Nanny Bans Lennon

Oh dear, it seems that Nanny's puritanical feelings from the sixties have been reawakened.

In the sixties, you will recall, Nanny was very upset by all that dope smoking, free love and general disrespect towards God.

I was a mere child at that time, and missed out on all the doings.

Ho hum!

Anyhoo, in a sort of flashback, Nanny's teaching chums at St Leonards Primary in Exeter have decided that a John Lennon song ("Imagine") is anti-religious.

The pupils had spent weeks rehearsing the song for an end of term show. However, the head teacher and governors decided that it was anti-Christian and unsuitable for the school.

The dangerous lyrics include:

"Imagine there's no heaven... and no religion too."

Seems to me the world would be a much better place without religion. However, as my 3 miserable years in a Catholic school taught me I will undoubtedly burn in hell for that comment.

Head teacher Geoff Williams said a teacher approached him, because she did not think the song was appropriate.

The Rev David Harris, a school governor, said:

"The song expresses longing for a different world and for eternal happiness

but it says you can have this without religion."

I would have thought that, if God exists, he doesn't give a stuff about your religion but how you behave towards others.

That being said, what do I know?; I am going to burn in hell.

Anyhoo, "Imagine" was replaced by "The Building Song".

Labour's CIA Links

Here is an amusing little story for you:

Labour's CIA Links

Start the week as you mean to go on, with a conspiracy!

What a Load of Crap!

It seems that Nanny's recent "customer" satisfaction survey, examining the impact of OFSTED letters to children, has highlighted a few "issues".

Some children have objected to the "patronising" letters they receive from inspectors, outlining Ofsted judgements about their schools, whilst younger children did not understand some of the language Ofsted used.

Ofsted said that its inspectors needed more advice about "appropriate styles of writing for different ages".

The Ofsted research covered 55 schools and 1,500 pupils.

The report said:

"Although jargon was unusual,

the meaning of some words and phrases such as 'monitoring'

and 'teachers with management responsibilities'

was lost on some of the younger pupils.

Some pupils were confused by the mix of formal and informal styles within the same letter.

Due to the formal layout of the letters and absence of colour,

they were unattractive to younger pupils."

This helps improve the quality of education how?

What a load of crap!

This Old House

You will recall that earlier this month I wrote about Nanny's much derided Home Seller Information Packs (HIPS), which were due to be introduced next year.

Nanny had in mind that all sellers of homes would pay £800 to have one of these prepared.

These would of course have totally "f**ked up" the housing market, and doubtless brought our precarious economy crashing down to earth with a big bump.

Now it seems that following a major outcry, Nanny has been forced into a humiliating public retreat. HIPS are no longer going to be compulsory.

One small victory in the ongoing war against Nanny.

Nanny's Sick Little Mind

In Nanny's sick little world, all adults are paedophiles. As such they must be kept at arms length from children. Indeed so fixated has she become on this issue, that she has managed to whip the media and the dimmer sections of the public into a frenzy over the issue during the last few years.

Those of you with long memories may recall some two or more years ago, that there was an outburst of "Salem like witch burning" in various council estates across Britain; as suspected paedos (as Nanny likes to call them) were ritualistically harangued and attacked.

One poor bloke found his offices trashed.

For why?

Simple, he was a paediatrician and advertised as such on his office sign; so thick were the scumbags who were rioting, that they assumed this to be an illegal activity and duly "punished" him for it.

Now we see the recent story of the Reverend Alan Barrett, the vicar of St Editha's church in Tamworth, who has had to stand down as a school governor after innocently kissing a primary school pupil on the cheek to congratulate her on passing a maths test.

He kissed the 10 year old girl, in front of fellow pupils and a maths teacher, when he presented her with a certificate at the end of the class.

Needless to say in Nanny's paranoid Britain the girl's mother was having none of that, and complained.

Following on from investigations by Nanny's thought police in the police, social services and the Church Rev Barrett was cleared.

However, this being Nanny's Britain, innocence is not enough to protect yourself from hatred, bigotry and the state's desires to make people confirm and bend to its will.

Rev Barrett had to resign from the school governors, even though he was found innocent.

Gavin Drake, a spokesman for the diocese of Lichfield said that after an investigation conducted by the archdeacon, the Ven Chris Liley, formal disciplinary proceedings were not justified, but he did deem Mr Barrett's behaviour "inappropriate".

In a very sinister interpretation of modern Britain he noted that the finding did not mean that Mr Barrett was guilty or negligent but it was "recognition that, in today's climate, previously acceptable innocent behaviour is now subject to misunderstanding and suspicion".

Quote:

"As the complaint and subsequent police investigation demonstrates,

the simple act of a kiss on the cheek

a common greeting throughout the world

has potentially damaging consequences."

Needless to say, the girl's mother has not yet had her pound of flesh; for reasons that only she can understand, she wants him removed from his church position as well.

Phillip Noyes, director of public policy at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said that such physical contact in a school was "inappropriate".

Quote:

"Everyone should be aware of changing attitudes towards physical contact with children.

Children can be left embarrassed and or upset by such contact,

even if innocently intended."

There you have it ladies and gentlemen, children can no longer be touched by adults. Nanny's message is clear, touch a child and you are a paedo.

This message of course gets through to the children as well.

The result?

A nation of children will grow up, untouched and untouchable, distressed and mentally damaged; unable to form normal human relationships, as the mere thought of physical contact will make them shudder.

No wonder there are so many disturbed children in the UK nowadays.

Nanny has a very sick mind, and is passing her sickness on to the rest of us.

Scumbags Come First

It is good to know that Nanny cares so much for the welfare of the young that, not only does she ensure that they are not touched in any inappropriate way (since all adults are paedophiles), she also makes sure that when the "little rascals" misbehave they do not suffer the consequences of their actions.

Unfortunately for the rest of the population (ie the adults) this can make life a tad tedious, especially when violent scumbags are allowed to run amok without due punishment.

Liz Jones, a headteacher at Abbey Manor College in Lewisham, realised the imbalance in the law recently when she suffered a shattered cheekbone after one of Nanny's "darling little angels" punched her in the face.

Liz's crime was to tell 16 year old (an adult by most people's standards) Dexter Hungwa to close a door. He then punched her so hard that she was sent flying across the room with a shattered cheekbone, he also shouted obscenities at her.

Hungwa escaped a jail sentence, despite admitting causing grievous bodily harm.

Instead he was given a 12 month community punishment and rehabilitation order, electronically tagged and ordered to keep a curfew at his South London home between 8.30pm and 7am.

Needless to say, Ms Jones said the failure to send Hungwa to jail was "like being punched again".

Quote:

"It has no regard for either public safety or the safety of anybody else in my position.

Any teacher, any head, anybody working with young people is vulnerable.

It leaves me with very little faith in the criminal justice system.

It undermines our work, the work of the police and the work of crime prevention generally.

When there is a serious offence,

it is not being treated seriously and so, as the victim,

it's like being punched again."

Seemingly, Hungwa sniggered when interviewed by police about the incident.

One union claims that a teacher is attacked or verbally abused every seven minutes.

Some might argue that scumbags like Hungwa should be given a sound thrashing, until their violent streak is well and truly broken, but as we all know folks Nanny does not permit violence in her "perfect" world. Unless of course the violence is being perpetrated by "young" adults or children.