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Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The UK really has become an unmitigated shithole ever since the conservatives managed to make Brexit a reality. Nowadays I appreciate the island for having the decency not to touch us, and to serve as both a warning and an example to Europeans about what could happen on the mainland if we let it.

Fuck the UK (gov) and fuck the Tories.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It takes a lot to make Australia look like less of a prison, but holy fuck has post-Brexit Britain managed to do just that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not from there so I can only look from the outside, but it seems like the UK really fucking hates it's children?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Not just children. The Tories need a kind of generalised hate to keep them in power. "Look! Over there! The poor people have all your money!". Not because a plurality of the electorate actually fall for it but because the billionaires who own the media keep the noise deafening to make sure no one pays any attention to their grift. Which means that the Labour party is too spineless to oppose it, keeping turnout nice and low while the Tories chase the fash to the right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seems eerily similar to the strategy in America

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Indeed. Fascism is power protecting itself. And, even if the specifics vary worldwide, power has needed a great deal of protection since it fucked up and crashed the global economy. Again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Labour aren't spineless—they're complicit. Outside of that very small window where Jezza was "in charge" (read: the donors fucked up, and fixed it shortly thereafter), Labour in our living memory has never been anything but Dollar Store Democrats with smart boy accents.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I’m from the U.K. I’m not going to disagree.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

One “deeply vulnerable” woman came to him in great distress because the local authority was taking her to court for not sending her 14-year-old daughter into school.

“Her daughter wasn’t going in because she was pregnant. She was involved in county lines [drug trafficking] and she was being sexually abused by a drug dealer,” he said.

Wtf England? Whoever set up that needs to be fired.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So police are taking a page from their American counterparts?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I keep talking about this whenever it’s vaguely relevant to spread knowledge, especially amongst my fellow Brits.

In the 1980s Thatcher, our then PM, decided to have a war with the National Union of Mineworkers…they were the largest union in the country and held too much power.

So strikes went on for years and coppers were marking cars and pulling them over if thought that they were on their way to a strike….

There was a strike at a coking plant in a place called Orgreave, and it was the complete opposite, with coppers even guiding people on where to park.

So strikers are milling about, doing striker things, and the coppers attacked the strikers, then the BBC played the footage that they recorded backwards, to make it look like the strikers attacked the coppers. There was recently a documentary on it called Miners Strike 1984; The Battle for Britain, and a film on it called Faith.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Well for that to be true, the cops would need to see 2 unrelated things and then assume a black person committed a crime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ummmm...critical support for giving left wing school children the ability to jail their chud parents?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

"Are your parents TERFS? Homophobic? Racist? With this one simple trick you can remove them from your life!"