‘Fanatical extremists’ now running the UK

Madam, – Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament was both unprecedented and undemocratic.

Usually it would take 30 years to find out the real motivation behind the decision.

However, thanks to leaks and two court cases we know that Johnson was not wholly truthful when he said it was for a Queen’s speech.

The prorogation has taken place so that Johnson can impose a no-deal Brexit without opposition.

Johnson and his clique were planning to suspend parliament two weeks before they announced it.

Johnson explicitly said during the Tory leadership debates he would not prorogue parliament. The UK is now in an unprecedented crisis where a sitting prime minister is actively trying to break the law in order to get around the expressed will of parliament.

Not having parliament sitting allows Johnson and his cronies to avoid scrutiny on every issue.

This ranges from shortages of medicine, the crisis in the NHS, plans for tax cuts for millionaires and tax rises for everyone else, raising the pension age and a litany of other issues.

Boris Johnson and his Cabinet are a band of fanatical extremists.

The newly-appointed Tory work and pensions secretary called for pensioners to be forced to pay National Insurance. Thérèse Coffey MP defended her proposals, published in a paper for the Free Enterprise Group – saying “I do not regret writing what I did about National Insurance…. Why should someone beyond the age of 65 get more take-home money...”.

Chancellor Sajid Javid wants to slash corporation tax from 19% (lowest in the G20) to 12.5%. Additionally, he wants to abolish the 45% top rate of income tax paid by the very rich altogether.

Dominic Rabb, the foreign secretary, and Priti Patel, the home secretary, contributed to a Thatcherite pamphlet called Britannia Unchained.

In it they argued for deregulation of trade, tax cuts and hiking up the exploitation of working people declaring: “The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early, and our productivity is poor.”

This band of Brexiteers are fearful however.

Come January 2020 the EU will bring in a law instructing anyone with offshore accounts and investments to disclose them to enable full scrutiny so they can no longer get away with tax avoidance and evasion.

This is the real reason the Brexiteers are so keen to leave the EU come what may on October 31.

Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.