Tags
adult LD services, appropriate vocabulary, independent living, institutions, learning disability, preventable deaths
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With acknowledgments to the wonderful Mitch Benn
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Update
Blimey. Within an hour of posting, I am getting requests for lyric and guitar tabs.
Well, I half-inched the tune from Mitch Benn, and I am nowhere near musical enough to know what key he played in; I just chose chords that I had a reasonable chance of more-or-less hitting, given that I was picking up a guitar after 20 years’ neglect.
Please feel free to choose the key that suits you; do rewrite/add to the lyric as the mood takes you – I am sure a little reflection could produce a great many improvements – and please do credit Mitch for the melody. Thanks.
A D
Close the Units down
A D
Close the Units down
A E A E
Bloody close the bloody units down, you bloody bunch o’ shites
A D
Close the Units down
A D
Close the Units down
A E A
Bloody close the bloody units down.
E
Oh
E
Parliament heard vague statistics
A
About the number of autistics
E
Who end up shunted off to ATUs
A
Where they are not treated, but abused
D
Stephanie Bincliffe, Thomas Rawnsley,
C#
Not forgetting Nico and LB
D E
Did no crimes but ended up inside
Where all of them died
So
Close the Units down
Close the Units down
Bloody close the bloody units down, you bloody bunch o’ shites
Close the Units down
Close the Units down
Bloody close the bloody Units down.
But
Four years down the line from Winterbourne
Four more families who are left to mourn
Absolutely no new policy
Coming from the bloody JIP
Alicia from HSA told you
About all the things that you could do
To get people swiftly sorted out
You had no clout
You didn’t
Close the Units down
Close the Units down
Bloody close the bloody units down, you bloody bunch o’ shites
Close the Units down
Close the Units down
Bloody close the bloody Units down.
Then
Anne and Margaret on the PAC
Asked their questions very carefully
Between Bubb, LAs and the NHS
It’s all still a real bloody mess
Six more months is six more months too long
Eighteen months is several times more wrong
Couldn’t you have just got on with it?
You’re really shit
Just
A D
Close the Units down
A D
Close the Units down
A E A E
Bloody close the bloody units down, no more excuses now,
A D
Close the Units down
A D
Close the Units down
A D E
Norman, please stop acting like a clown
D E A E A
Just bloody close the bloody units down.
samedifference1 said:
Reblogged this on Same Difference and commented:
Ruder than anything I usually post… but I hope you’ll forgive me as it’s a reblog and for a good reason, readers!
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Zoe Thompson said:
Can we have the youtube link so that we can embed this within our blogs in order to re-blog this please?
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Zoe Thompson said:
Its ok I’ve found the code – sorry!
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Rob Holland said:
AWESOME!
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kara2008 said:
A much more nuanced commentary on the problem of ATUs and other long-term residential institutions, for people with learning difficulties and mental illnesses, as well as autism, from the well-worth-following Indigo Jo Blogs.
Thanks, Matthew!
http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2015/07/18/close-the-units-down
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