Saturday, 14 July 2007

Citizenship

Those Nulab fuckwits have spent another few £ million on some crappy research and established this much:

"From the qualitative research itself we learned that ... 'good' citizenship is perceived to be based around 'horizontal' relationships -within and between households - concerned with morals, manners, self reliance and good behaviours"*

So far so good, quite reassuring really.

What bothers me are the words I omitted from the above quote between "that" and "good"

"... the public do not equate being a 'good' citizen with engaging with the State. Rather ..."

*See Executive summary, paragraph 8. Why waste money working this out? Why the apostrophes around 'good'? I'm assuming that 'horizontal' is not as in 'jogging'.

2 comments:

david santos said...

Thanks for your work and have a good weekend

Anonymous said...

As a bunch of ex-socialist neo-fascists, they thought that good citizenship ought to be about your vertical relationship with the state i.e. vertically below it, with them on top.