None of my readers would watch such low culture as Eastenders. Luckily, I watch it so that they don’t have to.
A couple of days ago, the devil child Dotty was caught mischievously pouring water on her stroke victim grandfather’s lap. Grandmother Dot Cotton, in an uncharacteristic pique of anger, gave her a well-deserved slap.
Then tonight, the cops show up at the local pub and arrest poor old Dot Cotton for assaulting a minor. At the police station she is interviewed and admits to hitting the girl. The police decide that as she is the “primary carer”, they will treat it as a “smack from a parent” rather than assault. But they warn her not to do it again.
Dot Cotton gets up to leave, but this is not the end of the matter. Oh no. She is to face interviews with social workers, and social workers will visit her home to “evaluate” the care of Dotty.
It’s a positively chilling story. Good on the BBC for raising awareness of the issues of state bullying, nosiness, and possibly even kidnapping.
“None of my readers would watch such low culture as Eastenders.”
You might be surprised; I once went through a strange period of maybe six weeks or so when I watched Eastenders almost every day (but never before and never since!). What was it David Bowie once said about Eastenders? “It’s the greatest popular literature in Britain today” – something like that…
the story is accurate on all accounts smacking children is considered to be wrong in the eyes of the law i was smacked as a child but i never smack my children as if i did i would end up arrested