Why is every public sector job turning into a social worker job? - Members of Parliament, vicars, police, prison and probation officers, school teachers, local government officers, doctors and nurses, labour exchange clerks, call centre staff, head of state (though that always had a touch to it).
Can there be enough clients for all this client care? And who is governing the country, representing God, keeping the peace, transmitting the culture, placing staff, sorting out complaints, healing the sick, and insisting on a general election to bring a different zeitgeist before the whole country collapses into a slough of despond?
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Lord, save us from Social Workers...
...and dreary, killjoy fabianism, L.
Of all politico/intellectual movements, the Fabians are the most ill-cultured, patronising, intellectually poverty-stricken, self-seeking, pushy, peculiar, emotionally deficient, socially crippled inadequates of all time.
And vicious too, because they resent our contempt for what they stand for and, through their decade of horror, have sprayed across our lives.
Sorry, L. I had no intention of involving you in Fabian-loathing. I have surprised myself in writing that.
Ah, HG. But without them would you have had such a fine education? ;-)
Your diatribe is most apt...
http://fabians.org.uk/publications/freethinking-papers
'A limitation of view, which appears so clear and practical, but which amounts to little more than a mental fog, is inseparable from political activity. A mind
fixed and callous to all subtle
distinctions, emotional and intellectual habits become bogus from repetition and lack of examination, unreal loyalties, delusive
aims, false significances are what political action involves.'
How's that for a precise account of Labour and its Leader from my long-ago professor of political thought?
There is a large and growing class of worker that depends on the underclass, just as Rumpole needs the Timson clan.
Those who do not create wealth provide the supervisory class that see to its redistribution among the rest don't they S? Though not all public sector work does this of course.
Don't fear offending me, HG, currently I'm teaching excluded pupils. I depend on crap parenting for the continuing supply of my poor, twisted lambs. But I'd rather my job weren't needed, I could always do something else. Three acres and a cow, please.
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