Dear Prime Minister
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So, your Business Secretary has cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds by his disgracefully undervalued sale of the Royal Mail. Yet we do not hear you demanding his resignation and nor – to his everlasting shame – do we hear him offering it to you. This appalling mismanagement is both gross negligence AND gross incompetence and if it happened in one of the private sector industries that you are so fond of, he would be sacked without notice or compensation of any kind. The fact that he was able to access his desk at BIS this morning is a glaring neon sign that points directly at you and says “This man is a puling weakling.” What makes the loss of revenue to the Treasury, from the sale that no-one wanted to happen anyway, more galling is the Chancellor’s commitment to further austerity in his lie-packed speech to Sertec a few days ago.
If the sale of the Royal Mail was intended to help rebalance this nation’s books, then it has to be said that Mr Cable’s behaviour in knowingly undervaluing the organisation is doubly appalling, and he should be punished most severely for his disservice to the nation. He reduced the asking price of the shares so that he wouldn’t lose potential buyers, said the reports at the time. Utter bull! He reduced the price of the shares so that the privileged few, a relative of yours among them, could be certain to make vast killings from the resales without having to wait for the markets to grind their way up to an acceptable level. This was insider trading, pure and simple, and it is ILLEGAL. Your government is exhorting people to work hard and get on, because that provides resources for this nation. We all want to improve the country’s financial situation, even those of us who now run the risk every time we leave our homes of being insulted, spat on and even beaten like the disabled pensioner reported upon recently. But tell me this, Prime Minister; tell me why we should even consider trying to help the economy to recover when the resources that our labour provides are then wasted by incompetent and irresponsible buffoons like Vince Cable? Why? Have the COURAGE, just once, to provide a straight answer to a fair question. Don’t leave it to some spotty youth in BIS to do it via a standard propaganda response. YOU answer, and try to reassure me and those who read and share my emails that you have some kind of grip on what your Ministers get up to.
Osborne’s continuation of his austerity measures sits alongside the above fiasco like a mocking Day-Glo Smiley. How less painful might the cuts that are in the offing have been had the Treasury received the full and proper value of the Royal Mail shares? What might have been made possible via that revenue to assist local authorities or the police in dealing with shortfalls in their budgets? Which fire stations could have avoided closure in London and save at least a few of those 550 firefighters from redundancy and commitment to the scrap heap of the jobless employment market? Even you are now looking at acting in diametric opposition to your own Chancellor, but not out of any kind of compassion or competence. I read that you’re looking at increasing the minimum wage level. Well, whoopee-doo! Having reduced wages in real terms since your government usurped office, in order to pay down your beloved deficit that’s actually remained pretty much static since late 2011, you now feel it is right to give back something to the plebs. Just in time for the beginning of the election campaign so you can claim to have “increased the minimum wage” but leave out the rest of the damning facts from the stream of lies that will surround it. Just as your W&P Secretary and his crew of emotionally-bereft goons do with the employment figures. “1.4 million new jobs created” never includes the end of the sentence that would tell people that they’re all Workfare and still fully funded by the taxpayers does it?
You need to increase the minimum wage for two reasons: 1.To try and buy votes from people who are no longer prepared to pay the price that you have shown you intend to extract later; and 2.Because you need to get people, taken out of tax by the recent sop that was the personal allowance hike, back into the taxpayer ranks. We are wise to your methods now, Prime Minister – your government’s credo is that of not giving anything to the people unless it provides a way for you to take even more from us in return. Just like Cable and his RM sell-off – you give cheap so you can stock high for yourself and your cronies. And meanwhile, because the minimum wage increase will not be a real increase at all, due to the history of artificial wage suppression that precedes it, the food bank queues will continue to lengthen until the number of those on handouts has escalated by another half a million to become a full seven-digit, shameful statistic. How many of them can afford 60p for a first class stamp now that the price of those has been allowed to increase by thirty per cent, I wonder? CPAG reckons that poverty costs this nation some £29bn. Even though their research will have been extremely thorough, don’t just take their word for it. It’s been known for over 100 years that poverty costs industry in terms of production quality, absenteeism and petty theft. Read “The People Of The Abyss” by Jack London – an American’s eyes-on account of poverty in London’s East End in 1903.
He reported on men going to do hard physical labour in the docks with nothing but a small bread roll for their sustenance for the day, and maybe a cup of weak tea if they were lucky. How you can possibly expect to win your “global race” via the labour of people in this situation, which your government is slowly but surely creating, is a mystery to me. I can show you proven examples of people who are missing meals in order to feed their children for as long as they can. What use are these physically diminished people going to be to employers who seek bright, alert, innovative new members of staff? In view of your track record, I can pretty much guess that you’ll be thinking that once one worker falls by the wayside because of illness and inadequate diet, another will be available to employ from the thousands all competing for the work and thereby keeping wages below the poverty level.
Think it through, Prime Minister: If a WORKING person falls victim to poverty and malnutrition, what kind of physical and mental condition are those WITHOUT work going to be in? You’re creating a descending spiral, and you don’t appear able to realise that. You, your Chancellor and your W&P Secretary are therefore driving the quality of Britain’s industrial and service output to the depths of the same Abyss to which you are consigning her people. If you are truly honest about wanting this country to get back on its feet and shine, then this abuse of the working class needs to stop, and it needs to stop NOW. You can make a start by making it an offence to waste public finances, through Departmental profligacy as well as by the incompetent and irresponsible under-valuation of national assets, in order to fund a reversal of the physical and mental damage that the welfare cuts have caused and are still causing today. We’ll be reminding people in Pay More, Receive Less Britain of these matters in May 2015. Count on it. They will note whether or not you have actually listened to, and acknowledged, what you’ve been told by myself, Keith Ordinary Guy, Katy Anchant, Sarah Tomkins and those with far wiser but equally concerned “economy heads” than ours. It’s going to be pretty obvious, from the message that I’ve just received as I was typing, which reads as follows, that you haven’t been listening at all:
‘Oh Gezus *ing christ I woke up this morning with a cold chill & had to be sure before I said this & had to check it… Stephanie Bottrill could not afford to stay in her home of 18 years when she killed herself in May 2013..Now with the pre 96 DWP error .Yes everyone: she’d lived in her house since 1995.. SHE WAS EXEMPT FROM PAYING IT! Now Share& spread this tweet it & destroy this Vile Evil Govt..People have Died People have been evicted & forced to downsize & they to may have been Exempt. Come the end of the week Iain Duncan Smith & the DWP will be wounded & on their knees..ARE WE JUST GOING TO WALK AWAY & Let them HEAL??’ John Ritchie
Sincerely, Darren Lynch
