Quote Originally Posted by Exiletyke View Post
If your local MP said the girl needed to learn a better sense of personal responsibility that should have rung alarm bells with the general public If you shark & the others you mentionesd earlier are now so concerned that you blamed Social Services the Council & the Pokice who were obviously culpable why werent you tearing down the doors of the Council House etc demanding action Did you or any of the others you mention write to the Authorities or your MP or Councillors I assume there would have been some Tory Councillors you could have expressed your indignance to
There are in fact quite a few avenues you could have explored
I think that collective responsibility is what John is referring to
I didn't vote for him. It is quite a pertinent point even though John doesn't think it is. Democracy you see. Some people didn't mind Labour mps saying things like this (when an mp or a national newspaper say something along those lines it becomes a national issue not just a local one - did you do anything or were you not interested as it was a different town?).

I did see that under the Blair government political correctness was becoming a major issue and our town was rapidly deteriorating.

Police and social services were to blame for letting it carry on. Most people weren't aware about what was happening (apart from parents of specific children as John says, but not his).