Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One “deeply vulnerable” woman came to him in great distress because the local authority was taking her to court for not sending her 14-year-old daughter into school.

  “Her daughter wasn’t going in because she was pregnant. She was involved in county lines [drug trafficking] and she was being sexually abused by a drug dealer,” he said.

  Wtf England? Whoever set up that needs to be fired.

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• CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So police are taking a page from their American counterparts?

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  • Wolfman86@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep talking about this whenever it’s vaguely relevant to spread knowledge, especially amongst my fellow Brits.

    In the 1980s Thatcher, our then PM, decided to have a war with the National Union of Mineworkers…they were the largest union in the country and held too much power.

    So strikes went on for years and coppers were marking cars and pulling them over if thought that they were on their way to a strike….

    There was a strike at a coking plant in a place called Orgreave, and it was the complete opposite, with coppers even guiding people on where to park.

    So strikers are milling about, doing striker things, and the coppers attacked the strikers, then the BBC played the footage that they recorded backwards, to make it look like the strikers attacked the coppers. There was recently a documentary on it called Miners Strike 1984; The Battle for Britain, and a film on it called Faith.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well for that to be true, the cops would need to see 2 unrelated things and then assume a black person committed a crime.

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• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The UK really has become an unmitigated shithole ever since the conservatives managed to make Brexit a reality. Nowadays I appreciate the island for having the decency not to touch us, and to serve as both a warning and an example to Europeans about what could happen on the mainland if we let it.

  Fuck the UK (gov) and fuck the Tories.

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  • Onii-Chan@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It takes a lot to make Australia look like less of a prison, but holy fuck has post-Brexit Britain managed to do just that.

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• NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ummmm…critical support for giving left wing school children the ability to jail their chud parents?

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  • D61@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Are your parents TERFS? Homophobic? Racist? With this one simple trick you can remove them from your life!”

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• ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not from there ao I can only look from the outside, but it seems like the UK really fucking hates it’s children?

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  • JoBo@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not just children. The Tories need a kind of generalised hate to keep them in power. “Look! Over there! The poor people have all your money!”. Not because a plurality of the electorate actually fall for it but because the billionaires who own the media keep the noise at a crescendo to make sure no one pays any attention to their grift. Which means that the Labour party is too spineless to oppose it, keeping turnout nice and low while the Tories chase the fash to the right.

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    • Beetlejuice001@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems eerily similar to the strategy in America

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    • Thordros@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Labour aren’t spineless—they’re complicit. Outside of that very small window where Jezza was “in charge” (read: the donors fucked up, and fixed it shortly thereafter), Labour in our living memory has never been anything but Democrats with smart boy accents.

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  • Wolfman86@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m from the U.K. I’m not going to disagree.

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