Tuesday 13 March 2007

Not So Sure A Start

Yes, many women in prison have mental health problems, or have drug addictions, or have histories of abuse in childhood, or have combinations of these things. So, of course, do many men in prison, and most people of both sexes living on the streets thanks to the cross-party consensus (the "centre", as we must therefore no doubt call it) on these matters.

Well, how many more of these problems, and of the people afflicted by them, are we going to have if we continue to tear away toddlers from their mothers, causing the poor little souls extreme distress, in order to sacrifice those mothers, and thus also those toddlers, to Mammon?

We do this because the born-rich, married-richer (and often divorced-into-filthy-rich) 1970s throwbacks who have controlled social policy for the last 30 years, several of whom now sit in or near the Cabinet, simply cannot imagine why anyone whom they consider fully human would wish to be in the company of a small child. (They themselves are probably unable to name, or even to enumerate, any sons that they might ever have produced over the years.) But they are prepared to farm them out to the lower orders, some of whom do not even have degrees.

If we had either a Labour Party or a Conservative Party properly so called, then we would be paying mothers of small children to stay at home with them. Both parties still trading under those names are now bankrupt, practically memberless, and supported at the polls (i.e., the real polls, the ones in polling stations) by ever-dwindling numbers of voters. So we have the opportunity to re-create proper parties. The restoration of real motherhood, so esteemed by society as to be supported financially and otherwise by the State, must (indeed, must by definition) be a key element in that re-creation, itself the re-enfranchisement of the British People.

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