Decorating? Better not tell the police!

Pregnant woman reported to social services over half-decorated home - Telegraph

A pregnant woman has condemned police after they reported her to social services for being a potentially unfit mother because her home was half-decorated.


By Murray Wardrop
Published: 8:26AM GMT 10 Nov 2009


Mary Cooke: Pregnant woman reported to social services over half-decorated home
Mary Cooke Photo: EUGENE HENDERSON

Mary Cooke invited a policewoman into her house after she had dialled 999 to report a speeding car which nearly hit her outside her home in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.

However, the 27-year-old was left furious after she claims the officer raised concerns with the council’s children’s services department over the state of her property.

Mrs Cooke said she and her husband Peter are redoing the wallpaper at their semi-detached house and that she was “sickened” police had judged her on its appearance.

The first she knew of the officer’s concerns was several days later when she received a letter from Staffordshire County Council expressing fears for the wellbeing of her unborn child.

Mrs Cooke, who is 10 weeks' pregnant with her first baby, said: "The letter made me feel sick.

And the moral of this story is ...never let the police into your house even when you are doing them a favour.

There is a lot to be said for joined up government..it usually has a common purpose thread running through it...

I know that there are very vulnerable people in this land which need the protection of the law and help from Social Services, but reports like this do not build trust with the public and these institutions.

Instead of send letters, (funny, I seem to recall someone else having problems with writing letters today, who was that then?), from the children's department, why don't they offer some help in getting the house decorated!

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Tinker, tailor, solider, spy.....

How the Kremlin hijacked Labour: Diary of a Kremlin insider reveals the hold Soviets had over Labour politicians | Mail Online

Ah! the Cold War Era!...

Protect and Survive and all that..

Oh! What a tangled web we weave when we do practice to deceive.

From the article

By Sue Reid
Last updated at 1:40 AM on 06th November 2009

The Lancashire blacksmith's son and leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain stood in front of the group of high-flying young Left-wingers at Cambridge University.

Harry Pollitt told them: 'Don't join us. Work hard, get good degrees, join the Establishment and serve our cause from within.'

It was a few years after World War II and they took Pollitt at his word. Within a decade, the Communist Party foundered (its membership peaked at 60,000 in 1945) as Pollitt's bright young devotees infiltrated the Establishment.

They were soon exercising considerable influence in universities, the state education system, publishing houses, the legal hierarchy and the civil service.

But it was in politics that these high-flying members of the Left established their greatest power-base, both in the Labour Party and the trades' union movement.

Just how deep the tentacles of communism reached into the heart of British government has now been revealed with the emergence of an extraordinary diary by Anatoly Chernyaev, the Soviet Union's contact man with the West at the icy height of the Cold War.

Meticulously detailed and written by hand on lined notepaper, the diary has come to light in the U.S. National Security Archive.

It tells the story of a 'special relationship' not between Britain and America - but between the British Labour Party and Soviet communists.

It was a relationship that lasted more than 30 years, right up to Margaret Thatcher's arrival as Prime Minister in 1979 and beyond.

Indeed, one of the most shocking of the diary's many revelations is how Labour leaders Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock colluded with the Soviet communists to try to beat their 'common enemy', Margaret Thatcher.

But more worrying, perhaps, is the fact that the document shows in stark detail how the political ideology of so many of those who govern us today was shaped by the unspeakable communist creed of the Soviet Union.

The unpalatable truth is that many ministers in Government today rose through the ranks of a British socialist movement that was heavily influenced - and even controlled - by the Kremlin in Moscow.

Svetlana Savranskaya, Director of Russia Programmes at the U.S. archive, describes Chernyaev's diary as 'the single most authoritative source on Soviet policy-making in the last 20 years'.

So there you have it..and with Britain, as our Dear Leader puts it, placed at the heart of Europe, makes it well placed in EUSSR to continue with its socialist agenda.

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