Comments on: 12 years of Labour summed up in one press release

By: LFAT

LFAT — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:57:16 +0000

Not a problem, if I’m not clear enough then feel free to call me on it.

By: grumpy old man

grumpy old man — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:52:43 +0000

LFAT. I obviously took you out of context. Apologies for intemperate language and overreaction.

By: LFAT

LFAT — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:57:33 +0000

…which makes it all the more galling that the BBC and other organisations gave it quite a bit of airtime.

By: dmc

dmc — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:50:19 +0000

I agree with everything you said,but do you honestly think he will listen.He isn’t interested in the job,you can see he has hardly given it any thought.

By: LFAT

LFAT — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:14:30 +0000

CF, I wish I was that well connected.

GOH, I’m not talking about helping lost toddlers, I’m talking about child protection issues. How on earth is it my responsibility to prevent child abuse in other people’s homes and lives? If I can see something happen with my own eyes, that’s rather different from something happening in private.

Stan, that admission will indeed never be forthcoming but the problem is getting worse all the time.

Mark, noted!

By: Mark Wadsworth

Mark Wadsworth — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:23:19 +0000

“epitome” and “soundbite”, apart from that, agreed.

By: Bill Quango MP

Bill Quango MP — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:19:35 +0000

You have unraveled the strategy. Like Jim Hacker in the database episode.
Well done .

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:37:29 +0000

Yet again it’s a case of the government tackling the symptoms rather than the causes and using the only means they know how – more leftist bunkum.

Unless and until they address the underlying causes that result in these instances – in particular .. the collapse of marriage and the traditional nuclear family; the rise in single motherhood motivated by skewed benefits sytem; declining moral standards driven by moral equivalence – then nothting will change.

However, this government – and social liberals in particular – are unable to address these issues because they strike at the very heart of their ideology. Either they admit they are wrong and revert to social conservatism or they carry on as they are.

They are never going to admit they are wrong.

By: grumpy old man

grumpy old man — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:35:30 +0000

“And since when is keeping children safe my responsibility? ”
Written with the unintelligent arrogance of the childless. Having brought up 4 children to adulthood, I would dispute this statement. When you drive past a school at chucking out time, don’t you slow down below the speed limit and concentrate a little harder? If you saw a toddler apparently on it’s own crying with fear, wouldn’t you do a little checking, even if you got a mouthful from it’s mother? You, who have never had the experience of coping with a 3-y-o with an urge to investigate the wide blue yonder? If you saw a child being beaten, (not smacked), what would be your reaction?. Pass by and tut-tut about feckless parents? We live in a society, not a socialist society, but an IDS society. It may be broken, but it’s people like us who will have to mend it, and you don’t do that by passing by on the other side. In some ways it’s easier for me, being well over 6ft, white haired and a face showing the damage done by 15 years of Rugby, but a remark of “I really wouldn’t do that” to a couple of youths whose skylarking is about to turn to vandalism, made without anger, does sometimes work. Keeping anyone safe, not just children, is everyone’s responsibility. If you’d pointed that out, and castigated Balls for asking people to do something that 12 years of Labour’s ill-thought out laws had made impossible, your article would be more in touch with reality and Conservative policy.

By: Constantly Furious

Constantly Furious — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:57:28 +0000

LFAT, how on earth did you get hold of the Labour internal document defining the structure and content of new announcements? You’re better connected than Guido, dude.