We have a problem and it’s one we need to fix urgently. Housing… to briefly put aside all the other myriad disastrous problems which lie securely at the door of the Tories and the neoliberal consensus. I’ll begin with a proposition – no one should be evicted from their home for financial reasons, as a […]
Tag: Priti Patel
We are better than this!
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,523 Monday 15 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Since 2008 millions of people in the UK has been driven into a fetid swamp of fear and uncertainty. The banking crisis was a catastrophe delivered to our doors by the criminal negligence of a few bankers who have […]
‘How shaming the poor became our new bloodsport’ – Barbara Ellen
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,506 Friday 29 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, In my letter of 26th July I wrote that we are ‘patronised and even despised for our modest lives’. Just writing that I knew it was a subject I needed to come back to. My life is a small […]
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 […]
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, […]
The only good that can happen for Britain is – get the Tories out!
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,471 Wednesday 22 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The one thing I can say about the EU referendum and the Tory campaign is that it has been run by the fantastically corrupt for the fantastically corrupt. I have never witnessed a more brutally corrupt campaign which has […]
Tory Britain, about as attractive as dogs vomit
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,468 Saturday 18 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Are you or are you not the leader of your party? If you are, something I have serious cause to question, you need to reign your party in and stop the deliberate spreading of misinformation, fear and lies. I […]
The Tories and the referendum, bring on the clowns
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,459 Thursday 09 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It is at least unfortunate that we have three of the worst characters possible representing the Tory case for leaving the EU, at worst it is wilful manipulation to swing the referendum in favour of staying in the EU. […]
A government that sows lies and fear must reap the inevitable whirlwind
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,447 Saturday 28 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I am sick and tired of fear and hate mongering. Your threat of war if we leave the EU, Boris Johnson’s argument against staying by comparing the EU to a Nazi superstate, the latest Osborne threat to pensions and […]
Wages are no longer an entitlement, merely a reward
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,439 Friday 20 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I was very impressed at this little nugget that you threw into the Queen’s speech for the State Opening of Parliament, “… and to move to a higher wage and lower welfare economy where work is rewarded.” It’s amazing, […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 