Even so, this particular story represents modern day political correctness at its most invidious. The couple concerned, foster parents for the last 8 years and thoroughly respectable and decent by all accounts have had their latest charges (three children aged under the age of 10) removed from them because the little dictators at Rotherham Council Politburo (sorry, Social Services) don’t like the fact that the parents are members of a political party deemed by the Council to be “racist” (a euphemism for anything right of centre).
So what? What on earth have somebody’s political beliefs got to do with their ability to look after children? Are you only fit to look after children if your political views are left of centre? Is there any evidence to show that these particular foster parents have in some way neglected or abused the children under their care and control? There appears to be no such evidence and the Labour controlled Rotherham Council, caring not one jot about the welfare of the children concerned, are simply politicizing child care.
Local authority Social Services should concentrate purely and simply on child welfare and particularly on the prevention of child abuse, an area where, let’s face it, they have not exactly performed with distinction over the last few years. This sort of totalitarian behaviour is more redolent of Stalinist Russia than modern England and I would bet £10 to a penny that if the foster parents were paid up members of the Communist Party the comrades in Rotherham wouldn’t have batted an eyelid.
I hope the Government appreciates the national outrage that this incident has provoked and takes appropriate action against the Council’s employees responsible for it. A strong message needs to be sent out to councils, bureaucrats and civil servants everywhere that we live in a democracy and, as such, our freedoms of speech, belief and association are sacrosanct and will be protected at all costs.
Common Sense 