So long tax payers and thanks for all your cash

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,502 Monday 25 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, The privatisation of, er, well, everything, reminds me of Douglas Adams’ title of the fourth book in his ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ trilogy, ‘So long and thanks for all the fish’… So long tax payers and thanks for […]

Osborne to cut corporation tax – he’s not backing Britain

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,484 Tuesday 05 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I see that George Osborne is set to lower corporation tax to 15% and there are even calls for it to be lower to woo investors to Britain, not least from China. The problem with overseas investment is that […]

If life has a purpose then it is life itself which is that purpose

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,214 Monday 28 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You know, sitting, as you do, in the top 10% or 1% of society, or maybe in the top 1% of the top 1% (I don’t know), it is easy for you to judge us and hand down your […]

The Tory subjugation and abuse of a nation

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,115 Friday 12 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There is really only one word I can think of to describe what you and your government are doing to this nation – ‘Subjugation’. You have imposed ideological, permanent, austerity to beat the poorest and most vulnerable people into […]

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 […]