A nation driven into slavery, the Tories must go

The world is being driven off a cliff, politically and economically, it is astonishing and bewildering how far off the beaten track of common sense and reason we are being driven by people without a shred of humanity and who are corrupt to the bone. But what is also astonishing, but in no way bewildering, […]

If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet. Taxman! Beatles 1966

In striving to understand how the economy really works as against the ridiculous fairy stories we are told to dutifully swallow, I have had to give up some cherished sacred cows which are tied in with my outrage against a government which is causing so many people hideous pain and suffering and driving many to […]

Baying for blood, the media

In any, great or small, news event there is an untold story which is blandly accepted as the norm but which is long overdue for change as no longer socially or morally acceptable. The snarling hoards of the corporate and freelance media fall like jackals on anything that smells like a ‘good’ story no matter […]

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 […]

Flood defenses cuts, flooding and DWP sanctions to follow?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,301 Wednesday 30 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Now that you’ve taken advantage of the floods for a photo opportunity and to point at things perhaps you’d like to take the opportunity explain why flood defence spending has been cut year on year since 2010 and why […]

Britain must now rank amongst the worlds brutal dictatorships

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,240 Sunday 25 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The only test for any government policy is its impact on the ground in the real world, not some cooked up nonsense spun from a government office or department and especially not a PR department. The Trussell Trust latest […]

People are tired of bullshit politics from bullshit politicians

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,169 Wednesday 05 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, One of the reasons for Jeremy Corbyn’s success, and it may well be the main reason, is that the people of Britain are tired of bullshit politics from bullshit politicians, which encompasses your entire government. What does that mean? […]

Austerity is state violence towards millions of ordinary people

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,131 Sunday 28 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, People ask me how I can write these letters day after day? I can write them because I have no mercy in my soul for you. You do not forgive someone for abusing you knowing they will do it […]

The banking crisis, the goose that laid the golden egg

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,119 Tuesday 16 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Looking back to the banking crisis, I think one of the most remarkable things about it was that it never occurred to the vast majority of ordinary people, including me, that it would become the goose that laid the […]