A letter a day to number 10. No 1,186 Saturday 22 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You know, we are going to have to do something about people in politics who look like adults but have the mentality and behaviour of sub-normal children. Although this has nothing to do with you or your party, it […]
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Gross inequality feeds the violence of poverty
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,068 Friday 24 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What really angered me about you talking about poverty and having a go at Miliband and Balls was that you expressed irritation or anger at them. In a nation like ours poverty is ideological, your government has relentlessly pursued […]
The Tories, a fate worse than death
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,057 Monday 13 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It’s very touching (maybe for party stalwarts in Cheltenham) that you consider raising the Inheritance Tax threshold would support the “most basic, human and natural instinct” of parents to provide for their children. Clearly the rich need to be […]
Social security (benefits) claimants are treated worse than offenders
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,013 Friday 27 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Dr David Webster, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, in written evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee on Benefit sanctions wrote the following: “A combination of ‘silo’ thinking by officials in the DWP and its […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 