The Tory government is a crime against the humanity of the nation

I’ve just transferred some money across to my nieces bank account because she’s gone overdrawn because she hasn’t been paid this month. I did it not just because I care about her, but because I am raging angry, because we always pay, even after we bailed the banks out, we always pay, and bank charges, […]

So long tax payers and thanks for all your cash

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,502 Monday 25 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, The privatisation of, er, well, everything, reminds me of Douglas Adams’ title of the fourth book in his ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ trilogy, ‘So long and thanks for all the fish’… So long tax payers and thanks for […]

Austerity and the deliberate sacrifice of lives

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,418 Saturday 30 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Just in case you were wondering, junior doctors have not gone away, Jeremy Hunt is not off the hook and the support for junior doctors will continue. The contract that Hunt wants to impose on them is not safe […]

Isn’t it time we had a bit of democracy in parliament?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,406 Monday 18 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, For all George Osborne’s talk about tax evasion, money laundering and corruption – “Strong words of condemnation are not enough, populist outrage doesn’t by itself collect a single extra pound or dollar in tax or put a single criminal […]

Sacrificing the poor to protect and reward the rich

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,403 Friday 15 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Following the handing over of the HSBC files to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the subsequent investigation, just one prosecution was made although HMRC did manage to offer an amnesty to 3,600 UK customers identified as potentially hiding […]

The UK government has weaponised money for profit

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,395 Thursday 07 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Tax evaders have an implicit arrogant expectation that everyone else will pay for the social infrastructure that supports their criminal lifestyles. Tax avoidance, whilst technically legal, is the equally morally bankrupt equivalent of tax evasion. Those who exploit such […]

The lies that destroy lives

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,363 Sunday 06 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Following on from yesterday, the absolute truth that Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms are entirely intended to be punitive is that nearly 14,000 disabled people have had their mobility vehicles taken away from them, depriving them of the jobs […]

Google’s sweetheart tax deal, robbing the poor to pay for tax dodgers

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,337 Friday 05 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Whilst George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith attack Britain’s social safety net which Osborne claims must be done to pay down the deficit, his mates rates tax deal with Google has seen them walk away with some £665 million […]

The personal is political, especially for the hounded poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,050 Monday 06 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, One of the more important expressions that came out of the 60’s feminist and student movements is ‘the personal is political’. It’s an expression that, still, today is not widely accepted or understood, which is unfortunate because it has […]

Poor people pay the price of government corruption

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,007 Saturday 21 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In true form Osborne evades or avoids, not sure which, the HSBC corruption scandal by claiming it was a “cardinal rule as chancellor not to get involved in or know the details of any individual’s or any individual company’s […]