Letters to the Editor - George Osborne

We sent our Letter to the Editor to a number of publications such as newspapers and journals in the legal profession. Also to the Editor of the London Evening Standard George Osbourne.  

Don't count on it being published however. 

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor

The Conservative Government has created a climate of arrogance and contempt towards people on welfare benefits in order to discredit claimants who are being subject to frozen benefits, unfair cuts and sanctions. It is no surprise at all that the Grenfell Action Group gained little traction for their complaints and concerns about safety from their landlords - The Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation. The opinions of the poor count for little when you have a government involved in social cleansing, driving the poor out of London, where many members of the government have vested property interests.

The attitudes whipped up by the government, the DWP and the right wing media against the disabled and those on out-of-work benefits, has created a climate where the opinions and concerns of those on low incomes count for little.  

Would complaints by rich tenants in Knightsbridge have been ignored in the same way by the management group? Wealthy tenants have access to lawyers, unlike the poor who have had Legal Aid taken away.  

The government are complicit in this disaster in the way that they have engineered public opinion against the poor, the disabled and the wage-less. Had the ordinary people been listened to, this disaster may have been averted.

Sincerely,