The Tories handling of Brexit is entirely consistent with their intent

Trying to fathom the Tory strategy over Brexit is not dissimilar to trying to work out where you were and where you were going in one of London’s infamous smogs in years past in which, sometimes, you were unable to see your hand in front of your face. I well remember being completely disoriented, not […]

Function follows form – The Tories – re-forming humanity

Designers have a saying, ‘form follows function’, it means understanding what something is for, what its use is, before they start messing with it’s structural form. A chair has a very specific function, supporting someone who desires to sit. It can support other functions, as a platform to stand on, a low step ladder, and […]

Life is not a sweat shop for profit

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,532 Wednesday 24 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Paul Marlow is a man who reports he worked for 31 years taking only 2 days off for sickness in all that time, until he developed cancer in 2002. Since then he has had 42 operations and is suffering […]

Wherever the Tories are from they are no earthly good to man nor beast

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,369 Saturday 12 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Proof positive that alternate universes exist and, indeed, regularly interact with our own. One entity clearly from such a universe is Iain Duncan Smith who, statistical genius that he is, claims that 75% of sanctioned benefit claimants thank him […]

Glory be to Iain Duncan Smith and the end of the sickness delusion

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,356 Sunday 28 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I entirely understand that the DWP no longer recognises sickness or disability in any form and that supporting people who are living with sickness or disability just encourages them in their delusion and promotes a dependent mentality in which […]

The policies of Iain Duncan Smith – work or die

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,197 Wednesday 09 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Since 1994 the DWP has been infected with the UNUM virus, that is, it’s policy-making has been subject to false claims that disability and illness are ‘Malingering and Illness Deception’ and that through the application of Unum’s bogus biopsychosocial […]

IDS called it a ‘sin’ if people refused any job they were offered

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,161 Tuesday 28 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In 2011 Iain Duncan Smith said it was a ‘sin’ if people failed to take up available jobs. He went further saying that if people were ready for work and if they have a job offer, they should take […]

The wasteful poor, victims of their own life style choices and moral failure

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,118 Monday 15 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Poverty is caused and maintained by the willful immorality of the poor, it is a moral failure of self indulgent, profligate, living marked by extravagant and wasteful lifestyle choices leading to degeneracy, drug and alcohol dependence, obesity, laziness and […]

Victorians long past their natural extinction date

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,025 Wednesday 11 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I’ve been checking out life expectancies in the UK. Life expectancy at the year of my birth (1951) was 66 years for men and 71 years for women. Life expectancy at birth in 2011 was 79 years for men […]

From social security to genocide

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,018 Wednesday 04 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Since the US discredited insurance company UNUM entered the political arena in the UK in 1994 with their bogus use of the biopsychosocial model the nature of sickness and disability has been politicised, indeed weaponised, with those suffering from […]