Do I need to saying anything about the latest chapter in the Baby P story? Yes but its quite simple. What happened to the child was appalling, I know enough, I do not need to know anymore about the suffering and the causes. I do not want to know anything more about the people that did these appalling things and equally I do not want to know anything about the people who failed to do something to stop it or didn’t notice when undertaking a diagnosis.
The media appear to think that we do want to know and to this end have worked hard to get all the names into the public domain, or rather in there individual organs, everything reported in the media over the last few days has been available online for months, also reported by the media. To this end their campaign has been a waste of time and money.
We, the tax payer, will now have to pick up the cost of protecting the 3 people whose ID has been revealed, once they get out. The Sun estimates £1.5 Million per annum. I assume this is a massive exaggeration but it will not be cheap and it will go on for a long time. The ability of the media to generate a self propagating story is amazing. The incidence of one feeding story being recycled to feed the next feels a lot like feeding dead cows back to healthy cows and creating mad cow disease, which then jumps species to people. In this case we are creating mad journo disease which is jumping across the gap to infect newspaper readers, radio listeners and TV viewers. Will we never learn.
I am assuming the law suits being brought by the various social workers, managers and medic about the criticism of them and subsequent dismissal will all end up in a huge cost being covered by the publics purse, that assumes they do not win anything but there will be huge costs. Please God tell me that the employers took some decent advice from the employment lawyers and followed due process.
A bad day for the public purse, all driven by a media that loves adjectives almost as much as circulation, BARB and RAJAR figures.
A bright hope is that TATA have found their own funding from commercial banks to get Land Rover Jaguar back on track. A big thank you to Peter Mandelson for not caving in to huge pressure to cough up £400 million in loan guarantees. The idea of active industrialism might actually work. I know the great white hope of Heseltine was a strong advocate of intervention before every meal but government staying out of industry and looking after people in need more directly may be a good idea.
I could do a very long blog on the problems of people sticking their oar in when they have nothing to add but it would be of little value to anyone especially me. I will say that I am constantly surprised at the ability of people to not hear the important things that are said to them and how easily some can take offence at the best intentioned action. We do appear to love to create tribes in our life. Tribes have many good things about them but one of the things they do bring with them is tribal conflict and better still intra tribal tension. A like working in teams of people, I try hard to build teams to deliver objectives, being a firm believer in the Chinese parliament style of decision making. Get a group of smart people and give everyone an equal say, all idea valid and everyone then develops a workable solution. It gets everyone on the same page, shares the risk and builds ownership. Why is it then that some folk will not play but the game goes on and they are asked to come on a half time. Then they have to change the game plan to the one they like or they provoke a pitch invasion too get their own way. No real winners then and lots of time wasted.
By the way, love the sunshine. Lots more please. My enthusiasm for sunshine not rain and cold must be something to do with getting old.
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