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 […]

Cameron’s ‘One Nation’ divided by social exclusion by the state

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,126 Tuesday 23 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I am fascinated by your ‘One Nation’ mission, not least because it begs the question, which one? According to the annual Credit Suisse global wealth report, ‘Britain is the only country in the G7 group of leading economies where […]

Belief, false or otherwise, is no excuse for sadistic cruelty

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,116 Saturday 13 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, We live in an age of assumptions. The problem with assumptions is we believe them because it is ‘we’ who made them up and they are the more difficult to dispel because of our personal attachment to them and […]

The Tory subjugation and abuse of a nation

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,115 Friday 12 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There is really only one word I can think of to describe what you and your government are doing to this nation – ‘Subjugation’. You have imposed ideological, permanent, austerity to beat the poorest and most vulnerable people into […]

“Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor” – Arthur Young 1771

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,097 Tuesday 26 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In 2012 David Freud said, “people who are poorer should be prepared to take the biggest risks” as they have “the least to lose”: only their attachment to welfare holds them back.” At the Conservative party conference in 2012 […]

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, […]

‘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 […]

A political career in treachery!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,076 Sunday 03 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Like many who have endured under the worst government in UK history and for the tragedy of all those we’ve lost, I hope, with every particle of my being, that this election is not just your career defining moment, […]

Won’t face the electorate but happy to procure their deaths

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,074 Friday 01 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Three people from the DWP have pulled out of election debates at the last minute, Iain Duncan Smith, Esther McVey and Mark Harper. It’s hardly surprising when each of them was certain to be challenged on their despicable treatment […]

Record numbers of evictions in the Tories ideological war on the poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,036 Sunday 22 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, When the Welfare Reform Act was passed it was decided that direct payments to landlords of Housing Benefits would stop and be paid to tenants to “encourage people to manage their own budget in the same way as other […]