Uninformed, I don't think so. Why don't you dump the waffle and just call me a 'thick cunt'.
Who knows, I may have even got your "critical thinking" moving in another direction?
And the circle closes - yanks and free-marketers. The people he's know sticking his tongue up.
I'm not a member of the fourth estate; the bolloxology is all yours.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
You are a thick cunt. But not because of your 'i'm a worker, i'm thick spiel' - you'll be spelling what as 'wot' next.
Uninformed, I don't think so. Why don't you dump the waffle and just call me a 'thick cunt'.
Who knows, I may have even got your "critical thinking" moving in another direction?
Ah. Nice you have a paying hobby. Beats compulsive masturbation and/or train spotting (combined ?), eh? Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Absolute drivel, mate.
I didn't call you thick because I don't know whether you are or not. However, you are very obviously uninformed.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
What does this mean in English; or is it as you say absolute drivel?
Louis MacNeice
How you can see from up there I've no idea?
C'mon. Stay with the program.
I tell you what I like about your postings; it's that you sign off with your name and very often with a "Cheers" or a "Thank you". I think that's lovely. I really do. Manners maketh the man.
Cheers - Louis (happy to please) MacNeice
p.s. still don't get your previous post.
If social work and care are instruments of control and social engineering, what does that make a member of the Fourth Estate who makes money from writing about it?
Technically known as Bolloxology.
Are health and social care work just instruments of social control and social engineering; it's certainly part of what they do but does that really cover all of what they do? I've certainly experienced other aspects of health and social care work, as apparently have millions of others (http://www.inthenews.co.uk/thebigissue/news/health/patient-satisfaction-$1085847$1085847.htm & http://www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-media/press-releases/december-2006/latest-statistics-on-social-services*); although we could obviously all be suffering from false consciousness or be unknowingly submitting to a damaging set of discourses. It's good that we've got people like you who can see through it all and put the rest of us straight.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
*the point of the stats isn't to show that everything is rosey in the health and social care garden; rather it is to point out the silliness of your monothought take on it.
Are you a member of the fourth estate LM? Or was that just another misreading by lights-out-and nobody-home?
Why on earth would you? Wot point do you fink that you're making that LM doesn't know or care about?
According to recent figures published, over a quarter of a million (FWIW I think this is a massive underestimation of the problem) older people are struggling to carry out basic tasks in their homes. Where I am, Social Services home care services are only given to those who have a terminal illness. The rest have to seek it out themselves in the private sector where they are charged £11 to £12 per hour.
Dementia care, if you can get a diagnosis that is, is pitiful with families up and down the country having to cope. The carers allowance for this demanding work is about £45 a week. Community psychiatric nurses are like rocking horse shit.
Local authorities up and down the county have been talking about a "looming crisis" in elder care for some time now and the government has been ignoring these warnings.
I could go on.
...you managed to find something I have no interest whatsoever in. Well done.

None of which I disagree with but all of which has what to do with the point I was making to LSL?
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
I was replying to your post about the charge that I was 'obviously uninformed'. It somehow got lost in the translation.
I wasn't out to interest you; the point I was making was that my paid work is political (albeit small p politics and at times contradictory). Obviously not in the cutting edge way that putting up a tressell table in a public library is, but I do what I can.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
I meant you were obviously uninformed about what I do given your characterisation of it, you know me in my ivory tower, missing out the real world work pressures, waiting lists, underfunding and the rest.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
You posted some of your work, which I read and thought was academic bollocks. That's not changed.
Are you a member of the fourth estate LM? Or was that just another misreading by lights-out-and nobody-home?
Not my fault if you totally misread something and then used that misreading to attack LM.