A letter a day to number 10. No 1,523
Monday 15 August 2016.
Dear Mrs May,
Since 2008 millions of people in the UK has been driven into a fetid swamp of fear and uncertainty. The banking crisis was a catastrophe delivered to our doors by the criminal negligence of a few bankers who have been allowed to not only get away with their crimes, but have prospered by them at our expense.
On the back of that crisis, ordinary people have been driven into deprivation and despair by a political class hell bent on demonising and penalising those they consider beneath them. When David Cameron announced that we can expect permanent austerity whilst he sated himself at the most luxurious banquet, he declared a permanent ideological war on the poor which all events since have confirmed as policy.
Our humanity has been redefined to a swingeingly narrow narrative of work and worklessness regardless of all other factors including age, disability, personal inclination and desire in life.
Whilst a royal birth is trumpeted as something second only to the birth of a messiah, child bearing and rearing for ordinary people has been effectively abolished as a meaningful function in life. It is expected that all parents work and hand the daily care of their children over to others. Children’s precious formative years are disrupted because falling wages mean that people are paid less than even an individual can expect to live on, let alone a family. If children are denied the sanctity and security of a home, then home has lost its meaning. Home security, and community, is something Cameron went to great lengths to undermine including ending lifetime tenancies.
Quality of life has been deprived of substance, as have creativity, learning, leisure and personal time and space. Even being reduced to mere workers has been denigrated as the five Tory MP’s in their book ‘Britannia Unchained’ whinged, ‘the British are among the worst idlers in the world’. For the record, the five who chose to insult the nation in print are Elizabeth Truss, Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, Chris Skidmore and Kwasi Kwarteng.
What Britain is really suffering from is the uniform dismalness of a political class of self serving careerists whose only interest is money which we are meant to pander to in docile servility. Thankfully the human spirit is made of sterner stuff and the outcry grows daily, which I will sum up in just five words, ‘We are better than this!’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/13/david-cameron-austerity-public-sector-cuts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19300051
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 
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