England puts CCTVs in the homes of lousy parents
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted August 4th 2009 6:52PM
posted August 4th 2009 6:52PM
We love England, especially the way they use all these adorable names for things: "lorry," for truck, or "loo" for bathroom, or "sin bin" for an Orwellian program whereby "problem families" (currently numbering 2,000, but someday as many as 20,000) are placed under 24/7 CCTV surveillance in their own homes. Chris Grayling, something called the "Shadow Home Secretary," puts it thusly: "This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behavior, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse." Meaning, of course, that cameras must be moved from the streets of England into people's homes, where they'll be used to make sure that kids go to school, go to bed at a decent hour, and eat proper meals. If only they'd had programs like this when we were kids -- maybe things would have turned out differently.
as a british citizen i agree with your statement apart from the cup of tea bit. the tea stereotype is totally true!!!! lol
Brought to you by the same people who mispronounced chi into tea, Mumbai into Bombay, etc.
Sorry to burst your bubble British citizens, but automobiles were invented in the United States.
So, we can call it what ever we want. Also it's not like you came up with the language all on your lonesome, it was stolen from many cultures.
If you read the Daily Express you definitely should be put under 24 hour supervision.
Try http://www.metafilter.com/83833/This-will-not-Orwell for a bit more information. You may still disagree, but there's no point in reading tabloid journalism as gospel truth.
I am no fan of this government. However they would not be allowed to get away with installing CCTV in homes (remember its election year). Plus it would be against EU Human Rights law, article 8.
From your sources nowhere does it say CCTV in homes. Non of the serious papers/media have picked this up because of this reason.
The only place I can see where this may have come from is:
"At the most intensive level, families who require supervision and support on a 24 hour basis stay in a core residential unit. Upon satisfactory completion of a programme, the family can move into a managed property."
-- http://www.respect.gov.uk/members/article.aspx?id=8678
Which is something completely different.
Yes, it is removing their liberty completely.
Surely there is an iphone app for this?
Just a debunker here -
The idea is, you have a family who the children are about to be taken away. The parents arn't bad enough to physically/verbally abuse their children and such, but they are bad enough to normally require the kids to be taken away.
As an option to stop their kids being taken, causing stress to the parents as well as the kids, the parents have the option to have their parenting supervised for a small period of time.
This is a program for families which would normally have their kids taken. It is an optional alternative to your kids being taken.
Loo doesn't mean bathroom, it means the toilet, get it right ;)
Damn nanny state.
1984
Fuuuuuck! Chris Grayling is my local MP too...
This is UK's Big "Brother", literally!!
First of all... The Shadow Home Secretary isn't the Home Secretary, he's part of the opposition party not the govt therefore he doesn't make any decisions.
Second of all, this is across the UK not just England. United Kingdom = Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland not just England.
Fuck England. There, I said it.