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Sinister school rules, official cover ups and a society that doesn’t trust adults to be parents

1984 arrives in 2009: the State knows best, not its citizens

The world gone mad: No. 2378…

As if politicians and monarchy weren’t bonkers enough, what are we doing to parents and children these days?

This week a dinner lady at a village primary school was sacked for telling parents she was sorry their daughter had been attacked in the playground. It turns out that four of the little darlings (boys, of course) had trussed up the poor girl like a turkey and whipped her legs with a skipping rope. Charming…

Even worse, the school had covered up the incident and then sacked the dinner lady for telling Mum and Dad about it. What?!

Yes, this is a new world in which schools lie to parents about traumatic events affecting their children, and yet the only offence committed is by a person who breaks that official secrecy. The chief executive of the National Association of Headteachers was asked what he thought the dinner lady should have done: “…she should have refused to comment, and then followed proper procedures and processes”. WHAT??!!

Parents are also caught out by these ‘proper procedures and processes’. In London a mother was banned from her 5-year-old’s classroom for politely asking another child to stop continually hitting her son. Repeated requests to the school had had no effect, but she was evidently breaking the unwritten rule that says that no unauthorised adult – not even a parent – can remonstrate with a child. WHAT???!!!

In Tyne and Wear, a mother asked a group of bullies to stop attacking her young daughter and was promptly ARRESTED IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN and held in a cell for five hours. The bullies had retaliated by falsely claiming that it was she who had attacked them. Once again, the adult was punished for attempting to uphold the rules of civilised behaviour. Nothing in the system supported her. Just for talking to the children she had been made a ‘legitimate object of suspicion’.

You couldn’t make all this up.

You should read the full Guardian article on what is happening to our society.

It is truly chilling, yet somehow we can’t seem to stop it happening.

Tories up to usual sleaze even before election

torysleazeagain We had to laugh – even though it’s far from amusing.

Despite the touchy-feely ‘green tree’ image he’s trying to project, the Eton toff Cameron was never going to change the basic Tory animal from being a sleazy, moneygrabbing, self-seeking con-man.

Citizen readers are no doubt as shocked as we are by this revelation. Who’da thought it?! After months of revelations over sleazy upper-class Tory MPs defrauding the taxpayer over their expenses, you’d have been forgiven for assuming that all MPs would be whiter-than-white from now on, albeit with a few brown stains around the edges.

Nevertheless, it seems that well over a fifth of prospective Tory candidates who think they have a good chance of becoming MPs at the next election, are already working as lobbyists or public relations consultants on behalf of businesses and other interests. Would that be in exchange for money, do you think?

“Several acknowledged that they had set up meetings for clients with Shadow ministers, MPs and officials. More said that they had been asked to provide advice on the party’s direction. A few admitted to having pressed clients’ cases to Tory frontbenchers”, says the Times.

So much for Cameron’s promise to usher in a “new politics”. Once a party of sleaze, always a party of sleaze…

Is our ridiculous monarchy needed any longer?

The British Citizen thinks not.

See our own views here. And from just some of the comments below we’re not alone, so why on earth don’t we do something about it?

Here are the thoughts from a wide range of people: writers, broadcasters, journalists, musicians, politicians, philosophers and others, taken from the current issue of the New Statesman:

Will Self, novelist
“Despite people’s general willingness to accept the monarchy uncritically – as a species of constitutional wallpaper, the alleged undercoat of our tolerant settlement – the fact remains that it lies at the very apex of a pyramid of hierarchy, one that is mostly comprised of people who have unearned wealth, undemocratic power, undeserved prestige – or all three. Anyone who accepts an honour from the British government, or an invitation to tea at Buck House; anyone who shows deference to the monarchy, or even subscribes to an institution with royal patrons, partakes of this mass delusion: that the only way a modern democracy can be governed is by profoundly anti-democratic means; that the only way to treat citizens is as subjects. In my view, the British people will only come of political age with the abolition of the monarchy.”

The obscenity of party politics and the filthy greed which blights them all

The game’s up at last.
We always suspected they were self-seeking chancers, and now we know.

Now it’s time to remove them from power and arrest the guilty.

It’s time to make a fresh start.

So the week has finally shown just how many self-seeking, greedy fraudsters make up the Great British Parliament.

What a fine example they make for the citizens and workers of Britain.
What a fine example they make for hard-working families and our children.
What a fine example to the rest of the world.

The leaders of so-called ‘evil’ regimes and the bloody dictatorships over whom we claim such moral superiority must be laughing ’til they drop.

If you were the most anarchic of commentators or the most extreme political revolutionary, you couldn’t find a better way of discrediting Western values and the nonsense of parliamentary democracy.

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Sinister school rules, official cover ups and a society that doesn’t trust adults to be parents

Tories up to usual sleaze even before election

Is our ridiculous monarchy needed any longer?

The British Citizen thinks not.

The obscenity of party politics and the filthy greed which blights them all

The game’s up at last.
We always suspected they were self-seeking chancers, and now we know.

Now it’s time to remove them from power and arrest the guilty.

It’s time to make a fresh start.

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Sinister school rules, official cover ups and a society that doesn’t trust adults to be parents

Tories up to usual sleaze even before election

Is our ridiculous monarchy needed any longer?

The British Citizen thinks not.

The obscenity of party politics and the filthy greed which blights them all

The game’s up at last. We always suspected they were self-seeking chancers, and now we know.

Now it’s time to remove them from power and arrest the guilty.

It’s time to make a fresh start.

The game’s up at last.
We always suspected they were self-seeking chancers, and now we know.