I live alone with my 10-year-old child, who has spent the past two years terrified I will fall ill, leaving him with no one.
There’s sorta a reason that the family exists, you know?
or perhaps a partner who can pick up the childcare if they have to isolate.
Hmm, could be.
I have no family and friends who can step in.
Children really are a collective endeavour.
It takes a village.
(Rapidly ducking for cover )
So not only no husband, but no siblings, parents, or parents sibs. Was she found in a handbag?
a HANDBAG?
I guess she didn’t get the impregnator’s name.
@RlJ
Sounds like a deeply unlikeable person.
Writing for the Graun is often a reliable indicator of same.
It occurs. Kids of 10 are highly unlikely to be terrified of being left alone. At that age, the presumption is the status quo will continue ad infinitum. So she’s 1) spent 2 years terrifying the kid 2)is lying through her teeth.
So we don’t even require the writing for the Graun indicator.
Again, I come back to my widowed granny raising her babby, alone, but for her widowed mother, her two maiden aunts next door, and her unmarried sister; unsupported, beyond working in the family cake shop downstairs; uneducated, apart from the start of a 50-year career as a St. John nurse.
Guess what – melanin enhanced. Who’d have thought it?
At the age of eight (when this panic started) kids think their world is permanent and immutable. I wonder what could have traumatised the kid in 2020.
philip: Mum freaking out, and continuing to freak out.
But, of course, it cannot possibly be the parent being wholly unsuited to be a parent….
“But, of course, it cannot possibly be the parent being wholly unsuited to be a parent….”
Its a bit difficult to be the adult in the relationship when you are just a big kid yourself. Thats what Leftists are, people who have never moved out of the child mentality.
Obviously echoing the responses here but my main question reading through the article beyond questioning its veracity was ‘so what do you want the state to do precisely?’
It’s paradoxical, then, that there’s no safety net for me.
So she’s looking for a ‘safety net’. Any more details?
Sometimes they ask me to stop work and find a job I can do from home. But I cannot. It took me long enough to find this job in the first place
Within the firm I work in and within my wider industry there’s a vacancy level not seen in many decades. Indeed has literally thousands of jobs as does Linkedin? I’d be very interested as to why there’s no option to transfer to a job where you can WFH…
When I first entered work I thought we would manage financially, and be able to afford a decent life at last. How wrong I was. Now I work, but am still unable to make my income stretch to the end of the month
No doubt she voted for one of the parties supporting Net Zero, unlimited immigration, the Russia War and lockdowns (which includes the Tories) – sadly these idiocies have consequences for us all.
But it is not. My child has never had a holiday – it is a word that is not even in our vocabulary. Both of us will just be counting the days until school starts again. This is no way for either of us to live. I live in constant worry.
I’m extremely anxious about the future with the likes of Richard Murphy out there I agree
But, now, for the first time, I am unable to think clearly or find a way forward. The storm is going to hit us soon. Must we weather it alone?
So again I’m none the wiser after this. She needs
– A level of income (from where I don’t know?) that surpasses inflation
– Unlimited childcare which she can take advantage of at any time
– Unlimited sick leave on full pay
Of course how this largesse is to be paid for is not mentioned at any stage. The whole thing seems highly suspicious…
The pronouns are all over the place. Initially the child is referred to as they or them but later in the article concentration slips and worried kiddo becomes singular.
First sighting of the next wave of COVID porn.
A new variant of COVID means a new variant of COVID porn.
What happens when most households in the Uk have run out of money by the end of the month – which may happen within a year?
Richard Murphy has COVID and isn’t blogging, but it would be safe to say we expect a whole lot of COVID porn out of the Great Man in the near future. Until then, savor the glories of the above blog post headline from yesterday. He writes the way he thinks, that’s for damn sure.
@dennis – if the potato has covid is it the third/fourth or fifth time he’s had it ?
I haven’t been counting, but this will make at least three times by my count.
(How’s that for a Richard Murphy sentence?)
I guess she didn’t get the impregnator’s name.
Nanny Ogg’s invaluable advice: Always get the young man’s name
@RoueleJour
I wonder if this gives more detail
https://www.gofundme.com/f/uk-citizenship-process-fees-n-passport
not sure if its the same person
or this one
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/free-school-meals-summer-cost-of-living-crisis-b2098540.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/longfield-free-school-meals-portions-b2102057.html
https://www.gingerbread.org.uk/what-we-do/about-gingerbread/staff-and-supporters/our-board/
certainly gets about
Dennis
I love it although oddly the source report wasn’t on the HL website. I had to find it in the Express & Star – and it isn’t precisely what’s written on the tin.
The proportion of people saying they’ll have excessive money to save at the end of the month is down to one in ten – rather a different spin on it.
Of course we should always remind ourselves of the six Primary causes of inflation/ ‘the cost of living crisis’
– COVID lockdowns
– Unilateral Net Zero
– Unlimited immigration
– The Ukraine War
– Previous Quantitative easing now being monetized
– The WEF and Great Reset agenda
And remind us what Murphy’s opinion on all of these is:
1 – In favour of lockdown from March 2020 to this point. Would not have lifted restrictions until cases were at Zero
2 – Fully committed to Unilateral Net Zero – wants meat eating banned and all fossil fuels banned immediately
3 – Favours no restrictions on immigration whatsoever. Any restrictions are evidence of incipient fascism and racism. When asked if Half of India and China could come here raised no objection, barred the questioner as a troll and labelled him a ‘far right racist’
4 – In favour of war escalation until Putin is removed and unlimited sanctions on Russia and Belarus
5 – Believes that Quantitative easing can be used without limit and that it will have no impact on inflation.
6 – Fully on board with the Great Reset and total state control of all economic activity
So at least we know who we can blame….
Moqifen
It’s definitely at least three occasions – I’ll try and ‘Noel Scoper’ it on his blog
Ltw: Yes, a village. The modern, trillion-dollar, faceless, bureaucratic, regulatory welfare state is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a village. Clinton’s adoption of that phrase was as chilling as “Big Brother is Watching You”, and for basically the same reason.
But hey, she impressed all of the bloggers out there, didn’t she? Yas Queen!
Canada to reintroduce random testing at 4 airports for arrivals and still haven’t dropped mask mandates for flights. Also have had people in work saying mask mandates should be reinstated as numbers are rising.
They really don’t want to let this go
@starfish
Very confident it’s the same person.
Anyway, real or fake in this specific instance, you do have to accept that some women are single mothers because they were in a domestic abuse situation. There are others who are widowed. Single motherhood is not, in itself, a moral flaw. But it can be a pretty yucky situation to get yourself and your kid into, which probably needs acknowledging more in these “non-judgemental” times. Just think we should take some of the moral venom out of it.
Oh FFS, how many times has the fat fvcker had COVID now, 4 or 5 is it?
A medical phenomenon or just another Billy No Mates with Munchausen’s syndrome, I wonder. After all, he’s been posting thanks all day to everyone who’s expressed sympathy.
Please let it be long, very long or ideally permanent COVID.
1. Why was her 10 year old so afraid? Was it because she made them afraid with her Covid rhetoric?
2. If you can’t afford to take care of the child then why in the hell did you allow yourself to become pregnant?
My B-i-L has had Covid 3 times, but he’s a school teacher so in a high risk occupation. I wonder how many people Spud meets face-to-face in an average week? I doubt it would be in double figures.