"It's front page news in the Express as well as the Mail now."
Excellent. I think change is coming. As teh old song goes "it's been a long time coming".
Madame, I agree we need a state too, but it is about where the balance lies. It is about freedom, liberty, the right to free speech, the right to open justice and open courts where the individual can publish what has been done to them by the state, where there are no secrets and gagging clauses and political correctness to prevent you telling the truth and standing up for your rights.
Without that liberty, terrible injustice can be done in the name of the state.
It is about transparency and openness and justice and the state always having to justify in the open what it has done and why it has done it. It is the right of the Mail to ask on behalf of the citizens "Explain why you snatched a baby girl at birth"
Too often progressives pretend they care but they don't. They have a front page of Tom Daley instead of this case which Shami herself has described as
‘At first blush this is dystopian science fiction unworthy of a democracy like ours. Forced surgery and separation of mother and infant is the stuff of nightmares that those responsible will struggle to defend in courts of law and decency.’
and good on her for saying it.
I am very pleased that the Mail has the following story. I haven't read it, will read it tomorrow, but I heard it first on BBC radio news where families taking in kin in "private arrangements" do not receive much money from the state. A mother was on BBC radio and in a very powerful and moving interview said "they don't care about the children" with her treatment of not receiving enough money to take in children from her sister.
The individual must come first and the state second, and the state must compensate individuals whether that be state banks, state social services, state hospitals etc for any injustices done, because we are the state, we own the state and they should not ride roughshod over our rights and liberties.
‘An estimated 300,000 youngsters in the UK are being raised in 'kinship care' - when close relatives or friends take in a child whose parents can't look after them, either as a private arrangement, or by becoming their legal guardian.
The majority are fostered by their grandparents, and others by aunts, siblings, cousins or family friends. The advantages of having traumatised children cared for by those they know and love are obvious.
While foster carers who are strangers rightly receive grants for essentials, such as beds and clothes, plus around £150 a week allowance per child to ensure they are 'not out of pocket', relatives like the Bennetts are often left to foot the bill alone.
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2516579/The-incredible-families-relatives-children--huge-personal-cost.html