INTO THE BRAVE NEW WORLD - Joined up Thinking

Government demands for Facebook details; Home Education; Databases; Grandparents as carers; School Meals; Jonathan Ross...

Every morning it gets closer, the cowardly new world order - or disorder.

Posts on the deeply disturbing developments in Government policy on/against parents' rights to educate their own children rather than hand them over to the state, are generally out of date before they go up, owing to the frightening pace at which things are changing - in the direction of totalitarian control.

Leaving that aside, today I got up at the insistence of the parrot at six a.m. to hear that the government is now intending:



1) To require Facebook etc to hand them our networking details



2) To control what children eat, by bringing in very strict nutritional guidelines for schoolmeals. I was unaware that the option to eat at home was being restricted so far until today. According to the news report, only two-thirds of secondary pupils are allowed off school premises at lunch time... There is now concern somewhere in BBHQ at Westminster that LA's may choose not to provide and pupils may choose not to be force-fed whatever computer-controlled 'nutrition' (with whatever additives) the government may decide to decree.



3)To have grandparents who care for their grandchildren to be brought into the Tax Credit system, so that parents wil be able to claim Tax Credits for the childcare the grandparents provide, which they then pass on to the grandparent carers.

Now, at first glance this may appear just silly. Why bring in extra layers of regulation when informal arrangements work perfectly well, and grandparents are doing what they do for love, not money?

Look a little deeper, however, and 'join up' your thoughts as they tell us they do, and you may conclude that this 'joins up' with all those other rules (brought in on the back of fears over abuse), about 'informal fostering' etc., as well as the potentially illegal Contact Point and other databases which make it possible for them to track the moves of every one of us from embryo to corpse.



4) Jonathan Ross is now back in - if we are naive enough to believe he was ever out of - Establishment favour, and is nominated for a BAFTA.
How much of a coincidence was it that Russell Brand became unacceptable only when he broadcast with Ross? Brand has now been exiled for his revolutionary views, which were causing fear to those in authority, and Ross has been rewarded, not only by being given back his obscenely highly paid job, but now, we hear, by being presented with a BAFTA award - for services rendered?
Brand was used as an excuse to censor broadcasting.