No you aren’t reading a passage from George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, this is Britain in 2009, a country which already has more surveillance cameras watching its population than the whole of Europe put together.

Now the government is embarking on a scheme called “Family Intervention Projects” which will literally create a nanny state on steroids, with social services goons and private security guards given the authority to make regular “home checks” to ensure parents are raising their children correctly.

Telescreens will also be installed so government spies can keep an eye on whether parents are mistreating kids and whether the kids are fulfilling their obligations under a pre-signed contract.

Around 2,000 families have been targeted by this program so far and the government wants to snare 20,000 more within the next two years. The tab will be picked up by the taxpayer, with the “interventions” being funded through local council authorities.

Another key aspect of the program will see parents deemed “responsible” by the government handed the power to denounce and report bad parents who allow their children to engage in bad behavior. Such families will then be targeted for “interventions”.

Both parents and children will also be forced to sign a “behavior contract” with the government known as Home School Agreements before the start of every year, in which the state will dictate obligations that it expects to be met.

The opposition Conservative Party, who are clear favorites to win the next British election, commented that the program does not go far enough and is “too little, too late.”

Obviously you are the chosen one if the cheers are to be believed. Liked your list, though I thought it read better upside down. You as ‘The Bastard’ sounded really cool.

The protruding canine testes is that there possibly won’t be an election if the US bond market collapses in the mean time. Chaos will rule as central banks try belatedly to introduce a gold backed currency. This unfortunately could make your excellent list into waffle.

Fingers crossed you will be ‘Lord Protector’ one day if we have to return to a ‘hands on monarchy’. If what we have now is the result of democracy then we need to go backwards to stabilize first before trying to put together the pieces. Unless we just go straight in where angels fear to tread and give Capitalism with an unadulterated gold standard a real try.

So why should I and every other taxpayer subsidise such behaviour. There are too many British citizens who ignore their social responsibilities – not working and having five kids sounds highly irresponsible. Brown’s “equality” is entirely one way it takes from those in employment or with income from assets and heavily rewards those who do not contribute. There have been too many cases highlighted in the media over the last decade where huge sums of taxpayers’ money is being spent supporting people who are making no positive contribution to the UK or its economy. Its time to stop this madness, we simply cannot afford it!

Tzar presumeably from ‘Ceasar’ or emperor/dictator

Maybe abolishing these Tzars would be a good idea.

Sadly a typical example of wanting to be seen to do something rather than a common sense, businesslike response to a problem.

As for whether Cameron is listening and is sufficiently astute and brave? In his shoes we would not be shouting about these reforms right now either.
However we live in hope and expectation that something close to this program will form part of his early ‘Emergency Plan’ and that JR will be given a role in its implementation. It would strike the right chord with the majority of the electorate who are crying out for ‘common sense’.

We plan to send a copy of this proposal and our own comment to our respective local Essex MPs and to DC’s office. We hope that other contributors here will do the same.

The job of the Finance Minister is to review monitor and report on every centralised department in the land. He will need to be an utter bastard to his colleagues as he cuts their spending plans to ribbons and imposes financial responsibility as the governing credo of the next government.

Fancy applying John?

There would be millions of losers, ainly people who have large families but cannot command good money in the labour market, the current system makes them better off than working would. I came across someone who was married with 5 children, did not work, and received over £1,500 a month cash in benefit payments – that’s before you take his social housing into account, free school meals, opticians fees etc.

When you add the NHS costs of 7 people and the education of 5 people into the equation, I wonder how many people working on an average income (about £24k) and paying tax it takes to subsidise each family like this?

Tax credits are Brown’s system of creating ‘equality’ they are nothing to do with creating a bureaucracy.