By: ben

ben — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:38:25 +0000

back in the dim and dark past of 1997 i would have laughed at you and your post. in 2001 i might have sniggered and said it still cant happen. now in 2009 i am worried to say the least.
i dont have to imagone a lot of what was posted as all i have to do is watch the news, read the papers and talk to my kids and their friends to see how far our society has degraded.
we have 4 kids, the eldest is 18 and out of the school system, the 2nd is 15 and ias doing really well at school and the youngest at 6 is loving school. the middle child though is 13 and is home educated. he was remorslesly bullied by a gang of youths in his year. at least 2 times every months sometimes weekly i would have to phone the school and complian to his teacher about the latest spate of attacks on my son.
1 day my son fights back against 1 lad, he faught back after school and out of school grounds, yet the school decided that he was a bully and was going to be excluded over this fight. the deputy head had no record of any phone calls i had made to the school so his opinion was our lad was the bully not this poor unfortunate kids who had a bloody lip and black eye after he picked on our lad.
this just shows how pathetic the managment of the school really is.
under no curcumstances will i allow some busy body government official into our house to assertain if our lad is keeping up with possibly the worste education system in the developed world. it has failed him once we wont fail him a second time.
this new law they want to bring in is just another errosion of our freedoms and liberties that we ussed to take for granted when we were Great Britain.
if gordon brown had a democratic bone in his body he wouldnt be sitting unelected as leader of the labour party and the government of this country, but as labour has shown on numerous occasions the poeple of this country dont matter any more

By: Helen Allen

Helen Allen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:50:33 +0000

Great post.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:51:43 +0000

Thank you so much for putting all this into such perfect words.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:55:44 +0000

Wonderful piece!

By: Qalballah

Qalballah — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:43:55 +0000

Bloody hell Merry, you can write woman. I’d vote for you. Go on – be our MP

By: merry

merry — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:24:18 +0000

I think I could probably reference every one of the points in my post with a relevant news story from bbc news.
However, the repeated use of the world ‘imagine’ in the post was used so as to make it clear that it was intended as a work of fiction, not anything else.