I am losing my mind and no bloody wonder

Over the last many months I have been battling with losing the plot completely. Every day has become an unbelievable battle with constant panic attacks, heart pounding anxiety and barely contained, and almost impossible to restrain, livid fury. The most ridiculous banal things trigger an explosive rage that I have never previously experienced: the loo […]

Dealing with intolerable Tory wickedness

I do not believe that wickedness of the kind that has assaulted Britain over the last 9 years has never happened before, but it’s certainly the most extreme since WWII, although Thatcher was a close 2nd and, perhaps, a harbinger of what was to come nationwide. Thatcher took on the miners and heavy industry but […]

Amber Rudd announces max period of government enforced starvation of only 6 months

On the 10th May 2019 Amber Rudd announced to the nation that she was changing the DWP sanctions regime to ensure future sanctions are proportionate. To that end she is abandoning the ‘rarely used’ (she says) 3 year sanction and, in the future, the longest length of a sanction will be 6 months. A sanction […]

The greatest rewards for the rich come from keeping the poor in poverty

It’s beyond astonishing that the government views benefits as a cost cutting exercise. The Tories are ideologically opposed to social security and so they have made the benefits system as punitive and dismal as possible, treating being poor, out of work, sick or disabled as moral failings. The world of finance is awash with money, […]

Who do you think you are?

Last week a parliamentary candidate was censored and silenced at a hustings by Amber Rudd. Following the attack in London Theresa May once again blamed cyberspace as a safe space for terrorists to breed and a former Metropolitan Police Senior Investigating Officer, Peter Kirkham, stated on Sky News that Theresa May was lying about Police […]

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 […]