Is there no corner of our lives that this PC government doesn't want to poke it's nose into? Will there be a day when we don't get some advice released from Nanny HQ? A lot of it is just common-sense anyway - but whether we want to go along with it is surely our own choice in a free society!. Isn't it a sad reflection on how bad our education system has become that the government has to advise us like this? Also, on one hand the PC Brigade and the government seems to cause many of the problems that they then try to Nanny us out. (It makes for more goverment employees to spread the gov's message, less unemployment, keeps civil servants voting New Labour)
It stops sport in schools on the grounds that as someone will lose the game, this is not politically correct. It encourages parents to run children to school as it is not safe for them to walk because of all the traffic on the road (most of it running children to school). It starves schools of cash which schools then make up by taking in sugary drinks machines for commission but THEN it complains that schoolchildren are obese and need lifestyle coaches. What did it expect?
It refuses to teach children properly by passing on knowledge in a formal and structured way. Instead it insists that children should learn whatever they want, insisting that there are no wrong answers. Grammar and mathmatical rigour have thus become a thing of the past. Consequently, when the children grow up knowing nothing of any great use, it
removes all moral and financial reason for couples to marry and the wife to stay at home and raise children, makes divorce easy and heavily loaded against the man THEN it wonders why children are harmed by being brought up by just the mother in a single parent environment.
It refuses to condemn underage or teenage sex, offers contraceptive advice and secret abortions. Isn’t it giving the green light to sexual disease and illegitimacy by handing condoms to children (this when America, significantly, reports its
lowest rate of teenage pregnancy in decades by encouraging girls to say no)?
From a Government that claims to take personal freedom ‘very seriously’ comes a hugely expensive, prescriptive and bureaucratic programme of nannying,
with the State dabbling its fingers into every nook and cranny of national life.
Advice on obesity and sex . . . lifestyle coaches for all . . . vouchers for the poor to buy fresh vegetables . . . pressure to halt junk food
ads…a campaign against binge drinking . . . curbs on formula milk to encourage breastfeeding . . . round the clock advice on healthy eating . . .
this £1billion campaign is a classic example of the gentlemen in Whitehall knowing best.
Yet doesn’t it encourage obesity by selling off school playing fields and all but destroying school sport?
Oh yes, and let’s not forget the everincreasing subsidies encouraging parents to hand over their children to be brought up by the state.
Families, of course, are much better at bringing up strong, healthy, motivated children than the state ever could. Isn’t that why many Labour
politicians are so against the family?
Stumble It!