It’s time to fight back.
While the richest 1% of society are getting richer and richer, Britain’s most vulnerable citizens, the disabled, the young and the elderly are accused of being feckless scroungers who deserve to be treated no better than slaves.
It’s estimated tax evasion by top firms costs the UK Treasury as much as 20 times more than benefit fraud. But the government and its press attack-dogs owned by tax-evaders like Rupert Murdoch tell us it should be Britain’s most vulnerable who must pay for the current economic crisis, not the rich bankers who caused it.
And that’s why, in support of the government’s vicious attacks on Britain’s most vulnerable citizens, Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper has declared war on what it calls lazy ‘feckless benefits claimants’ who are ‘living on taxpayers money they don’t deserve’.
But the real lazy, undeserving people living off taxpayers’ money, are the bailed-out bankers and billionaire tax-evaders who caused the economic crisis in the first place.
Isn’t it time we showed Murdoch and his feckless family of multi-billionaire tax-evaders, they cannot continue to lie, bully and manipulate the British public in this disgusting way?
That’s why we’ve launched a campaign to ‘occupy’ the Sun’s hotline. Simply by repeatedly sending as many emails as possible with the names of scrounging bankers who have used taxpayers money to pay themselves massive bonuses, the hotline can be crashed. There are millions of people like us in Britain who are fed up with Murdoch’s bullying. All you need to do is to spread the word to enough people and eventually the Sun’s hotline will be inundated with so many emails, it will be rendered useless.
Below is a sample email, feel free to use it or make up your own and send it to the Sun’s benefit scroungers hotline at this address (don’t forget to tell your friends and colleagues to do the same):
(Update – looks like that address may already have crashed, so try this one instead):
Dear Mr Murdoch,
You have asked the nation to send you examples of benefit scroungers who are wasting taxpayers’ money and willing to live on state handouts they don’t deserve while millions of hard-working Brits struggle to make ends meet.
Well we know plenty of feckless lazy people who are living on state handouts they don’t deserve.
They’re called fat-cat bankers.
Here are examples of just a few of them:
Bob Diamond – ex CEO of Barclays who refused to thank taxpayers for rescuing the banking system saying his bonuses were: ”a private matter for me and my family.”
RBS chief executive Stephen Hester who said his bonuses were ‘not the font of all evils’ even though it was paid to him with taxpayers’ money.
Eric Daniels, ex-CEO of Lloyds, who paid himself a 1.45 million pound bonus on top of his massive salary using taxpayers’ bailout money, saying he “deserved it”.
In the future, why don’t you campaign against the real scroungers, the bankers and billionaire tax evaders who were responsible for ruining the British economy, and help bring the real cheats to justice instead of bullying and picking on the most vulnerable members of our society?
Yours in disgust,
A member of the 99%
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Please help this campaign by sharing it with as many people as possible.
Thanks.
Shaun said:
If you’re worried about revealing your email address, just google “send anonymous email” and use one of the any services available.
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Tom Pride said:
Excellent idea Shaun.
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T. Rodger said:
The simplest and most effective way to show disapproval of this gimmick is stop buying the paper.
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Tom Pride said:
I agree. Liverpudlians have great form on that. About time the rest of the country took our example.
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Anna Feruglio Dal Dan said:
Much as I applaud the idea, I have been told this amounts to a DDOS, and therefore illegal. However, one can encourage people to increase the signal to noise ratio with our view, without attempting to crash the hotline.
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Tom Pride said:
No it’s not. A DDOS is an attack on a root server. This is simply sending messages that piss off the Murdoch journos so much they decide to switch off their email address. No law against that.
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garryk99 said:
I’ve given my email address (four of them)….if they want to come for me, I’ll be waiting. Bring it on.
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Tom Pride said:
Yes Garry – I’m expecting to wake up tomorrow to find a couple of Sun hacks rifling through my bins.
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Patrick Pereira said:
Certainly the first email address is ‘down’. I for one am sending anything I can find on the scrounging bankers to the second address.
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Tom Pride said:
Great Patrick – keep doing it. There are still a lot of people sending stuff. I’m hoping the Sun will decide it’s not worth the hassle and drop the whole thing. At the very least it shows them they can’t do what they like without some kind of reaction.
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Catherine (@MummyLion) said:
i think this is a brilliant thing to do – daily mail next?
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Catherine (@MummyLion) said:
or camerons inbox?
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Tom Pride said:
I dislike the DM more than the Sun. The DM pretends it’s not a red top – at least the Sun’s up front about it.
Need to think of something special for the Mail.
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Patrick Pereira said:
I have widened things a little by sending anything I can find on the truth about welfare benefits and the dreadful treatment of claimants by this vile coalition government.
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Tom Pride said:
Excellent Patrick
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katesjc6189 said:
A Brilliant idea. How to do safetly?
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