I never said she would approve. I actually do wonder if she paid the 12 million as Andrew didnt have the income for that sort of money at the time. No where have I implied that she would have approved. I said she’d have been devastated. Parents can be devastated, heartbroken, do the morally
Until such time as we actually succeeded in getting men to recognise that women are people and their equals, this behaviour will continue. I put this in the same group as the grooming gangs, they are just richer!
that has definitely been crossed. That power rich men used their position to abuse women and girls I have no doubt. Equally I have no doubt that as I write this there are rich men still doing exactly the same thing. When you’ve worked with survivors, it makes you realise it’s a long fight.
To date I have only read stuff on social media or on news channels. Neither of which is sufficient for me to say who is guilty (British law is beyond reasonable doubt). I have absolutely no doubt that the women were abused (for that in a British Civil Court it is “in all probability”). A threshold
She would be completely devastated. Andrew was her favourite son. Him and Edward were like a second family for her and her relationship with them was very different in their early years than with Charles and Anne. The scandals Andrew has brought would have caused her so much pain.
QE2 would unfortunately have found it very very difficult to do this to her favourite son. I suspect that it has been in deference to his mother’s memory that has taken King Charles to try to take a smaller step despite the apparent wishes of Prince William.
I’d also like to add that in some private hospitals there is no overnight or out of hours consultant in the hospital to deal with any medical emergencies. It is down to the nursing staff to make the call and they are the ones who call 999 for an ambulance should things go wrong
After all these years of austerity and underfunding of LAs where did they think any savings were ever coming from. It shows how detached they are from the reality of people’s lives. Ask anyone who works with vulnerable people and they’d tell you that services have been destroyed
Wouldn’t it be nice if they all left! My worry though is for any country the decide to reside in with such attitudes towards others. I don’t think we should export our haters. Rather I think they should all have their passports removed to stop them upsetting others across the world
the country. Most of the training programmes of gone as well. I thought a first hand experience of how this has impacted on the ability of people like probation and social services to help the most vulnerable is important. I am proud of those I have helped to turn their lives around and become
community mental health teams they became so stretched that if people failed to attend appointments they no longer chased them up leading to a merry go round or referral and discharge of very vulnerable people. This is the current situation that my hard working ex colleagues are experiencing across
the gradual reduction in accommodation as “supporting people” budgets were cut. Leading to low and medium risk people often being released without accommodation. Then the Drug Alcohol Action Teams had their budgets destroyed so funding for any addiction treatment almost disappeared. As for
those coming out of prison. Different organisations offering training and basic skills courses. The number of routes to help with addiction meant that if a person actually wanted treatment we could get it. The local mental health teams worked closely with us as well. Then 2010 came, first we saw
As I helped start a Sure Start and before that a neighbourhood family centre I know how important preventative work is. I then moved via supportive housing to being a probation officer. There to work well initially we had loads of community resources, several charities offering accommodation to
Having the ability to even express her views about doing such a thing clearly demonstrates that she does not have an ounce of humanity, empathy or real Christianity as I was taught (from my Methodist lay preacher father and President of the local church Mothers Union mother).
Unfortunately you are correct. I know people whom I’ve had to correct when they’ve told me that parts of London are no go areas for white women. As I am white and have a sister aged 70 living and working in London since she was 18 I know it’s rubbish
I’d have definitely used that when my parents were alive. Instead I had to go to Waterloo East catch the first train to London Bridge then catch the next train to Lewisham. It’s a great idea. I hope you get the funding
