The Thought Police are here

[ockhamsadvocate]

How disgusting that Rotherham social services think taking away children from perfectly good Foster parents is acceptable if they dont agree with their political opinions! Didn't Franco and Stalin do the same thing, just on a much larger scale?
This from the same council that got caught turning a blind eye to the child sex abuse ring active right in

Comments

[a_pawson]

Hang a minute, it's not just any political opinion though. The problem is it says in UKIP manifesto that they want to "end the active promotion of the doctrine of multiculturalism by local and national government". That statement is bordering on racism, so I can understand why the social workers would be concerned about membership of an organisation with that policy, particularly when they are placing children of a different ethnic origin.

[the_jubjub_bird]

So Cameron is a racist? He said the "multiculturalism doesn't work". Being against multiculturalism doesn't make one a racist. The viable alternative is integration and "melting pot".

[adcott]

Equating not being supportive of multiculturalism with racism isn't really fair.

[ellonwye]

It is at the very least xenophobic.

[akcipitrokulo]

I'm not 100% sure how I feel about this one - I would say that if you have views that "people like you shouldn't be in this country" towards the child(ren) you are fostering, then it could be problematic, especially as kids in care often have self-esteem issues anyway. I also think that "but *you* are different of course, we don't mean that about *you* ... (just everyone else like you)" REALLY doesn't make it better.

[adcott]

They were members of UKIP, not the BNP.

UKIP aren't anti-immigration, they're for capped immigration with no distinction of the country of origin. Kind of like the Tory party but ignoring the separate rules for the EU.

I'm not a UKIP supporter but there's a lot of implied racism here, which really isn't fair. There's nothing to suggest that they hold views like "people like you shouldn't be in this country".

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'The tide of mass EU immigration has pushed down wages and restricted job opportunities. Only by leaving the EU can we regain control of our borders.

• Freeze permanent immigration for 5 years. Immigrants must be fluent in English, have minimum education levels and show they can financially support themselves.'

'• Our traditional values have been undermined. Children are taught to be ashamed of our past. Multiculturalism has split our society. Political correctness is stifling free speech.'

well...

[ockhamsadvocate]

Thats not racism at all, and any attempt to label it as such is specious at the least.

[ellonwye]

You seem to have gotten lost. Surely you meant to post this in the Daily Mail comments section?

[alicephilippa]

MTE

[the_jubjub_bird]

Are you the local mod, or the thought policeman?

[nightfall404]

I think it probably stops being the domain of the though police once you publish it on a public forum.

Kinda like how you can't libel someone in your head.

[radiantsoul]

I am guess their failures in previous scandals have lead to a risk averse attitude and this may have resulted in a more trigger happy attitude with respect to removing children from foster parents.

I guess we don't know what other details that the council had on the couple as well.

[optimus_stoo]

Yeah I'm wondering if there's something more we don't know about. If these people have been fostering for 7 years, and I assume they've not kept their politics a secret. Why were they given "not indigenous white British" kids in the first place.

[biascut]

Didn't Franco and Stalin do the same thing, just on a much larger scale?

Yes, yes, saying that you can't foster children is exactly what Franco and Stalin did, only on a much larger scale.

[the_jubjub_bird]

Don't know about Franco but Stalin was against fostering. He preferred the State orphanages for the children of those who were proclaimed "the Enemies of the People". And anyone not agreeing with the State ideology would be proclaimed "the Enemy of the People" and sent to GULAG. The Labour have curious predecessors.

[biascut]

"The Labour"?!