The world is being driven by the morally bankrupt and the utterly corrupt for whom accumulated wealth has more worth than life itself and in the hunger for which, globally, they destroy the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. It is impossible for most ordinary people, including me, to know how corrupt the UK […]
Tag: welfare reforms
The war on the poor, where has all the money gone?
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,527 Friday 19 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, The annual report (2015-16) from the Social Security Advisory Committee chaired by Paul Gray reveals that the welfare reforms were driven by pressure from the treasury and that assessments of the likely impacts were non-existent, ignored/rejected or, through the […]
391 people in Britain died of malnutrition last year
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,521 Saturday 13 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that there were 746 hospital admissions and 391 deaths from malnutrition in 2015, a rise of 27% from 9 years ago. The response from the Department for Work and Pensions? “We […]
Living modest lives is the only sustainable future, so why attack them?
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,507 Saturday 30 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, In the relentless campaign against the lives of ordinary people, welfare reforms, loss of legal aid, punitive benefit sanctions and cuts, loss of employment rights, the privatisation of our NHS, housing insecurity/no more lifelong tenancies, and so on, people […]
Ordinary people, a cash cow in an abusive relationship
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,505 Thursday 28 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, A report by the TUC finds that Britain’s wages have tanked since the bankers broke the global economy and we now languish with Greece at the bottom of a league table of wages growth. The Ripped Off Britons blog […]
Politicians should pay the price for corrupt politics
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,487 Friday 08 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It was with a deep feeling of sorrow that I learnt that Chelsea Manning had tried to commit suicide. As a whistle blower she’s incarcerated within the system she exposed, the prisoner of a corrupt system convinced of its […]
The Tories, punishment for life
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,437 Wednesday 18 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The imposition of the SATs exams is a hostile imposition, it has no regard for the children who must suffer its iniquities, it is forced obedience for imposed answers, whether the children understand the questions and answers or not. […]
Actions have consequences, as many MPs are just discovering
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,373 Wednesday 16 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It is very good to see members of the public getting to grips with holding MPs to account, the 309 MPs who voted to cut ESA by £30 a week might learn, in future, to pay attention to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 