To the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne Recipient of state support Peter Campbell Hello my name is Peter Campbell. My letters are primarily directed to the Governments and people of the Caribbean. However I would like to use this medium to send a message to you the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain. I know that you and your aids will hear me because nothing of importance goes unheard by the intelligence and other apparatus of the United Kingdom. I wish for my brothers and sisters in the Caribbean and the Commonwealth to listen in and take notes. Let it not be lost on anyone who reads this that we each have a voice if we choose to speak. I am twenty-four years old and so I fall within the category of people whom you, the Chancellor, would like to disenfranchise of their economic right to benefits and state support in a prosperous welfare state (see The Evening Standard Story here). I have needed benefits to survive in the past and without it I would not be where I am today. I suppose that there are many others like me who, with even the most basic tools, could get ahead. Would you take these tools away from them? Maybe you can make the argument that there are not enough people like me to warrant state generosity to the masses....
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