Laying the blame for this kind of stuff on ‘The Welfare State’ is to basically state that the person that carried out these crimes is not really to blame. If you truely believe that ‘The Welfare State’ is to blame for the death, torture, rape, abuse and maltreatment of thousands of children every year then you are, in fact, almost as bad as the perpertrators themselves, because you can bet a pound to a pinch of shit, that in their own minds, to their partners, to the children and to the courts they blamed everything and everyone else aswell.
I agree with this.
Haringey Social Services may not like being sued on this occasion, but they share Peter’s father’s underlying objective; to supplant the responsibility of the parent with that of the state.
I also agree with this.
The whole problem with the welfare state is that it is not static; it self-replicates in such a manner as to render it more likely to survive. It mutates.
I feel that we should discriminate between the narrow, old-fashioned interpretation of the welfare state, as it appears to apply to mummylonglegs and myself, apparently the only exponents of the art of welfare-dependent libertarianism in this part of the blogocliché, and the broad, modern interpretation as it applies to certain others.
