Yes, but Comic Relief has always focussed on "the far away" -- I've yet to see an advert for Comic Relief that says anything about helping people in the UK. VBG. You have no idea how old I feel now. :-D I have the original Comic Relief single (Cliff Richard and the Young Ones doing Livin' Doll, as seen on TOTP2 earlier this week - it was No.1 on my 14th birthday!) and on the back there's a bit about how the charity splits its focus between Africa and the UK. If you watch the CR shows there are always bits about the projects they do in the UK too, btw. They don't make documentaries about that bit, admittedly, possibly because it's a lot harder to get celebrities to put their time into UK-based stuff when it's not for the big main telethon. [Have you read Cause Celeb, btw, by Helen Fielding? Predates BJ but got rereleased on the back of that success. Worth reading.] Anyway, they have publicised the UK work in the past, and still do. http://www.comicrelief.org.uk/entry.shtml - work in the UK. (With a not-very-flattering picture of Sue Johnston...)
WRT the non-vaccinating mother who refuses "all state aid" (!), she's driving me nuts. She'd sooner risk encephalitis (a common side-effect of true measles) and is quite happy to allow her children to infect other people. She thinks that it's not her obligation to explain why she is opting out of the system, but refuses to see that that might be viewed as suspicious by anyone.
Records ARE kept, but if she tells them what alternative arrangements she's made, the record will say that and they'll probably leave her alone. It's not like the TV Licensing people who refuse to believe that one could ever live without broadcast TV... Refusing to give information though would set off warning bells and I can't see any justification for behaving like that. If you've nothing to hide, why hide it? I don't like the nanny-state idea, but I detest the "two-year-old starved to death" headlines even more.
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Date: 2003-03-13 09:45 am (UTC)VBG. You have no idea how old I feel now. :-D I have the original Comic Relief single (Cliff Richard and the Young Ones doing Livin' Doll, as seen on TOTP2 earlier this week - it was No.1 on my 14th birthday!) and on the back there's a bit about how the charity splits its focus between Africa and the UK. If you watch the CR shows there are always bits about the projects they do in the UK too, btw. They don't make documentaries about that bit, admittedly, possibly because it's a lot harder to get celebrities to put their time into UK-based stuff when it's not for the big main telethon. [Have you read Cause Celeb, btw, by Helen Fielding? Predates BJ but got rereleased on the back of that success. Worth reading.] Anyway, they have publicised the UK work in the past, and still do. http://www.comicrelief.org.uk/entry.shtml - work in the UK. (With a not-very-flattering picture of Sue Johnston...)
WRT the non-vaccinating mother who refuses "all state aid" (!), she's driving me nuts. She'd sooner risk encephalitis (a common side-effect of true measles) and is quite happy to allow her children to infect other people. She thinks that it's not her obligation to explain why she is opting out of the system, but refuses to see that that might be viewed as suspicious by anyone.
Records ARE kept, but if she tells them what alternative arrangements she's made, the record will say that and they'll probably leave her alone. It's not like the TV Licensing people who refuse to believe that one could ever live without broadcast TV... Refusing to give information though would set off warning bells and I can't see any justification for behaving like that. If you've nothing to hide, why hide it? I don't like the nanny-state idea, but I detest the "two-year-old starved to death" headlines even more.