Millions saved by preventing claimants getting legal help

Figures released by the government last week show just how much money has been saved by stopping legal help for most benefits issues. Last month we revealed that legal aid for disability benefits cases has plummeted by 99% since George Osborne imposed massive cuts on the legal aid system in 2013. The number of cases […]

Politicians should pay the price for corrupt politics

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,487 Friday 08 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It was with a deep feeling of sorrow that I learnt that Chelsea Manning had tried to commit suicide. As a whistle blower she’s incarcerated within the system she exposed, the prisoner of a corrupt system convinced of its […]

A government that attacks disabled people has no place in office

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,135 Thursday 02 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, If you can deny aid to people who without it would simply die, there is no lower place to go other than shooting or gassing them. This is not the first time that the state attacking disabled people has […]

Welfare dependency is a life line, not a crime

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,128 Thursday 25 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Before I get on to welfare dependency today, let’s just clear up the issue of those who abuse the system. It is part of the great diversity of human nature that some people will always take advantage of situations […]

Britain’s shame

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,093 Friday 22 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, People still ask, ‘How could what happened in Nazi Germany have come about?’ Today, Britain is an object lesson in exactly how it came about. The DWP has created our own ‘Untermensch’, a class of people treated as sub-human, […]

The personal is political, especially for the hounded poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,050 Monday 06 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, One of the more important expressions that came out of the 60’s feminist and student movements is ‘the personal is political’. It’s an expression that, still, today is not widely accepted or understood, which is unfortunate because it has […]