A 'Load 'of BALLS
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After years of elf and safety, we now
get blithering Balls.
by
Boris Johnson
[Daily Telegraph-Thusday,July19,2007]
So now he tells us. Now he tries to
repent. Well, thanks for nothing, Chum
After 10 years of suffocating
legislation, the Labour Secretary for
CHILDREN and SCHOOLS
-Mr Edward Balls appears to have awoken
up to what
HIS GOVERNMENT
HAS DONE.
After 10 years of elf and safety, Balls
has plaintively called for children to be allowed to take a few risks:
PLAY CONKERS
HAVE A SNOWBALL FIGHT
CLIMB A TREE
GET A FEW SCABS BACK ON THEIR KNEES
Bring back the joys of childhood, says
the blithering Balls, as if Labour had nothing to do with the creation
of our
GROSSLY OVER-REGULATED SOCIETY AND
COMPENSATION CULTURE.
"Children should not be wrapped in
cotton wool." said Balls yesterday, as if he hadn't a clue about
the innumerable prohibitions
HIS GOVERNMENT
-has placed on
NURSERY SCHOOLS
ALONE.
'Cotton wool?
My dear Balls, if a nursery
teacher tries to wrap a child in cotton wool, she would be disciplined
for engaging in appropriate physical contact.
I'M QUITE SERIOUS
Nursery school teachers are not
allowed to:
APPLY PLASTERS
-in case the child is allergic to
plasters.
CALPOL IS VERBOTEN
As for
SUNCREAM!
-You need written permission to smear
suncream, because any adult seen doing so is assumed to have some pervy
purpose.
IT IS TECHNICALLY FORBIDDEN
-to ask a child to stand on a chair (he
or she might fall off), and as far as for disciplining children -you
have no idea of the
POLPOT TERROR
-that can be
visited on an adult caught in the act of trying to exercise authority.
Take the case of poor Olive Rack, 56,
who has 20 years experience as a nursery teacher and last year saw one
of her charges - a two-year-old whacking a baby over the head with a
large wooden brick. The toddler was about to have a second crack when
olive intervened and took her by the hand to the naughty chair.
Alas, he actions were spotted
through a window by the emanations of
THE STATE
Two early learning advisers from
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY COUNCIL
-happened to be doing an inspection,
and grimly noted the event. Five weeks later, to Olive's utter
amazement,
THE POLICE TURNED UP
-on her doorstep and charged her with
COMMON ASSAULT.
THE CASE WENT TO COURT
-and only
collapsed when the toddler's mum said the
WHOLE THING WAS BONKERS
-and that Olive was a good nursery
teacher.
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My friends, no wonder it sometimes
feels that the world is going mad. At least Ed Balls has cottoned on.
"This is not the kind of society I
want to live in'
-he bleats.
But where has he been for the last
ten years
-when Labour has been piling this sort
of thing on
TEACHERS and SCHOOLS.
HAS HE OR ANY OF HIS COLLEAGUES MADE A
SINGLE SPEECH IN FAVOUR OF RISK.
OF COURSE NOT
Actively or passively they are part of
the great yammering constitutency that demands ever more
STATE REGULATION
PROTECTION and CONTROL
If Balls is really serious about
this, then let me issue him with a specific challenge
His department is now pushing through
detailed plans to take over the running of
NURSERY PROVISION
IN THIS COUNTRY
These plans mean, on the face of it,
that more money is going into childcare - which we all applaud -
BUT
they also mean that thousands of
wonderful nurseries up and down the country, many of them run by
volunteers, will face new rules on the additional fees they have
traditionally charged.
These badly thought out restrictions
will actually
DRIVE MANY BUSINESSES UNDER
-and reduce the quantity of
childcare provision: and yet that is by no means the most demented
aspect of the plans
This very Balls, who claims he wants to
DEREGULATE CHILDHOOD
-is now insisting that anyone running a
pre-school for children aged 3-5 must have a qualification called
EARLY YEARS PROFESSIONAL STATUS
-which takes
between six and nine months to acquire and involves showing that you can
do such blindingly obvious things as
COMMUNICATE WITH CHILDREN.
But the real kicker is that you can't
get this
EARLY YEARS- QUALIFICATION
unless you have
WAIT FOR IT
A DEGREE
What an amazing insult to the many who
work in nurseries, volunteers or professionals, who have never in their
lives thought it necessary to go to
UNIVERSITY
-to be qualified to look after
pre-school children.
As soon as you want to look after 13
children or more
"DEGREE PLEASE!"
snaps
THE STATE
Balls doesn't care what degree you
have. It could be in anything you have.
It could be anything from
ASTROPHYSICS
to
SPORTS SCIENCE
-but you must have a degree.
WHY?
Is it a ruse to help the GOVERNMENT
achieve its
TARGET
-of 50 per cent
in higher education.
Well I am all in favour of people
getting degrees if they
WANT THEM.
But what I recent is this insane
coercion, this attempt to micromanage who runs
OUR
nursery
schools
-how they run them, and exactly what
qualifications they have.
Now is the time for Balls to stand up
for what he says he believes in . If he really agrees that an element of
childhood risk is the inevitable concomitant of
FREEDOM
-then he should stop talking spheroids
and take the
PIFFLING RISK
of allowing 3-5-year-olds to be
educated by a degreeless nursery teacher.
[There is also to consider that an
excellent nursery teacher might for many reason not wish to take the
degree course and become a tragic loss while others might enter the
profession with the qualifications but not the close special
relationship with children that is already instilled in other
individuals]
There is a huge chasm in British
politics, and it is not about the role of
THE STATE
-per se. We all believe that
PUBLIC SERVICES
-should be
properly funded
-we all want a fairer and happier
society, and accept that the
STATE
-has a huge role in this.
But what Labour fails to recognise is
that their endless lust to meddle and regulate is not only adding
unnecessary burdens to
TEACHERS
-but also to the
TAXPAYER.
WHO IS PAYING for poor Olive to
be prosecuted.
YOU and ME
and
TAXPAYERS on very LOW INCOMES
WHO IS PAYING
for the increased costs of nursery provision that will inevitably result
from this batty insistence on special new qualifications?
The very hard -pressed parents that
Labour pretends to care about.
SO COME ON BALLS
-PUT YOUR
MONEY
-CORRECTION -OUR MONEY-WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS.
Drop these mad restrictions on nursery
schools, stop trying to use regulation to
NATIONALISE
PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
-and let's hear it loud and clear
CHILDREN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CLIMB
TREES AGAIN -AND YOU DON'T NEED A DEGREE TO TEACH A CHILD
TO CLIMB A TREE.
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Ditch the EU TREATY after IRISH
REJECTION
SAY VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should
drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its
rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch
bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION OF
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And
10,000 people
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PETITION
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WEBSITE
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JUNE16-2008
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IF YOU CAN SAY
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[Only an ultimatum by millions of
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the
RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP
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by
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THE QUESTION THAT THE
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‘DO
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