Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals

[MickiQ]

The current Tory government isn't as right wing or as ruthless and certainly nowhere near as competent as the Cameron/Osborne one, I get the distinct impression that Boris is out of his depth, he managed to achieve his dream by tapping into public discontent and trotting out simple easy to get behind slogans.
Now I think he's discovering that running the country in the middle of one crisis (the lurgy) with 2 more (a depression and a no Deal Brexit) heading towards him like a freight train is nowhere near as easy as he thought it would be. He is definitely floundering and making himself look weak and indecisive.

 

[treelover]

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

That is what I was getting at, halfon etc, not promoting them.

 

[bimble]

Does anyone know how exactly the vouchers work like where can you use them?

 

[Voley]

Bloody hell. Nice one, Marcus.

 

[strung out]

Take a bow leader of the opposition, Marcus Rashford.

 

[Voley]

 

[Celyn]

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.

I'm not convinced. Bearing in mind that most of the population don't have kids at school on free school meals, I think he would have chosen a different dead cat if it were a deliberate and thought-out tactic.

 

[andysays]

Not to take anything away from Rashford, but it's disappointing to me if the highest we can aspire to is to extend free school meals payments to cover the holidays, rather than abolish or even reduce the widespread need for them.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

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

I've heard Anglos get told this but then have sex with them at uni. does not compute.

In Turkey we tend to expose nationalists when they listen to left wing folksongs and thereby invalidate their integrity.

 

[Sue]

I'm not convinced. Bearing in mind that most of the population don't have kids at school on free school meals, I think he would have chosen a different dead cat if it were a deliberate and thought-out tactic.

Yeah, I don't have kids, never mind kids on free school meals but being a vaguely reasonable person, the idea that kids will go hungry* because of these fuckers is absolutely abhorrent to me. As I'm sure it is to anyone vaguely decent.

*Obviously some kids will still go hungry and that is obviously absolutely fucking disgusting too.

 

[ddraig]

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.

"the wider left", "the wider left", "the wider left" oh and the "students" now too
What have YOU done about it?

 

[Sprocket.]

I've heard Anglos get told this but then have sex with them at uni. does not compute.

What’s Uni?

 

[Celyn]

Daily Mail readers would probably be happier with no free meal at all, ever.

 

[baldrick]

Wow, taking credit for the hard work of others. That's low.

 

[agricola]

Wow, taking credit for the hard work of others. That's low.

Labour raised this before Rashford (and the Tories) though? They even had this in place in Wales at the end of April.

 

[ska invita]

Wow, taking credit for the hard work of others. That's low.

Looks like they were campaigning on this also, but it turns out a footballer is a more effective opposition than the labour leadership.

I dont really understand how Rashford got this to be so high profile an issue, one of those quirks of the media newscycle i guess

 

[Steel Icarus]

Looks like they were campaigning on this also, but it turns out a footballer is a more effective opposition than the labour leadership.

I dont really understand how Rashford got this to be so high profile an issue, one of those quirks of the media newscycle i guess

Unlike the leader of HM opposition, people have heard of him.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

Unlike the leader of HM opposition, people have heard of him.

like i always like to say, starmer is capable of putting someone jacked up on methamphetamine to sleep.

 

[Maggot]

Well done Rashers!

 

[Teaboy]

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.

More likely they'll row back on it later when they think no one is looking or make the system of delivery so hopeless that no one can access the funding or vouchers or whatever system they choose.

 

[campanula]

Juan Mata - another decent footballer (Common Goal). Always refreshing to hear of high profile working class people who remember their roots and are in a position to put something back into community initiatives.

 

[JimW]

Well done Rashers!

Brought home the bacon.

 

[Lord Camomile]

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.

To be honest, I've said elsewhere, but whenever they do something so plainfacedly shit and incompetent I do think "surely not, what am I missing?", but for the most part it does seem like they are just plainfacedly shit and incompetent.

 

[Roadkill]

I must admit I'd never heard of Marcus Rashford before today. Fair play to him - he's succeeded in forcing the government to do the right thing, and showed them up as a disorganised shower of shite in the process.

 

[steeplejack]

Labour raised this before Rashford (and the Tories) though? They even had this in place in Wales at the end of April.

The trouble is, this campaign only cut through with political anoraks. Without Rashford no one beyond child poverty NGOs would be on the case.

That a footballer won in a week concessions that Labour had failed to get on the news cycle, meaningfully, ought to give them pause for thought rather than taking the opportunity for some snivelling self-congratulation online.

 

[Sue]

To be honest, I've said elsewhere, but whenever they do something so plainfacedly shit and incompetent I do think "surely not, what am I missing?", but for the most part it does seem like they are just plainfacedly shit and incompetent.

Yeah, I do wonder how they can be quite this cackhanded but seems they can and are.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I'm genuinely surprised at how quickly this has played out; one letter, one response from a government spokesperson, and then another saying "oh, ok then", all in two days.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I am very wary of building this guy up, because everyone knows how that tends to go in Britain, but this is great

edit: I'm also an idiot, who manages to check if something is a spoof and still not actually realise that yes, it is a spoof.

 

[B.I.G]

I am very wary of building this guy up, because everyone knows how that tends to go in Britain, but this is great

Who doesn’t love a spoof twitter account.

 

[Celyn]

I read on Twitter that it is a fake account. The real Marcus Rashford has a blue tick, and can spell his own name.