Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals

[Celyn]

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.

Don't be taken in by Ruth Davidson. How much did she say about it before this U-turn? She appears to manage a sort of halfway acceptable face of Tory-ism, but .... Actually, no, what happens is that she gets a very easy ride from the media but she's not to be trusted.

Marcus Rashford, on the other hand, appears to be a terrific person.

 

[editor]

Slapdown

Marcus Rashford Slams Welfare Minister After 'Snarky' Tweet In Free School Meals Row

Therese Coffey sparks backlash after Twitter reply to England star.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

Should properly be in the polling thread, I know...but..

 

[bimble]

Ha i was listening to news in the car just now and ten minutes into the program they u turned. They look absolutely ridiculous what a stupid hill to have tried half arsedly to die on. I take comfort in a way from how totally useless they are, can’t even be evil properly as they don’t stand for or believe in anything at all.

 

[Sprocket.]

Nice. But isn’t it shaming that it needs a campaign to get poor families fed.

 

[brogdale]

Nice. But isn’t it shaming that it needs a campaign to get poor families fed.

Innit, just?
Tory values...

 

[Celyn]

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...).

And why didn't most of the news coverage of Rashford's campaign point out that Scotland and Wales already planned to do this? It might have helped show up Johnson and his crowd for the uncaring bastards that they are.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Nice. But isn’t it shaming that it needs a campaign to get poor families fed.

Shaming for Starmer who has done fuck all on this. And for his shadow education person, who is supposed to be the token lefty in New New Labour.

 

[Sprocket.]

Is it one of their quickest U-turns, ever?

 

[Pickman's model]

Is it one of their quickest U-turns, ever?

strong and stable my arse

 

[xenon]

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.

I wonder what these lot will say now. Borris caved in to a lefty plot to er... feed children.

 

[Pickman's model]

Shaming for Starmer who has done fuck all on this. And for his shadow education person, who is supposed to be the token lefty in New New Labour.

what you mean apart from his work to force a vote in parliament which this u-turn averts?

 

[Dogsauce]

They did it quickly before Labour piped up about it, so as not to give them a victory. Some logic to that I guess.

 

[Smangus]

TBF to Labour they were going to force an emergency vote on the issue , but yeah could be more vocal.

 

[Raheem]

At the end of the day, we were outclassed. It's been a disappointing afternoon, but there's a long season ahead and we've paid off most the referees.

 

[rubbershoes]

I wonder what these lot will say now. Borris caved in to a lefty plot to er... feed children.

There may be a lot of crossover between the children needing free meals and those who reportedly have done no school work at all during lockdown.

If so, as they're not doing school work, they can get on their bikes and look for a job, once those restrictive EU child labour laws have been binned.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Is it one of their quickest U-turns, ever?

With Johnson running the show that record won't stand for long.

 

[bimble]

Ok what do you lot think of this pls:
Just texted with my gent friend about this me saying haha look they are even crap at politics and he thinks I’m being naive, reckons it’s very unlikely that they are so shit at managing their image as to do this by mistake & thinks it’s more plausible they are using this to fill the news cycle and get away with some other noxious policy whilst everyone’s busy with this.

 

[maomao]

Don't be taken in by Ruth Davidson. How much did she say about it before this U-turn? She appears to manage a sort of halfway acceptable face of Tory-ism, but .... Actually, no, what happens is that she gets a very easy ride from the media but she's not to be trusted.

Tories that appear human are the most dangerous tories of all.

 

[Smangus]

Ok what do you lot think of this pls:
Just texted with my gent friend about this me saying haha look they are even crap at politics and he thinks I’m being naive, reckons it’s very unlikely that they are so shit at managing their image as to do this by mistake & thinks it’s more plausible they are using this to fill the news cycle and get away with some other noxious policy whilst everyone’s busy with this.

ur gent friend needs to cite example of noxious policies they are hiding. Can't be short of ideas with this lot shurely?

 

[Sprocket.]

Tories that appear human are the most dangerous tories of all.

I was told from being young, never trust a Tory, even less if they appear sincere.

 

[bimble]

ur gent friend needs to cite example of noxious policies they are hiding. Can't be short of ideas with this lot shurely?

He used, as an example , poor grannies Can henceforth be chased by bears. But I don’t think he’s right anyway. Think it is incompetence.

 

[maomao]

Is it one of their quickest U-turns, ever?

Not really. They normally leak policies and then u turn before actually announcing them when they go down like a cup of cold sick.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ok what do you lot think of this pls:
Just texted with my gent friend about this me saying haha look they are even crap at politics and he thinks I’m being naive, reckons it’s very unlikely that they are so shit at managing their image as to do this by mistake & thinks it’s more plausible they are using this to fill the news cycle and get away with some other noxious policy whilst everyone’s busy with this.

No, they are just shit.

Johnson looks like a cunt over this, he could have read the letter yesterday, or even have nanny read a précis and u turned and looked good, but yet again he misjudged the mood quite epically and tried to explain why kids should go hungry. They are hopelessly out of their depth.

 

[steeplejack]

 

[bimble]

Yeah. Just so astronomically stupid, let alone the moral side of anything, eta meant as reply to Bahnhof Strasse
4 years seems really long.

 

[Sprocket.]

Not really. They normally leak policies and then u turn before actually announcing them when they go down like a cup of cold sick.

Even worse when Osborne was driving the till.

 

[steeplejack]

I ahouldn’t be astonished by Labour’s weasel opportunism in that tweet but somehow I really am.

Fucking idiots.

 

[treelover]

He has done it!

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

Shaming for Starmer who has done fuck all on this. And for his shadow education person, who is supposed to be the token lefty in New New Labour.

Er, Labour were actually having an ermergency debate today and would have savaged the Tories

I think the shame is on the wider left and the students who now go on the streets at a drop of hat, but were strangely silent on this, as with most poverty issues.

 

[treelover]

I wonder what these lot will say now. Borris caved in to a lefty plot to er... feed children.

Mail posters are saying, they too much already, etc,