To listen to Ed Balls, our education secretary (or one of them), tractor production is up, but unfortunately the tractors are of a poorer quality than last year, and its getting poorer every year.
History, one of the keystone subjects is being turned into a government propaganda course, out are all the lessons that children should be being taught, such as the inhumanity in old Soviet Russia and East Germany and in comes guilt teaching on how Britain was responsible for the Slave trade (with no mention on how we put an end to it).
The result is that our children are not learning the real lessons of the past, and are without doubt likely to repeat the very mistakes that our forefathers fought and died to correct.
East Germany is a prime example. Our esteemed Home Secretary is but one in Government who is hell bent on introducing East German style laws, creating an atmosphere of shopping your neighbour, ratting on your friends, consider everything a crime, but the creation of a Stasi in the UK is only part of the problem.
So far gone are these new generations who aspire to run our lives, that they have no knowledge of what went before, that they believe all the propaganda that is thrown at them, believing that the Socialistic ideas put forward by this government can actually work this time to create a utopia for the masses.
adrianb1 is a blogger, but he blogs for a government department. This is the blog of the IDeA Strategy and Development Unit. he tells us:
The ‘happiness agenda’ could have far reaching implications for policy
in local as well as central government, but it is far from
straightforward. .
The link between equality and happiness is much less secure than I’d appreciated. Happiness has tended not to be included in declarations of human rights, at least in this century, but you could argue that happiness is the underlying purpose for which you would want rights.
Adrian probably has his heart in the right place, but is sadly mistaken if he believes that anyone can legislate for happiness. As I commented on his site, Happiness is a spontaneous emotion, a feeling of wellbeing, not a tangible thing that laws or rules can govern.The link between equality and happiness is much less secure than I’d appreciated. Happiness has tended not to be included in declarations of human rights, at least in this century, but you could argue that happiness is the underlying purpose for which you would want rights.
Adrian of course disagrees, he links to and tells us the he is certainly looking forward to the Well-Being Conference on 9 September.
Holy Moly!! I am thinking just how much public money is going into this kind of shite.
This is what they are telling each other:
Research shows that happiness – or wellbeing – is affected by factors that occur at a local level, in relationships within the family, with people in the neighbourhood, at schools and at work, and in people's feelings about their immediate environment. This means that the interventions that could increase happiness can be delivered at the same very local level and are under the direct or strategic control of local government and other local agencies.
So essentially its another way to interfere in the relationships within the family and people in your neighbourhood. and just to add to the amount of public money being wasted here, there is even a series of Wellbeing services on offer throughout the course of the day including chair yoga, tai chi, meditation and on-site massage. (all at your expense I may add).
And who exactly do they say should attend all this, well..., garbage at my expense.
This conference is a must-attend event for everyone concerned with public wellbeing and involved in key service delivery areas and/or policy areas that can contribute to greater citizen happiness, such as:
- Local Authority Assistant/Chief Executives
- Elected members including council leaders and executive members with responsibility for children and adult services and health communities
- Lead officers with responsibility for children and adult services and health communities
- Directors of services with responsibility for health, children, adults
- Directors of Public Health and senior public health officers from PCTs, public health observatories
- Corporate policy leads including those with responsibility for LAAs
- Chair of LSPs
- Regional improvement and efficiency partnerships
- Regional Development Agencies
- Central government policy-makers with responsibility for children and adult social care and the wellbeing agenda
- National agencies working in the fields of older people, local communities, young people, families, parenting, environmental sustainability
- Academics, think tank researchers, journalists and other opinion formers with interest in wellbeing, healthy communities and local government
The conference will be a ground-breaking and enjoyable event aiming also to improve the wellbeing of all who attend.
It seems like all those people doing the public funded non jobs, and this brings me back to the East Germany theme.The East Germans tried all this under Eric Hoenicker, and they failed miserably. Miserable is a word you should remember, because that is what their citizens were, all of them.
I get so sick of do-gooders who believe that they can do it all better this time. Just go and read your history and understand why it didnt work then, and why it wont work now.
"Everything for Human Happiness" - a GDR poster issued on the 30th anniversary of that former communist state
This isnt a happiness agenda, its a deluded madness agenda. If I wanted this kind of happiness I would go and buy a hamlet.
