I normally scribble a few words early in the morning but have had no time recently (and this morning no inclination) but government silliness is reaching new heights and I thought I might try typing after dark Рvery risqu̩. I also normally try and be a bit light hearted in most of my musings but the topic that is occupying most news space at the moment is hardly the subject for levity. However that does not dissuade me from dishing out great dollops of my other stock in trade, scorn, when it is due.
That politicians have not the first idea what to do about child abuse is patently obvious to anyone with half a brain. Which is more than they have as they have not the first idea what to do about anything. But their latest master plan is stupid on an intergalactic scale. First they are asking these dumb arsed questions of those who front up to hospital just to those without a Y chromosome. This from the party of bloody fairness and equality in all things. Ms Bloggs fronts up at A & E having been in a car vs. power pole encounter and the Triage Nurse will be obliged (there is always a measure of compulsion in all these wallies do) to ask her if she has ever felt unduly criticised at home. This as her liver drips all over the floor. Who but the terminally daft (or a politician) could think this has even the remotest chance of achieving anything? Anything other amass than vast quantities of ‘data’ – which will doubtless be regarded as ‘valuable’. They will then employ armies of ‘Question Operatives’ (because the already pitifully inadequate number of nurses don’t have the time or inclination to do anything extra than they are already doing) to collate all this useless information. And to what purpose? To increase the number of referrals to the SAS of the bureaucratic firmament CYFS presumably. A more dysfunctional, inefficient, uselss bunch of do gooding pratts it would be hard to imagine. And, as usual, we pay for it.
A year down the track when the latest outrage has taken place – and be under no illusion there will be more - some Government apologist will stand up and we will have to put up with all the ‘Progress is being made’. ‘An inter-departmental working group will soon be presenting its finding in a flax basket and more funds will be made available to implement their recommendations’ And so it goes on.
It is, and will remain, a complete load of bollocks. Some one needs to have the balls to stop the hui and start the doey. Sod being nice to people and culturally sensitive. Start banging a few heads together – literally. Food vouchers instead of cash (Jim Beam ain’t food), sterilisation, impounding kids from those incapable of looking after them (a precursor to this would be telling some people that they are incapable of looking after kids on account of the fact that they spend their entire life drunk, stoned or both), take houses away from people who can’t or won’t look after them and so on. Nothing new, all very right wing and totally unacceptable to those who would try and solve the disaster with a group hug. But, you useless toads, your way is not working. One of my favourite definitions of insanity is continuing to do the same things and expecting different results. You are all insane.
Ask a seventy five year old woman attending hospital to get a boil on her bum lanced three questions and this is going to reduce the incidence of three year old kids in tumble driers. Give me a break.
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