Email #38

Dear Harriet

You didn't get an email from me yesterday because yesterday's had to chose between putting money on my electricity key, fuel in my car and food on my children's plates.  I had £5.  In the end I opted for putting it on the key however it wasn't enough to bring me off emergency credit and so I had to boil a kettle and give my children super noodles because I couldn't switch on my cooker.  We sat in one room to use one light and did not turn on the tv.

In a time when the standard of living is much higher than sitting around playing parlour games my children found this particularly distressing, especially my eldest as he uses the PlayStation to relax and unwind from the pressures of being an aspie in a neurolotypical world.

Many might scoff at this but if they were living with aspergers or caring for someone with it they would understand.

I'm still pretty angry at the way you failed to stand up to the chancellor on Wednesday and I'd love to have the eloquence of Jeremy Corbyn but I don't. Had you stayed long enough to hear his speech maybe you could have picked up on some tips on how to answer a conservative budget-namely with a socialist response rather than a Tory Lite one. His speech should have been the speech you gave for he speaks of how the budget with further inequality and further the destitution many of us face whether in work or not. Since you claim Labour wants a fairer society this is the speech we should have heard from our Labour leader. Why didnt we? Why did you give quite a diluted repugnant version that failed to tackle the inequality at the core of the chancellor's plans.

I honestly think interim leader or not you need to listen to his speech and wake up to how the conservatives are tearing this country apart and how they are ruining the lives of the poor and the hard-working as well as the vulnerable.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ZxhQy6oDacg

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