OK, Now I'm Confused.

Not because I'm making two posts in one day in a desperate attempt to catch up after a weekend wasted. No, I'm confused by the Madonna, Malawi adoption story.

For those of you who haven't been following the story Madonna has been out in Malawi trying to adopt a little girl called Mercy Jones. As this will be the second child Madonna has adopted from the country there is no great surprise in this. Madonna thinks the best way to help orphaned children in Africa is to adopt as many of them as she possibly can and build schools for the ones she can't. She's clearly decided to make the adoption in this week of all weeks in an attempt to put the issues of global poverty, Africa's AID's crisis and international development firmly on the G20 agenda. This one woman attempt to make the world a better place did not go down well with Britain. Almost immediately MI6 front organisation, Save The Children lept on the story and issued a statement declaring that they think poor little orphan girls are best cared for in state run institutions supported by their extended families.

This rather crass statement was an attempt to make the story all about me and put forward the Brits argument that even though it has been proved to be non-viable they believe it would in Amy's best interests to remain trapped within the Bristol Abuse Case (BAC). That is just another example of the Brits lying through their teeth because the BAC was never intended to be in Amy's best interests. It was only ever designed to act as a honey trap and a pretty poor honey trap at that. Now it has been revealed as an abject failure the Brits are looking for any excuse to avoid bringing it to an end for two main reasons;

1. If they admit they've failed then they must also admit that they are fallible. If they were to do that then loyalist who put so much faith in the power of the British state are likely to be much less loyal in the future.
2. They want to avoid paying Amy the substantial compensation they owe her for stealing her life away.

Instead the Brits have already accepted the BAC as an insurance write off and are hoping I will soon be out of the limelight. When that happens they can withdraw all funding from the project and allow it to collapse quietly in the background so the other loyalists don't have to see the slow and painful death that awaits them.

To be honest the only bit of the story I'm still a little confused about is why the Brits still think they have a choice?