Councillor pays price of speaking out
Medway councillor John Ward has paid the price for expressing an unpopular truth.
Following alleged comments on his blog, which repeated comments about the compulsory sterilisation of people on benefits, he has been forced to take the page down, and to resign the position he has been elected to for the past eight years - gagged and sacked, effectively.
Mr Ward has since distanced himself from the comments he made, but silencing those who point towards extreme sanctions, does not make a serious problem go away.
In the UK, there are a third generation of adults who are workless - i.e. they have never had a job, their parents have never had a job and their grand parents have never had a job. For such families, the only way open to them to improve their lot, get more money and a bigger house, is to either acquire or fake illness or disability to access the higher level of benefits implicit in that, and the second is to have more children.
Being workless and having three children means that you can legitimately demand a four-bedroom house from the state - a house which in most of the South East of England would cost you UK£500,000 (US$1,000,000) - a lifestyle they could never aspire to if they worked and had to either buy or rent on the open market. There is literally no incentive to work.
This would be all fine and dandy - after all the poor are always with us, putting their hands in our pockets - except that the children of workless families suffer higher incidences of illness, they don't do so well at school, and they are much, much more likely to be workless themselves.
The solution of the Crypto Stalinist Brown government is to throw more petrol on the fire, by taxing those that are 'fortunate enough' to havean education and a job (those were the government's words in quotes - as if a degree and a career are down to luck) and showering more money on benefits and 'rights' for those that contribute nothing.
The compulsory sterilisation of the workless is indeed a severe policy sanction, but by no means the most severe.
Punctuated Equlilibrium is a policy theory which suggests that under certain circumstances, policies which would never be accepted by either the legislature or the public can be successfully implemented.
By looking the other way while a violent sub class is growing within our society, the Brown Government and moderates on the Right are unconsciously paving the way for a time when more ruthless men will have a mandate to act.
We have been unable to check Mr Ward's blog ourselves, as the offending page has been censored, but here is the Daily Telegraphy story outlining it: Cllr Ward Blog Story
Following alleged comments on his blog, which repeated comments about the compulsory sterilisation of people on benefits, he has been forced to take the page down, and to resign the position he has been elected to for the past eight years - gagged and sacked, effectively.
Mr Ward has since distanced himself from the comments he made, but silencing those who point towards extreme sanctions, does not make a serious problem go away.
In the UK, there are a third generation of adults who are workless - i.e. they have never had a job, their parents have never had a job and their grand parents have never had a job. For such families, the only way open to them to improve their lot, get more money and a bigger house, is to either acquire or fake illness or disability to access the higher level of benefits implicit in that, and the second is to have more children.
Being workless and having three children means that you can legitimately demand a four-bedroom house from the state - a house which in most of the South East of England would cost you UK£500,000 (US$1,000,000) - a lifestyle they could never aspire to if they worked and had to either buy or rent on the open market. There is literally no incentive to work.
This would be all fine and dandy - after all the poor are always with us, putting their hands in our pockets - except that the children of workless families suffer higher incidences of illness, they don't do so well at school, and they are much, much more likely to be workless themselves.
The solution of the Crypto Stalinist Brown government is to throw more petrol on the fire, by taxing those that are 'fortunate enough' to havean education and a job (those were the government's words in quotes - as if a degree and a career are down to luck) and showering more money on benefits and 'rights' for those that contribute nothing.
The compulsory sterilisation of the workless is indeed a severe policy sanction, but by no means the most severe.
Punctuated Equlilibrium is a policy theory which suggests that under certain circumstances, policies which would never be accepted by either the legislature or the public can be successfully implemented.
By looking the other way while a violent sub class is growing within our society, the Brown Government and moderates on the Right are unconsciously paving the way for a time when more ruthless men will have a mandate to act.
We have been unable to check Mr Ward's blog ourselves, as the offending page has been censored, but here is the Daily Telegraphy story outlining it: Cllr Ward Blog Story
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