Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
And world-class arseholes like Toby Young....
The Michael Gove File
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eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
And now he weighs into the ethics of Social Work.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...d-pledges-to-shakeup-social-care-8934169.html
“In too many cases, social work training involves idealistic students being told that the individuals with whom they will work have been disempowered by society. They will be encouraged to see these individuals as victims of social injustice whose fate is overwhelmingly decreed by the economic forces and inherent inequalities which scar our society.”
He said this approach fails to make people stand on their own two feet and risks “explaining away” substance abuse, domestic violence and personal irresponsibility."
Yes. Yes I do think that, Gove. Only someone with a calcified soul could ignore the evidence me and my colleagues bear witness to on a daily basis. Understanding these forces does not condone poor personal choices. He's creating an opening to start introducing his fucked up worldview into a sector already under immense pressure.
The word "cunt" doesn't really cover it.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...d-pledges-to-shakeup-social-care-8934169.html
“In too many cases, social work training involves idealistic students being told that the individuals with whom they will work have been disempowered by society. They will be encouraged to see these individuals as victims of social injustice whose fate is overwhelmingly decreed by the economic forces and inherent inequalities which scar our society.”
He said this approach fails to make people stand on their own two feet and risks “explaining away” substance abuse, domestic violence and personal irresponsibility."
Yes. Yes I do think that, Gove. Only someone with a calcified soul could ignore the evidence me and my colleagues bear witness to on a daily basis. Understanding these forces does not condone poor personal choices. He's creating an opening to start introducing his fucked up worldview into a sector already under immense pressure.
The word "cunt" doesn't really cover it.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
He is such a fucking idiot. What does he think we do all day ffs? Sit in peoples houses going 'oh there there' while they batter their child in front of us?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its almost like they know they aren't getting in next time and are saying things to jockey for position after Cameron is ousted post-2015 loss.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
And proper fuck him on that one. Yeah, all those hours I've spent finding victims safe places to live, running self esteem workshops, sitting with women for over an hour while they work themselves up to making a phone call and telling them over and over they can do it because I won't be around forever, fighting to secure funding so they can feed their children, helping them write their CVs, prepping them for court so they can secure injunctions that mean they'll feel safe enough to leave their house and enter the 'world' again.
All that work, all the countless other people doing similar things, we did all that because we don't want people to feel able to stand up, to be confident and feel like they can achieve and value and matter. Yeah, absolutely.
Fuck him.
BlueSquareThing
With chips
He's certainly creating the opening to privatise the fuck out of the sector.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
as horrific as this government have been, the prospect of a Govve administration makes me feel instantly nauseous with anxiety. So much more dangerous a politician.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Grr.And now he weighs into the ethics of Social Work.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...d-pledges-to-shakeup-social-care-8934169.html
“In too many cases, social work training involves idealistic students being told that the individuals with whom they will work have been disempowered by society. They will be encouraged to see these individuals as victims of social injustice whose fate is overwhelmingly decreed by the economic forces and inherent inequalities which scar our society.”
He said this approach fails to make people stand on their own two feet and risks “explaining away” substance abuse, domestic violence and personal irresponsibility."
Yes. Yes I do think that, Gove. Only someone with a calcified soul could ignore the evidence me and my colleagues bear witness to on a daily basis. Understanding these forces does not condone poor personal choices. He's creating an opening to start introducing his fucked up worldview into a sector already under immense pressure.
The word "cunt" doesn't really cover it.
I work in a not entirely unrelated profession, and I am well used to hearing these tired old platitudes being trotted out about the work I do, too. Any attempt to help someone understand how something in their background might be affecting their situation today is written off as "excusing", any attempt to work around the clearly unproductive ways in which people are attempting to cope with their lives seen as encouraging self-indulgence. It's a wonder the cunt didn't suggest that people should just "snap out of it", or "pull themselves together".
Truly, I never thought I would see the day where people in government would not only display their manifest ignorance on such a wide range of subjects they're so fucking clearly ignorant about, but would presume to dictate policy on the basis of that ignorance.
I am not saying that the caring professions are completely free from a tendency to identify with their clients sometimes, and I think that one of the advantages of my profession - counselling - is that the importance of maintaining clear boundaries between our attitudes and situations and those of our clients is hammered into us from the beginning of our training, which makes it a lot easier not to identify with them in that way. I think there are examples there that might serve other caring professions well - I have known social workers who I think have become either too closely identified with, or rather too judgemental off, their clients - but Gove's attack here is not a criticism of a few professionals who might need to nip and tuck a little in their professional way of being; it's a direct assault, ideologically motivated, on the idea that there is any solution to people's problems other than one in which they are simply coerced, financially or otherwise, into compliance.
Not much makes me physically nauseous, but reading this latest bit of pious vileness from Gove has achieved that.
In saying what he has said, he must know - as a former newspaper columnist himself - that he is doing little more than playing into the basest prejudices of the unthinking Daily Mail-reading hordes who so love to sit in judgement on anyone who, whether by accident of birth, or shortage of privilege, finds themselves "beneath" the self-considered lofty heights those cunts occupy.
*breaks things*
ETA: I am even more sickened by the fact that he has the gall to try and cite his own anecdotal experiences as some kind of justification for policy.
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Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Gove's comments bring to mind this passage.
To Tramps - Lucy Parsons
To Tramps - Lucy Parsons
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Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
If you think about it, it makes a twisted sort of logic... He cannot sink any lower in the estimations of the teaching profession, so why not now start to alienate everyone else who falls under the inspection auspices of OFSTED?And now he weighs into the ethics of Social Work.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...d-pledges-to-shakeup-social-care-8934169.html
“In too many cases, social work training involves idealistic students being told that the individuals with whom they will work have been disempowered by society. They will be encouraged to see these individuals as victims of social injustice whose fate is overwhelmingly decreed by the economic forces and inherent inequalities which scar our society.”
He said this approach fails to make people stand on their own two feet and risks “explaining away” substance abuse, domestic violence and personal irresponsibility."
Yes. Yes I do think that, Gove. Only someone with a calcified soul could ignore the evidence me and my colleagues bear witness to on a daily basis. Understanding these forces does not condone poor personal choices. He's creating an opening to start introducing his fucked up worldview into a sector already under immense pressure.
The word "cunt" doesn't really cover it.
The man should be shot out of a cannon aimed at the middle of the North Sea.
Corrected for you.
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
it's a "who's the biggest twat?" contest
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Isn't that largely taken as given though? Michael 'I have an ego so big I did a foreward to the bible' Gove
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
I think it'd make it clearer for everyone.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Gove and after you've repeatedly bayoneted to make sure/for fun
You know you want to
You can always go for a beer with simon he may be irritating but he has no real power
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
If anyone needed, God forbid, further proof of his cuntishness then check out this ringing endorsement from that most charming of women, Princess Michael of Kent
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
Parasite needs a neck-shot.
Hmm, that's disappointing; I quite like the Indie for its ambivalence towards the Windsor clan, so quite why they suppose we give a shit about her I'm not sure.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
indy are crap, like a shrill version of the graun
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