soc sec defends totalitarian prebirth intervention

[TC]

PM's pre-birth intervention pledge defended


The social exclusion secretary has insisted that state intervention "can work".

Ahead of a major speech by the prime minister on the subject this week and an action plan from her department, Hilary Armstrong defended Tony Blair's plan to identify potential troublemakers from as early as before they are born.

The idea of pre-emptive government action against poverty and anti-social behaviour has been attacked variously as a gimmick, Nazi-style "eugenics" and an extension of the 'nanny state'.

But Armstrong said that while the government had raised "many, many people out of dire poverty and worklessness" it now needed to give them "the ability to see what they can do to raise their children's opportunities".

"There is a group at the bottom that no government has previously effectively tackled and we are now taking the next step," she told the BBC's Sunday AM programme.

"I know that they do have aspirations for their family. They too would like their children to being doing very well.

"For some they have not had the experience, they have not had the role models...

"If we can find what it is that will really tap into them, then we can really change their belief in themselves and their ability to cope with the world."
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[Jazzratt]

Disgusting.

But Armstrong said that while the government had raised "many, many people out of dire poverty and worklessness" it now needed to give them "the ability to see what they can do to raise their children's opportunities".

Both lying and soundbiting? Sounds lovely doesn't it "Raising them out of poverty" and "seeing what they can do to raise their children's opportunities" - but then you consider that second statement involves taking said children from their parents.

Worst of all is of course the fact that this creates situations where people are literally too prole to have kids, and that disgusts me.

[razboz]

This would be hilarious if it wasent so serious. When wilél we see the 1984-esque day when children will be assigned taskes before thir conception, the production of children will be regemented so that no exess poor are created, the Party will have TVs in the nursery broadcasting porpaganda...

[Luís Henrique]

Oh, come on.

If those ideas were in practice at the time Tony Blair was conceived, we could now be rid of Tony Blair.

Luís Henrique