The BBC is always keen enough to advance the Nanny State. Take this interview on the BBC earlier concerning the wheeze by Centre Forum think tank that the State should be providing lessons in how to be a good parent. This is quoted as being in order to help 16 year single mums who may not know how to behave responsibly. Here’s a thought. Maybe if the parents of 16 year old girls assumed their parental responsibilities we wouldn’t need such Nanny State interventionism. Maybe if 16 year old girls did not see a life of generous Welfare provision they might not be so quick to test their mettle as Mums? As always with the BBC, it projects the State as the “solution” to every ill.
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Quite so. Having had the misfortune to come into contact with social workers; more often that I care to; I would sack the lot of them. Any job which is prefaced with the word ‘social’ should be abolished. In my view they are not needed and certainly not wanted. In their current manifestation, they are a fearful body which can only be confronted in one of two ways; open rebellion – which brings down the full force of socialist power, or sullen compliance, which requires one to feign friendship with these demons. Either way, one loses ones soul.
Later in the same programme there was a bit of a debate with Chris Allen, MP (Labour, natch) and Telegraph journalist Cristina Odone on this subject. This man infuriated me as he kept saying to Jim Naughtie, “the way you and I, Jim, raise our children and we can help others to do the same!” Cheeky chappie!
Being Labour he’d love the government to do something about it and there was the hint of a creation of another Quango to handle the matter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9555000/9555766.stm
I longed to scream in his face the words of Ronald Reagan:
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ “