Social workers must die
The Facebook group I set up to accompany the (Other) TaxPayers’ Alliance recently gained its 100th member. Only 800 members to go and we’ll have overtaken the original Alliance. I was feeling quite pleased with this until I saw that the group RIP BABY P x gained 131,000 members over a similar period. And that’s not all: RIP BABY P x shouldn’t be mistaken for those splitters and wreckers in R I P Baby P (9,400 members), xx R.I.P Baby P xx (330 members), or Name & shame the bastards!!!! petition. R.I.P Baby p x (1,500 members).
In fact, search for Baby P on Facebook and you’ll find more than 500 groups – never mind members. Some are more upfront in their aims:
- DIE A SLOW PAINFULL DEATH TO THE BASTARDS WHO DONE THIS TO BABY “p”
- get the scum social workers sacked who didnt help baby p
- Baby P Killers should be hanged Drawn and Quartered
- BEAT THE PARENTS TO DEATH WHO KILLED BABY P
After a while it becomes hard to distinguish reality from parody, though I suspect Slaughter those who allowed Baby P to die, in the face is the latter:
this group is 4 every1 who hates the mother and other ppl who were lukin after baby p. fuckin scum. join this group and express your absolute horror at nu labour for allowin this to happen. thanks to gordon brown and useless social workers, this poor child who i really care about, is dead. its because of nu labour’s negligence that this child was allowed to die, i hate them. did i mention that i hate nu labour? hang every1 in nu labour and hang every social worker in the country. then find the sick mother by using social networkin websites like facebook and hang her. then rape her dead body and cut her breasts off, fry them in a wok and send photographs in to the daily express so that they can join in the RIGHTEOUSNESSEz.
Much more terrifying than any self-righteous anger is the mawkishness of discussions such as what song to dedicate to Baby P (which isn’t a parody – as far as I can tell). Suggestions include James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”, Celine Dion’s “Fly” and Chris Rea’s “Tell Me There’s a Heaven”. The Rea track is proving a hit, and has – inevitably – gained its own 8,000-strong group, A song for Baby P. Please join 2 make this happen!!! Shouldn’t there be a law against this sort of thing? Or at least a Facebook group?
Meanwhile, I was wondering whether my own group could benefit from a change of tone – perhaps a poem in praise of capital gains tax OR LOTS OF SWEARY CAPITALS – when I came across the eminently sensible Stop the fake moral outrage over Baby P and give the council a break:
Manifesto:
1. There are hundreds of children a year who die because of neglectful or violent parents. If you care, do some voluntary work; give money to a good cause; or become a social worker.
2. Don’t sign up to mindless groups simply to ease misplaced guilt.
3. Councils do not have enough money to maintain the excellent levels of service they provide or to recruit and train the additional staff they need. If you must blame someone, blame central government for cutting the money they give to councils.
Then again, they’ve only got eight members. FUCKING LOSERS.
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About Clifford Singer
I'm a partner and creative director at Sparkloop graphic design agency. I sometimes play guitar in my poor excuse for a band, The Great Apes. You can find me on Facebook and LinkedIn.
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