Tories have in common is utter contempt for ordinary people and democracy. What has been revealed […]
Tory welfare reforms, Britain’s secret penal system
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,537 Monday 29 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, It is a sad fact that so many are misled by the idea that their disability or sickness has any relevance in the Work Capability Assessments (WCA). As the DWP recently pointed out to The Oxford Times, “decisions were […]
The poor must pay down the debt – sanctioned man loses his leg
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,536 Sunday 28 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Salford’s Unemployed & Community Resource Centre reports that David (no surname given) was repeatedly sanctioned, “This resulted in him being unable to control his diabetes because he had no money for food. This caused diabetic ulcers which became infected […]
2010, the rise of state cruelty, the gloves are off
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,535 Saturday 27 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Since 2010 we have seen the rise and rise of state cruelty. This isn’t about injustice, that’s normal, built into the system and has been from time immemorial. In days of yore, brutal men would just grab any land […]
500 disabled people a week losing Motability
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,534 Friday 26 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Up to 500 disabled people a week are losing their independence under the ludicrous and obscene ’20-metre rule’ in the Personal Independent Payments (PIP) system. Even the previous 50-metre rule was limited, that’s a there and back trip to […]
Britain’s atrocious arms trade
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,533 Thursday 25 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Figures from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute in 2015 show that between 2010-14 Britain was the 6th biggest arms exporter in the world. The Guardian reports that, ‘More than £3bn of British-made weaponry was licensed for export last year […]
Life is not a sweat shop for profit
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,532 Wednesday 24 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Paul Marlow is a man who reports he worked for 31 years taking only 2 days off for sickness in all that time, until he developed cancer in 2002. Since then he has had 42 operations and is suffering […]
The brutalised lives of the economically excluded
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,531 Tuesday 23 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Another homeless person has been attacked on the streets of Britain and is now in a coma, fighting for his life. I cannot accuse your government of doing nothing when it is doing so much to create such fragile […]
Philip Green is not happy, he’s lucky, they hung Dick Turpin
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,530 Monday 22 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Philip Green is not a happy bunny. Holidaying on his £100 million boat, he was confronted onshore by Sky news reporter, David Bowden, who said to him, “Sir Philip, people want to know why you’re on holiday when they […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 