The Price of Disability and Mental Health

Yesterday I completed almost 2 year of Psycho-dynamic Therapy, and the best part of this slightly scary but exciting experience is, it was my decision to leave. This may seem odd, but after dedicating more that 100 Tuesday afternoons to an intense examination of my life, I am now well enough to stop. I have […]

The Tory government that turns our lives into chaos!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,257 Saturday 14 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I really have to wonder how this country is ever going to recover from your brutal and increasingly dysfunctional government. You might not be interested in personal cases but I am going to give you one any way, mine. […]

Mental ill health, top target for sanctions

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,171 Friday 07 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, As we know only too well, to the Tories our minds don’t matter. What we think, feel, care about or for, our considerations on any matter simply don’t matter. Why would our minds matter when all we are, as […]

Iain Duncan Smith back in charge of social deprivation

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,083 Tuesday 12 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I see that Iain Duncan Smith is to stay in the DWP as the minister in charge of depriving people of the means of survival and dismantling the welfare state. The man is indefatigable and remorseless in targeting vulnerable […]

All Tories should wear hazard to public safety wristbands

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,059 Wednesday 15 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Lord Bichard, an ex-chief of the Benefits Agency, said in 2012 he wanted to introduce forced labour for the elderly, suggesting ‘the same tough attitude towards benefit scroungers should be taken with older people’. In his words, “Older people […]

The time to be talking about genocide in the UK is right now

A letter a day to number 10. No 982 Thursday 22 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You and your government are knowingly and wilfully causing people physical and mental harm. The benefits system is now predicated on threat and punishment and millions have suffered and are suffering under Iain Duncan Smiths sanctions regime. Even the […]