I know they do a hard job (and I wouldn't want to do it, not in a million years) - I know the media has turned it into a witch-hunt and obscured the real debate, as usual - but all this business brings back something my friend D once said.
She'd grown up with a mentally ill mum, her dad having buggered off early, leaving her more or less as main carer, with a young brother to worry about too. Sometimes her mum would be fine - sometimes she'd lose it and start sending D letters which said I Know What You're Up To and You Are Evil and locking her out the house. Or she'd disappear for weeks and D would worry she'd topped herself. She had plenty of experience with social workers and the mental health service (including one recently disgraced TV psychiatrist, who, she said, was unhelpful and a total bastard). What she said stuck in my head.
'Social workers! They did nothing for us. Rich people don't need social workers do they? They should just give the money spent on social work straight to poor people - then they wouldn't need social workers.'
Grain of truth? Anyway, just offering up this thought.
Oh, and speaking of useless, remember this post? Watch the Ofsted Comms Team leap into action!
Newspapers 3rd December: Ofsted did not notice Haringey's failure
Newspapers 6th December: Haringey 'misled' Ofsted
Phew, arses well covered Ofsted, what a good job, well done.
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It's the fundamental fact that rich people think the working classes are essentially lazy and stupid and can't really look after themselves. Which is a gross overgeneralisation and unfair.
Trouble is, then one of them goes and kidnaps her own daughter, and everyone goes "Told you!"
But anyway, yes, a witch hunt. What sticks in my throat is the self righteousness of all those clamouring for blood. "You wouldn't understand, you don't have kids of your own..." "Fuck the fuck off."
Rich people don't fake the kidnap of their daughter, they shoot them
Yup, they forget stories like poor
Jessie Gilbert, that was a rich family, her father was a city banker.
I actually meant to make that point actually! But must've got distracted.
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