Cllr Kevin Bentley, Leader of Essex County Council should resign
He recently wrote an open letter to the residents of Essex.
Which is at the following link:
A good place for children and families to grow?
Politicians are well known for saying what they think sounds good and will win them votes while doing nothing but making themselves look good.
Happily writing that, while his council, and ultimately him, is more than happy to not even bother investigating my childs suicide attempt.
A good place for children to grow, but Kevin Bentley doesn’t care if children die
The following is from his twitter account:
From the Dictionary:
society/səˈsʌɪɪti/noun
- 1.the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
So some of the society in Essex is good, and the rest are difficult. Put simpler, some of the people in Essex are good, while the rest of the people are difficult.
When people tell us how they feel we should believe him. That is a direct quote from the leader of Essex County Council, a man who has been elected to that position, who has labelled some of the population of the county he is meant to serve as difficult.
We are a problem to him, we are not good, we are difficult.
We are the one’s who require effort, and whose inclusion in stats have the potential to make the local authority look bad.
We are the vulnerable, the sick, the disabled, the poor, those reliant on benefits, those with poor or no education, those whose children have SEND needs. Those who need a little extra help, and involves the local authority spending money.
He doesn’t care about us, we are not good, we are difficult.
I take it the good are those who never require any extra help from the local authority, whose children have no additional needs and who go through life paying in to the system, and taking nothing out. Rather typical thoughts from a Tory politician I must say.
We are the bad, my family is part of the bad, we are difficult, we are a problem. Nothing in the levelling up plan will help my family, and the thousands like us.
Under his leadership the local authority refused to investigate my child’s suicide attempt, which was made while my child was on a child in need plan. My child was vocal at the time, still is, regarding the why, and that way was emotional abuse by a social worker.
Not surprising, given that we are not good, we are bad, we are difficult, in Cllr Kevin Bentley’s eyes we are a problem, not worthy of a solution. In his eyes my child’s life is worthless, my child isn’t in the good category, therefore not worth wasting time over.
While Cllr Kevin Bentley, the leader of Essex County Council, sees only some of the people in the county he serves as good, there is no hope for any change.
Essex County Council have an emergency fund. I applied for a cooker and a bed. As I have three children with autism, they have specific food needs, it has to be the same food over and over again, with no cooker, their diet was even more limited, including periods where they couldn’t eat because I couldn’t cook anything.
The bed was for my physically disabled child who is currently sleeping on a mattress which is causing them immense pain and discomfort.
Turns out neither is an emergency. I had to buy a cooker using high interest credit, which will cost me about £900 once it’s all paid off. Being poor is expensive.
So my family are a difficult piece of the jigsaw that is society, we don’t fit in, we are not one of the good pieces.
His wording stings quite a bit. It is stressful for people to lie, so they usually tell the truth even when they are trying to lie, hence why his wording is so important.
He was trying to give the impressing that he cares about everyone in Essex and that everyone is important. The words he used gives away his true feelings. In his head and in his heart he has separated the residents of Essex into good and bad. You can’t label a section of society as good without the rest automatically being bad.
He then described those of us who need the extra help as difficult, which is a very negative word.
I wrote an email which I sent to Cllr Kevin Bentley last August. He knows about this blog, he knows my child attempted suicide, he knows that his local authority, under his leadership, are refusing to investigate.
Given his feelings on the part of society that includes us, this is not surprising.
When Cllr Kevin Bentley, the leader of Essex County Council, admits that vulnerable people in Essex are difficult, not good, and by his inaction with regards to my childs suicide attempt, doesn’t care if a child lives or dies, there will be no improvement for people like us.
If Kevin Bentley’s heart isn’t in it, if he doesn’t actually care about vulnerable people, which by taking his own words as truth, he doesn’t, there will be no change.
His heart will be with the good people, those who don’t need services, those who will believe the rubbish he comes out and will be impressed that he wants to help those who are vulnerable. Those are who he is aiming everything he says at, it’s not the difficult part of society, it’s the good.
He doesn’t care about us, he does care about being re-elected in three years, and pretending he is a good person who actually cares about any of this levelling up stuff, is part of his plan to portray an image that isn’t real.
He said it himself, I have not twisted his words.
If he wants to help the not good section of Essex County Council’s society, he should resign, let someone who actually cares, someone who will value the part of society he referred to as difficult, someone who see’s us as worthy take on the job of leader instead.
We are not difficult, we are not bad, we are as good and as worthy as what Kevin Bentley referred to as the good part of society.
Kevin Bentley may have decided that my child’s suicide attempt was not worthy of investigation, therefore meaning he doesn’t care if my child lives or dies, but it’s not just my child he doesn’t care about, it’s all vulnerable children in Essex that he doesn’t care about. They aren’t good, they are difficult, they are a problem.
He knows about what happened to my children, he knows about this blog. That information will have gone straight into his ‘don’t care, not good’ section.
Given that he labels some of society as ‘good’, and then the most vulnerable as ‘difficult’ he’s not even fit to represent anyone.
If he wants to help the ‘difficult’ part of society, he could do that by resigning and letting someone who actually cares about us become leader.
That way, when a member of the public alerts the leader of the local authority that said local authority are refusing to investigate a childs suicide attempt, that leader would actually do something about it, not ignore it because the child comes under the heading of the difficult part of society and as such isn’t worthy of the leaders time or compassion.
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