The Conservative Party

[bluejon]

I had the misfortune to witness Johnson's performance at the CBI this morning.

It was absolute twaddle from start to finish. I was SMH well before he lost his place and then started on about Peppa fucking Pig???

I'd like to see a transcript of it but would pity the person having to do it.

What a bumbling idiot we have for a PM. At a time when we need serious, competent leadership, we have this clown.

‘Embarrassing’: Boris Johnson criticised for rambling speech to CBI

Business leaders and Conservative MPs criticise speech in which PM extensively praised Peppa Pig World and imitated car

www.theguardian.com

you were there for that car crash?

 

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you were there for that car crash?

I mean I watched it on the news, live.

If I'd been there, you'd have heard me!

 

[kaz7]

Please please listen , watch , see how the red wall was built on a con and outright lies and vote differently next time and starmer get yer fucking act together

 

[bluethrunthru]

A decade of taking kids into care and organising care for the elderly that hits the poor pensioner in the north the hardest yet the forelock tuggers will still believe the Tories are doing a great job

Children in care in England could hit almost 100,000 by 2025

The figure for England would represent a 36% rise in a decade, research for county councils says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Oh and another regulated energy company went bust today too - welcome to Toryland

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[metalblue]

A decade of taking kids into care and organising care for the elderly that hits the poor pensioner in the north the hardest yet the forelock tuggers will still believe the Tories are doing a great job

Children in care in England could hit almost 100,000 by 2025

The figure for England would represent a 36% rise in a decade, research for county councils says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Oh and another regulated energy company went bust today too - welcome to Toryland

So you think kids should be left in homes where they are abused or neglected then? Or perhaps left to fend for themselves if their parent(s) get poorly or die? What a weird thing to try and turn into a negative.

 

[bluethrunthru]

So you think kids should be left in homes where they are abused or neglected then? Or perhaps left to fend for themselves if their parent(s) get poorly or die? What a weird thing to try and turn into a negative.

No - I think a govt shouldn't spend a decade cutting spending on all children's services thus creating this crisis that they were warned was to be the inevitable result - still starving the poor of resources is what they exist to do isn't it?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

So you think kids should be left in homes where they are abused or neglected then? Or perhaps left to fend for themselves if their parent(s) get poorly or die? What a weird thing to try and turn into a negative.

Why are we taking more children into care than previous decades?

Do you think it is a good thing?

Perhaps it's because we have taken a collective dump on our public services, public services that might have prevented some families from even reaching the threshold that their children would need to go into care.

What happens after those kids become adults?

Does the cycle stop?

Or is it more likely that if they have their own children, that they will be taken into care themselves?

 

[metalblue]

Why are we taking more children into care than previous decades?

Do you think it is a good thing?

Perhaps it's because we have taken a collective dump on our public services, public services that might have prevented some families from even reaching the threshold that their children would need to go into care.

What happens after those kids become adults?

Does the cycle stop?

Or is it more likely that if they have their own children, that they will be taken into care themselves?

No, kids being in care is a shit thing. But it’s better that than neglected or worse, dead, kids. Where is the evidence to support that funding cuts has increased the need for children to be in care? It may be out there but it just seems rather tenuous. I’ve read there is a deft of foster carers but has their funding been cut? I thought the problem was a lack of those willing to do the role.

The question about cycle is a good one. I don’t know. Kids need role models and I suspect for the people that work in care homes it’s hard to give them the attention they need however hard they work. Now if someone said to me care homes are failing due to a funding crisis I’d not question it (well I might check now but that cause and effect makes sense).

 

[metalblue]

No - I think a govt shouldn't spend a decade cutting spending on all children's services thus creating this crisis that they were warned was to be the inevitable result - still starving the poor of resources is what they exist to do isn't it?

What service cuts have been made that increased the need for kids to go into care? I mean intuitively less money in system = less social workers = less vulnerable kids being spotted by the system = less kids in care. So what children services have been cut and how has that increased the number of people unable or unwilling to look after their own kids?