David Cameron's Britain

Yes, but is it Islamic baby talk?

The asteroid is long overdue; it's time for civilization to start over now.

I thought all the children were sent to a wet nurse...

After all children are to be seen, but not heard...

And changing nappies is ever so inconvenient, so some bright wag will invent 72 hour "Mini-Depends".

"Mini-Depends" a new brand which reflects the individuals 'dependency' on the state to change nappies. Thus the nanny state will come round to change the nappies, with 72 hour efficiency...!

"Mini-Depends" is a new government program waiting to solve that nasty nappies problem...

Just remember when life is crappy "Mini-Depends" and nanny STATE will powder your bottom!

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

David Cameron, the Premier Redford of Britain.

Red Tories have become totally socialist in their mindset.

A 'solution' looking for a 'problem'.

Orwell nailed it.

You know, this sort of thing makes me wonder how there ever could have been a British Empire...

"They receive more training on how to drive."

Isn't it england that let you take driving lessons in your foreign language. That worked out well.

I don't know maybe it time to pull a Brian Wilson.

A government program is needed because some people's houses are messy because they have kids?

Welcome to what used to be called normal. If/when the kids move out, the house magically becomes much tidier. That too used to be called normal. But normal doesn't require millions in taxes and an army of bureaucrats and so normal will never do.

People get the government they deserve.
You want to be a slave, there are plenty of people who want to be Masters to accommodate you.

I love that he's pulling this right after getting shellacked in the local council elections. He's just asking for the long knives!

Bureaucrats, progressives and, others spend far too much time worrying about how parents are raising their kids. Not the ones they should be worrying about, of course, because they belong to 'disadvantaged' groups and are given immunity from criticism. No, the lecturing is reserved for parents who are actually care and are therefore more susceptible to guilt and shame. So, these initiatives will have little impact on abusive and neglectful parents.

Ironically, the research coming out indicates that kids are shaped more by genetics and peers than by parents anyway. Being "good enough" (from Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids) may be better than striving for perfection which only creates unneeded stress that strains the parent-child relationship. Too much peer pressure and too little unstructured fun creates neurotic parents and children. Government advice, focused on elf n safety and social engineering, is more likely aggravate this tendency than help families.

"David Cameron said it was “ludicrous” that parents received more training in how to drive a car than in how to raise children."

Will this eventually read ...

The Prime Minister said it was “ludicrous” that parents received more training in how to drive a car than how to properly train their children.

Of course it's a give-in to these people that children need to be "trained" to their ideology.

I wonder how many of London’s mosques Cameron has visited to tell the Muslim parents that their children need his training.

"repeat after me: "Goo goo. Gaa gaa."

That's a university grad speaking there.

Right, Kate?

Much of this is already being done in Canada, at least in Alberta and BC. The only diffrence is that the Prime Minister hasn't yet found the need to give a speech about it.

Twenty something single, childless, graduate nurses telling new mothers how to breastfeed. Advice offered from grandmother is "out-of-date".

More job creation for more bureacrats & public sector unionists and their kids.

re:

You know, this sort of thing makes me wonder how there ever could have been a British Empire...
Posted by: JJM at May 19, 2012 1:38 PM

That was when Britian was occupied by the British...

and before the post-war socialist engineers that got scared during the blitz and hid out instead of getting on with the business of winning the war and preparing for the aftermath decided that the best way to avoid soiling their knickers in the future was to make sure that they never had to go through it again by making instant surrender the preferred method of dealing with aggressors...that and pre-emptive apologizing for past glories so their new masters would go easy on them...

the trouble with Britain is that the British are gone

Bemused, well said, and so true. As well, the good ones appear to have been killed in the war.

Some days it really looks like freedom of the person and the mind has died, and been replaced by group think Marxism when even so-called conservatives behave like disciples of Marx.

Britain: a stupid little country.

What Canada wants to be when it grows up.

@JJM: You know, this sort of thing makes me wonder how there ever could have been a British Empire...

I cannot disagree, being a first generation Canadian from British stock. I look at my family history...particularly the large percentage of my familial predecessors, including my own father, who lost their lives or were severely wounded in war, protecting the rights of others, and I cannot imagine how they would possibly reconcile their sacrifices with the sad state of the UK today.

The empire was finished 60 years ago...the country(s) of the UK are now going through the final death spiral.

What a terrible shame....state suicide facilitated by "progressive leftists".

Re: more training on how to drive
Good parenting isn't dependent on a wealth of knowledge (and the government can't be relied on to do that very well) but upon character - desiring the long-term best interests of the child above one's own immediate whims.
A parent can usually seek and find or figure out what works best for their children if they have the character to look to their children's best interests. And no government program will be able to impart that.