I'll echo what others have said here; assuming this really is all there is to to this, it's utterly ludicrous - in fact worse than that, actually pretty sinister. Who the fuck do the Local Authority think they are, if they're denying these children their foster carers on the grounds of pretty mainstream, benign political beliefs that have nothing whatsoever to do with these carers' ability to discharge their responsibilities?
Tories make perfectly good parents and carers as well you know! One doesn't need to be a Lefty fan of EU bureaucracy, ineptitude, inefficiency, utterly disastrous geo-fiscal pie-in-the-sky policies like the Euro and CAP (which have empirically and quite demonstrably bankrupted Europe, causing a whole bunch of human suffering and impoverishment to boot), and even outright corruption for that matter, as evidenced by the EU's own accounts), in order to be a good mum or dad.
Bleh. Political Correctness Gone Mad(tm) etc. - except actually, this tired old cliche seems rather quite apt in this case.
As an aside, as a moderate Tory sitting very much to the Left of that Party, I always shunned UKIP. However, even I am becoming (reluctantly) ever more receptive to the super-Euro Sceptic position/message. I mean seriously, how can one not? We've all got a pair of eyes in our heads; even the most resolute Europhile must surely pick up on the disastrous effect and execution of the Euro in particular, but also the gross waste that's been going on for decades now in the form of the CAP - our paying French farmers handsomely to be crap. Why?
It's only going to get worse, too. Even fucking
Labour have (rather belatedly.... LULZ) cynically jumped onto the Euro Sceptic bandwagon, taking the
Tories to task over the forthcoming EU budget (er, despite this increasing multiple-fold under their own tenure, in conjunction with agreeing to lop off billions of our rebate for precisely fuck all in return, as IDS so eloquently pointed out in last week's QT). Just as they've worked out Socialism doesn't actually work either, hence all their 'One Nation' talk and attempted stealing of Tory clothing... what a joke they are. Naked, cynical power-grabbing for power's own sake; devoid of any political narrative at all, cogent or otherwise.
At least UKIP have a bona fide political identity; one might not agree with it but you can at least respect them for it.
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