The war on the poor will end, it is a matter of when, not if

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,428 Monday 09 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I hope that your relentless war on the poor haunts you for the rest of your days. I also hope that Iain Duncan Smith will be reviled and prosecuted for his obscene escalation of the sanctions regime, punishing the […]

IDS gets slammed for continuing to allow the poor to ruin the economy

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,180 Sunday 16 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Despite all Osborne’s efforts to blame the 2008 crash on Labour, it was no such thing, it was the banks, but it was also the failure of the G7 which consists of the ‘finance ministers and central bank governors […]

The Tories, not a shred of common human decency

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,157 Friday 24 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Authoritarian Conservatism is a combination of emotionally (anally) retentive Victorian paternalism with the colonial mindset of conquest and ownership. It is socially corrosive and divisive and fundamentally dishonest in its self righteous attitude of ‘don’t do as I do, […]

Osborne demands to know, if the poor don’t eliminate the deficit, who will?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,147 Tuesday 14 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Seeing Iain Duncan Smith’s ecstatic display of unbridled joy at Osborne’s budget was an insult to humanity. Osborne had just pulled off the scam of the century in rebranding the living wage as something less than the minimum required […]

The silenced. the sanctioned and the dead

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,120 Wednesday 17 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, UK wide, we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis the like of which I have not witnessed before nor ever expected to, which, apparently coincidentally, began with the welfare reform bill, the introduction of universal credit and, […]

Human rights are not conferred, they belong to us!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,038 Tuesday 24 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Funny (peculiar, weird, strange, not amusing) thing about human rights, given that you want to scrap the Human Rights Act, you can scrap the act but you can’t scrap our human rights. As I quoted yesterday from the Liberty […]

Jobcentre mental health care, useless ministers and doughnuts

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,035 Saturday 21 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The BBC reported today that Mental health trusts in England have seen their budgets fall by more than 8% in real terms under your government. Research by BBC News and the online journal Community Care reveals that the cuts […]