Friday 2 April 2010

Un-ashamedly, I copy to you Simon Coulter's comment in the Telegraph

What Cameron is saying is that we must revive the spirit of the individual and of communities to help themselves - not lie about like amoebae waiting for the state to do everything for them, to fund it and to make it happen.

Communities built their own churches, hospitals and schools – and founded local organisations to benefit the parts of their community that needed help of one kind or another. They did to using the resources they had and it amounted in part to a very willing redistribution of wealth, used in the best ways possible.

Individuals, families, cared for their own pre-school children and for their sick, disabled and elderly relatives. They recoiled at unsupported, illegitimate pregnancy – both the women and the men involved. They recognised what was wrong in their community, and the local visible police officers knew too, and worked with them. This was very successful era of a clip on the ear.

Parents worked with schools, and discipline was guaranteed. Children worked hard for results that meant something against absolute standards – and the system recognised lesser and greater ability and filtered youngsters into what they could achieve, even at an early age, rather than build frustration and disruption.

Doctors and district nurses worker with the community to support home care, and small local hospitals took the strain – even of long term support of the elderly beyond home care, in sites purpose built and close to their family, tightly drawn into wider NHS care.

Socialism has destroyed virtually all of this. Legions of alleged social workers (a great misnomer) tend to the feral parents of feral children who only exist because fecklessness is rewarded by benefits - and marriage, the family, as a concept for the place to fund the production of children who will also grow up to contribute to society has been smashed.

Cameron wants every person to contribute – not what Labour has tried to build, the idea that everyone should take, see themselves as a client, and thus a vote in the bag for socialism. We can’t afford this – it’s a Ponzi scheme strategy, it weakens us, it drags down our values, and it is destroying Britain.

I’m sick of images of supposed no-go areas, and council estates where the gardens are unmade and wrecked, the fences broken down – and where the bleeding hearts go on about the lot of the people living in them. These people are often not even working, in the properties all day - and yet are never blamed by the Left for the state into which they have reduced all that has been given to them – through ignorance, idleness, indolence, vandalism. There are no recognisable positive social values here – and this is the biggest growth area in our community, funded to expand in poverty by the state as an equally, deeply feckless fiscal co-parent.

Cameron is right. Social caring by the community is right. Socialism as politics is wrong. The state is expanding because we are paying people to breed who are so inadequate it has to be their nanny – fiscally and morally – and it is lousy at the job.

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