David Craig, on August 14th, 2024Wednesday blog
I wasn’t intending to watch the BBC Panorama programme about Nottingham knife murderer Valdo Calocane. But eventually I did watch it with steadily rising disgust. I have to be careful what I write because of possible legal repercussions. But hopefully we’re still allowed to give our own opinions in the brief few weeks left before the (IMHO) UK-hating, Davos-adoring Two-Tier Keir bans any form of free speech with his new ludicrously misnamed ‘Online Safety Bill’.
It does seem that there were flaws in the way that murderer – or perhaps we should call him “manslaughterer” as he was only convicted of something like ‘manslaughter due to diminished responsibility’ and not ‘murder’ – was treated by the mental health services. And since the Panorama programme there has been a mainstream media pile-on attacking the uselessness of our NHS mental health services with many commentators claiming the NHS mental services staff “have blood on their hands”. But I didn’t see any sign of anyone daring to suggest that Valdo Calocane’s family might also bear some responsibility for this (IMHO) monster’s killings, that this (IMHO) evil creature’s family might “have blood on their hands”. Nope. It was all our fault because we didn’t give him the treatment he needed. His family, who produced this (IMHO) vile specimen, were all apparently angels and we British taxpayers were apparently the villains.
I guess this is just another sign of the times where nobody takes responsibility for anything any more and nobody is expected to take responsibility for anything any more. Everything is now the fault of ‘the system’ or ‘society’ or some other such nonsense.
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Yes well apparently every thing is now the state’s fault and/or responsibility. People seem to grow up these days expecting the state to provide. No need to go out and work, the state will provide; get ill, the state will provide; get old and need care – why should I sell my house? – the state will provide; Show up in a rubber dinghy with no papers – the state will provide. There is far too little self reliance and the populace seem to think it’s a god given right that the state will support them from cradle to grave. And as for his family doing anything about Calocane, why bother? The state will provide.
You might have to be careful what you say but it enables you to draw attention to freedom of speech being taken away, which is more important than anything else, and we cannot have freedom of speech without somebody being offended. The Jordan Peterson interview with Cathy Newman illustrates this and she was speechless when faced with his view.
Carolyn provides a good list of the promises that the state makes, but there is one more and that is its promise to keep us safe. With every promise we have to pay more and more in taxes and when the state fails to keep its promise we never get a tax refund. If we paid for private security and it failed we could get compensation. If HS2 had been developed by a private company it would have gone bankrupt, but the state demands more taxes to pay for their failure.
We should remember how the Labour Party dealt with the London Olympics. It declared an impossibility low budget to get the games and every time the cost when up they declared a new budget and ignored the increasing expenditure. Finally, they were able to declared that the expenditure was exactly as budgeted.
I don’t know anything about the Calocane case and didn’t watch Panorama. Fortunately I don’t have any family but I am concerned about the increasing mental health issues of younger people. Is this due to family breakdowns and the propaganda in schools? Teachers could use your book to convince pupils that there is no climate crisis but that is the last thing they will do.
I can’t give you both up ticks but many thanks for putting my thoughts into the comments section. I do wish the population would awaken from thier slumber and realise the UK population are used and being played.