Dear Ed Balls,
I’m not entirely sure how to start this letter, seeing as I cannot make my mind up as to how your brain appears to work. Since your appointment as Children’s Secretary, you and Uncle Gordon have been trying to make out that you care what the public think and that you are concerned about child safety. Yer, right.
Why don’t we start by looking at your plans described in the Guardian this morning about improving online safety for children. You have the nerve to say that when children surf the web, “it is about making sure they can do so safely, as far as possible, without being exposed to harmful or inappropriate material. I want children to enjoy new media without their childhood being harmed.”, and yet you still haven’t vetted the 300,000+ users of the new database that will hold personal information about every child in the country or worked out how you will police the database - which would be the perfect opportunity for those who wish to harm children to get access to their home address, school details etc. A slight contradiction. The fact that you and Uncle Gordon are turning to the Citizen Juries i.e. glorified focus groups to make us feel like you give a damn about our opinions is laughable and insulting at the same time. If you and Uncle Gordon really care what we think, where is our referendum on Europe?
Let’s face it - Cameron is right, our society is broken, and you haven’t got a clue how to fix it.
Yours in disdain
A.Tory
4 responses so far ↓
Ellee // September 8, 2007 at 12:40 pm
There is no way I could believe that Madeleine’s mother has played any role in her disappearance, I believe it is a vile suggestion.
I like your “letter” approach, I have used this in the past too.
Consider yourself linked, btw.
tomas kust // September 9, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Dear Letters,
While I enjoyed reading your attack on the poor Labour saps affected by spongiform parentis, I can only agree with you that the proposed first-alternative (ie Cameron) is ‘Right’, considering the diagnosis of his own ailment somewhat earlier.
In comparing Cameroonian analysis to Cameron’s personal experience, one does not need to go searching far for any reasons for his self-flaggelating posture, yet the causal link between his self-emoliation and suggested solution for society is unproven, and would, in fact, seem to contradict both his diagnosis and conclusion, thereby drawing into suspicion the very real and plausible liklihood that his whole methodology is fallacious and based on self-delusion regarding the framework of his descriptive understanding.
It may be insightful to recognise the different skillsets provided by training in different areas, but enlightenment is available to any who successfully combines those tools to productive effect.
Yours in humility.
Letters From A Tory // September 10, 2007 at 7:30 am
But what do you think the two-faced nature of Ed Balls with his views on child safety? Any points to make about that?
tomas kust // September 10, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Letters, I agree that Labour has made a mess of virtually all its database schemes, however, if society is broken (that is if it exists at all), it is no more broken than it ever was and neither of the two main parties can do anything about it, or they would have during their periods in power.
I am also slightly concerned about your leaps in logic from one statement to the next, which seem only indirectly linked, at best, despite your failure to provide any evidence or reasoning to provide a connection between each.
Thanks.
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