This news report is scary.
The report advocates intervention with a child's development from birth and make them have "school readiness". This seems like another back handed way of destroying homeschooling and forcing all children into the grip of state education; the previous LAbour government tried to regulate homeschooling for the first time but forntunately failed.
The atoms tell the atoms so, for I never was or will but atoms forevermore be.
Yours sincerely,
Physiocrat
Withdraw consent from the state. Don't register your children with a birth certificate.
You Americans are lucky, our government doesn't even pay lip service to the ideas of small government and liberty.
In such cases one comes to see the value of having 200+ other countries lying around.
*clicks on link*
*sees page title*
I am going to make a wild guess that this is a Labour Party MP.
*checks*
Yes. Yes, it is a Labour Party MP. What the hell is wrong with this party? This is the most social engineering obsessed party in the world. It's second to only Sweden in its eugenics era. And that was in the 1950s! Labour is apparently obsessed with being a substitute parent for every child in the country, determine what he is to learn, how he is to learn, and what his preferences are to be. Only because of Labour is the situation in Britain such that you can't even start a school without centralized permission and then build it according to where they tell you to make, how they tell you to make it, and whom you are expected to hire.
Dysfunctional children in working class Britain (as would be the case anywhere in the world) are a product of British public schools, not a product of civil society. Even in the supposedly terrible era Dickens portrayed, parents loved their children and were fiercefully protective of them. Labour MPs assign failure to everybody other than institutions they themselves have created.
What shocks me is that Labour started out as a pro-working-class party and was meant to respect working class values, and not represent elite attempts to manipulate them. I always felt terrible that my uncle had to go and take his family in Britain; he is threatened by his own son (still in second grade) that if his father does anything wrong, he will go to Child Protection Services.
It's the same old story of pointing the finger at everyone else but oneself, because pointing it at oneself is deemed (at least implicitly/subconsciously) too psychologically painful. So the denial continues...
The keyboard is mightier than the gun.
Non parit potestas ipsius auctoritatem.
Voluntaryism Forum
Have you ever seen PMQs in British Parliament?
Everytime Blair or Brown are reminded that NHS is causing two year waitlists for cancer patients, they respond with the same old thing, "Waiting times are coming down, and we are always improving the system."
Quality medical care is not something we evaluate on AVERAGE. It's something that has to be refined to quality ALL OVER. You can't just say most beds are clean, because all of them are supposed to be clean. While Brown showed sickening apologism for a failed state system, somehow he feels the private sector is not to be evaluated on average just like his beloved public sector, because every tiny thing about the private sector, down to a company paying bonuses to keep its employees during recession, is a public outrage on which they will impose a new tax.
I still remember how Brown laughed himself out throughout Daniel Hannan's "Devalued Prime Minister" speech, even when he reminded him that he oversaw a greater loss of private sector jobs than a creation of public sector jobs and that he has transferred resources from the productive sector to the unproductive sector. He would regularly condemn Cameron for not letting him create jobs for teachers and nurses, but would defend new payroll taxes on private sector jobs.
I watch the PMQs for old-fashioned, ancient Greek style public oratory, but the thrill of the debate is always offset by Labour's hollow path down its programs of social engineering. They are crazy.
Were I an MP in the UK, I'd call for a vote of no confidence at least once per day, regardless of who was in the government. Ultimately the Queen would dissolve Parliament, and then we'd get to see who really owns that part of the world.