Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals

[Mation]

Perhaps he'll do a speaking tour so there's a chance to pat him on the head in person.

 

[MrSki]

Fuck me this is out of order. Kids need to be fed. The shite UC credit does not give parents enough to do this. It is totally out to lunch than any child goes hungry. Fuck the tories & please let someone with a prize bull fuck IDS up the arse.
A country that is supposed to be the 5th/6th richest in the world lets kids go hungry? WTF!!!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

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Rio Ferdinand is one of the good guys too, set up a charity.

 

[imposs1904]

Are there or have there been any ex-pros to get into the Commons? Off the top of my head I can't think of any.

The only one who springs to mind is Henry McLeish. There might be others.

 

[Celyn]

WHY can't there be free school meals for kids who need them? If Scotland can do it, why not England? Is it purely because the Tories got such a whopping great majority there?

 

[Celyn]

The only one who springs to mind is Henry McLeish. There might be others.

I had absolutely no idea that Henry McLeish had been a professional footballer.

 

[baldrick]

Perhaps he'll do a speaking tour so there's a chance to pat him on the head in person.

That's a bit harsh. He's only 22, I think people are really proud of him for what he's doing. God knows there's a shocking lack of empathy coming from the government.

 

[Pickman's model]

WHY can't there be free school meals for kids who need them? If Scotland can do it, why not England? Is it purely because the Tories got such a whopping great majority there?

It's because they're cunts

 

[Pickman's model]

Fuck me this is out of order. Kids need to be fed. The shite UC credit does not give parents enough to do this. It is totally out to lunch than any child goes hungry. Fuck the tories & please let someone with a prize bull fuck IDS up the arse.
A country that is supposed to be the 5th/6th richest in the world lets kids go hungry? WTF!!!

You don't get to be the fifth or sixth richest country by giving food away

 

[Pickman's model]

Perhaps he'll do a speaking tour so there's a chance to pat him on the head in person.

Have you ever patted someone on a speaking tour?

 

[Mation]

Have you ever patted someone on a speaking tour?

I think you're misreading me

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

What’s quite incredible/depressing is the mental gymnastics being performed by people on Twitter/fb/etc in order to not support this. Boris has said no, therefore it must be a bad lefty thing and can’t possibly be considered in any way. Insane.

 

[Pickman's model]

This will be Johnson's Thatcher moment. Not her where there is discord but her milk snatcher bit.

 

[Badgers]

This will be Johnson's Thatcher moment. Not her where there is discord but her milk snatcher bit.

He is a keen collector of moments

 

[Pickman's model]

He is a keen collector of moments

He should look forward then to his Mussolini moment

 

[Badgers]

Man Utd have a lot of fans in the UK.All (decent) footy fans I have seen are behind this too.

Keep it up Marcus lad

 

[campanula]

One of the good guys

 

[spanglechick]

WHY can't there be free school meals for kids who need them? If Scotland can do it, why not England? Is it purely because the Tories got such a whopping great majority there?

Is Scotland doing FSM over the summer break? Bllody hell. I'm sick of Westminster failing to provide things that other countries of the Uk can afford (prescriptions, tuition...).

 

[Pickman's model]

One of the good guys

the only good tory is...

 

[editor]

He's gone up in my estimation even more. He's learning sign language so he can communicate with kids.

 

[ddraig]

WHY can't there be free school meals for kids who need them? If Scotland can do it, why not England? Is it purely because the Tories got such a whopping great majority there?

and Wales!

Wales has become the first country in the UK to guarantee ongoing funding for children to continue to receive free school meals during the coronavirus pandemic | GOV.WALES

Wales has become the first country in the UK to guarantee ongoing funding for children to continue to receive free school meals throughout the summer holidays in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

gov.wales

Wales is the first country in the UK to guarantee funding and guidance for the provision of free school meals until schools re-open or until the end of August.

 

[MrSki]

He's bloody done it! Government U-turn. well done son.

 

[editor]

Fucking brilliant stuff. And he's just 22 years old.

Marcus Rashford: Food voucher U-turn after footballer's campaign

The Manchester United star praises the government for agreeing to fund free school meals in England this summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Badgers]

He has done it!

He has saved his job and the last tatters of his reputation for a little while longer.

 

[Lord Camomile]

He's bloody done it! Government U-turn. well done son.

Blimey, that was quick!

Marcus Rashford: Food voucher U-turn after footballer's campaign

The Manchester United star praises the government for agreeing to fund free school meals in England this summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

The support works out as about £15 a week per recipient, and will cost the taxpayer about £120m

 

[treelover]

Marcus 1, Govt Nil

its worrying though that the wider left was nowhere to be seen on this, if they were embedded in WC communities they would have seen this coming.

 

[brogdale]

Top work from the lad; no mean feat to make this bunch of cunts, look even bigger cunts and then win.

 

[treelover]

Btw, the ex Tory leader in Scotland, Ruth Davidson, has just referred to the policy as a Milk Snatcher moment!, her and robert halfon get it that we are living in a new paradigm.

she sounded like a Red Tory, going on about her dad being unemployed in the early 90's and her friends getting free school meals.

So pleased about this decision, lets hope we start to see wider Acorn type action on poverty issues.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Perspective

 

[Smangus]

top lad, great result.