The Tories are ripe for an extinction event

It is not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one most adaptable to change, that survives. Charles Darwin. The growth of civilisation was made possible because every able bodied person is capable of producing more goods than they need for their own personal survival, bearing in mind […]

State privatisation is fundamentally flawed and absurd

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,520 Friday 11 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, I confess that I am confused. Why oh why are you Tories hell bent on privatising the state? Private companies, small businesses, trades and so on, serve a useful function bringing goods and services to people and it is […]

Britain is suffocating under the weight of corporate greed

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,512 Thursday 04 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, The Telegraph reports that there has been a rise in payments for NHS trust interim managers being paid “off payroll” from 961 in 2013/14 to 1,193 in 2014/15. Given that the NHS is in crisis thanks to the actions […]

So long tax payers and thanks for all your cash

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,502 Monday 25 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, The privatisation of, er, well, everything, reminds me of Douglas Adams’ title of the fourth book in his ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ trilogy, ‘So long and thanks for all the fish’… So long tax payers and thanks for […]

Osborne to cut corporation tax – he’s not backing Britain

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,484 Tuesday 05 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I see that George Osborne is set to lower corporation tax to 15% and there are even calls for it to be lower to woo investors to Britain, not least from China. The problem with overseas investment is that […]

What now after all the bile and hate?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,473 Friday 24 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I don’t suppose all the referendum sound and the fury is over yet, it seems a whole lot of rage and bile has been released over a lot of mights and maybe’s and don’t we just love a good […]

Civil war in a government not fit to hold office

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,378 Monday 21 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Whatever kind of civil war that is currently plaguing your party, you have no one to blame but yourselves, which is kind of the point really. You have walked into this with eyes wide shut. You have wilfully ignored […]

There’s no way to say this politely, the Tories are batshit crazy!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,375 Friday 18 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Nothing says Tory like punishing the poor, but Osborne has refined this to a bottom of the barrel scraping festering pustule of rankness. With all the supreme arrogance of the rich and clueless Osborne gives handouts to the rich […]

The staggering genius of Iain Duncan Smith

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,295 Thursday 24 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The staggering genius of Iain Duncan Smith! If people don’t want to lose out under Universal credit, which Smith has insisted will not happen, all they have to do is work an extra 200 hours a year, according the […]

Junior doctors must win against Jeremy Hunt or we all lose

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,264 Monday 23 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It is typical of Jeremy Hunt (rhyming slang) to take to the Sunday Mail to see what moral outrage he can stir up over the junior doctors almost unanimous decision to strike. Judging by the comments the number of […]