Irish Social Workers Are Horrified by Their Ruthless English Counterparts
21st February 2012
Such is the reign of terror now being imposed on innocent English families by social workers that scores of parents have been fleeing with their children to Ireland to escape their clutches. I have followed a dozen such stories over the past two years, and in all of them two things stand out. One is that the English social workers seem prepared to stop at nothing to get the children back. The other is the extraordinary contrast between them and the Irish social workers, who again and again have satisfied themselves that the children are at no risk from their loving parents and are astonished by the ruthless behaviour of their English counterparts.
No surprises here. Britain has traveled much farther down the road to perdition than any reasonable person could have anticipated even twenty years ago, and for all their fecklessness the Irish don’t have a fascist bone anywhere about them.