Punishing the poor, will it ever end?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,510 Tuesday 02 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Pensions come from real work, from real labour, contributions are taken out of our pay to be invested for later life. We can afford tax cuts for the rich, we can afford £93 billion in corporate welfare, we can […]

Parliament takes its summer break, how many will die?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,500 Saturday 23 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, I know it has got many MP’s not just stumped, but, I think, frightened… people have discovered, or rediscovered, democracy. Not the tokenism of voting every once in a few years, but actually, actively, holding power to account and […]

Poverty is violence. The welfare reform vote

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,155 Wednesday 22 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What a triumph for the violently malicious and the spinelessly mediocre the voting on the Welfare Bill was. Make no mistake, poverty is violence! That’s the bottom line. And those who drive poverty as policy are no more than […]