England wasn't built on babysitting bans »

Posted By berkeley 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
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What would Orwell make of a nation in which mothers are investigated for looking after each other's children?

When did it happen? When did the English, described by George Orwell in his famous essays, as a byword for tolerance, eternally suspicious of "power worship" and the overweening authoritarian state, turn into people who report their neighbours to the authorities for babysitting each other's children without permission?

The case of two female police officers who have been subjected to accusations of running an illegal childminding business seems to exemplify the new England.

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    berkeley2 months, 2 weeks ago

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    this stupidity is so completely over the top that i can't believe it hasn't caused riots.

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      tadair9192 months, 2 weeks ago

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      my friend was telling me this story today. he didn't tell me where it occured.

      but the way things are going nowadays, i thought for sure it had to be somewhere in America.

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