Why are so many autistic folk or folk with learning disabilities still stuck in psychiatric hospitals? Wasn’t it all suppose to change after Winterbourne View? Weren’t we supposed to be stopping all the abuse and giving people fulfilling lives in the community?
Apparently not…
Watch the video here or read the poem below:
We can have a meeting, a conference,
It might sound like nonsense,
But we will be sparing no expense,
We can talk about it all day long.
We can have a workshop, a session,
Delightful, (depression).
And we’ll make such progress, (regression).
We can talk about it all day long.
We can set the agenda and devise some strategies,
Conjure up statistics, form a few committees.
Policies and projects,
Blueprints for success,
How did this end up as such a mess?
We can have a panel, a forum,
A council, a quorum.
And we’ll do our utmost to bore ‘em,
We can talk about it all day long
We can have a tea break with tea cakes,
With backslaps and handshakes,
But we’ll never mention our mistakes.
We can talk about it all day long.
There are people behind this, but they’re people we don’t see.
Well, why would be bother? We are much too busy.
Speak a whole new language,
No one can relate
Guess we’ll have to leave them to their fate.
We can have a board with a budget,
We might have to fudge it,
But there will be no one to judge it.
We can talk about it all day long.
We can have a plan and conclusions,
With actions, delusions.
Causing such a state of confusion.
We can talk about it all day long.
Probably where it’s all gone wrong
Talked about it all day long.
Rhyming Words 
Wonderful stuff. So bloody true. I would like to see your verse pinned up inside every Local Authority Council Chambers. They hold the purse strings. Social Workers and Commissioners are just their gatekeepers.
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