Dear Claire,
What a week it’s been!
A smug Dave Snooty has
been getting his photo plastered all over the press and TV news bulletins, his
Cabinet being announced, junior ministerial positions being filled. Good to see
you are still junior trains monitor. Let’s hope this session of parliament sees
you actually delivering on some of the things you told everyone you had,
allegedly, achieved before the election.
It seems that with each
subsequent appointment, Cameron seems to have turned over a new rock, from
underneath which something slimy this way slithers.
There was a predictable
inevitability to Doctor Death (IDS) retaining his position at the DWP. Perhaps he
can now get on with the ongoing inquiry into the 60 suicides that have been
prompted by his benefit reforms – something he refused to confirm when he
appeared on Andrew Neill’s debate on Tuesday 5th, alongside health
representatives from other parties.
Dr Death was one of five politicians taking part in a
social security debate on the BBC’s The Daily Politics, alongside Labour, the
Liberal Democrats, UKIP and the Greens, just two days before the general
election. Dr Death lost his cool after being criticised by the Greens’ Jonathan
Bartley, who accused him of a “huge compassion deficit”. Bartley, work and
pensions spokesman for the Green party, pointed to secret reviews carried out
by Dr Death’s department into benefit-related deaths, and asked him why he was
refusing to publish them.
DWP has also admitted to the Disability News Service (DNS)
that 40 of the 49 reviews were carried out following the suicide or apparent
suicide of a benefit claimant. The information watchdog is currently
investigating DWP’s refusal to publish the 49 reviews, after a complaint was
lodged by DNS. But despite that investigation, and the DWP responses admitting
that the reviews had taken place, Duncan Smith told Bartley there had been no
reviews, and accused him of making “scurrilous” allegations!
Is
Dr Death in denial? It seems he probably is. I can now identify exactly when Dr
Death is lying. You need to watch his face very carefully. Watch for any
movement of his lips. If they are moving, even only very slightly, he is lying.
Sorry – getting side-tracked with Dr Death again. It
is such an easy thing to do: there is so much material.
So, onto other
apointments.
Priti Patel has replaced
Esther McVey as IDS’s sidekick following the much-celebrated ousting of the
very lovely McVie from her Wirral constituency. There wasn’t much good news on
Thursday and Friday last week, but that was something that fair had us cheering
in the small hours of the morning. So, on to Ms. Patel: A lady with compassion
ideally suited to a ministerial position at the DWP. She is very enthusiastic
about the death penalty, something which may not sit comfortably with those
reliant on benefits for whatever reason. We have already experienced four years
of Doctor Death’s genocidal policies in charge of the DWP. We await the
statistics for those that have died within six weeks of being assessed as fit
for work for 2012, 2013 and 2014, to add to the 10,600 deaths we know about
from 2011.
Locally, the North
Swindon MP, Justin Tomlinson, has been appointed as Minister for the Disabled.
Let’s have a quick look at some of Justin’s finest hours at the lobbies:
1.
Disabled children: He voted against protecting their
benefits.
2.
Cancer patients: He voted against protecting their
benefits.
3.
Long term sick and disabled: He voted against those
who have been ill or disabled since their youth receiving Employment and
Support allowance on the same basis as if they had made sufficient NI
contributions to qualify for a contributions-based allowance.
4.
Bedroom Tax: He voted against any exclusions being
made for those whose benefits have been cut because they have been deemed as
having too many bedrooms.
Clearly ideally suited
to the job!
Then we find Caroline
Dinenage has been appointed Equalities Minister, though she voted against
same-sex marriage saying the state had ‘no right to redefine marriage’.
And then the deluded
poison dwarf himself, Michael Gove, appointed as Justice Minister, advocates a
return to the death penalty!
You couldn’t make it up
could you Claire? It’s as if Cameron has decided to appoint those with the
least compassion and suitability to each post.
Another ray of sunshine
in an otherwise fairly bleak outlook is the demotion of the loathsome Grant
Shapps as Selfservative Party Chairman. I would have loved to have seen his
usual smirk wiped off his face as he realised that his chances of further
advancement in the party have hit a brick wall.
In the next letter,
we’ll start to look at the widely feared 100 days’ of carnage that the Tories
are starting to unleash in a frenzy of poorly-researched cost-cutting and benefit
claimant culling.
We’ll be keeping a body
count.
Polly
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