The Tories have decided to play skittles with 3 million lives, assisted in their bastardy by ‘UKIP, the DUP and a few Eurosceptic Labour rebels’. These are peoples lives and livelihoods, families and children. It involves their life choices and endeavours, legally and legitimately strived for and achieved. All cast aside by a vote of […]
Tag: human rights
Culling the stock
Last Sunday I read an article on the cost of badger culling. It is enormously costly, between 2012 and 2014 we paid £16.8 million to kill 2,476 badgers, that’s £6,785 per badger. In Wales, where they use vaccinations, the cost per badger is £293, that’s £6,492 cheaper per badger, a saving of £32.5 million and […]
Democracy’s highest expression is in people’s direct action
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,451 Wednesday 01 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, In an article entitled ‘Election Madness’ in the USA, the late Howard Zinn wrote, “Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.” This is by no […]
The big question isn’t in or out of Europe…
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,433 Saturday 14 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Every time I hear something like, ‘Labour’s great recession after 2008’ my head does a little blurred jump, like a glitch in the matrix whilst someone is trying to rewrite the code live. It makes me want to do […]
War, what is it good for? Cameron’s EU campaign
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,429 Tuesday 10 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, How dare you evoke the spectre of a European wide conflict if the electorate vote Brexit in the up coming referendum. WWIII isn’t some ideological football to be kicked about to suit your political agenda. Let me be very […]
The line has been long crossed and the curse is Tory
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,427 Sunday 08 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It’s a curious juxtaposition; Lynton Crosby knighted for services to dirty politics by an unelected head of state and Sadiq Khan becoming Mayor of London on the biggest personal democratic mandate in British political history. Bizarrely Sadiq Khan was […]
Government can make crimes against humanity legal, but never right
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,323 Friday 22 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The law does not uphold what is right or just, the law merely upholds the law and those who make law. When those who make law are unjust, the laws they pass serve injustice in order to deprive and […]
There are no circumstances in which human rights should be scrapped
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,299 Monday 28 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Michael Fallon’s call for the human rights act to be suspended for the armed forces has apparently been dismissed as the ‘worst kind of jingoistic rubbish’ by Tim Farron. He carries on with his own brand of jingoism by […]
The government and corporations bitterly oppose democracy
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,285 Monday 14 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Since Jeremy Corbyn’s election to become the leader of the Labour party through a genuinely participative democratic process and, indeed, in the run up to that election, I have been taken aback by the histrionics of you, the right […]
No bread for the quick or the dead, but you’re still expected to work
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,213 Sunday 27 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Contrary to popular opinion in what are laughing called the minds of Tories, we are not ‘the common herd’, nor are we ‘stock’, nor are we beasts of burden to be forced into any job vacancy that becomes available […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 