What concerns me even more than our MPs ripping us off through their expenses (and goodness knows what other scams), is the way they seem to think that we ordinary people are some sort of subhuman species that need to be managed in much the same way as pets or zoo animals.
We are subject to or threatened with compulsory vaccination, compulsory ID cards, recording and monitoring of our every move financially, on the road or online.......
Now we have a new children's minister - Dawn Primarolo, who is responsible for children's well-being, safety, protection and care; family policy including parenting support; teenage pregnancy strategy; Sure Start, childcare and early education, the Every Child Matters agenda, and extended schools.
Reading her job description I would expect her to be a person who cares about the health welfare and wellbeing of children, putting their needs first...... imagine my surprise to read the article from the Daily Mail where she advocates "Why we should sterilise teenage girls ... temporarily at least". Saying "At what age? Well, doesn't 12 until 17 sound rather sensible?".
Who does she think she is? Better still - Who or what does she think we are? If I were a girl aged between 12 and 17 I would be seriously concerned about the prospect of being forced to take drugs to prevent my getting pregnant. What about the many women who have adverse reactions to the pill? what about our human rights to refuse medical treatment should we so wish?
HOW DARE this woman think that she can treat us like farm animals!
As I have said before, the politicians need to remember that THEY are OUR servants not the other way around, if any politician dares to force my children to take any "compulsory" medication they had better be ready for my reaction because they might find their needle stuck somewhere they'd rather not have it!
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"What concerns me even more than our MPs ripping us off through their expenses (and goodness knows what other scams), is the way they seem to think that we ordinary people are some sort of subhuman species that need to be managed in much the same way as pets or zoo animals."
ReplyDeleteYou took the thought straight out of my head, power must lead to some sort of insanity, perhaps no government should serve more than one term for their own mental health.
They could do with taking the hipocratic oath.
Got to agree Mair, as far as I recall, each time we have had a government with a strong majority able to serve multiple terms they have lost sight of their initial good intent and got progressively more extreme with each new term.
ReplyDeleteIdeally, I'd like to see coalition governments where people have to actually debate and agree amongst the members instead off the cabinet style government we have where a small number of people make all the decisions and force them on the rest of parliament and hence the people. Not likely to happen here though is it as we seem to swing wildly from one party to another.