The reality of living in Brown's Britain is nothing like the hype and spin we have been hearing this past week at conference.
Brown's real Britain is one where the processes are king, where the targets must be met, where the people are in inconvenience.
This - from Police Inspectors Blog is only one instance, there are many many more.
Today’s main task - attempting to get some interest from a Mental Health Assessment Team. Definition: two approved social workers and a psychiatrist. There is a disturbed, violent and suicidal teenager. Her mother is a decent, caring and completely broken woman.
The hard eyes of the social-workers barely disguise a laziness and lack of compassion that is bordering on the criminal. They trot out all the usual territorial reasons why they can’t help. The checklist of circumstances which prevent them from dealing with the case is comprehensive.
They want us to keep this poor, sick child in our cells all night. I have the utter cheek to suggest that for many reasons, a police cell might not be the best place for someone who is mentally ill. They look at me with hatred.
Thank God for a complete hero of an Asian doctor who is present. He agrees immediately to help, incurring visual wrath and contempt from his less well educated team-mates. He doesn’t care about their targets.
I’m so angry that I’m actually having trouble writing this.
A secure residential place is found for her. New medication is dispensed. Mother and daughter are reasonably happy and restored.
Sort of.
I grab the Asian doctor’s hand and pump it up and down, thanking to him profusely. He smiles sadly back at me. He provides a basic level of service that we should all expect and I act as if he has done me a massive favour. His slightly nervous smile is saying “how have we come to this?”
--So that is the reality of living in Brown's Britain, where everyone is 'served' but no-one gets service.
And, NO, you cannot blame the individuals here, it is the system that these government morons have built, left wing policies coupled with consultants methods in putting together a society that believes that we must live by processes, from which you are not allowed to deviate. When those processes fail, people suffer and in some cases people die.
Life is not about process and targets. Process kills.
Brown's Britain - its crap - and it needs changing. Unelected Brown needs getting rid of, lets hope there is an election soon.
NuLab - Destroying Britain from the inside out.
