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The bastard who murdered little Preston has been given a full life sentence.

Shouldn't Reform and their friends be demanding white school teachers are vilified across the nation?

Or the banning of adoption by gay men?

That might be quite a likely demand from a hard of thinking politician I would have thought.

The bigger questions need to be asked at the hospital where he had several admissions in a very short space of time.

I have looked in detail at the timeline and with hindsight it is easy to condemn. However the key potential error is the broken elbow on visit three. This seems highly problematic. Lady Brook is not happy. I believe she has lots of questions of medical and social worker staff.

Varley's evil and graphic sexual abuse is beyond contempt. I don't believe a general extrapolation should be made because Varley was either, white, male, a teacher or gay.

I will guess that it will turn out like Baby P.

Multiple people raised the alarm, but were ignored or actively silenced for being inconvenient to their managers. For internal politics, not some woke agenda.

Learns Will Be Learnt.

The ghosts of Ed Balls and Sharon Shoesmith's careers are waving. Sharon Shoesmith from a lovely retirement property purchased courtesy of Ed Balls and the UK Government.

Burnham’s biggest issue is going to be the lack of money.

So what can he do that is effective but doesn’t cost much?

Some ideas

- Merge NI into Income tax - and *save* money. Genuinely.
- Create internal consultancy within government. So IT and reorgs are done by PAYE civil servants rather than £xxxx per day outsiders.
- Introduce regulatory cost provisions - if you (in a government department) make reactions more expensive for people/companies, a larger portion of your budget gets hypothecated to enforcement. Suddenly, £18 windows will look at lot less sexy.
- Bigger fines for illegal employment, shared with the victims (the employees).
- Break the “veil” of using contracting as a way of removing responsibility for employees. Looking at you, Deliveroo.

Means test any universal benefit so that those with income over 200k don't get it

Better still give everyone an opt out option.

Sock of hearing rich people sneering they don't need this or that but doing feck all to redistribute it.

Means testing something you’ll give to 99% of the population, is expensive bureaucracy that costs time and money, for negligible cost savings.

The big savings come by merging employee NI into income tax, which has the side effect of taxing ‘rich’ pensioners. You can do it 2% per year and most people in work wouldn’t notice.

The bastard who murdered little Preston has been given a full life sentence.

Shouldn't Reform and their friends be demanding white school teachers are vilified across the nation?

Or the banning of adoption by gay men?

That might be quite a likely demand from a hard of thinking politician I would have thought.

The bigger questions need to be asked at the hospital where he had several admissions in a very short space of time.

I have looked in detail at the timeline and with hindsight it is easy to condemn. However the key potential error is the broken elbow on visit three. This seems highly problematic. Lady Brook is not happy. I believe she has lots of questions of medical and social worker staff.

Varley's evil and graphic sexual abuse is beyond contempt. I don't believe a general extrapolation should be made because Varley was either, white, male, a teacher or gay.

I will guess that it will turn out like Baby P.

Multiple people raised the alarm, but were ignored or actively silenced for being inconvenient to their managers. For internal politics, not some woke agenda.

Learns Will Be Learnt.