It appears that the Lib-Cons are following Nulab tradition and appointing all sorts of meddlers and quangista to try and create The Master Race. This story was on Radio 4 this morning (brief write up here) but apart from that I can't find anything online.
Basically, Emma Harrison founder of fakeprivatecompany Action4Employment, now possibly known as A4E, yes, the ones who bought David Blunkett's seal of approval, has been given the job of being 'Family Champion' who is going to turn 'troubled families' into 'working families'. She claims to be doing it unpaid, but the plan is that she will have tens of thousands of people working for her.
Yup, that's right, people like Emma Harrison or Will Hutton just glide smoothly from being Labour luvvies to being Lib-Con luvvies. The whole thing makes me feel sick.
UPDATE: I refer my readers to the single issue 'blog Watching A4E for more A4E-related tomfoolery.
What have we wrought in the UK?
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I too was chucking-up at her crowing that it was 'her passion' and that we should pay for it.
If I'm going to pay someone to do a non-job, why not finance the jobless people direct? Why not pay CoE vicars and their wives/husbands for general pastoral care? They've already got the plant, the parish organization and several hundred years of experience of dealing with the least fortunate in society. Harrison is far from the only person who addresses the needs of the disengaged.
The only good point she made was that some families already have contact with about six state agencies and that isn't helping, either.
Bah, humbug.
Gibbets!
WOAR: "The only good point she made was that some families already have contact with about six state agencies and that isn't helping, either."
Yup. Add on the 'family champion' and that makes seven, doesn't it?
D, it's continuing to look that way, isn't it?
MW
Sorry to bang on about this but what will happen eventually - as dearieme predicts - is something rather nasty. The "nasty" bit will be an extremist party built on the shell of the BNP but with a leadership having an average IQ above 35. They will harness the frustration induced by the continual flaunting by the political class of its power over and contempt for the rest of us.
On other fronts, I suspect that most taxpayers have lost whatever patience they had with the students. Desecrating the Cenotaph and insulting the memory of a great statesman while asking for handouts do not play well outside Islington and the staffrooms at Sh*t Comprehensive and the University of Crap (cf the letter in the Telegraph yesterday from the leaders of a list of institutions which in a rational polity would be shut down tomorrow). Our present leaders will do nothing except throw a bit more of our money at the undeserving parasites (both staff and students) who inhabit what is laughably called our tertiary "education" system. Such things only provide more fertile ground for extreme solutions.
Now then Mark you should be more respectful to my neighbours.
Not sure about the family champion bit, (she does at least have some which is always good in my eyes) but I do have a couple of non rioting young lads they have provided for us who we have kept, so I guess she is better at helping the "kids" that the state itself is?
U, what you say is possible but unlikely. But if you think it's possible but likely, why not set up that party yourself?
S, can you explain that a bit? What do the two lads do for you?
MW
No no - you've got me entirely wrong. I'm saying that this might happen, not that I want it to happen. I don't know what the practical solution is to the dictatorship of the political class but if we continue the way we're going we'll end up with something just as bad if not worse.
It must have seemed in 1933 Germany that (if you weren't Jewish, of course) the nazis provided some kind of answer - jobs, national pride, whatever. In any case the then future of Germany was not democratic and the realistic choice was between the nazis and the communists: the democratic parties of Weimar were floundering.
I don't believe the Germans - given the choice - would actually have voted for war or the Holocaust but that's what they got. Similarly I don't think the British would vote in a BNP-lite (or -heavy) expecting real nasties. They would only wish for a re-balancing of power in the state. Unfortunately, toying with extremism is a high-risk route and what you see is not necessarily what you'll get.
U, you in turn have got me wrong. I do not get the impression that you relish the thought of the BNP-lite getting in and turning out to be nasties - you can form your own Small Government Party which has a similar manifesto but then turns out to be quite nice once in government.
Or you could just join UKIP, of course.
Plant engineering Mark, the dole sent us idiots or morons A4E sent us people who wanted to work for us and with us.
S, aha, thanks. But in the absence of A4E, would those two not somehow have found their way to you anyway?
U,
Adjustments will always come. You can either accept small adjustments to things, or you can get large adjustments later.
It's why markets are such great bringers of peace: they adjust gradually. Someone charges too little for something, they either raise their prices a little or go out of business. They never get to the point of tearing down the barricades to put bread on the table.
And the problem with this government is that they aren't adjusting enough. By the time they get booted out* they'll have barely made a difference. At best, we'll have seen debt fall as a percentage because of inflation.
* I give the LibCons 2 terms.
"Or you could just join UKIP, of course"
Yes I could. Unfortunately and unfairly, UKIP has the reputation for being the Home Counties in blazer and flannels on the march. This suits the major parties - and the BBC - quite well since they can dismiss UKIP as the disappointed right wing of the Conservative Party.
However, UKIP does have a charismatic leader and a leadership cadre with an IQ in excess of 35. OTOH one of the attractions of the BNP, the EDL and similar outfits is the idea that they are prepared to get on the streets and fight. I guess that this is not something UKIP would (or could?) contemplate. UKIP seems to me to be in a trap, destined to work through the present system which (despite the evidence of success at the EU elections) consigns it (at general elections) to the margins.
Emma Harrison became an extremly rich woman through A4E which makes its' money by shovelling employable 'troubled young persons' into work (for which they get paid) while sidelining the difficult cases in much the same way that shools concentrate their efforts on the middling types who might increase a poor grade to an average one at the expense of the talented and untallented whom they ignore.
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