"This Government wants to ease the pressure on parents," wrote Nick Clegg in a newspaper article on Thursday. It would do it, he said, "not by meddling in people's private business, but by giving families the freedom to make the right choices for themselves".In essence, because of the poor parenting skills of Karen Matthews (and numerous others like her), it's far, far too dangerous to give everyone any choice. They might make the wrong choices, you see, and that would be expensive.
It sounds great. Great in Putney, great in Kensington, but perhaps not so great on the sink estates of Dewsbury, where freedom tends to take a different form.
And we might have to go back to being judgemental, and that would never do.
No, far better that no-one has any choice. That's fair. That's equal.
"the freedom to make the right choices" is social-worker speak for "the freedom to do as you are damn well told".
ReplyDeleteBrian beat me to it, the stress is on the word 'right', where right means 'the one which we would approve as the choice of the righteous'.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't make the 'right' choices, fake charities and quangos appear to frogmarch you in the right direction.
I have to hope that they are next in Osborne's firing line...
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