George Orwells 1984 is for real now?
 

The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes. :Oh crap
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...worst-families

WTF are they thinking?

This is an actual, verbatim representation of Orwell's vision for the future (today's present). There isn't any needed for interpretation, it's literally 1984.

I would suspect that they have a choice...either agree to it...or have their children taken away.

THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday.


that's bullshit

I like your avatar pic lol

Only in Ameri.....aw, damn...

Smart man that Orwell was.

Orwell know all

That's like saying if some guy came up to you and said "suck my dick or I'll blow your brains out" you have a "choice".

They are unfit parents so to avoid taking their children away they are being supervised in an effort to allow them to keep their children...so your analogy is senseless.

Maybe the government is unfit?

No it's not. If they are unfit then their chidren should be taken away period. If the only way these parents act correctly is because a camera is watching them then they shouldn't have their kids anyways.

Since these are the same sort of people who line up to be on reality-tv shows, they'll probably enjoy it.

You may be correct about "they should be taken away period"...but if through supervison the parents can learn to be better parents...it is almost always best for the children to remain with their parents rather than be shifted to foster care home after foster care home which is the way of foster care. In addition the program is probable much cheaper than to pay for foster care.