After the 2015 General Election, I sat watching the results come in and as it became clear the Conservatives had gained a majority I physically and mentally collapsed. I was completely devastated and it took a week or more to begin to claw my way back out of the pit of despair. This time around […]
Tag: general election
Another five years of Conservative brutality doesn’t bear thinking about
Any politician who employs deceit, deception, lies, propaganda, spin, corruption, cheating, defamation, character assassination, libel, slander or any other form of corrupt practice to achieve power, should never hold office. Currently elections are a free for all, reliant on the integrity or parties and individuals, with few, if any, checks and balances to protect the […]
This general election is about humanity
Just for the moment, forget policies and even the general election, and let’s look at humanity. It’s been said many times, ‘elections are not about personalities’, and every time, they are wrong. If you want to experience a world devoid of personality and humanity and based solely on policy, take a trip to your local […]
Fight to win and break the Tories
The right wing media, the Telegraph, Sun, Mail, Express, etc. are celebrating the hiring of Lynton Crosby to run Theresa May’s election campaign. They describe Crosby in such terms as ‘mastermind behind 2015 win’, ‘political guru Sir Lynton Crosby’, ‘the architect of David Cameron’s victory’, but he’s also known as ‘master of the dark political […]
Do nothing ex-PM tells Corbyn to stand down
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,479 Thursday 30 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I think it’s pretty rich for a failed has-been to tell Jeremy Corbyn in Ex-Prime Ministers Question Time, “For heaven’s sake man, go.” Of course you’d say that, what’s yours and Osborne’s reaction to Brexit? Do nothing, delay, leave […]
Despite being paid by us, Cameron doesn’t work for us
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,154 Tuesday 21 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In your stunning U-turn over your pay rise you said, “you’re paid a rate for the job and you should take the rate for the job”. All well and good, except you and your government are not doing the […]
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, […]
Death by a million cuts and that’s just the civil service
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,051 Tuesday 07 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that the George Osborne’s spending plans over 2015-2019 would be the “largest fiscal consolidation out of 32 advanced economies over the period”. The IFS warned that “Osborne will make the deepest cuts […]
Iain Duncan Smith’s misanthropic, pestilential and arrogant, misrule
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,043 Monday 30 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Iain Duncan Smith said in response to the leaked secret plans regarding Osborne’s proposed £12 billion cuts in welfare that they ‘did not represent government or Conservative party policy and blamed the leak on a “bitter individual” in the […]
The aristocracy of theft
A letter a day to number 10. No 988 Wednesday 28 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I hardly know what to write about today, not because I have nothing to say, but because I don’t know what to do about a rigged game in which the lives and considerations of ordinary people are not only […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 