One of Britain’s Wokest Councils Has Banned Staff Referring to Parents as Mum and Dad
Merton Council in South London has warned its employees not to make assumptions about a child’s biological parents. Officials say “caregivers” is more appropriate. They have also advised employees not to use the adjectives “young” and “old”. The Sun has more.
Bosses claim not saying the words “mother” and “father” helps to “recognise diverse family formation”.
The council’s 27-page inclusive language guide — obtained by The Sun using Freedom of Information laws — also tells employees not to use “young”, “old” or “mature” for fear of being ageist.
It also advises workers to use “person-centred language” — and avoid gendered phrases such as “man the desk”.
The guidance, drawn up by the debt-stricken council’s equality and diversity team, also warns: “Avoid making assumptions about preferred names or nicknames without asking the individual first.”
Free Speech Union boss Lord Young said: “I’m amazed that Merton Council has time for this nonsense.
“I can only assume fly-tipping and potholes aren’t a problem in Merton.”
A council spokeswoman insisted: “We aim to communicate with understanding and without making assumptions.”
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FFS. I actually worked for this shower – albeit over 30 years ago. So glad I’m not there now. Are schools now having “Caregiver evenings”?
If they won’t acknowledge that only women can give birth then they clearly do not understand. If the council is run without making assumptions I assume it is bust.
all grandstanding.
No, no! It’s a chest.
Ah, the amount of effort it takes to sustain a lie!
An entire team! A 27 page guide!
And in the end the lie will still collapse.
Bosses claim not saying the words “mother” and “father” helps to “recognise diverse family formation”.
To be precise, it “recognizes” only “diverse family formations” while normal families, ie a man who doesn’t claim to be a woman married to a woman who doesn’t claim to be man having children together they don’t claim to be potteds plants, are erased: In the universe of Merton council, these must not exist anymore.
The situation is clearly more intense than it was some twenty years ago when I became involved reluctantly with my council who were making a bungled attempt to intervene in my family, some of it involving schools. The documentation (when I eventually go hold of it years later) had even then (i.e.pre-Woke) a language of its own which revealed attitudes and the culture within the “social practitioners” (their term) of that day. Part of that vocabulary was the terms used to refer to the parents: invariably it was “mum” and “the father”. Although any one individual sentence doesn’t give much away, after I had eventually accessed and analysed hundreds of soundbites jotted down by “practitioners”, present-day culture and attitudes gradually became apparent. That culture was Mum was the only one that the “practitioners” would deal with, and she was 100% in the home as a loving care-giver who is comprehensively attentive to the “safety” of the children in this current world of stranger danger and physical hazards, and engages in “appropriate” interactions; conversely, “the father” was working away from home on a commute and “rarely sees his children”, and is “insufficiently aware of the risks that children face nowadays”. All… Read more »
This is pretty evident in the term caregiver as that’s a principally random person performing a particular task (giving care to a child) and no longer someone who cares for the child in question because he’s the father or mother of it and thus, in a special relationship no unrelated person can ever fully replicate. Under the guise of “inclusivity”, Merton City Council has effectively abolished the concept of parentship insofar itself is concerned. The pretext that not all caregivers are parents serves as justification for denying the very existence of parents or rather, their relevance for their children.
It’s very tempting to suggest a conspiracy where the state becomes the de facto parent of all the nation’s children, building their character, protecting them from viruses , the bad things on the Internet etc. however I’m afraid it’s just sheer stupidity and virtue signalling.
As always, the motivations behind this and what might come of them in future are open to speculation. But I think that’s of relatively lesser importance because hidden motivations will always remain unknown and anything which might happen in future might as well not happen.
The important point here is that caregiver and father/ mother are not equivalent terms and that there’s no way to be just a bit in denial about mankind’s biological nature. Denying the biological existence of men and women requires denying that children are the natural offspring of their parents as well.
I have a feeling all councils might be as bad as each other. I reckon they’ve all been infected with the woke mind virus. This is Milton Keynes. Apparently you mustn’t say: ”We’re looking for”, you must say: ”We’re recruiting for”, in case you offend somebody who is visually impaired. You also mustn’t say ”mixed race” anymore, but ”mixed ethnicity” is preferred. Well when I was a kid people used to say ”half-caste”! 😮 To be honest, that one does sound very outdated and derogatory nowadays;
”Milton Keynes Council (@mkcouncil
) has spent money creating an ‘Inclusive Communications’ guide.
Staff are advised not to tell colleagues “I’ll see you next week” or to use the phrase “we’re looking for” when recruiting. This is because it might offend those with disabilities.”
https://x.com/JamesEsses/status/1949843958797894027
I presume “Seen you next Tuesday” is out too!
🤣 🤭
Apparently yesterday was Black Pride Day in the UK. Not only that, it was their 20th one! I must’ve been living under a rock because I haven’t seen a single black tranny yet, but they somehow get to have their own day. Not very inclusive, is it? Go figure;
”-Staff email about “UK Black Pride Day”
-“Celebrating the ongoing transformation and resilience of Black LGBTQ+ people”
-Sent by an “EDI Administrator”
-Signed with pronouns
-Concluding with a pride logo
This isn’t Stonewall.
This is the NHS.”
https://x.com/JamesEsses/status/1953563952316920197
I just don’t get this, why can’t they join in with “normal” Pride if they want to, no one is stopping them are they? It’s just a skin colour, which I thought we weren’t supposed to notice any more. Why not have a “Red Hair Pride Day” or a “Short Person Pride Day” while we’re at it?
Why do some people feel the need to advertise their sexual proclivities, I just don’t get it.
Because one of their proclivities is exhibitionism.
Well yes that’s a whole other issue. They become a sexuality with a human attached, rather than a human who happens to have a sexuality.
Look at the rainbow colours in her pronouns. She spent time on that, probably highlighting each individual letter to assign each of them a different colour, frequently switching tabs from her email to an lgbtqwerty flag so she can get it just right. She was paid for every second she spent on her lgbtqwerty-themed pronouns.
Silly cow.
My old Nana used to say “half-caste” and even though I was too young to really understand what it meant I could tell she didn’t mean it as a good thing. But it was just her upbringing and the time in which she lived, I do think people need to be tolerant of that and to remember that if they had been born 100 years ago they would quite likely be saying the same things. Fortunately she died around 15 years ago now before the worst of the insanity set in, or I don’t think she would cope – her reaction to the trans phenomenon would truly be something to behold. She certainly had no fear of telling people what she really thought!
Years ago I worked at a university in the north of England. We had a blind chap who used to visit our department regularly, and HE invariably signed off by saying, “See you all next week” -which used to amuse us..but clearly there was no offense caused or taken. It just wasn’t relevant!
😁 Well exactly. It’s a figure of speech, and has been since forever. Not to be taken literally. I get the impression that, much like how the ‘anti-racism’ Nazis are all white, the people behaving like wet blankets and being offended on behalf of disabled people are all able-bodied. The people with disabilities are probably all quietly going about their business, not asking for sympathy or special treatment, because they don’t want to be singled out as different or view themselves as victims.
People with disabilities have been part of the workforce for donkey’s years so why all of a sudden do people feel the need to change language around, under the pretence that it’s necessary or helpful, like they’ve identified a problem that never existed. I wonder if you surveyed a load of visually impaired people, how many would find somebody saying “See you tomorrow” upsetting. I can’t believe people actually get paid for coming up with this garbage.
What irks me is when the radio presenters say “see you tomorrow” – idiots.
I know for certain a baby’s first word is not going to be caregiver.
And no child grows up loving the state.
Brilliant.
sums up the whole idiotic charade
We visited our 2 year old granddaughter last week, she is a real chatter-box and her Duplo Lego people are designated Mummy Lego and Daddy Lego. The whole concept of Mummy, Daddy, Grandma, Granddad, Aunts and Uncles is hugely important to children’s development, it gives them a sense of place and belonging. How dare these folk attempt to take away these vital aspects of a child’s life. These impositions do matter as, bit by bit, they chip away at the social fabric that holds our lives together.
Hear, hear.
You can’t say that, it’s offensive to deaf people!
Could it be that these people’s parents have been rather absent from their childhoods?
I’ve seen a few posts of absolutely normal photos of Trump with young Ivanka (sitting on his lap, giving him a kiss on the cheek, holding his hand, etc.) and lots of people concluded that he’s definitely a pedo…
Which is why same sex parents – a biological impossibility – is child abuse.
Ha, ha, ha! Thank you for such a good laugh first thing in the morning! I have a daughter you lives in that borough. I shall be extracting the mick on a grand scale when I next see her! 🙂
The residents have the option to vote out the Labour shower responsible for this nonsense.
Someone was paid a salero to waste time coming up with this nonsense, people need to stop paying taxes until both local and central government stop wasting their money
In my family we call our parents mum and dad, some prefer mummy and daddy – others I know use other sobriquets.
That is our choice and we will continue to use those words – no jumped up wokist nonsense for us.
If some people wish to refer to themselves as caregiver #1 and #2 – that’s up to them.