Thank goodness we have the poor to pay off the debt

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,143 Friday 10 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I’m curious, George Osborne proudly announced in the budget ‘the sale of Government assets this year will deliver the largest privatisation proceeds of all time, higher than the previous record in 1987’. Apparently ‘£32billion of state-owned assets will be […]

Britain’s shame

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,093 Friday 22 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, People still ask, ‘How could what happened in Nazi Germany have come about?’ Today, Britain is an object lesson in exactly how it came about. The DWP has created our own ‘Untermensch’, a class of people treated as sub-human, […]

The wilful destruction of the poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,073 Wednesday 29 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In December last year you said your policies were ‘lifting people into work and out of poverty’. Let’s just have ourselves an election special review of Tory policies and action on poverty. The broad strokes are that the poor […]

Another tory government; less appealing than being attacked by a rabid dog

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,033 Thursday 19 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, A benefits system that is predicated on inflicting suffering is an abomination, but it cuts far deeper than something that is abominable or morally repugnant. Over recent days it has emerged that terminally ill people who have more than […]