Teacher banned from teaching for kissing an 18 year old ADULT student. It's the Nanny State gone mad

So a teacher has been banned from teaching for life for kissing an 18 year old student at a leavers' party. Good grief!

Yes, ok, Ruth Vaughn also had sex with the lad during his second week at uni, but so what?

I know this is a topic that polarises people one way or the other and in the midst of our paedophile obsessed culture this has stirred strong feelings. As a ex teacher/lecturer myself, I know all the rules and regs and let me firmly stress that I have NEVER engaged in sexual activity with any of my students and that I in no way condone or make excuses for paedophiles.

However, I do think it's time we started using some common sense in these matters. Yes, there are arguments about Ms. Vaughn being in a position of trust, but at the end of the day, the lad was 18, therefore, as far as I'm concerned that rule no longer applies. Furthermore, as the age of consent is 16, I think that is the age at which the rules about being in a position of trust should no longer apply. You can't have one rule for most of society and another rule for other sections. Although, I am tempted to put in the caveat that at 16 there should be no more than a 10 year age gap between the two CONSENTING parties.

Again, let me make it ABSOLUTELY clear that I would not support nor condone sexual activity with anyone (any child actually) under the age of 16. That is sick, evil and just totally vile. I hope I've made that clear. However, I do feel that from the age of 16 they are mature enough and able to make decisions about having sex for the first time. Hence why this is the age of consent

Having worked in a number of schools/colleges I can honestly say that very few 16 year olds are as innocent as we would like them to be. They know what the score is and they should not be treated as children. Trust me, 16 year old girls are nowhere near the gullible, sweet little lambs they are portrayed to be. I can't think of one that I've worked with who didn't know exactly what she was doing. Regularly, I saw them flirting very overtly with male teachers and I've heard many talking explicitly about what they would do to certain male teachers.....and believe me, they meant it.

However, in this specific case we are not talking about a 16 year old, but an 18 year old ADULT and a 24 year old woman. Regardless of the fact that he was still at school (albeit for another few days) he was legally an adult and at that point all they had done was share a kiss - so what? Big deal. Unfortunately, now because of our over protective nanny state society, Ms. Vaughn has been banned from teaching in Britain for life (although she can appeal this in 5 years time). I honestly think this is too harsh and it just demonstrates how silly and over reaching our rules and laws have become.

20/30 years ago it was quite common place for teachers to date and marry their sixth form students. Indeed I  heard of someone who did just that in his mid 20s and she was 18 - granted this was a long time ago, the guy is now in his 70s. Furthermore, when the head teacher found out that the pair were together, he invited this person for a 'chat' and tried to give the then young teacher advice on getting a mortgage together and setting up a home. In my opinion that is how it should still be. We should be using common sense in these matters. If both parties are over the age of consent (and it is mutually consenting) and certainly if they are both 18 and older, then it can't and shouldn't in anyway be thought of as abuse.

Absolutely, we must do all we can to stop CHILDREN being abused - God forbid nobody wants that. ( Again, let me state that I view anybody under 16 as a child). However, to sack someone and ban them from teaching for simply sharing a kiss with an 18 year old is simply stupid (the issue of being in a position of trust is simply immaterial.)

We all need to loosen up, use some common sense and live and let live.

Islington bans pork from all primary school menus. Give me strength!

Horrifying story from The Standard.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/islington-council-bans-pork-from-menu-in-all-of-boroughs-primary-schools-10040375.html

For goodness sake, stop this madness!

And surprise surprise, Islington is under the control of Labour. The party that thrust multiculturalism on us so they could 'rub the right's nose in diversity' seems ever more intent on pandering to our Muslim brothers. Stop it! It is still our fucking country. If they want to live here then they should have to live by our culture and values, not theirs.

The claim is that it costs too much to label and monitor which children are allowed to eat it and which aren't. No, it bloody well doesn't. You make it perfectly clear to parents of those religions who aren't allowd pork, that it will be served at those schools and if they don't like it, tough shit. They can always find another school.

Conversely, I wonder if halal/kosher meat is being served to non Muslim/Jewish children without them realising it?

We are far too soft in this country, we pander and bow down to other cultures and faiths at the expense of our own. I make no wonder large parts of London, Birmingham, Bradford et all are little more than segregated ghettos. How much longer before these places impose Sharia (if they haven't done so informally already) on those towns/cities?

It is wrong and our spineless politicians and ruling elites are stabbing white English/British people in the back and selling us out. It has to stop or in a matter of only a few years I would bet (though I hope I am proved wrong) there will be a civil war here. I am sick to death of this pathetic experiment in multiculturalism. It hasn't worked and it is destroying our once great country because of some failed, perverse ideological dogma.

I really hope UKIP storm through at the GE because if they don't I fear this country is lost.

The very best punishment for scumbags who abuse women and young girls

I was reading in The Express yesterday that 40% of young women have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of their boyfriends. That is a shocking, abhorrent and heartbreaking statistic. No women should EVER be abused. Personally, I hate any slug (I won't dignify them with the title of man) who would dare lay a finger on a woman in anger. You are vile, evil scum.

However, I think I have come up with the perfect punishment for such bastards. If convicted of abuse, either sexual, mental or physical, I would immediately have them given a HUGE dose of HRT and make them live the rest of their lives as a female.

In addition, I also think that, for the vile bastards who carried out those attacks on young girls in Rochdale, Oldham and Rotherham to be made to live as a woman would be the ultimate punishment :)

Just a thought.

I hope the people of Rotherham remember how badly Labour have betrayed them at the next election

The issues facing Rotherham just seem to get worse. Last year it was revealed that  1,400 youngsters - mainly from troubled homes or children's homes -  had been abused by predatory gangs of Asian men,  between 1997 and 2013. A new report published yesterday has slammed the council and branded it 'not fit for purpose'. Consequently, this has forced the entire political leadership to resign.

The report states that: ' The council's culture is unhealthy: bullying, sexism, suppression and misplaced 'political correctness' have cemented its failures. The council is currently incapable of tackling its weaknesses, without a sustained intervention. '

I did blog about this at the time, but I had to remove my posts for personal reasons which I now regret.

However, some of you may recall that the overriding issue as to why this abuse had been allowed to happen and continue was because of the misplaced political ideology towards a drive for multiculturalism at any cost. Although certain brave individuals had tried to speak up and protect these vulnerable youngsters; they were beaten down and silenced because of the ethnicity of the scum that were committing these disgusting crimes and appallingly because of the status of the children who had come forward. Whichever way you shape it, it is a disgusting and shameful smear on the town. Again, though, the thing that made my blood boil was because of the Labour controlled council's dogmatic and blinded need to protect their warped ideological adherence to multiculturalism; rather than to protect the children of the town from these gangs mainly because of their ethnicity. I honestly can't find the words to express how angry that makes me.

I also know I said at the time and I still mean this; If the people of Rotherham vote in another Labour led council and MPs at the next election, they are as guilty of abusing those children as the gangs who carried out the attacks. I realise that the odds against such a thing happening are paper thin, given that Rotherham is a red rosette on a donkey town. However, I just hope that the good people there can see past their tribal loyalties and realise what a corrupt, politically blinded and warped ideology Labour offer. I also hope that this report, which clearly states that much of the council still suffers from that same corrupt, bullying and politically bankrupt mentality, will stay in their minds and stop them from blandly thinking, well that was back then, this lot have been different. Nope, it is still as pervasive within the town as it was for all those years.

As has been adequately demonstrated recently on various occasions; Labour's drive for multiculturalism has damn near destroyed this country. Their spineless kowtowing to cultures that are still rooted in primitive, barbaric and medieval beliefs at the expense of our indigenous culture has not created unity, it has segregated us even more, until we feel we are in the wrong for wanting to express our own beliefs and cultural practices. Let me also add here that David Cameron's weak and pathetic shame of a conservative party are no better. The heir to Blair has indeed carried on his master's work.

Anyone who votes for one of the three-in-one main political parties (especially Labour) at the next election is voting to destroy our country and wipe our culture, history and values off the face of the earth.