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I had the misfortune to have to listen to LBC last night while running my hands over an oily teenage girl and was amused at their response to this “story”.

The presenter, whose name I have thankfully repressed, kept going on and on about how this was a knee jerk reaction to (and she kept mentioning it over and over again) the tragic but statistically insignificant Baby P incident. Her logic was that social workers are so scared not to be seen to be ticking boxes that they now investigate everything and have accused this woman of being a poor parent without any reason.

Now let’s just dissect that a little bit at a time eh?

1. It was a police officer who made the referral; social services have to, quite rightly, check out every referral. If anyone was unnecessarily arse-covering it was the copper and not the social workers.
2. The papers do not give an even two sided view of the story so we can’t judge if this was justified or not. There may have been other factors which raised concern such that the police officer thought it prudent to refer the issue.
3. A social services referral is not a judgement, it’s an offer of help. I have had the good fortune to see social work from both sides of the fence and their primary goal is to offer support and assistance and taking kids away is an absolute last resort where the safety of the kid is in danger. Working with them will almost always bring positive results.
4. If there is any arse-covering culture it’s because there is a media witch hunt going on at the moment. Social workers (along with doctors, nurses, policemen and everyone else) make mistakes. They don’t always fix everyone but in general they do their best, and those who don’t do their best or who are malicious are weeded out. This means that sometimes people die on operating theatre tables because the doctor fucked up, sometimes people are arrested because the policeman made a mistake and sometimes kids get abused because social services fail to spot the signs. Oh, and sometimes the well meaning Prime Minister will make some spelling errors on a note he grabs a minute to write to a grieving mother. THAT’S ALWAYS GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE ARE ONLY FUCKING HUMANS. Tearing them to shreds and destroying their career for the one or two fuckups they make in a really difficult job is not going to help anyone in the long term, is it? Is it, Mr Tabloid hack? Yes, I am looking at you.

Can we start burning newspaper journalists on a giant flaming stake every time one of them makes a spelling, grammatical or factual error in an article? Stuff like that can have tragic results too.

Holy shit, it feels like ages since I got really really angry with something and felt the need to vent my rancid bile on here. Unfortunately I have not really been outraged much recently despite lots of things happening which would make me outraged if I could be bothered to break my new policy. I now officially don’t care about anything which I have either a) not witnessed or which b) does not have any effect on my life.

So let’s see what’s been going on…

1. Postal strike – Fuck ‘em. I use email, telephone, SMS and even a fucking fax to stop me having to queue up with all the Jeremy Kyle addict job seekers and piss drenched pensioners to buy a stamp. Although I order quite a lot online it is all shipped by couriers who deliver shit when they say they will and don’t run my packages past sniffer dogs.
2. Cock eye the racist man on Question Time – Didn’t watch it because it was entirely the most predictable thing ever. Had they had my choice of panelists (Germaine Greer, Stephen Fry, William Hague and the now embalmed late Lord Sutch) then I would have watched it because it would have been fucking hilarious. To all the dicks that protested outside the BBC – well done you cocks for making more people watch that sideshow freak be verbally abused by Jack ‘twat’ Straw, you cheapen everything my making a Labour Politician look good. Incidentally I don’t like Wonky Eye because he’s a grubby little herbert who would have been buggered senseless if he’d gone to my school but I do quite like the BNP; not because their policies have any sense whatsoever, more because they make the Conservatives look quite reasonable and middle of the road.
3. Jan Moir – Does anyone with an opinion worth caring about actually read the Daily Mail? It’s entertaining but surely nobody actually confuses the scribblings of their lunatics as news. So some cow hates gays – newsflash at 10. Worse things are written in public toilets and yet they are still a more legitimate news source than the Daily fucking Mail.
4. We’re still in a recession – no shit, Sherlock. I still have a job so I don’t fucking care. I also don’t have massive debts or a crippling mortgage because I haven’t spent the last ten years being a cunt. It’s not like we didn’t see this coming; anyone who has read anything about the last time Labour fucked up the country by spending more than they had should surely have known that it was all going to go very very wrong.

So there you go: fuck all of interest is going on. Go back to enjoying your pleasant little life in a bubble and feel free to ignore the self important media types who keep telling you to be outraged about stuff which really doesn’t matter because it won’t stop your Saturday lie in or your [insert whatever the hell it is that makes your life bearable] from being really really fucking great.

Jan Moir is an idiot.

A post-mortem revealed Stephen [Gately] died from acute pulmonary oedema, a build-up of fluid on his lungs.

Gately’s family have always maintained that drugs were not involved in the singer’s death, but [he] smoked cannabis on the night he died.

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Another real sadness about Gately’s death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships.

Gay activists are always calling for tolerance and understanding about same-sex relationships, arguing that they are just the same as heterosexual marriages. Not everyone, they say, is like George Michael.

Of course, in many cases this may be true. Yet the recent death of Kevin McGee, the former husband of Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and now the dubious events of Gately’s last night raise troubling questions about what happened.

What the fucking cockshit are you on about, woman?! Go and peddle your idiocy elsewhere, please.

Stephen Glover is clearly harbouring paedophile tendencies. He’s brim full of moral outrage at the idea of displaying a picture of a naked ten year old Brooke Shields in an art gallery, perhaps because he feels he could not look at it without some sort of sexual arousal. In an effort to explain to middle england how terrible it he they have illustrated the article with this picture which was taken when Brooke was in Blue Lagoon.

Oh, wait, wasn’t that movie filmed in 1980? Wasn’t Brooke born in 1965?

Oh, yes, she’s not nude so that’s OK. Paedos can only fap off to stuff if there’s *actual* nudity?