Over the last many months I have been battling with losing the plot completely. Every day has become an unbelievable battle with constant panic attacks, heart pounding anxiety and barely contained, and almost impossible to restrain, livid fury. The most ridiculous banal things trigger an explosive rage that I have never previously experienced: the loo […]
Tag: legal aid
There is only one reason Tory policies kill the sick and disabled (and they do): THEY LIKE IT
Here’s a great Twitter thread from Rachael Swindon, listing only some of the vile treatment endured by sick and disabled people at the will of the Conservative government led by Theresa May (and formerly David Cameron). It isn’t entirely accurate, of course. Nobody in their right mind thinks MS or Parkinson’s Disease is curable; it’s […]
Millions saved by preventing claimants getting legal help
Figures released by the government last week show just how much money has been saved by stopping legal help for most benefits issues. Last month we revealed that legal aid for disability benefits cases has plummeted by 99% since George Osborne imposed massive cuts on the legal aid system in 2013. The number of cases […]
Living modest lives is the only sustainable future, so why attack them?
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,507 Saturday 30 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, In the relentless campaign against the lives of ordinary people, welfare reforms, loss of legal aid, punitive benefit sanctions and cuts, loss of employment rights, the privatisation of our NHS, housing insecurity/no more lifelong tenancies, and so on, people […]
Compassionate, one-nation government? Tory gallows humour
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,380 Wednesday 23 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Someone commented on my Facebook page about your party yesterday… “and they are supposed to work for us???” I chuckled. Funny how you can laugh about something that is not remotely funny and which is, in fact, a sick […]
Junior doctors, rogue government, and where the line is drawn
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,250 Thursday 05 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, As I follow the battle of junior doctors being fought against bogus reasons and deceitful ideological purposes, for a 24 hour NHS which has existed since its inception, what hits me more than anything else is that Hunt, and […]
Tax Credits may be headlining, but Tory betrayal is nothing new
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,242 Tuesday 27 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, When reality comes calling it can be a very painful experience. As welcome as the furore over tax credit cuts is, it is tragedy that all the harm you’ve caused to the poorest and most vulnerable people in Britain […]
The law isn’t the only justice in the land, not by a long way
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,210 Thursday 24 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You really don’t understand or even care about ordinary people at all do you? Ashcroft petulantly having a go at you, and your reported comments – ‘a little prick, a stab in the back’ – ‘rather summed up my […]
‘Gideon’s Heist’ stealing from the poor to give to the rich
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,107 Friday 05 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The Mirror reports that some creative rascal, using what may have been a government computer, amended the Wikipedia entry on right-wing dictatorships to include – United Kingdom, Conservatives, 2015-, David Cameron. I’m not sure where the tipping point is […]
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 […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 