{"id":4736,"date":"2011-03-29T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2011-03-29T21:37:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:37:16","slug":"sometimes-i-just-sits-and-thinks-and-sometimes-i-just-sits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I just sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits"},"content":{"rendered":"

ITV 2 show, The Only Way is Essex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Vile.<\/p>\n

But I’m going to rise above the content of the show and look at the people who are in it:<\/p>\n

Vile.<\/p>\n

But they aren’t just vile; they’re also…<\/p>\n

Extremely poorly educated.<\/p>\n

These people ever <\/em>went to school?<\/p>\n

I find this impossible to believe.<\/p>\n

Anyway, speaking of thick people.<\/p>\n

I took a late lunch today – working at home prepping for a big day tomorrow – and as a result I *cough* accidentally caught an episode of Jeremy Kyle.<\/p>\n

The show’s host nicely summed up the aspirations of the incredibly chavvy, multi-offspringed 17-year-old girl who was the focus of today’s lie detector test.<\/p>\n

‘It’s not all about trainers tats and trackies’.<\/p>\n

Solid gold\u00a0alliteration, and a devastatingly accurate summing up of the girl’s life-goals.<\/p>\n

So here’s a big question.<\/p>\n

If the welfare system is broken and if the welfare system needs reform, why are we still funding it?<\/p>\n

Really, think about this for a moment.<\/p>\n

If you had a thing that was broken and needed replacing, would you really keep spending money on it?<\/p>\n

And indeed, why are we still using it?<\/p>\n

Just wondering.<\/p>\n

For eight years I worked at the sharp end of social services in a deprived area of Bristol, and we understood that sometimes there came a time when we needed to say ‘no’.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the best form of intervention is not to intervene.<\/p>\n

Give support through practical means, help to achieve goals and assist the service users to deliver their own plans?<\/p>\n

Absolutely.<\/p>\n

But fund habits and wasting lifestyles through the continued application of unlimited public cash?<\/p>\n

Not under any circumstances.<\/p>\n

I’m just thinking out loud.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, when the circumstances warranted, we undertook, and I participated in delivering, serious intervention into the lives and homes of some people.<\/p>\n

But sometimes the best thing to do to get people to start helping themselves, is to turn the tap off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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