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7 November 2009

Rod Liddle explores the crazy world of Jeanie, a county council officer in Devon who spends her week engaged in fatuous, money-wasting nonsense at our expense

Did you know that February in our schools has been designated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (sic) History Month? I’d get with it, if I were you, and send your 11-year-old child to school in a gimp mask, with some lube. Good parents make sure their kid is ahead of the curve. You can bet that there will be exercises on exploring multifaceted sexual preferences and maybe practical tests too. So tell your daughter to bin the Mary Seacole face mask she spent ages knocking up for Black History Month and get her dressed up as a boy, with a strap-on. They need those extra marks, the kids.

I only know about this because of Jeanie. You delve into Jeanie, thinking her a nice enough woman, and a world of misery opens up at your feet: a depthless cavern of stupidity, political correctness, a wilful waste of your own money, tendentious sociological bollocks, tortured grammar, words which have no real meaning, propaganda and social engineering. I first encountered Jeanie in a sort of diary she wrote for a newspaper, describing her week, a week in her professional life. Jeanie is where we are now, no matter which shade of government we might have. Her full name is Jeanie Lynch and she is ‘Lead Officer for Equality in Children and Young People’s Services for Devon County Council’. Devon, remember, is a Conservative-led council. Here’s a brief precis of Jeanie’s week — you can read it in full on my blog.

Monday — Jeanie spends the day on a ‘Value the Difference’ course for young people, meeting youth workers from across Europe to discuss how they should value the difference. No, I don’t know what the hell she’s on about either, but she’s very enthusiastic about it. We should all value the difference, shouldn’t we?

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Yam Yam

November 12th, 2009 2:09pm Report this comment

Gramsci is alive and well and dining on clotted cream and strawberries.

Michelle T

November 18th, 2009 7:49pm Report this comment

In her column of 5 February 2009 in "Children & Young People Now", Ms Lynch informs us: "My nickname in my twenties was Millie Tant of Viz magazine fame..." Why am I not in the least surprised?

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