The Sun: 150 paedos in your school

[Phoenix]

This is crazy. There are people are being cautioned for the most stupid things. It makes people paranoid to being anywhere near kids, in case some twisted do-gooder reports them for some imagined "abuse" (whatever that means).

Is making babies actually child abuse...I mean....they didn't ask to be born did they!

[The Master]

I tell you, if you are a man you have got to be cracked to want to work with children after this. If one of the little darlings take a dislike to you and makes a malicious accusation, that's it, banned for life from working with children and life ruined in this "children must be protected at all costs, no price too great to pay, no smoke without fire" climate.

Personally I hate kids anyway. Little sh1tes the lot of them.

[The Master]

Careful, o trusty minion. Talk of spit roasting children is inadvisable at the moment. Although, of course, as an alien you will be exempt from a lot of the checks were you to decide to work with children in the future.

[Phoenix]

Quite correct, Oh Great One... they are rather tasty when spit roasted though... oh, that crackling...

Roasting? Oh Zeitghost...how could you?

[BobTheCrate]

This is crazy. There are people are being cautioned for the most stupid things. It makes people paranoid to being anywhere near kids, in case some twisted do-gooder reports them for some imagined "abuse" (whatever that means).

Exactly Wendigo.

Ruth Kelly has sewn the seeds for a looming shambles. I listened to her speech in the Commons and she came out with exactly the same phrase that I highlighed a few days back.

"Child protection must override all other considerations"

That includes common sense.

Many teachers IMO are likely to fall foul of this paranoia and many others choosing not to enter such a high risk profession.

Kids education is likely to suffer and the system will have no choice but to rely on many more teachers from overseas - where next to no checks at all can be done.

And people don't see this coming.

[Jabberwocky]

Quite correct, Oh Great One... they are rather tasty when spit roasted though... oh, that crackling...

You think that's funny do you ? We are talking about innocent children here, not a couple of piglets. It's disgusting to talk about children like this. Disgusting. You sad miserable little w*nker. Me and a few of my JabberMates are going to come round to your house and give you a good pasting, you sad little mutha fu*ka. Come on, who's up for a bit of justice, Jabber style ?

[Numptycorner]

Ah the delicious irony of it all. Better hope the editor of The Sun hasn't got any back copies in his desk with pictures of a 16/17 year old Sam Fox in them. Under current laws that is "possession of child pornography" which should be a nice little 10 years on the sex offenders' register. In fact, I think I might call the old bill right now, as a rightly concerned citizen...

How about this for a headline courtesy of Brass Eye.

British Isles? Paedophiles!

[hyperD]

Exactly Wendigo.

Ruth Kelly has sewn the seeds for a looming shambles. I listened to her speech in the Commons and she came out with exactly the same phrase that I highlighed a few days back.

"Child protection must override all other considerations"

That includes common sense.

Many teachers IMO are likely to fall foul of this paranoia and many others choosing not to enter such a high risk profession.

Kids education is likely to suffer and the system will have no choice but to rely on many more teachers from overseas - where next to no checks at all can be done.

And people don't see this coming.

I don't have kids yet but I only recently heard when speaking to my sister that you are not allowed to video your kids on stage during the school plays. A sweeping rule to avoid the chance of a pedo filming young kids apparantly.

Also, you can't video/photograph your kids in the public swimming pool for the same reason.

This is madness... the very same people that were lampooned in The Simpsons ("will someone please think about the children") have reduced the very freedoms that were enjoyed by us as children ourselves. It is these people that are ruining it for the rest of us - ministers, media and public sector workers.

It's a fucking sad state of affairs in this country. At least in Hungary you can still do this (as I saw a father videoing in the pool last month).

[dang65]

I don't have kids yet but I only recently heard when speaking to my sister that you are not allowed to video your kids on stage during the school plays. A sweeping rule to avoid the chance of a pedo filming young kids apparantly.

I was absolutely furious when I read about this in the Daily Mail and took my camera to my son's school play all ready for a fight if anyone tried to stop me taking pictures.

Of course, all the other parents had cameras too and there was no mention of not taking pictures.

[Numptycorner]

I was absolutely furious when I read about this in the Daily Mail and took my camera to my son's school play all ready for a fight if anyone tried to stop me taking pictures.

Of course, all the other parents had cameras too and there was no mention of not taking pictures.

It's not enforced anymore I don't think this will stop the papers from pretending it is though.