Letter to the DWP about a fraudulent repayment claim on my pension

15 August 2018 Copies to Theresa May, Esther McVey, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Dear Sue Crook, On 25 April 2018 you wrote to inform me that I owed the nation £8,356.30 without any explanation of how this figure was dreamed up and that I would thus be paying back £11.10 a week for the next 14 years, […]

AI is taking over, is there life after work?

With the increasing growth and exploitation of Artificial Intelligence, which is taking over from human labour in the workplace, the underlying assumption is that without work, humans are obsolete. The problem here is a ridiculous binary argument, that the only way humans can survive is through work in the modern post industrial world. The question […]

The Tories handling of Brexit is entirely consistent with their intent

Trying to fathom the Tory strategy over Brexit is not dissimilar to trying to work out where you were and where you were going in one of London’s infamous smogs in years past in which, sometimes, you were unable to see your hand in front of your face. I well remember being completely disoriented, not […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the past is present

Within Britain’s historic class system the idea of an upper class person getting a job was unthinkable, that’s what common people did. Today, within the Rees-Mogg household, the idea of Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg growing up and wanting a job would be a cause for outrage. It’s not the done thing, and ‘the done […]

Disgusting over privileged oafs

In 2010 the incoming government was handed a note penned by departing treasury minister Liam Byrne which read, “Dear chief secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck! Liam”. It was, of course, a joke, the kind of joke shared between colleagues which us Brits are, or were, rather good […]

The party of PR fraudsters and snake oil salesmen

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,400 Tuesday 12 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, My own MP has now waded into the great tax debate. Jacob Rees-Mogg, Honourable Member for the 18th Century as Vox Political aptly describes him, has apparently said, ‘tax avoidance is a matter of law, not morality’. He’s right, […]

Ordinary people are right to be frightened, but I’d rather see them angry

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,244 Thursday 29 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I would like to remind you that you have a duty to serve the people of Britain and that you are paid by us to fulfil that duty. What you are not paid by us to do is to […]

The policies of Iain Duncan Smith – work or die

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,197 Wednesday 09 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Since 1994 the DWP has been infected with the UNUM virus, that is, it’s policy-making has been subject to false claims that disability and illness are ‘Malingering and Illness Deception’ and that through the application of Unum’s bogus biopsychosocial […]

Rees-Mogg accused protesters of a lack of acceptance of democracy. What democracy?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,094 Saturday 23 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Jacob Rees-Mogg accused anti-austerity protesters in Bristol of being “tainted by lack of acceptance of democracy” and that they were “…telling voters they got it wrong.” Of course voters got it wrong, George Osborne was asked by Andrew Marr […]

Those with the most hound and attack those with the least

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,090 Tuesday 19 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I will never understand how those who have every advantage in life and enjoy lives of plenty can choose, choose mind you, to hound and attack the poor and deprive them of the little they have and reduce them […]