The logic of the public sector.......

......or in this case the educational sector, ones you would have thought of all public sectors would be in possession of a brain.


Dick Puddlecote posts on a family problem he recently encountered - and I leave you to walk over to his place, something a child is considered able to do - and amuse yourself, something which that same child is not considered able to do.


If a child, aged 10, is considered able to undertake a 20 minute walk, on his own from one place to another, surely that same child must be considered able to look after himself? Apparently he needed 'looking after' - why? Did they believe he might take the opportunity to indulge in pre-marital sex, or some lesser offence such as reading a book, while waiting to see his sister perform on stage?


Where, in this decision, can it be shown to be fostering 'family values' - something trumpeted by Dav il Cam? Of course, this attitude exhibited by his daughter's school is founded on the fear that they may be subject to a court case for 'compensation' should something untoward happen to his son. But as DP asks, in a school with over 100 staff they could not find someone to 'cover their arses'?


More importantly, parents pay for this level of 'service' by way of taxation?


Sheesh!

When will they every learn?

From Dr Éoin Clarke, a Labour Party member and editor of The Green Benches:

"Some of the best pieces of the 1997 manifesto cost practically nothing. Devolution, HRA, FOIA, Minimum wage and the NI Peace agreement were arguably the 5 greatest successes of the first Labour term in power and they cost practically nothing.......Below I list 13 socialist policies that would cost the state nothing."

I can only agree, devolution and human rights did not cost the state a damn thing - but it sure cost the people something in the increased upkeep of more politicians and cost of the judicial system!


There is not one policy which Eoin Clarke proposes that would cost the state anything, but it sure would cost businesses, customers and the people in general something because of the provision of monitoring agencies/quangos etc. All these proposals are no more than an extension of the socialist/Cameron/Clegg ideology of 'enforced behaviour' and 'social engineering'!


Eoin Clarke's doctorate is unknown, but in common with all socialist who hold 'doctorates' one can only presume it is in the field of stupidity!

£11,000 per week?

Yesterday at Prime Minister's Questions the weekly shouting match we have, confirmed by Hansard, what I and probably many others heard - but which appears to have passed most people by. Presumably what obviously passes as Miliband's brain did not convey the right words to his mouth.

"Edward Miliband: The difference is that, unlike the Prime Minister, I am not going to demonise the dinner lady, the cleaner or the nurse, people who earn in a week what the Chancellor pays for his annual skiing holiday...." (Col: 930)

On the basis that George Osborne's most recent skiing holiday reportedly set him back £11,000, perhaps we should all become public sector workers............?

Just asking...................

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Tim Montgomerie launches yet another vehicle for his vacuous outpourings and lists 10 arresting facts to illustrate the poor showing of the party he supports. If Montgomerie is unable to realise, at the outset, that the reason for all ten facts is David Cameron then he is wasting not only his time but also what few brain cells he possesses.

That Montgomerie cannot acknowledge the simple fact that a party unable to oust what was probably the most unpopular administration for decades can be laid at the door of their leader and his strategy; that he can still talk about 'Compassionate Conservatism' (which is what, exactly?) and that in his list he cannot even mention what is probably one of the major concerns of the electorate, namely immigration, shows that like his party's leadership he is a boy attempting to do a man's job.

It would seem that The Boy's boy needs to realise that until his party elect a Conservative as it's leader the party cannot even begin to affect public opinion. But then who needs a party anyway to rescue our country from the clutches of insane people with insane objectives when a far better method already exists?