Saturday, 28 May 2011

Sharon Shoesmith

She may have won her appeal on a procedural failure by Ed Balls but her
interview on "Today" this morning is hardly likely to have won over many of
the listeners.

I remember being shocked by the very first interview with her surrounding
the events then in which she seemed utterly incapable of grasping that her
department had utterly failed in its duty. She maintained that she had
done a good job operating within budget and meeting all her targets. When
the rather shocked interviewer said, "but the baby died!" her reply was
along the lines that she hadn't killed him.

The leader of the council and the cabinet minister responsible for
children's services resigned but she seemed totally oblivious of her
culpability in the matter despite the Offsted report which gave such damning
criticism of her department.

This morning she once more struggled to accept any responsibility for what
happened. I hope the Supreme court find against her but in the current
struggle for power between the politicians and the judges I fear that she
will win.

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