What has socialism ever done for us?

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization – Peter Kropotkin Many, many years ago, before bog rolls, condoms and Pet Rocks were invented, people discovered a remarkable thing. They didn’t call it anything, or if they did, there is no record because records hadn’t been invented. In fact […]

What the Labour Party achieved, lest we forget

Written by Kitty S Jones Thanks to Rory Doona for this excellent graphic. 1. Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s.2. Low mortgage rates.3. Introduced the National Minimum Wage and raised it to £5.52 per hour.4. Over 14,000 more police in England and Wales.5. Cut overall crime by 32 per cent.6. Record levels […]

Fork in the road

I have today spent a session with my therapist (H) talking politics and by that I mean real up front and dirty politics. On Thursday this country will hit a fork in the road the like of which it has never seen before and for many of us that fork will revolve around life or […]

The poor shouldn’t breed and other smug self righteous twaddle

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,319 Monday 18 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, There was a comment on yesterday’s letter, No. 1,318, that the poor shouldn’t breed, that they are irresponsible and don’t care for their kids or their education. It’s a growing trend once again started at the top and fed […]

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 […]

Why do the over privileged detest us so much when we are so generous to them?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,172 Saturday 08 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Labour has branded your latest scheme to undermine the Unions by ending union subscriptions automatically deducted from their pay cheques as ‘mean-spirited and ideological’. In fact it is much worse than that, it’s yet another brat pack attack on […]

Arise the sleeping giant and throw off the chains that have bound you

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,170 Thursday 06 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The left has finally reawakened after many years of hunkering in the darkness of post Thatcher Britain. As she herself put it, ‘Socialism represents an enduring temptation. No one should underestimate Labour’s potential appeal’. No, they really shouldn’t. Nor […]

Life in Britain, where the privileged feel hard done by

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,151 Saturday 18 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I can’t imagine a greater insult to public sector workers whose pay is capped at 1% a year for the next four years than you saying of the MPs pay rise, “you’re paid a rate for the job and […]

Austerity is just a Tory excuse to dismantle the nation for profit

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,124 Sunday 21 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, With up to 250,000 marching in London yesterday and some thousands in Glasgow, plus unknown numbers online helping to spread the word, austerity is an ideological choice opposed by many of the worlds leading economists. With an underwhelming majority […]

Britain doesn’t need another Tory party, one is too much

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,101 Saturday 30 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I see that Andy Burnham is trying to out right wing you Tories. You must be delighted, the end of the Labour party is nigh. Order another case of Bollinger because let’s face it they’ll never out-Tory you Tories, […]