The Conservative and Unionist eugenics party

One day in January 2015 at around midnight I awoke in extreme pain, such that I could barely breathe. Within 2 minutes of a 999 call the paramedics arrived and blue lighted me to A&E. I was given a pain killer suppository which was definitely the best pain killer ever. Bliss! From that point memory […]

Neoliberalism – a terminal man-made disease

Over the past few years I have run a gamut of feelings about neoliberalism, anger, rage, despondency, futility, vengefulness, hatred, but lately all that has congealed and what I feel more than anything else is a virulent hatred for the appalling reality of the casual deaths neoliberalism not only takes for granted, but which is […]

Amber Rudd announces max period of government enforced starvation of only 6 months

On the 10th May 2019 Amber Rudd announced to the nation that she was changing the DWP sanctions regime to ensure future sanctions are proportionate. To that end she is abandoning the ‘rarely used’ (she says) 3 year sanction and, in the future, the longest length of a sanction will be 6 months. A sanction […]

Never before in UK history has so much been owed to so many by so few

It is worth bearing in mind that a government is not the country, it is not the people, it is not society and, most especially, it is not community or the daily reality of people’s lives. Good governance is like grease on a bearing, never to be confused with the bearing itself, which actually does […]

This is genocide

Samaritans are available 24 hours a day. Free call from any phone – 116 123 Like the British Raj and the Empire that preceded them, the modern day Tories use privilege to cover their crimes. They throw mud at the living and rejoice when some inevitably sticks, whilst presiding over a silent genocide. The dead […]

The fight of my life

I am now officially retired and although I have been sickness retired for some years now, I am experiencing high levels of what is called cognitive dissonance – “the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioural decisions and attitude change.” Reflecting on my life, I feel my generation was […]

A nation driven into slavery, the Tories must go

The world is being driven off a cliff, politically and economically, it is astonishing and bewildering how far off the beaten track of common sense and reason we are being driven by people without a shred of humanity and who are corrupt to the bone. But what is also astonishing, but in no way bewildering, […]

I am not a democracy

On March 17th 2012 I chose to enter the political ‘arena’ in a pro-active way by writing ‘a letter a day to number 10’. It was a personal decision because I had passed the tipping point in what I could stomach from a government which continues to have a callous disregard for the lives and […]

Terrorist extremism – the enemy within

Since 2010 we have witnessed and experienced seven long years of bitter Conservative betrayals, from David Cameron’s pledge that there would be no top down reorganisation of the NHS to the horrific fire in Grenfell Tower which follows the Conservatives voting down in 2016 a Labour amendment to the government’s housing and planning bill to […]

The poor are superfluous to requirements

If there is one thing I have learnt over a long lifetime it is that ordinary people are the donkey engine, the powerhouse, that drives the nation in war and peace and that for those in power, our lives are entirely expendable. In war it is we who are sacrificed and in peace we are […]