A letter a day to number 10. No 1,442 Monday 23 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, With GP’s voting overwhelmingly in favour of a ballot to strike to prevent the demise of their profession, I am curious as to whether you have a ball park figure for population reduction that your wholesale destruction of public […]
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The passing of a Judas
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,377 Sunday 20 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Whilst I welcome the news that Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, he walks away from the chaos that he remains responsible for orchestrating. In his letter of resignation Smith writes, ‘It […]
Forgive me if I die laughing of grief
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,241 Monday 26 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, One of the major problems we face in Britain today is cognitive dissonance, the difficulty of holding and resolving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviours. We are all subject to it in a complex world, including the police as I […]
Authoritarian brutality is a job requirement at the DWP
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,204 Friday 18 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The politics and polices of demonisation and vilification in order to justify the shrinking of state provision and its privatisation is traumatising lives and worse, it is dehumanising those whose lives are traumatised and deliberately undermines human care, concern […]
The grey workforce of betrayed and brutalised young people
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,183 Wednesday 19 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Ralph McTell wrote a song, released in 1983, that was inspired from a conversation with Billy Connolly who had watched an Indian Trade Union man address a party political conference with the opening line, ‘A man without a job […]
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 […]
Democracy has come to call, throwing the UK’s political world into raging chaos
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,179 Saturday 15 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There is a storm brewing and all you self serving, careerist, political charlatans are the cause of it. If it breaks you will have no one but yourselves to blame. You have paid lip service to democracy for too […]
IDS called it a ‘sin’ if people refused any job they were offered
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,161 Tuesday 28 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In 2011 Iain Duncan Smith said it was a ‘sin’ if people failed to take up available jobs. He went further saying that if people were ready for work and if they have a job offer, they should take […]
The poor, the people the Tories love to hate because they deserve it
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,102 Sunday 31 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, A fellow blogger wrote in 2014, “It’s truly remarkable that whenever we have a Conservative government, we suddenly witness media coverage of an unprecedented rise in the numbers of poor people who suddenly seem to develop a considerable range […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 