A RANT AGAINST WOKE

In most large organisations, public or private, there are those employed to expand the role of those employed to expand the role of some section or another within said organisation. They feast on uncertainty, fear, ignorance of others, short corporate memories and of course personal grievances for perceived slights on their abilities from managers who themselves are forever covering their corporate arses.  Such attitudes and resulting behaviours are all too evident within the NHS and para medical services, supervisory bodies whose failings are almost a weekly headline whether it be the care of children, the care of the elderly, the structure of buildings, the quality of teaching from kindergarten to university etc etc. In addition to those human frailties the intensity exemplified by the term "woke" has invaded almost every aspect of our lives where the individual meets "the group".  Thinking as we have known it for half a century has been overwritten by what we are expected to think by those who control even a small part of our destinies in themselves a small part of our daily existence.  The system of justice which is chimera for many is not exempt from those aforesaid strictures. 

The term "approved school" officially ceased to exist in the UK in the early 1970s. In England and Wales, as a result of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, responsibility for these institutions was devolved from central government to local councils and they were renamed "Community Homes".  Scandal upon scandal at such places have been shockingly revealed but never as often in the last few years where men of Pakistani origin were allowed to perpetrate the most heinous crimes upon young white girls in places such as but not limited Rochdale and Rotherham.  They were able to undertake their ghastly criminality because the vast majority of those who could have limited their awful law breaking; MPs, police, social workers and others knowingly turned a blind eye for fear of stoking the wrath of the "diversity" industry.   George Orwell's farm animals had a maxim: “four legs good, two legs bad.” This phrase too often characterises our government's approach to environmental protection, individual rights, climate change, controversy over gender and sex and diversity.  The interests of woke shouldn't always prevail over the interests and rights of people. Ancient societies where the average lifespan was perhaps half of current levels valued those who lived long enough to be able to compare and contrast the mores of their society when the vast majority had only the present circumstances upon which to base their reactions to the events in an ever changing world. Today whilst we might not despise such memories we certainly don`t consider their usefulness more than just background bleating against modernity. 

Within the behemoth that we call the justice system the memories of those who rule us are those of goldfish who are forever chasing their own tails around a newly explored bowl hour after hour, day after day. Recently the MOJ in another of its myriad press releases announced the "revolutionary first secure school."  Along with the closure of asylums for the mentally ill the closure of approved schools has been one of the most foolish actions of government in a generation. Now it`s resurrection will be hailed as a new beginning in the care of young offenders.  It`s paradoxical to say that nobody in their right mind would argue that unformed young minds under bad influences must not be re-educated as much as society can tolerate. But in reality that is precisely what has been the norm  for two generations. There is no doubt that many of those mental hospitals and closed criminal courts will some day revert to their  original purpose when clear minds realise the folly of the incompetents who have been ruling us this century and in some matters long before that.  

The awful murder of Sarah Everard has brought into question the iniquitous secret justice of some summary offences by the reaction of police at the vigil held for her death. The Single Justice Procedure was, is and will be until it is terminated an abuse of centuries old adage of justice being seen and heard to be done. Considering the volume of cases daily being rubber stamped this topic should be higher up the list of "must effect change" of those in the justice system with the power to do just that.  That most incompetent of all Lord Chancellors, Chris Grayling, in addition to SJP brought to its knees an adequate in the circumstances Probation Service in the name of "efficiency"; next in line after "diversity" as an excuse to enact change for change`s sake.  

But for the god of all that`s woke "diversity" reigns supreme and within all parts of "justice" it is the Zeus to which all rational thinking must bend the knee. This guide is just a preamble. And as other fads have come and gone the basis for ensuring that racist attitudes within English society were controlled if not eradicated has become the tail of intent wagging the dog of society. But where racist attitudes actually still wriggle through the justice system, certainly in complaints against police and within the judiciary, the openness with which we now expect to be the right of society is still an ideal more than a reality.