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An amusing read and makes some good points. Loses gravitas for the proof reader not knowing the difference between flair and flare. Seems to be quite common these days and irks me.
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@jc said in British Politics:
@majorrage The biggest difference between Patel and Mings is 30 IQ points in her favour.
Indeed. I'd guess that 60 plays 90.
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@jc said in British Politics:
@majorrage The biggest difference between Patel and Mings is 30 IQ points in her favour.
Bearing in mind the anti - Asian racism in English football (which to their credit the FA recognises), the big difference between Patel and the players and pundits attacking her, could be said to be their lack of awareness...
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How many times have we seen this sort of thing in the UK and yet nothing changes and no-one gets held to account?
Abuse report: Council staff put care children in path of sex offenders
Lambeth workers treated hundreds of children as worthless, review findsStaff and councillors in Lambeth presided over a "culture of cover-up" that led to more than 700 children in care homes suffering cruelty and sexual abuse, an inquiry has found. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse strongly criticised the south London council for allowing decades of abuse in five homes. It said abusers were able to to infiltrate homes and the foster system. Lambeth Council has made an unreserved apology to the victims of the abuse. The inquiry into the council, held in the summer of 2020, examined five homes - Angell Road, South Vale Assessment Centre, the Shirley Oaks complex, Ivy House and Monkton Street - dating back to the 1960s. The Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) report said: "With some exceptions, they [Lambeth Council staff] treated children in care as if they were worthless. "As a consequence, individuals who posed a risk to children were able to infiltrate children's homes and foster care, with devastating, life-long consequences for their victims." Of the 705 complaints made by former residents across three such facilities, only one senior member was ever disciplined, the report said. The inquiry's chair, Prof Alexis Jay wrote: "These children became pawns in a toxic power game within Lambeth Council and between the council and central government." The IICSA is calling on the Metropolitan Police to consider a criminal investigation into why allegations of sexual abuse made by a boy, later found dead at the Shirley Oaks care home, were not passed on to the coroner by Lambeth Council in 1977. Shirley Oaks and South Vale were found to have been "brutal places where violence and sexual assault were allowed to flourish". Another care home, Angell Road, "systematically exposed children (including those under the age of five years) to sexual abuse," the report said. The council received allegations of abuse, involving at least 529 residents, against 177 members of staff connected with Shirley Oaks, which closed in 1983. Children spent time with "social aunts" or "social uncles", volunteers who worked with children without proper vetting. One such volunteer, Geoffrey Clarke, stayed at Shirley Oaks with regular and unimpeded access to children there from the early 1970s. He was convicted of sexually assaulting three children in 1998, but Lambeth Council is now aware of at least 40 people who have made allegations against him. Clarke was charged with numerous abuse offences as part of Operation Middleton, one of five police investigations into child sexual abuse linked to Lambeth Council from 1992 to the present date. Clarke took his own life before his trial. The inquiry criticises the Metropolitan Police for its failures to follow up evidence that may have led to the identification of further offending. Lambeth Council has apologised to the inquiry for creating and overseeing conditions "where appalling and absolutely shocking and horrendous abuse was perpetrated". However, while noting the apology was "fulsome", the report said the council "did not make any meaningful apology until relatively recently". "This is despite the many investigations and inspections over 20 years which made it clear the duty of care it failed to deliver to so many child victims of sexual abuse," it added. In 2016 Lambeth Council made an unreserved apology to victims of abuse and set up a redress scheme which promised a payment to anyone in its homes put in "harm's way". The council has paid £71.5 million in compensation to former children's home residents, with individual payments of up to £125,000.
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Too fucking many
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@victor-meldrew ‘toxic power game’?! What about duty of care? Fuckers.
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@pakman said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew ‘toxic power game’?! What about duty of care? Fuckers.
From the report: Lambeth Council hired a bloke with several convictions for sexual assault and when they found out, not only kept him on, but put him in charge of investigating allegations of child sex abuse.....
Why are the people in charge never prosecuted for criminal neglect or similar?
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@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
@pakman said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew ‘toxic power game’?! What about duty of care? Fuckers.
From the report: Lambeth Council hired a bloke with several convictions for sexual assault and when they found out, not only kept him on, but put him in charge of investigating allegations of child sex abuse.....
Why are the people in charge never prosecuted for criminal neglect or similar?
Because the system is rotten
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Is it me or do these despicable events appear to happen more in Labour run organisations?
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@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
@pakman said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew ‘toxic power game’?! What about duty of care? Fuckers.
From the report: Lambeth Council hired a bloke with several convictions for sexual assault and when they found out, not only kept him on, but put him in charge of investigating allegations of child sex abuse.....
Why are the people in charge never prosecuted for criminal neglect or similar?
Not sure there is such an offence? But if those with a duty of care to minors could be jailed for criminal neglect I expect they would take things a LOT more seriously.
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
Is it me or do these despicable events appear to happen more in Labour run organisations?
I think it's less Labour, more a institutional culture that certain sections of society are seen as not worth worrying about and a lack of leadership when things go wrong. It was the police who actively collected and destroyed evidence in the Rotherham scandal - and then tried to cover-up their actions.
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@pakman said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew said in British Politics:
@pakman said in British Politics:
@victor-meldrew ‘toxic power game’?! What about duty of care? Fuckers.
From the report: Lambeth Council hired a bloke with several convictions for sexual assault and when they found out, not only kept him on, but put him in charge of investigating allegations of child sex abuse.....
Why are the people in charge never prosecuted for criminal neglect or similar?
Not sure there is such an offence? But if those with a duty of care to minors could be jailed for criminal neglect I expect they would take things a LOT more seriously.
Paying the victims compensation out of the Council workers pension fund or pay would have a effect, I'm sure. Bill Bratton successfully did something similar with the NYC police IIRC.
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
Is it me or do these despicable events appear to happen more in Labour run organisations?
It’s generally in Labour supporting areas as these have the more “deprived” people in it. And yes, there is a certain amount of optics involved too. I.e - the perpetrators might not be straight white men, and thus untouchable.
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@siam said in British Politics:
Tremendous performance
Unfortunately when his Northern brethren continue to vote in Tories, he’s just pissing in the wind
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
@siam said in British Politics:
Tremendous performance
Unfortunately when his Northern brethren continue to vote in Tories, he’s just pissing in the wind
Agree with the former.
But lost on your second one. Almost all that shit he’s talking about is London Labour crap.
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@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
@siam said in British Politics:
Tremendous performance
Unfortunately when his Northern brethren continue to vote in Tories, he’s just pissing in the wind
Mate, that’s laughable when the Labour Party has been the nursery of all forms of identity politics and wokeism for years.
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@catogrande said in British Politics:
@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
@siam said in British Politics:
Tremendous performance
Unfortunately when his Northern brethren continue to vote in Tories, he’s just pissing in the wind
Mate, that’s laughable when the Labour Party has been the nursery of all forms of identity politics and wokeism for years.
Yeah, was confused by that post.
For me it was directly aimed at Labour for abandoning the working class people like him.
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@kirwan said in British Politics:
@catogrande said in British Politics:
@mikethesnow said in British Politics:
@siam said in British Politics:
Tremendous performance
Unfortunately when his Northern brethren continue to vote in Tories, he’s just pissing in the wind
Mate, that’s laughable when the Labour Party has been the nursery of all forms of identity politics and wokeism for years.
Yeah, was confused by that post.
For me it was directly aimed at Labour for abandoning the working class people like him.
I was unaware that the fascists and capitalists he was referring to are the Labour Party
Thanks for clarifying that
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