Trying to fathom the Tory strategy over Brexit is not dissimilar to trying to work out where you were and where you were going in one of London’s infamous smogs in years past in which, sometimes, you were unable to see your hand in front of your face. I well remember being completely disoriented, not […]
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Footprints for profit, epic vandalism of our NHS
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,541 Friday 02 September 2016. Dear Mrs May, Jeremy Hunt has accused junior doctors of inflicting ‘the worst doctors’ strike in NHS history’. It is hardly surprising given that we are afflicted with the worst health secretary in history. What is more worrying is that the rest […]
Jeremy Hunt is putting lives at risk for profit
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,509 Monday 01 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, It took about 200,000 years from the birth of humanity to make the NHS and a mere 68 years to dismantle it. It was Britain’s finest achievement yet Jeremy Hunt is close to finishing it off for good and […]
The war of the privileged few against the many
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,443 Tuesday 24 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Throughout the history of the world it has never been the many against the few, it has always been the few against the many and so far they have been astonishingly successful. They, that elusive ‘powers that be’, control […]
If money had anything to do with dignity and self-respect, Hunt would keep his mouth shut
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,223 Wednesday 07 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Jeremy Hunt thinks that how you get your money decides whether you have any dignity or self-respect. It matters, it seems, whether you’ve earned it or not, and if you’ve earned it ‘you are independent and that is the […]
Cameron telling the literal truth about making work pay – the Tory way
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,165 Saturday 01 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, This is a letter that has come out of an email conversation with a friend who posited, “What if ‘making work pay’ isn’t another lie coming out of Cameron’s, Osborne’s and IDS’s mouths, but might actually be the truth […]
I have never met a poor person who can lie, cheat and steal like a Tory!
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,150 Friday 17 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, On 7 June 2011 you said the following: “But let me also be clear, no: we will not be selling off the NHS, we will not be moving towards an insurance scheme, we will not introduce an American-style private […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 