Perhaps before implementing this policy the UK government could read the final report from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools. To say that taking kids from their families isn’t a good idea is putting it mildly.
But, of course, if we had such a hotline we’d be calling in the UK government.
So I’m not engaging in a conspiracy theory about governments trying to encourage terrorist attacks to justify more repressive policies, but the effect of policies like this one is exactly that. Orwell’s fictional world is one in which Machiavellian actors at the top intentionally plan perpetual war to keep the people in line. In the real world people act in exactly the same way, but mostly are just too stupid to think through what they are doing.
