An official at a Home Office Reporting Centre told ‘a man facing deportation that his job is to “piss him off” as part of the government’s challenging environment’ I am very grateful to him for his candour, he’s got the message across loud and clear. Everything that people are experiencing with the DWP, bullshit jobs […]
Tag: civil obedience
The state is our enemy
The system is broken, and by that I do not mean accidentally, oops how careless of me, broken, I mean wilfully and deliberately broken. I have lived my life with mental ill health and what I described as ‘social phobia’ years before any such description existed. Doctors told me I was agoraphobic, which then and […]
Government has stolen effective protest but only if we continue to allow it to
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,339 Thursday 11 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, This is an issue that’s been bothering me for some time – What happened to protest that it is no longer effective in demanding and driving change? Thankfully a wiser head than mine has been looking at this and […]
The presumption of taking our consent for granted
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,297 Saturday 26 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The words of Howard Zinn – “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders… and millions have been killed because of […]
Governments make wars and are war whores, but the people pay the price
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,224 Thursday 08 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, War is the sole province of governments. The people don’t make war, ever, we don’t have the resources, the ability or the power. The ability to commit mass murder on a global scale is exclusive to governments. In Britain […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 