He should not be allowed to bring up his child because the boy needed ‘an environment that supports difference, equality and independence’, they said.
But Sir James Munby, the country’s most senior family judge, blocked the adoption, ruling that the father’s failure to be a good role model did not justify taking his child away. . . .
The charges laid by Darlington social workers against the father were that he lied about being present at a railway accident as a child, that when he was 17 he had sex with a 13-year-old and this was immoral, that he drank too much and used cannabis, and that he had briefly been an activist with the EDL.
They said he had ‘numerous’ criminal convictions when, in fact, he had two police cautions. . . .
One social worker recorded: ‘The distorted thinking of those within the EDL is barbaric and their actions inappropriate. Therefore the mentality of those involved has to be brought into question.’
The social worker also pointed out ‘the immoral nature of the values and beliefs’ of EDL members and the violence of their protests.
This reminds me of the Rotherham couple whose foster children were taken away over UKIP ties. “Joyce Thacker, the council’s director of children and young people’s services, has said that the children, who were from ‘EU migrant backgrounds’, had been removed to protect their ‘cultural and ethnic needs’ from UKIP’s ‘strong views’ and apparent ‘opposition to multiculturalism’.”