Footballer Marcus Rashford fights for free school meals

[Pickman's model]

what exactly were you proud of then?

the chartists
the anti-poll tax movement
afa
the peasants revolt
the miners strike
the rioting crofters
the luddites
captain swing
the rebecca rioters

 

[iveivan]

What a disgusting piece of lying shit that woman is.

Or she’s so incompetent she thinks what she is saying is true. Or both.

 

[MrSki]

Lying just comes so easy to these tory cunts.

 

[hitmouse]

More Rashford: Marcus Rashford takes on Deliveroo after minimum wage controversy exposed

Marcus Rashford is to hold emergency talks with Deliveroo after a Mirror investigation revealed riders on thousands of shifts are averaging less than the minimum wage.

The food delivery firm is a major backer of the footballer’s End Child Food Poverty Task Force and also sponsor the England team kit.

However a report by the Daily Mirror, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and ITV News uncovered how some riders working for the firm are facing debt while boss, Will Shu prepares for a stock market flotation that could net him £500million.

One worker told us: “You have Deliveroo backing Marcus Rashford’s food campaign but some of my colleagues are earning barely enough to live on.”

Rashford and his England team-mates are due to play San Marino at Wembley tonight.

"Marcus is currently within the confines of the national team camp but will discuss the investigation with the Senior team at Deliveroo in detail at the earliest opportunity,” a spokeswoman said.

"The Child Food Poverty Taskforce was built to support the most vulnerable children across the UK. Minimum wage is the absolute starting point to stabilising households where children are vulnerable. This discussion will be had privately to acquire clarity."

Shocking that we're having to rely on footballers to sort these kinds of issues out, surely this should be Jedward's job?

 

[MrSki]

 

[GarveyLives]

... and for books for children too ...

Marcus Rashford vows to reach children who have never owned book

"Each chapter of the book will begin with a story from Rashford’s own life and cover topics such as the value of education, positive mentality, understanding culture and female role models."​

To kick off the Marcus Rashford Book Club, Macmillan Children’s Books has partnered with children’s food charity Magic Breakfast to donate 50,000 free books, reaching more than 850 primary schools across England and Scotland ...

Good work:

Marcus Rashford Book Club kicks off with Puri and 50,000 free books

 

[editor]

Brilliant stuff. He's a real inspiration.

To kick off the Marcus Rashford Book Club, Macmillan Children’s Books has partnered with children’s food charity Magic Breakfast to donate 50,000 free books, reaching more than 850 primary schools across England and Scotland.

Magic Breakfast offers healthy breakfasts to around 170,000 children each school day. The free books will be divided between the primary schools it currently supports. Each will be offered an allocation of books to distribute among some of their children to own and take home.

Rashford commented: “For too long, the joy of reading has been restricted by whether or not a family has the contingency budget to purchase books. The children who often miss out are those on free school meals and users of breakfast clubs, who more than likely need fiction, and non-fiction, to escape reality from time to time. We haven't been affording these children the option of reading for fun but that changes today.

“Everyone is aware of my experiences with breakfast club — it brightened up the start of my day, it stabilised the school day for me, allowed me to engage in reading and allowed me to form life-long friendships. I'm really happy to be partnering with Magic Breakfast to get our books in the hands of children that need them most.”

He added: “I'm proud to have Pooja join us too. She writes in a way that is engaging, escapist and authentic. Pooja is super talented and I'm a big fan, and I'm sure that the recipients of her book, A Dinosaur Ate My Sister, will soon be fans of hers too.”

A new title in the Marcus Rashford Book Club will launch in the autumn as part of an arrangement that will see two books a year getting into the hands of children who need them most.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The actual quotes are here; Marcus Rashford's mum 'cries in her room' about how their life's changed

She's raised a very decent man.

 

[GarveyLives]

It is good to see that Young Rashford is seen as an inspiration by other young people who have faced adversity:

Teenager overcame lifelong stammer to achieve dream of saying his own name - before interviewing hero Marcus Rashford

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[GarveyLives]

He earns 180k a week, I've more sympathy for others ...

Well done!:

"Manchester United football player Marcus Rashford has become the youngest person to top The Sunday Times Giving List this year, which measures philanthropy among the ultra-wealthy ..."

Sunday Times Rich List: Marcus Rashford tops the UK's biggest givers

 

[GarveyLives]

There is a detailed profile of Young Rashford here:

"Last year the football star twice fought Boris Johnson on food poverty – and won 2-0. Now he has a new goal: helping the 383,000 British kids who have never owned a book ..."

Marcus Rashford: ‘Whenever I hear “no”, I ask myself: why not?’

 

[Humberto]

Well done?

 

[Humberto]

I've no doubt he's a good guy. Generous, righteous, so stop digging me out every couple of months over it as if you've finally 'got' me. Or at least make some kind comment when you do. Or read subsequent posts where I've said we could do with more like Rashford.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've no doubt he's a good guy. Generous, righteous, so stop digging me out every couple of months over it as if you've finally 'got' me. Or at least make some kind comment when you do. Or read subsequent posts where I've said we could do with more like Rashford.

Or maybe you should just keep your mouth shut

 

[Humberto]

Or maybe you should just keep your mouth shut

Maybe you should

 

[editor]

I've no doubt he's a good guy. Generous, righteous, so stop digging me out every couple of months over it as if you've finally 'got' me. Or at least make some kind comment when you do. Or read subsequent posts where I've said we could do with more like Rashford.

Why are you so determined to belittle the incredible achievements of a young working class kid who has done so much to improve the lives of those living in poverty?

What's motivating you?

 

[Humberto]

It's not that, try reading the post you've quoted where I praise him. It's people like GarveyLives saying 'well done'. I agree with your sentiments. I've said as much. It's all a bit weird tbh.

 

[Orang Utan]

it’s your grudge that is weird

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Why are you so determined to belittle the incredible achievements of a young working class kid who has done so much to improve the lives of those living in poverty?

What makes him all the more remarkable in my eyes is seeing how so many of his peers react to their massive wealth; fighting in £1000-a-bottle clubs, hookers, general cuntury, yes this man does enjoy his wealth but using some of it and all of his position to help kids who were like him before he got the wealth, he’s truly the very best there is. And I bet he gets a bigger buzz out of this than any magnum of champagne with sparklers in a VIP area could ever give him.

 

[Humberto]

He's a good guy. An inspiration, a role model. But we are fucked don't forget. And more so if we are celebrating philanthropy and philanthropists to keep kids fed. He's being used by the establishment.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

He's a good guy. An inspiration, a role model. But we are fucked don't forget. And more so if we are celebrating philanthropy and philanthropists to keep kids fed. He's being used by the establishment.

How is he being used by the establishment? Johnson using him to make himself look like a cunt?

 

[Humberto]

They gave him an OBE which he accepted. Sir Captain Tom similarly.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

They gave him an OBE which he accepted. Sir Captain Tom similarly.

Used

 

[editor]

He's a good guy. An inspiration, a role model. But we are fucked don't forget. And more so if we are celebrating philanthropy and philanthropists to keep kids fed. He's being used by the establishment.

And there you go again, putting him down with crass accusations.

 

[existentialist]

He's a good guy. An inspiration, a role model. But we are fucked don't forget. And more so if we are celebrating philanthropy and philanthropists to keep kids fed. He's being used by the establishment.

He's only being "used" in the same way that the (this) establishment uses anybody - they'll co-opt any good work done by someone (Rashford, the NHS vaccination program, etc) and try to wrap themselves in it to claim some credit. I don't think that's an argument against him, nor that he should somehow stop what he is doing because it's being co-opted by our venal, pissant government.

 

[ddraig]

They gave him an OBE which he accepted. Sir Captain Tom similarly.

Agree with this but not the others things you're grasping at

 

[Wilf]

Agree with this but not the others things you're grasping at

This. I wish he hadn't accepted the obe, but then I don't think Rashford has ever announced he's an anarcho-communist, anti-system activist or whatever. Most of all he's a good bloke, remembers where he's come from and does his fucking best for those who are suffering.

 

[tonysingh]

Could you imagine the establishment fuelled media hate for Rashford had he refused the OBE? It likely would have been that ferocious towards a young, wealthy and successful black man that he wouldn't have been able to carry on the amazing good work that he has.

 

[BillRiver]

He said at the time that he was accepting it for him mum, iirc.