The UN has released a report that claims that British children are the unhappiest in Europe. In my experience you can learn a lot about an “official report” simply by asking who commissioned it, who supports it and what do they expect to get out of it?
The UN is a non-democratic transnational organisation that constantly seeks to increase its power over independent, national democracies. Having no real army the UN cannot score military victories over its rivals an so instead looks to secure moral ones. The commissioning of a report on child welfare by the UN implies that the UN is concerned about child welfare. Is it just a coincidence that their report indicates a lack of concern for the welfare of children on the part of the UN’s two most powerful rivals: Britain and the US?
The UN is a non-democratic transnational organisation that constantly seeks to increase its power over independent, national democracies. Having no real army the UN cannot score military victories over its rivals an so instead looks to secure moral ones. The commissioning of a report on child welfare by the UN implies that the UN is concerned about child welfare. Is it just a coincidence that their report indicates a lack of concern for the welfare of children on the part of the UN’s two most powerful rivals: Britain and the US?
Jonathan Bradshaw, one of the report's authors, put Britain's poor ratings down to long-term under-investment in children and a "dog-eat-dog" society.
In a society which is very unequal, with high levels of poverty, it leads on to what children think about themselves and their lives. That's really what's at the heart of this."
In fact, British society is no more unequal in terms of distribution of wealth than it has been in preceding decades. The real difference is that wealth and consumption have become the sole criteria upon which an individual’s value is based--being honest, kind and industrious now confers less social status that sporting the right designer label. This is the result of a convergence of liberal attacks on parental authority and an excesses of consumer capitalism, not inequality of wealth.
Colette Marshall, UK director of charity Save the Children, said the report was a "shameful" indictment of Britain. "Despite the UK's wealth, we are failing to give children the best possible start in life," she said in a statement, "drastic action", including an injection of 4.5 billion pounds, would be needed to combat the crisis. In other words Colette Marshall is calling for £4.5 billion for the inauguration of a vast and profitable job creation scheme for people like.....Colette Marshall!
If the government really want to make children happier they should stop persecuting parents for disciplining their children, reintroduce proper discipline in schools and tax designer labels beyond the means of the underclass. The execution of a few thousand habitual child abusers wouldn't go amiss either.
