UKIP and the foster parents

Looks like some children found themselves being used as pawns in a war of indoctrination.

Because they believe they did the right thing, and they believe that anyone who is a member of UKIP is a swivel-eyed racist of similar stripe to the BNP.

Looks like an investigation from the top has started http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ncy-in-ukip-foster-investigation-8352607.html

seun said:

Doubtless it's true they believed that, but they must have known the media and UKIP weren't going to keep quiet about it and that the council would end up looking like idiots. Plus they've given UKIP free publicity.

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At a time when there is a by-election due in Rotherham.

Interesting to speculate whether similar action would have been taken had the foster parents been members of a radical socialist party that advocated civil disobedience and confrontation with the police.

As someone not from Europe, could someone give me the ground-level view of multiculturalism? I'm honestly kind of lost on what it means and how it's though of in Equropean countries (where it seems to be something of an intense issue).

LOG said:

As someone not from Europe, could someone give me the ground-level view of multiculturalism? I'm honestly kind of lost on what it means and hows it treated in Equropean countries (where it seems to be something of an intense issue).

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Well it's communities containing multiple cultures, general cultural diversity in a country. It can also be ideologies and policies that promote or encourage diversity in society or on at an institutional level (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism). A lot of the right wing news papers in the UK hate multiculturalism and call places like America a 'melting pot' in a negative way. TBH the image I get from them is they hate anyone not white and Christian and that's also the impression I get from people who follow newspapers and parties who want to eradicate cultural diversity when they talk of how much they hate it, because such and such they know is a non-white with 1 child in a council house. Blah to me it's just racism in another form.

As I expected, there's a little more to this case than was initially apparent.

The placement with the Ukip-supporting foster couple was not intended to be long-term. It was an emergency move amid allegations that the children's birth father had sexually abused two of his daughters and had held a knife to his wife's head while she was holding their baby. According to the birth parents, the children were taken in a raid by police and social workers earlier this year.
There were also fears the children's birth parents knew or might be able to find out where the foster parents lived. Though both the birth mother and father claim to continue to have supervised contact with some of their other children, it is believed social workers do not want the parents to know exactly where the children are living because of safety concerns