Westminster Hall
Thursday 12 October 2017 Meeting started at 1.30pm, ended 4.31pm
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/35e1fae6-2e59-4f08-a779-3a667c34ae7d
Robert Goodwill MP will not listen to common sense when faced with expert childcare providers that tried so hard to explain things to him.
The government he represents is just paying hollow lip-service to the real problems faced by hard-pressed childcare providers across the UK. It’s a cold-hearted, ‘let them eat cake’, attitude that brings back bad memories of a harsher Tory party, with traditionally little care for the ordinary people.
Ultimately, families and children will suffer because if this reckless government continue to kill off all childcare facilities (many have closed their doors since this policy arrived) then there will be no places left to provide any care for the children.
Sweet talking parents with allegedly ‘free childcare’ is a futile gesture when the facilities have been forced, by flawed government funding policies, to close down. This is the main point and one that this crazy government is ignoring.
Big cheesy grins and an expensive suit do not guarantee cooperation and / or any degree of sincerity. This is something that history teaches us so well…
How the caring childcare providers, who met Goodwill yesterday managed to stay so cool and ultra-professional, when faced with an un-listening political brick wall like this man, is amazing.
https://www.facebook.com/becks.hudson/videos/10159370786040587/
The last time we saw such a dictatorial dismissal of public concerns was when Southport lost its children’s emergency A&E services back in 2003. The ‘experts’ (NHS and others) at that time told us that we “never had it so good”. They merely waved an imperial flick of the wrist at worried campaigners. The march of 4000 people and a petition of almost 20,000 names were ignored.
http://southportcares.myfreesites.net/
Robert Goodwill’s inexcusable performance yesterday was a dead ringer for this type of political inflexibility and cannot be tolerated in any fair-minded, democratic society.
He and his coterie in government have got it totally 100% wrong and they MUST listen to providers and fix what they have broken ASAP.
Expenses fraud claims …
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goodwill
Sack him now!
If such politicians cannot do their job properly (as in this instance) then they should resign immediately. Clueless politicians with wool in their ears are a serious hurdle to a better society.
Southport MP, Damien Moore, gets it totally wrong
Southport’s MP seems to have misunderstood the reasons for childcare providers’ deep concerns. Or is he simply playing the agreed government card of political intransigence?
When recently questioned by a resident about the government-created childcare crisis that is adversely affecting providers of high-quality child care, Mr Moore took the same ‘out of touch’ line as Mr Goodwill.
Political puppets are fully accountable to the public and this is NOT a game…
Nevertheless, ‘People Power’ does work, if pursued to its final conclusion…
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChampagneNurseries/
Pat Regan ©