A letter a day to number 10. No 1,239 Friday 23 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I wrote a little poem today that I thought I’d share with you. All work and no play takes all the bloody fun away so have a skive and feel alive and have a loafing day The very idea […]
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Iain Duncan Smith – work cures mental illness
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,189 Tuesday 25 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It seems that the DWP has issued Jobcentre staff with pink suicide cards to be waved above their heads when anyone threatens suicide. I have to commend Iain Duncan Smith on this initiative, it is an excellent idea whose […]
The silenced. the sanctioned and the dead
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,120 Wednesday 17 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, UK wide, we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis the like of which I have not witnessed before nor ever expected to, which, apparently coincidentally, began with the welfare reform bill, the introduction of universal credit and, […]
Government privatised tax credit fraud
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,011 Wednesday 25 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I had a visit today from someone whose job involves administratively helping me move house. In our wider conversation she described herself as a single parent, hard working, Mum who has had her tax credits stopped due to an […]