tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post3148809907356782210..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: If you behave badly enough, we'll pay for a life-coach!Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-12000461807403754452011-12-15T19:14:07.766+00:002011-12-15T19:14:07.766+00:00I'm delighted Peter Mullen is back writing for...I'm delighted Peter Mullen is back writing for The Telegraph - they had a dreary little liberal priest writing for them for a while, but they've at last returned to this wonderful, thundering, old-fashioned Tory. Who knows? Maybe they'll sack Mary Riddell and beg Mark Steyn to return.<br /><br />Inspector Gadget has contributed a great article on this subject on his excellent blog - here's an extract:<br /><br />To avoid being a problem family, take the following five steps.<br /><br />1. Encourage everyone in the family to get up in the morning and go to school or work, even if it is voluntary work.<br /><br />2. Stop chain-smoking, eating junk food, drinking an excess of alcohol and watching TV all day. Get some exercise.<br /><br />3. Stop using violence as your immediate default position whenever anything or anyone challenges you.<br /><br />4. Stop randomly having children you cannot afford and then expecting the state to raise them for you.<br /><br />5. Stop stealing, beating people up (usually each other) defrauding the benefits system and using drugs.<br /><br />The complete article can be found at: http://inspectorgadget.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/problem-families-its-a-lifestyle-choice/Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-67111049738833651952011-12-15T16:07:49.953+00:002011-12-15T16:07:49.953+00:00For years, liberal social workers, teachers, proba...<i>For years, liberal social workers, teachers, probation officers, magistrates, priests and politicians have been telling the underclass that the moral and physical squalor of their shabby little lives is the fault of The System – and, of course, to an extent, that’s true, insofar as social workers, teachers etc. are the system.</i><br /><br />Staggering exception in today's <i>Telegraph</i>:<br /><br /><b>Government Nosy Parker units make work for themselves – at our expense</b><br />by The Rev Dr Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael, Cornhill and St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, Chaplain to six Livery Companies of the City of London and contributor to many publications including the Wall Street Journal:<br /><br /><i>Every perceived social problem is deemed to require government solution and, because government solution is a contradiction in terms, then government interference. And if no particular social problem is actually suggesting itself at the moment, don’t worry for the state-run Nosy Parker units will identify at least three for you in next to no time ...</i>David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.com