IDS called it a ‘sin’ if people refused any job they were offered

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,161 Tuesday 28 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In 2011 Iain Duncan Smith said it was a ‘sin’ if people failed to take up available jobs. He went further saying that if people were ready for work and if they have a job offer, they should take […]

The Tories, not a shred of common human decency

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,157 Friday 24 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Authoritarian Conservatism is a combination of emotionally (anally) retentive Victorian paternalism with the colonial mindset of conquest and ownership. It is socially corrosive and divisive and fundamentally dishonest in its self righteous attitude of ‘don’t do as I do, […]

Even Jesus hadn’t figured on the Tories

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,156 Thursday 23 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, George Osborne has announced a further £20 billion of cuts in November. Austerity is no longer ‘ideological’, it’s a weapon of mass destruction, not so much cuts as an extinction event for the poor. Even Jesus got it wrong […]