30/03/15
Dear Claire,
There are just 38 days to go until the election!
I thought it might be fun to send you an email on each of those 38 days, illustrating how the Tories have let the country down. Badly. My one regret is that there are only 38 days. I’m sure I could find several hundred examples that fall into this category.
Anyway, let’s kick the cycle off with a story about Tommi Miller, a 7 year-old boy with a particularly virulent type of Leukaemia which has spread to his spinal cord, brainstem and bone marrow.
Guess what?? They’ve been refused benefits!! They’ve been sanctioned. A consultant treating Tommi gave the family £600 in supermarket vouchers because he was so appalled at the way they were being let down by the system. The boy doesn’t even have a coat – they wrap him in blankets when they take him out somewhere. They rely on foodbanks to survive. Oh but then foodbanks exaggerate their usefulness according to Iain Duncan Smith, who refuses to debate the issue by scurrying out of the Commons when the topic arose.
Full story here:
I’m only speculating here, but I bet at least half these emails will refer to the catastrophic failure of Duncan Smith’s “reforms” on the welfare and benefits system. Clearly these people must be cheating the system.
What a shame a cabinet minister is virtually untouchable, and is free to wreak his incompetence across such a large demographic of our society. What a shame he treats the Parliamentary Standards Committee with such hubris and contempt, utterly failing to answer a single direct question, using smoke and mirrors to obfuscate any issue. Shame in him.
Anyway, that’s all for today.
Kind regards
Polly
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