A letter a day to number 10. No 1,115 Friday 12 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There is really only one word I can think of to describe what you and your government are doing to this nation – ‘Subjugation’. You have imposed ideological, permanent, austerity to beat the poorest and most vulnerable people into […]
Tag: penal system
Iain Duncan Smith, arguably the most reviled man in Britain
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,069 Saturday 25 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Charlotte, a fellow activist (read – caring human being or protector), reported yesterday that she met a woman outside a Jobcentre who had been rescued, with her baby, by the police from domestic violence and who was now in […]
Social security (benefits) claimants are treated worse than offenders
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,013 Friday 27 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Dr David Webster, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, in written evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee on Benefit sanctions wrote the following: “A combination of ‘silo’ thinking by officials in the DWP and its […]