Universal Credit debit

I have received my PIP decision which is to pay me £214.65 every four weeks, that’s a loss of £95.95 from DLA which was £310.60. All else being equal, and it isn’t, I can take the hit, it’s manageable. My first payment is due on 6 February which means neither DLA nor PIP this month, […]

PIP in the age of stupid

I want to unravel the whole PIP thing a bit, along with some other stuff that I think needs saying and expressing. Let me start with a question. Why is the whole PIP thing so fucking stressful? The reason is that it falls to us to make it happen. Forget the ‘decision makers’ and the, […]

The politics of envy, invented by the rich who oppress the poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,144 Saturday 11 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, As I have daily observed and written about your unravelling of this country since March 2012 certain things stick in my mind. They go on what I call my back burner, the place where I put things that aren’t […]