(not satire – it’s G4S and SERCO)
Private companies G4S and SERCO have agreed to pay out £100,000 in compensation for restraining torturing kids.
This illegal “restraining” by staff working for subsidiary companies belonging to the two multi-billion pound conglomerates has even resulted in the deaths of at least two children.
G4S went on to deal with the problem of the torturing and killing of children in their care by promoting one of the members of staff involved in it to the position of Health and Safety Manager in their children’s homes.
And Serco went on to allow its staff free range to also sexually assault young women who had been put in its care.
Considering all of the above shocking facts – why are we still allowing these cowboy companies to run children’s homes and our children’s educational services?
Could it be because they have friends in high places?
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
Cameron handing billions of our money over to firm run by fellow Old Etonian
Olympic fiasco firm G4S wins massive government contracts to ‘help’ unemployed
Privatisation and handover of policing to G4S is already well underway…
G4S are now teaching and looking after our children. Are we all mad?
G4S Embassy Guards Sacked For Drinking Vodka Out Of Each Others’ Bottoms. Not satire – it’s true!
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One day Tom, I hope you will try objectively to lay the political blame where it actually lies. I think you have a moral responsibility to do so, because most of your readers believe everything you say without checking.
Always blaming every party except Labour is simply wrong, and I will criticise your blind party bias at every opportunity.
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FinkFusrt – I didn’t mention any political party. Unlike you with your anti-Labour obsession. I couldn’t give a shit which party was responsible. Making party political points over the killing and torture of children is disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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Really? How about your link to “Cameron handing billions of our money over to firm run by fellow Old Etonian”?
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So who should really be ashamed of themselves? Perhaps you should apologise……
P.S. I’m not anti-Labour and I may even vote for them at the next election. However, I AM anti-political bias. Are you?
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Even these days Labour doesn’t have the same establisment/’Old Etonian’ links that Tories do. Face facts …
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Where is the mention of Labour, Tories, Lib Dems or any other party in the blog post? In case you haven’t noticed, Blair and Brown are no longer the prime minister. Unlike you, I think torturing and killing kids is wrong whichever party is responsible for allowing it. If you want a site which spends its time bashing a party that came to power 17 years ago and ignores the actions of the present bunch of self-serving sociopaths who have been in power for the last 4 and a half years – I suggest you go to Murdoch lackey Guido Fawkes site. Or just buy the Mail. Or virtually any other mainstream media. You’ll find plenty of that there.
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Tom Pride: I thoroughly endorse your post here. The piece you wrote is about private companies, G4S and SERCO, not about political parties of the left right or centre….. Finkfart is an asshead, always stirring up for trouble….. If we WERE talking politics, the Asian grooming gangs operated for years under LABOUR Councils in Sheffield and Rotherham, and other Northern cities as well.
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“Could it be because they have friends in high places? [Cameron handing billions of our money over to firm run by fellow Old Etonian]”.
Why did you try to assert that Cameron is responsible? You used the word “because” and linked it to Cameron. If that wasn’t what you meant, then please explain what your last sentence meant, because I can’t see that it has any other meaning.
“Unlike you, I think torturing and killing kids is wrong whichever party is responsible for allowing it.”
That kind of crass assertion is what I would expect from idiots like guy fawkes, not you. For the record, I think torturing or killing kids is wrong no matter which individual or organisation is responsible, and finding the real responsibility is the crux of the matter. Would you agree?
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You can’t believe it, because you can’t imagine it…
With deep sighs.
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Very interesting………..
Funny thing about patterns……if you follow them……….they become ever so familiar……..I love tracking patterns……must be the detective in me……..or maybe….. be the artist in me.. .same with scents… .funny that. What do you think Tom?
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well you have torture them somtimes keeps the little plebs in there place.
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So FinkFurst. You’re criticising me for saying our prime minister is handing over multi-billion pound contracts to his Eton friends despite the fact they work for firms which have been responsible for the torture and deaths of children in their care.
And you don’t like the fact I’ve managed to do it without mentioning even once what a one-eyed Scottish bastard Gordon Brown is – or how badly Ed Miliband eats bacon sandwiches.
Well if that’s what you want – I suggest you just do us all a favour and please please please fuck off to Guido Fawkes – or content yourself buying the Daily Mail instead of reading this blog.
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Beadnall helped to restrain the 15 year old boy who died during the procedure. On other occasions, he was investigated for using pain-inducing distraction techniques too often. He sounds like a sadist. What is most alarming is that even after these events, he gets promoted. There`s something seriously wrong there.
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No Tom, you’re wrong. I’m criticising for singling out the Tories as the sole cause, when you know full well they are NOT the only party responsible for giving those contracts to G4S, SERCO and others.
Also, why do you persist in trying to label me as right wing? Is that the only way you can cope with valid criticism? In fact I regard the current Labour leadership as little different from the Tories, which is why I’m glad to be able to vote SNP. I’m also glad that Labour Scotland now looks like it will start to break free from the Westminster Labour right-wing agenda. That being the case, I may vote Labour at the next election.
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My daughter is in a G4S “home” in Northampton, we found out last week that they had lied to the gp & got her put back on strong meds that she had been taken off because of the side effects. We’re scared for her life in there.
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tom
“prides purge”. yes, “rehabilitation” torture is 1000’s of yrs old, ingrained…as much in the present as it is of the past…it must be stopped, it does no good, and much harm…
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tina
perhaps seek out dr bob johnson, quaker, author, and consultant psychiatrist, on the IoW…
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Spent over 2hrs on the phone with my little girl last night listening to another resident threatening to kill her, break her neck, chuck her down stairs, phoned the police, they finally went out today & after listening to the corrupt manager decided that my little girl was at fault & their going to do nothing. She’s terrified & we can’t do anything.
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Tina – if you like I could write a blog post to bring some attention to your daughter’s plight? It could be anonymous or with names. Your decision. If you want to send me details, please feel free to contact me at : tompridespurge @ gmail . com
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Blimey Tom – I’m so thick that way back in May I predicted that exactly this would happen!
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/voters-reject-eu-as-shocking-new-figures-reveal-europe-is-full-of-foreigners/ (sadly since then you’ve deleted your replies)
I said back then “You DO realise that in October I’m going to call you a complete and utter d*ckhead, don’t you?”
Can you guess what’s coming next……?
[I’m deleting these comments too. Please stick to discussing the topic and stop trying to clumsily make me reveal my id or location. This should be about the torturing of children – not about me.] – TOM
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“Please discuss the topic in question – the torture and death of children by private companies run by friends of the PM.”
Yes Tom, the contracts were exactly what almost all my posts were about, so I’ll try YET again……Would you agree that Labour is equally or more responsible for giving disastrous contracts to G4S and SERCO than the Tories, or Cameron in particular?
That’s also a question to anybody else who cares to answer, especially as Tom seldom has the integrity to answer for himself.
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Sorry OBD, but he told me that he’s essentially retired from clinical work now. I didn’t reply to him and say “good”!
Even if he was available, I don’t think it’s responsible to recommend to somebody with serious current problems to seek a treatment which has no proven track record, and could only be described as “alternative” at best.
Tina – Instead I would echo Tom’s suggestion to bring your fears to light, perhaps first through the normal NHS channels (i.e. your GP first), but if that fails then using the media may help.
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Tina – Can I also suggest that you seek advice from Citizens Advice (http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/). You don’t say if your daughter has been sectioned, or what kind of G4S “home” she is in. Perhaps the only useful thing I can say is that there is ALWAYS something you can do, but getting good advice about what to do is the problem. Most GPs really do care, and they understand the systems, so that is probably the best place to start.
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She is in a normal childrens home, last night was the last straw & she got herself on a train back to us, she’s told her solicitor she won’t go back, now we have a waiting came.
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That sounds like good news if she is away from a potentially dangerous environment.
Perhaps I can suggest that once you feel sure your daughter is safe, then that may be the time to try to highlight any failings of this G4S childrens home.
I wish you the best for your family.
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“In 1998 he was invited to become Head of Therapy in the Personality Disorder Unit at Ashworth Special Hospital, Maghull, Liverpool. The post of Head of Therapy there was especially created for him, to accommodate his experience and expertise.
He was one of 14 national experts invited to submit evidence, twice, and indeed to testify before the Fallon Inquiry into the Personality Disorder Unit at Ashworth Hospital, which reported in 1999 – a transcript of his evidence and testimony under cross examination by 4 barristers has been made available on the internet – http://www.doh.gov.uk/fallon.htm.
His work has been widely reported in the press, and formed the basis of a documentary investigation by the BBC’s flagship programme Panorama (3rd March 1997). He has described his approach in a regular series of articles in the national newspaper, The Guardian, 1994-6, which raised a lot of interest among professionals in the field, as a consequence of which his lectures are in great demand.”
http://www.truthtrustconsent.com/public_html/about-me you will see he is extremely well qualified.
he has recently treated a friend of mine (june 14) and has been doing court work in ireland (aug)
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OBD – What condition did he treat your friend for?
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P.S. Your first link doesn’t work.
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Perhaps we are re-awakening, collectively, from that warm fuzzy antimacassar-strewn Victorian dreamword where childhood was a special time. Possibly we started to re-remember that for most of history children were just diminutive people who could fit into places full grown adults couldn’t and were easy prey for exploitation or abuse.
The Maiden Tribute to Babylon shocked the Victorians. We barely bat an eyelid now.
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I have no interest whatsoever in your identity or your location. I’m ONLY trying to point out that you need to set Daylight Saving Time manually twice each year, because WordPress doesn’t do it automatically for you! Do you understand that yet?
[Sigh!!] I guess we’ll have to have exactly the same conversation yet again in March 2015 when the clocks go forward. I predict that it will take at least another year before your paranoia allows you to understand that there’s nothing more to it than that.
OK – That said, let’s stick to the topic, and I’ll ask you again…… Would you agree that Labour is equally or more responsible for giving disastrous contracts to G4S and SERCO than the Tories, or Cameron in particular?
[It’s not paranoia. I have some pretty nasty sounding people threatening to ‘doorstep’ me and my family with ‘karma’ – not to mention the threats of libel that pop up with annoying regularity. See these threats:
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/this-is-what-you-get-when-you-dare-to-question-a-tabloid-journalist-in-the-uk/
As you can see – keeping my identity and location secret is quite useful] – TOM
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I’ll tell you what, soon after the clocks go forward in 2015, I’ll post a message to you saying either “Hooray!” or “You really are a complete and utter d*ckhead!”
How about that? Is it a date?
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Its not hard to see why getting the right chairman and terms of reference for the CSA Inquiry is such a problem for the establishment. Is there anyone in the establishment not tarred with the child abuse brush or since it is child abuse big stick.
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any commission on CSA/CA, should be headed and made up from the many 1000’s of victims of CSA/CA, who have now more or less fully recovered from it’s devastating emotional affects, and now can class themselves as survivors of CSA/CA in the true sense of the word..there must also be much emphasis on the physical and enduring debilitating physical affects of CA….the no! priority must be to stop TRIGGERING CA victims, in detention settings or any other setting for that matter…and i don’t mean by issuing trigger warnings, they are part of the problem…i mean stop expecting a CA victim to react in away that they cannot and expect to apply formula “care” to them…helpers, must get to the root cause of what triggers a reaction..rather than behaviourist punishment FOR the reaction…find out why the human being has reacted in such a way and unpak the frozen terror emotions that cause it…no one works harder to control the affects of abuse than the victim of it, this must be remembered @ all times, abuse victims are desperate to feel alive and healed…”the sufferer works hardest – what we’re asking for is that the sufferer swap their very foundation stones – their very mental security – hard work, requiring buckets of reliability and trustworthiness.” dr bob johnson…it is often said that to heal, one must relive the abuse, and express (the blocked/trapped emotions/feelings), feelings that one was unable to express at the time, this is true….emotional health is full when one is naturally cared for….fed on time and on demand etc etc…the key is not to neglect a child but by being “good enough parents”, @ the crucial time of dependency need…
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A survivor of CSA is not a good idea for the same reason that a perpetrator or someone who can’t stand up to the establishment is not a good idea. A survivor would be better than the current offerings but would find their actions questioned possibly even more so than anyone the establishment trusted.
The coming CSA inquiry, if it ever gets started, will be long, argumentative and bloody whoever chairs it must be above reproach from all sides and must insist that any findings of crime or cover up of crime result in criminal charges.
The chair must have the stature to carry the huge responsibility and be able to sort the truth and dismiss all the fiction and excuses that will be presented.
The chair must insist that the inquiry is open and s/he must obviously do that before the inquiry begins.
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No eviltorypervert….that is my job!
I have a peculiar fetish for dishonest people………
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FinkFurst –
1) How does the time setting on the blog tell you that I’m lying when I’m telling you I’m in a different time zone?
2) How does the time setting on the blog tell you that I’m lying when I’m telling you I’m not the host or publisher of this blog and have no control over the settings?
3) Why is it so important anyway to you to prove that I’m not in a different time zone?
4) Why is it so important anyway to you to prove that I am the host or publisher of this blog?
5) Why is my location important to you at all?
6) Why am I so important to you?
7) Why is proving me wrong (along with countless others on this site) so important to you?
8) Why is proving yourself right all the time so important to you?
9) Why are you such a self-important tit?
10) Why don’t you get a life (or at least start discussing more important things)?
Actually, on second thoughts – don’t bother answering those questions.
I answered it myself in question number 9.
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Ff……I simply have to butt in here….
Voting?…… You?
You never struck me as being intelligent enough to vote for anyone ! 🙂
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perpetrators must be found stopped, securely held, so as they can no longer be a threat to children and themselves be treated…not based on scandal, vengeance, revenge, recriminations, punishment nor discrediting people…my main concern is recovery from it’s affects which means that the victims natural ARMOUR is restored…
and that imv is what an inquiry should focus on…recovery…prevention…and therefore emotional health…if the inquiry shows no emotional health then it useless..
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I am sure you two love each other really!
Love and hate………so very real…. 🙂
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pennie
“there’s a thin line between love and hate”, that only applies in a romantic sense….
it’s has been widely documented that people who hated their captors, went on to have emotionally healthy lives, once freed from them…the proviso is that they must have been emotionally healthy prior to their captivity….for details see the work of dr alice miller… 🙂
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1) It doesn’t. It’s irrelevant where you are or where the server is.
2) You have full control over all the settings (i.e. you have full WordPress Administrator status), because you are able to block users/IP addresses.
3) It isn’t. I don’t care where you are.
4) It isn’t. I don’t care who you are.
5) …as for 3).
6) You aren’t important, but what you say is… it REALLY is.
7) You aren’t important to me, and nor am I to you. I could ask you exactly the same question. Why do you spend time answering me? Is it perhaps curiosity on both sides?
8) Just call me pedantic.
9) Pedantic again?
10) Now that’s the REALLY important question! Let’s start with discussing the question I asked above…
Would you agree that Labour is equally or more responsible for giving disastrous contracts to G4S and SERCO than the Tories, or Cameron in particular?
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I completely understand, and I really don’t give a damn who or where you are. As you may possibly remember me mentioning, I have considerable experience in a similar position to yours.
I ONLY care what you say. Is that plain now?
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P.S. I apologise for the “paranoia” remark. You clearly do have reason to be cautious. But you know the reverse saying… just because they’re trying get you doesn’t mean you’re not paranoid!
BTW, I’m not sure what’s happening with the posting sequence, but hopefully it all makes sense.
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The CSA Inquiry is not there to provide counselling to those in need. Its remit is to find what all/any institutions did that has not and should be changed. In itself that’s not enough since the one thing most victims want is to see their abuser tried for his/her crimes, nor does it make sense to have a string, and its a very long one, of crimes looked into but no recommendation for charges made against anyone.
All victims should be entitled to full counselling to help their recovery but that’s not what the inquiry is about and its not what victims want to come from the inquiry.
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PW – The fact that you failed to try to discuss (or probably even understand) that voting rationale simply proves that you are describing yourself, not me.
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Tom – Now that’s all sorted out, let’s get back to the topic……
Would you agree that Labour is equally or more responsible for giving disastrous contracts to G4S and SERCO than the Tories, or Cameron in particular?
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i never said abusers should not be locked up, nor charged..i said, “perpetrators must be found stopped, securely held, so as they can no longer be a threat to children and themselves be treated…not based on scandal, vengeance, revenge, recriminations, punishment nor discrediting people…my main concern is recovery from…”
i have clearly stated that victims have RECOVERED…it should focus on methods of recovery that WORK and prevention…victims are TOLD or led to believe before the fact/case is heard, that conviction brings closure….this is NOT true…most victims tend to “protect” the abuser(s), and even when they stop protecting their abuser(s) it conviction still makes no difference to recovery…to recover from CA it is not necessary to convict one’s abuser(s)…but for other reason’s it is important to have the abuser(s) in preventive custody…if the victim is already emotionally healthy prior to the abuse/abuses talking place and can recollect their traumas without terror, ie with self esteem, then a healing from conviction can take place…most child sex abuse victims have very low self esteem and cannot, as they are too severely traumatized to do so..1st cure the affects of the trauma, locking up their abuser(s) cures NOT their victim(s)…
you said above “The coming CSA inquiry, if it ever gets started, will be long, argumentative and bloody whoever chairs it must be above reproach from all sides and must insist that any findings of crime or cover up of crime result in criminal charges.”
unless the inquiry is conducted with emotional health it is useless…
one really must understand the root issues before suggesting a line of remedy, this inquiry starts off in total blindness…CA, it’s causes and affects can be completely defeated, and most of these “institutions” can be shut down…
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The police left us in a room for hours & then took her back to hell against her wishes.
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Some victims protect their abusers not most, most as is seen from the apparently endless list of unsolved/unprosecuted crimes never get the opportunity, and since many victims are eager for the CSA inquiry, with the right T & R and the right chair person, to begin it looks as though victims are very interested in seeing their abusers brought to justice.
I think you’re jumping to conclusions and confusing the CSA Inquiry with some sort of therapy that is not what its about and if therapy is what victims want they’ve no reason to want or need any inquiry.
This thread however is about those companies who have been responsible for abusing children being given more childrens homes and services to run so while it does relate to the CSA inquiry its not the sole concern of this thread.
I suggest we let the thread take its course.
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yes, most CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE/CHILD ABUSE victims do protect, and are (frozen terrified) terrified of their abusers ie NUMB….like i have said if the victim, be it child or adult, is emotionally healthy before the abuse, then conviction may bring closure, but conviction is not essential, regardless…as i have stated conviction bears no fruit in recovery…it is you who tries to confuse the issues, as if is “some sort of therapy” not me…the inquiry has no point UNLESS it brings healing and reconciliation for all, CITIZENS and this is in PREVENTION AND RECOVERY..to clear up corruption is wonderful…that is a SOCIAL act…
no i confuse very little, the thread is about shutting these purely for profit money making institution’s down, and this is a natural conclusion, of this thread…
“look in the right place – not in the brain chemicals, but in the memories – somewhere in there is a ‘false belief’, a toxic factoid, along the lines that “I need Dad/Mum to survive”. I.e. look for infantism – the transfer into adult life of infant survival strategies. It’s a ‘bottled up’ disorder – needs unbottling. Ditch the DSM.”
dr bob johnson… ie it is a bottled up disorder, one must unbottle the rage, that causes frozen terrors….
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I have no idea what you’re referring to whatever it is its nothing to do with companies with poor records being given authority over children and it doesn’t seem to be about the CSA Inquiry either. I can only assume you’re off on a tangent of your own.
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La di da obd !
I am not in the mood….I have just blasted a sanctimonious creep on another blog. Ho hum…
Won’t have any left to go on soon 😦
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Oh FF I have missed you so!
I like regular abuse..:)
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well that’s you and the pointless CSA inquiry, which is off on a tangent on it’s own, and is not actually in fullness about CSA @ all….
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Tom – So to conclude:
1) You’re not interested in talking about the important topic which you raised.
2) You can’t be bothered to spend 60 seconds twice a year to set your blog to and from daylight saving time.
…Both true?
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Finkfurst – isn’t Cameron responsible for the current governments’ decisions?
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Yes, but the OBVIOUS point is that many (or most) of these contracts were awarded to G4S (& Group 4) and SERCO under the previous Labour government.
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Do you think that the current government is not responsible for continuing these contracts?
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Of course, but the point is that the blame does not lie entirely or even mostly with the current government. Do you agree?
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I think that it is the responsibility of the current government to reverse the idiocy of the previous government.
If they don’t and they allow these sorts of contracts to continue (which of course they will because it profits them to do so) then they are just as culpable as the previous government. By not acting, they are condoning.
Do you agree?
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Yes indeed. A plague on both their foul, uncaring, right-wing houses!
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obd!
I have lived thousands of years!
I still seek my blood!
🙂
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