Selecting Your Scapegoats...

In recent days and weeks more small lost lives have been added to this grim toll: Logan Mwangi, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Star Hobson, Kyrell Matthews and Hakeem Hussain. In each case, decisions were taken that led to missed opportunities to protect these children – but we don’t know why these decisions were made. That will be revealed in safeguarding reviews that are under way.

But Polly has an idea why... 

But we do know that lockdown put huge strains on families and made it harder for social workers to see what was going on.

Really? There were plenty of signs, they didn't miss them, they simply failed to do their job.  

But to fix this system, we have to decide what the problem that we’re fixing is – and make sure that the pandemic doesn’t mask the longer-term trends.

And what would those be? 

I spent three years researching the children’s social care system for my book and found a system that is so decimated by austerity, the relationship between communities and the authorities now so corrupted by distrust, that in some parts of the country it is no longer able to identify the children most at risk.

Ah, yes. They don't have enough resources. It couldn't possibly be anything else, could it? 

In the absence of the capacity to make sound judgments, systems have been put in place that reduce nuanced, human judgment to tick-box exercises that devious parents can see straight through and outmanoeuvre.

Do any of the parents in these cases strike you as the sort of cunning high-IQ manipulators who should be able to pull the wool over the eyes of dedicated trained professionals? Because it never seems so to me... 

A good social care system would take faster, more decisive action to protect children: take them away from abusive families and offer better support and services to help other families stay together safely.

I'd settle for one that could reasonably distinguish between those two subsets with any degree of accuracy... 

Duty of care?

Should a free press be dealing with the issues each day [mise a jour] or should it not?  If the tethered or owned press won't, does the free press move in to fill the vacuum?

That's my first question.  My second is - should we not also be covering that which others don't and in particular, something like this?

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/02/they-were-dishing-the-sedatives-out-like-smarties-cornwalls-care-home-scandal/

We’re publishing a piece today by Cornwall resident Natalie White on the appalling conditions suffered by care home residents in the county during the pandemic and the unmanageable pressures staff were forced to work under. Then along came the vaccine mandate.

My third question is a bit like: "When did you stop beating your wife ..." ... an impossibility to anwer of course but here it is anyway: "Why would anyone shove their 'olds' into horrendously expensive and now toxic 'care homes'?

Is it 'out of sight. out of mind'?  I'm targetting here that approaching middle age band 35-45 who now make decisions for the olds.  Well of course they'll say, 'We're a busy family, things to see, people to do, we can't give our olds the best care.'  Yada yada yada.

And what exacerbates the situation is that 'the olds' have these infuriating views such as what this blog has, it can't get with the new Woke.  

Plus habits ... olds develop habits, they withdraw into themselves, they're set in their ways.

Yes, my grandmother was in this situation, my parents built an extension to the house.  Classic MiL situation though, plus age-related things.  Olds are awkward, we're a pain in the backside to be frank [nice name, Frank].

And no one's interested in our opinions on things.   

But if your olds are like us ... the radicalised decrepit ... then perhaps we still have a use in society.  Plus babysitting the kids, picking them up from school etc.  

What to do once we're past our use-by date?  Dump us in toxic 'carehomes' where three enemy demographics can get at us 24/7 ... cabal, owned medicos and imported labour ... and satisfy ourselves our olds are getting 'the best care possible'?

Call Their Bluff, Then, Priti...

Priti Patel 'will hire private jets to fly migrants to Rwanda' because airline bosses 'refuse to put on flights in fear of a backlash' from critics.

The Home Secretary was reportedly told that her plan to send migrants to the East African nation for processing could result in protesters targeting the firms involved in the flights.

'Reportedly told' by whom? Those civil serpents in her department desperate to stop it, perhaps? 

That would considerably increase the price of the policy which is already understood to cost British taxpayers an initial £120million.

Not necessarily. We do have all those RAF transports sitting around, don't we? Those pilots need to keep up their flying hours, don't they?

Ipswich MP Tom Hunt, who previously welcomed the Rwanda policy as the 'only truly effective way of tackling the channel crossings issue', said any airline that refuses to take part in the scheme should be 'named and shamed'.

I'd go further. I'd say 'should face sanctions'. At the very least, should no longer be an approved supplier of flights to government employees travelling on business... 

Civil servants who complained about Priti Patel's Rwanda policy have been slapped down by their boss and told to get on with the job.

The Home Office's top civil servant has warned his staff that leaks which had attempted to undermine the policy had been a breach of the civil service code.

So let them face the consequences of it (if indeed there are any). Empty talk, this is all that is.  

At TCW, in comments

 Pretty Polly 

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/angry-with-welby-join-the-queue/

The World Economic Forum has all angles covered.. including the Church of England.. because Justin Welby is a World Economic Forum ”agenda contributor”…..

https://wwwDOTweforumDOTorg/agenda/authors/justin-welby

Who appointed Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury?

World Economic Forum ”Young Global Leader” David Cameron in 2012 !

Just in time for the Marriage Act 2013.

Who wanted the Marriage Act 2013 ?

David Cameron’s very close friend, George Soros, at the World Economic Forum.

”In May 2017 the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) granted Cameron’s appointment as a Director of U2 Frontman Bono’s One Foundation which is also supported by Bill Gates and George Soros’s Open Society”..

Coincidence?

I don’t think so!

Reframing the language is a start

 

Yes but do people know how?  Plus we really need to drop this right/left thing these days.  Among the anti-Woke are many of the old left and among the vicious Woke are RINOs, CINOs and cucks.

Within the Woke are the naive who think that their trad anti-bankster, anti-capitalist, Rik Mayal stance should manifest itself in Antifa bashing of protesters against govt strictures, they actually go along with govt mandates on anyone not themselves.

Meanwhile, among the so-called right, even the old Christian right, are those who are anything but Christian, anything but conservative.  They're all for this global reset and jailing any who protest.

So you see, the 'good people' here are pretty much for freedom within rules which protect us from others as well. We wish to be left alone to get on with our own lives. 

Tolerating evil ... there's nothing noble or redemptive in that sort of 'tolerance'.

Our Julia's 13th birthday

If you have time, maybe you could wander over:

https://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2022/04/its-lucky-number-thirteen.html

I was thinking, seeing that ... just how old is OoL now?  Couldn't find it at Julia's place, although I did find this:

... and as I've lost so many blogs myself over the years, inc. the original OoL, it seemed a forlorn task.  Then I realised that Longrider might have something:

The prime directive of Orphans has never been so important as now, esp. with the advent of this creature yesterday and today:

The main prob for Julia and me is that we're both pretty prolific bloggers at our own sites, plus she has her day job as well, and so we can't really put the time in we need to ... and it does take time to develop and maintain.

We'd like new writers vaguely in the Orphans style, it would be nice, our traffic is modest but steady, I personally like the constraints of a group blog, despite appearances, we do have a different readership, though it certainly overlaps, maybe you have some ideas.

I don't know but there's something nice about OoL ... but we would say that, Mandy Rice.  Anyhoo, we appear to be 11 years old a few days back.

All You Should Care About Is That It Is Within The Law, Mark...

Sussex Police licensing officer Mark Thorogood shared his concerns at a council licensing.

He told the panel of councillors the venue only just complied with its cafe licence.

That's all it needs to do, after all... 

This required substantial food to be available at all times. It had been, he said, “pushing the limits” of what was substantial after the previous owner refitted the venue as a bar.

So..? Did you get upset when venues were 'pushing these limits' when ridiculous covid restrictions were imposed, Mark?  

Mr Theed had since refitted the premises again and police were concerned it now appeared to be branded as a wine and cocktail bar. Given its current cafe-style licence, alcohol should be secondary to providing food, he said.

But the seven-page menu initially had five pages devoted to alcohol, with no hot drinks and just seven food items. Two of those were nuts and olives.

Which are definitely food, though I can't stand olives myself. 

The food offering had since been expanded but, the panel heard, there was still no kitchen.

The regulations you're paid to enforce don't state there has to be a kitchen, do they? So move on. There must be real cases to progress. This isn't one. 

The NHS - the envy of the world?

AK Haart:

John Ashmore has an interesting piece in CAPX on NHS inadequacies when compared to other developed countries. Worth reading, but it does make a chap wonder yet again why people in the UK clapped the NHS during the pandemic debacle. 

Does anyone still seriously believe the NHS is the ‘envy of the world’?

Indeed.  Loonies among us, inc. me, might suggest they're out to kill us.  And not just in the UK either.  Gab has things that sre happening across the pond.

https://cleverjourneys.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/are-hospitals-that-conform-to-the-pandemic-narrative-monetarily-rewarded/

Or:

"Won't Someone Think Of The Children Our Profits...?"

Before Brexit, groups of children could travel using identity cards under the List of Travellers scheme.

Now, every child must have a passport, and children with non-EU passports – including refugees – also need a £95 visa. Schools are opting to go to Ireland or Malta for English language trips, or not travelling at all.

Oh noes, 40,000 jobs at risk (according to the increasingly-hysterical 'Guardian'). Whatever shall we do? 

Kurt Janson, the director of the Tourism Alliance, said the passport requirement was having “a devastating impact on a large number of small businesses and local communities”.

“The collapse in the school group market is unnecessary as schoolchildren present no security risk, will not disappear into the black economy and start driving minicabs....”

Well, I dunno, I guess it depends on the 'children', doesn't it? 

France ... the new Arizona

It's in the url:

https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/french-channel-bfmtv-announces-macrons-victory-by-mistake-well-before-the-results/

Interesting that Micron is patrician class purple there and Le Pen conservative blue.  The thing stinks but how to definitively nail the bstds?