The Conservatives are fantastically corrupt

On 26th May the BBC reported – “Call to raise retirement age to at least 70” – and the first sentence of the article read, ‘The retirement age should rise to at least 70 in rich countries by 2050 as life expectancy rises above 100, according to a new report’. Apparently the ‘World Economic Forum […]

The dumbing down of truth

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has announced its 2016 word of the year – “Post-truth”: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” apparently first used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich in The Nation. […]

The poor cannot afford those who get rich on their backs

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,513 Friday 05 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, It is expensive being poor. Being poor comes at a premium cost, whether it is food, health, essential services, transport, life expectancy, being exploited as cheap labour, lack of choice, mental health and quality of life, the poor pay […]

A housing crisis? Punish the poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,504 Wednesday 27 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, One could be forgiven for thinking that a government report, the 2014/15 English Housing Survey, that found 57,485 households had fallen behind on their rent due to the bedroom tax, might be a matter of concern for the government […]

If those in power can evade justice, there is no justice

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,488 Saturday 09 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, What the EU referendum and the Chilcot report have brought into the spotlight is something that has been glaringly obvious for a very long time, we can no longer afford or tolerate the lack, indeed the absence, of government […]

Ignorant elitists never learn

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,482 Sunday 03 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, James Traub, unsurprisingly a member of the ignorant social elites, has written the following, “It’s time for the elites to rise up against the ignorant masses. The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not […]

War is the sport of rulers, the people pay the price

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,480 Friday 01 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, When Michael Gove said that ‘people in this country have had enough of experts’, he did something rather spectacular which sums up the problems of our time and the referendum. As a media savvy elitist, he spun a deliberate […]

This is no time for weeping, it’s time to roar!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,478 Wednesday 29 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The European adventure has been an attempt to create a vast mono-culture of diverse nations, unelected, unaccountable and opaque, dominated by cultural and economic elites who are in no way democratically answerable to the people of the various nations […]

The Brexit plan that never was

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,477 Tuesday 28 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, This was reported on Sky news, a conservative MP who was a member of the leave campaign was asked by Sky News Political Editor Faisal Islam, “Where’s the plan, can we see the Brexit plan now?” The response was, […]

Self serving elites are the enemies of the people

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,476 Monday 27 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, If anything should have been learnt from the referendum, although I do not think it has yet been properly driven home, it is the utter scorn and contempt which the so called elites have for ordinary people. I was […]