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 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. 
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… After the disgusting example set by MPs’ expenses and the whole sleaze and corruption of Parliament, the EU, and our ridiculous ‘royal’ family, it really IS time to change the way we run our country. The same old system of divisive, two-party politics is wrong in the 21st century and only serves the interests of the ruling elite in this country. Time for us all to make change happen before we get saddled with another 20 years of Tory sleaze and then 10 years of Labour making a mess of things in the name of social justice. There is no social justice in the way we let these people waste our money and walk all over us. Vote for change.. NOW. |
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We had to laugh – even though it’s far from amusing.