Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals

[scifisam]

I've accidentally seen too many people saying "well, my Mum brought us up on two bits of cheese stolen from the mice, and she still worked 300 hours a week" to think this is going to play badly.

Plus a post that claimed that parents get extra money for their kids in the holidays anyway, so why worry? Lots of people pointed out that that wasn't true, but hundreds of people liked her comment.

Plus comments about cutting off your Sky subscription to pay for food.

It's going to play well with some people.

 

[Streathamite]

and hardwired into them, fundamental to their very being. That is them.

I will add; my thinking is, by this stage in "the game", they simply don't know how to be anything else, or do things in any other way

 

[two sheds]

well they're right, why would they?

 

[Streathamite]

And now they've decided to double-down on the shitty sociopathic bootstraps shit. Back in the day the Tories seemed to understand that in order to remain vaguely electable they needed to keep the obvious swivel-eyed nutters and fundamentalists in the ranks in order. Now they run the joint.

I thnk the point is, that that election victory has convinced them that they can get away with it (i.e. still convince the 'red wall' fools who voted for them that they are there for them) at every point.
Worse, they might just be right. They divide their working class voters by p,aying 'deserving' against 'undeserving' poor.
Divide and rule. Oldest game in the Tory playbook.

 

[eatmorecheese]

I thnk the point is, that that election victory has convinced them that they can get away with it (i.e. still convince the 'red wall' fools who voted for them that they are there for them) at every point.
Worse, they might just be right. They divide their working class voters by p,aying 'deserving' against 'undeserving' poor.
Divide and rule. Oldest game in the Tory playbook.

Yeah. But hopes springs eternal. I'd like to think we'll see some shift away from that in my lifetime. The red wall is brittle. They can't ride the populist horse without expecting to be thrown from time to time

 

[Calamity1971]

Yeah. But hopes springs eternal. I'd like to think we'll see some shift away from that in my lifetime. The red wall is brittle. They can't ride the populist horse without expecting to be thrown from time to time

I really want to believe this. We've gone from Laura piddock to the shit that is Richard Holden ( didn't vote cos he was doing his nans eulogy apparently) I won't go to pubs round here anymore because it's wall to wall Tory and yet a very deprived area. Got into a spat with a dog walker who thought pritti Patel was a good un.
Think my shouty words were , ' I'd never get tired of slapping that fucking awful vile twat '. Got the woods back to myself now though. Every cloud..

 

[stdP]

The red wall is brittle. They can't ride the populist horse without expecting to be thrown from time to time

Being a metropolitan liberal elite who grew up in what would now be called the red wall, anecdotal concensus from family and friends back in the old country is that they've really shat the bed on this one. Using malnourished children as political pawns backfiring because people have empathy and pity for malnourished children, whooda thunk?! It's the political equivalent of laughing and blowing raspberries down the phone to the Live Aid telethon because all that money raised for charity still isn't anywhere near your personal fortune.

I don't hold out a great deal of hope myself because the last ten years has taught me to be more pessimistic than usual; political memories are short, propaganda budgets are large and we've got another four years of this bilge to contend with. But I'll claim any self-inflicted wound of the current government as a minor victory in this day and age.

 

[ska invita]

I can't believe these thick cunts are actually wanting to die on this hill.

They backed down in the summer. Then tried to co-opt or flatter Rashford with the MBE bauble (that didn't work)...

And now they've decided to double-down on the shitty sociopathic bootstraps shit. Back in the day the Tories seemed to understand that in order to remain vaguely electable they needed to keep the obvious swivel-eyed nutters and fundamentalists in the ranks in order. Now they run the joint.

Well, 'run the joint' might be too strong a phrase. 'Throw their own shit at the wall' is probably more accurate.

"Give em an inch they'll take a mile." "Thin end of the red wedge" etc. They're probably regretting u-turning in the first place.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I've accidentally seen too many people saying "well, my Mum brought us up on two bits of cheese stolen from the mice, and she still worked 300 hours a week" to think this is going to play badly.

Plus a post that claimed that parents get extra money for their kids in the holidays anyway, so why worry? Lots of people pointed out that that wasn't true, but hundreds of people liked her comment.

Plus comments about cutting off your Sky subscription to pay for food.

It's going to play well with some people.

Some of the comments, especially on Facebook and the inevitable newspapers, are just vile things

At want point is it worth starving kids in need to punish the parents?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Some of the comments, especially on Facebook and the inevitable newspapers, are just vile things

At want point is it worth starving kids in need to punish the parents?

The kids are equally guilty of being the Wrong Sort of People. If we keep them alive artificially they'll only grow up to spread their cancerous lack of aspiration and poison an otherwise robust economy.

 

[killer b]

Get out of the comments sections ffs. You might as well judge the mood of the nation by gathering all the most annoying pub bores you can find and asking them what they think

 

[Yossarian]

Get out of the comments sections ffs. You might as well judge the mood of the nation by gathering all the most annoying pub bores you can find and asking them what they think

Yep, the proportion of readers who comment on any given newspaper article online is generally less than 1%, and idiots with shit opinions who didn't read beyond the headline seem to be massively over-represented in that 1%,

 

[Edie]

Get out of the comments sections ffs. You might as well judge the mood of the nation by gathering all the most annoying pub bores you can find and asking them what they think

This. My social media feeds are a tsunami of local businesses and small local charities offering food and help. The Tories judged this badly wrong. Small business and charities are the absolute backbone of this country.

 

[tommers]

Great mix of pettiness and passive aggression. I am yet to see a good response from any of them.

 

[baldrick]

Also, the thing is, a school with that high a level of needs is unlikely to be a comp. 75% of kids having social workers sounds like a PRU or a school for children with disabilities. I've never, ever heard of a comp where 75% of kids have a social worker. They really are kids who need extra help, and extending free school meals isn't enough, true, but it's something. Especially when we're talking about extending half terms.

I don't think the school actually exists. He has said that for hyperbole and got it horribly wrong because he's a cunt.

There's an earlier tweet where he's having a go at Rashford for his support of FSM and citing a school where the head apparently thinks that FSM is a poor response to poverty and a governor at that school responds.

He is a vile thick Tory but I have been enjoying the immediate self-owns from last night.

 

[planetgeli]

I don't think the school actually exists. He has said that for hyperbole and got it horribly wrong because he's a cunt.

There's an earlier tweet where he's having a go at Rashford for his support of FSM and citing a school where the head apparently thinks that FSM is a poor response to poverty and a governor at that school responds.

He is a vile thick Tory but I have been enjoying the immediate self-owns from last night.

The school does exist, the head teacher has riled back at him. Still not sure about those figures, I think he's made them up or it is a PRU.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I think if there was a school where 75% of the kids had a social worker they'd be using it as proof the social work budget needs cutting.

 

[Edie]

As if there’d be enough social workers Tory bloody fantasy

 

[planetgeli]

Apparently Naga Munchetty had him for breakfast just now on BBC. As in ripped him to pieces.

 

[baldrick]

The school does exist, the head teacher has riled back at him. Still not sure about those figures, I think he's made them up or it is a PRU.

Yeah that's what I mean, no school exists with those figures.

 

[teqniq]

Busted:

 

[Shellee]

I've accidentally seen too many people saying "well, my Mum brought us up on two bits of cheese stolen from the mice, and she still worked 300 hours a week" to think this is going to play badly.

Plus a post that claimed that parents get extra money for their kids in the holidays anyway, so why worry? Lots of people pointed out that that wasn't true, but hundreds of people liked her comment.

Plus comments about cutting off your Sky subscription to pay for food.

It's going to play well with some people.

And mobile phones, along the lines of "they can all afford mobile phones, so they they can afford to feed their own children" and lectures about teaching the "poor" basic cookery. After all, they've all fed their own children for a week on a boiled sheep's head.

The smug like to take the moral high ground to prove their own good financial situation is down to moral fibre, which those less well off clearly lack. And they will applaud and support a government that lets children go hungry to teach their parents a lesson on knowing their place.

 

[not-bono-ever]

What a card.he’s on the fast elevator to the top job this one

Tory MP Ben Bradley said benefit claimants should be sterilised

He said it won't be long 'before we're drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters'.

www.google.co.uk

 

[planetgeli]

Busted:

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This is what I was getting at. I know that I definitely read criticism of him last night very much from a 'fuck off and die' perspective from the Head of the school, not the governor. When I just went searching for it again I couldn't find it but it's out there somewhere. What I did find was Ben Bradley brazenly saying 'the Head agrees with me'.

The man has no shame.

Also, in the spirit of anti-paedo groups attacking paediatricians, Ben Bradshaw is getting bombarded on Twitter with tweets meant to be aimed at Ben Bradley.

 

[agricola]

And mobile phones, along the lines of "they can all afford mobile phones, so they they can afford to feed their own children" and lectures about teaching the "poor" basic cookery. After all, they've all fed their own children for a week on a boiled sheep's head.

The smug like to take the moral high ground to prove their own good financial situation is down to moral fibre, which those less well off clearly lack. And they will applaud and support a government that lets children go hungry to teach their parents a lesson on knowing their place.

Of course that is the diet that Fox et al have been feeding the US for the past couple of decades, this idea that "the poor" are not really poor because (to use the traitor Stuart Varney as an example) they have access to a fridge or a mobile phone.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

This. My social media feeds are a tsunami of local businesses and small local charities offering food and help. The Tories judged this badly wrong. Small business and charities are the absolute backbone of this country.

And right there is the problem.

 

[two sheds]

What a card.he’s on the fast elevator to the top job this one

Tory MP Ben Bradley said benefit claimants should be sterilised

He said it won't be long 'before we're drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters'.

www.google.co.uk

He said: ‘I apologise for these posts. My time in politics has allowed me to mature and I now realise that this language is not appropriate.’

Still believes it, just doesn't say it.

 

[rubbershoes]

And right there is the problem.

Indeed. And it's exactly what Cameron wanted with his Big Society

 

[rubbershoes]

Another tory getting it wrong. Local businesses helping out with free meals are clearly doing well and have no need of government money.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Will people please stop taking MPs words that they have written out of context??!