There is nothing new in the right wing establishments treatment of the Windrush generation of people who were invited and transported to Britain in our hour of need after WWII. A Conservative campaign poster of 1964 read, “Face the facts. If you desire a coloured for your neighbour, vote Labour. If you are already burdoned […]
Tag: Irish potato famine
391 people in Britain died of malnutrition last year
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,521 Saturday 13 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that there were 746 hospital admissions and 391 deaths from malnutrition in 2015, a rise of 27% from 9 years ago. The response from the Department for Work and Pensions? “We […]
Tories, the party of hate, prejudice and fear
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,422 Wednesday 04 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Congratulations on being the party of hate, prejudice and fear, one of the most loathsome, putrid, stains on Britain in our long divisive history. From the Irish potato famine genocide, to the massacre of 379 unarmed and peaceful demonstrators […]
Tory dinosaurs are long past their extinction date
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,367 Thursday 10 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, In your campaign speech, ‘Making work pay’ you said, “Since we came to power we’ve got more people working than in our history.” Two things. Firstly, it’s an interesting term, ‘came to power’, I have a feeling that had […]
Tories – ‘the party of working people, offering you security at every stage of your life.’
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,175 Tuesday 11 August 2015. The letters with links are also available at ‘Fear and loathing in Great Britain’ https://fearandloathingingreatbritain.wordpress.com/ Dear Mr Cameron, As I have said many times, the deceit that you are making work pay is in exploiting people for more profit, making work pay […]
Genocide – the ruling classes have form
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,027 Friday 13 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The Irish potato famine weighs heavily on my mind these days given all that you and your government are inflicting on this nation. The disaster visited on Ireland wasn’t a famine it was a genocide but history fallaciously records […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 