Thursday, 21 March 2013

{The Personal Touch [continued]}[25th June 1970]


[Redbook1:165-166][19700625:2210a]{The Personal Touch [continued]}[25th June 1970]

Thursday 25th June 1970.
10.10. p.m. [continued]

            It is the children I care about most.  Why should they suffer this?  Why, above all, did the parents keep them until the last minute, instead of sending them to friends the day before?  I hate to think what that day has done to those children -- needlessly, for if the responsibility for the eviction was the G[reater] L[ondon] C[ouncil]’s or its officers’, the responsibility for keeping the children in it rests entirely with their parents.  I hesitate to accuse them of using the children as political capital, but they treated them like that at the end -- the woman shouting in particular.  There is no surer way to confuse and ruin a child than to hold him up as an example.

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