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[Mick Dempsey]

If this doesn’t mean an early finish for this administration then at the very least they’ll get smashed at the next election.

 

Looks like Starmer adheres to the ‘never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake’ school of politics.

 

Playing the long game might have been the smart move for him.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

21 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

If this doesn’t mean an early finish for this administration then at the very least they’ll get smashed at the next election.

 

Looks like Starmer adheres to the ‘never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake’ school of politics.

 

Playing the long game might have been the smart move for him.

Doubt it. 
 

You think so?

 

Not convinced.....

[trigger_andy]

3 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Doubt it. 
 

You think so?

 

Not convinced.....

I’d vote them out. Bunch of clowns. But replace them with what. Kneel Stammer? Yeh, fark no! Better the devil you know in this instance. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

10 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

I’d vote them out. Bunch of clowns. But replace them with what. Kneel Stammer? Yeh, fark no! Better the devil you know in this instance. 

I wrote a longer post before that one - but deleted it since it was becoming a bit rambling. 
 

In essence- the only viable alternative is full on revolution. The whole bunch of them lack credibility. 

[trigger_andy]

2 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I wrote a longer post before that one - but deleted it since it was becoming a bit rambling. 
 

In essence- the only viable alternative is full on revolution. The whole bunch of them lack credibility. 

100% 

 

Or a huge Nuclear reset. 

 

There is no getting back on track now. We're enslaving ourselves, or allowing ourselves to be enslaved because we do not feel the weight of the chains yet.  We're frogs in the pan of cold water thats getting slowly but surely hotter till we're cooked and we just dont notice it. 

[Baldbloke]

My only experience with social workers was 15 odd years ago, when we fostered for a period.
We stopped since the foster children were having a detrimental effect on our children, and there was ZERO support.
We had to be interviewed, prior to being accepted, and that senior SW? (probably, I presume) appeared to be O.K.
Others were very young, inexperienced and downright wet behind the ears.
My experience in group meetings to discuss and never resolve issues caused me to form the opinion that keeping the paperwork filled in was the most important thing.
From the Shoesmith case a few years back, and knowledge of how people employed by the Government/Council can behave dishonestly, without reprecussions, I also concluded that some home visits were probably entirely fictious. Tick the box and fill in the milage claim.  Or claim one knocked on the door without response.(This was based on observations of a case worker who was supposed to check up on a blue card halfwit I was responsible for, it was clear she did not wish to interact with him, but simply punched the milage, and bytimes possibly claimed milage without even punching the miles?)
PLUS, The sad truth that some of these SW will be frightened of, or manipulated by some of the people they have to deal with, the bad ones, the dangerous ones.
Body cams should be a must, to ensure the SW are actually DOING their jobs, and rapid intervention based on this body cam evidence, no argument, no quibbles.
Apart from "ye cant fix stupid", my other distillation based on a lifetime of observation of mostly Councli employees is "lets all pretend", that we are doing a grand job and there are no problems, while we draw our salaries and countdown to our pensions.
I fear the same applies to many/most SW's.
I do appreciate there will be well intentioned or decent SW's, but they will burn out very rapidly, due to the culture they work within.
Edit, Also burn out due to the human animals they deal with and the cruelty and despair  they must witness.
 
 
 
Marcus

So very true.
My wife works as a community midwife which nowadays includes writing reports on parental suitability and recommendations. She’s often writing up notes well into the evening and appearing at SW meetings on her days off. I’m more than a little aggrieved at her having to be involved in social work matters which I consider is not really a midwife’s job. However, good social workers are so thin on the ground, and drink, drug and abuse is so widespread that it appears that midwives are having to be multidisciplinary these days.

[openspaceman]

Sedition won't get that peerage

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

14 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Sedition won't get that peerage

Only money does - or so it seems. 
 

Wouldn’t be that way after the uprising 😂

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Only money does - or so it seems. 
 

Wouldn’t be that way after the uprising 😂

Wat?

[Mark J]

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