A letter a day to number 10. No 1,365 Tuesday 08 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, As the head of the DWP Iain Duncan Smith is not someone who should be accusing others of ‘Project Fear’. The entire social disaster that is now the DWP under his mismanagement is the single most feared and despised […]
Tag: TTIP
Cameron is going to let us have an EU referendum, how exc….zzzzzzzz
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,345 Wednesday 17 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I’m fascinated by the upcoming referendum on Europe and all the shenanigans that must go on as you negotiate the terms for our continued membership or our exercising the nuclear option to launch the dread Brexit. In my better […]
The flame of defiance must be kept lit
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,243 Wednesday 28 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You may enjoy your brief day in the sun, but history will remember your infamy and treachery. Refusing to back the fight against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) leaving our […]
Detroit, Detroit! ‘The Free Markets’ – another name for Armageddon…
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,207 Monday 21 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In many ways, though I am not an historical expert, Detroit today stands as a monument to capitalism and, indeed, neoliberalism. It stands as a testament to corruption, betrayal and abandonment, a city and its people used and abused […]
Austerity is state violence towards millions of ordinary people
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,131 Sunday 28 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, People ask me how I can write these letters day after day? I can write them because I have no mercy in my soul for you. You do not forgive someone for abusing you knowing they will do it […]
‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number – Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Mask of Anarchy.
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,079 Wednesday 06 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Whatever happens tomorrow, the battle for the UK is on and it won’t be won by any self aggrandising knights in shining armour in parliament. This battle belongs to the people, by the people, for the people. The Political […]
Privateers, keep your grubby hands off our NHS
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,015 Sunday 01 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I was in the nearby town of Radstock today taking part in the 38 Degrees action gathering signatures to protect our NHS from privatisation and from the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP). Despite assurances that the NHS is […]
Britain, TTIP, and the new dark age
A letter a day to number 10. No 976 Friday 16 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Boris Johnson may well dismiss critics of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as “numskulls”, a term he obviously learnt from reading the Beano, but playground insults do not strengthen the case for TTIP, quite the opposite. The […]
Slavery rebranded – freedom
A letter a day to number 10. No 968 Thursday 08 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In Britain and across the world today, people are being forced into extreme economic slavery, that is, modern forms of bondage and servitude (Workfare and sanctions being but two examples in the UK) by governments and corporate interests exemplified […]
Disabled people brutalised into labouring to save the economy, but no ILF. Oh really?
A letter a day to number 10. No 945 Sunday 14 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, We are facing system failure and sadly that’s down to a failure of imagination and a failure to progress. For example, you and the Unions have something in common, work, you may differ over how you see it but […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 