Let Them Eat...?

[allenlondon]

MPs rejected the plea for free school meals to be given during holidays.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/21/marcus-rashford-in-despair-as-mps-reject-free-school-meal-plan

Should be very good news for all the Answerbanks who think poor families spend too much on smoking, gambling, etc, so should get NO more handouts!

Let them eat cake! Or nothing.

Charles Dickens would not believe it.


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[ynnafymmi]

She must be off her head that Marie Antoinette woman.

[New Judge]

//Do you believe in helping the needy, or do you think they should go to hell.//

I don’t believe anybody should “go to hell” (well, with one or two exceptions, perhaps!). But this is not a binary choice. The problem I have is that governments are unable to distinguish between the needy and the not so needy. The end result is that in order to provide for the (very few) needy vast sums are squandered on all the others, many of whom have made a lifestyle choice to live off the backs of taxpayers. Until that problem can be solved I’m afraid the needy will have to make do (which most of them could if they approached their circumstances properly).

People who live on benefits have to feed their children during school holidays. They are largely unaffected by the Covid crisis so I see no reason why they should receive additional funds outside term time.

//…but a handful of chips and a couple of sausages!//

Children should not live on a handful of chips and a couple of sausages. Their parents should ensure more wholesome (and usually cheaper) food is provided for them, viz: //i dont really understand why it seems to be 15 ppw. I could and do! spend much less than that on 7 lunches for my daughter//

[ynnafymmi]

I wonder if the old terrorist supporting scarecrow will repay all the free dinners he has had off us at the expense of the poor starving wee kiddies?

[AuntPollyGrey]

// She must be off her head that Marie Antoinette woman.//

she was. She had no butter for her parsnips :-)

[bednobs]

"I wonder if the old terrorist supporting scarecrow will repay all the free dinners he has had off us at the expense of the poor starving wee kiddies?"
Boris?

[ynnafymmi]

Neither have the poor wee starving kiddies in allen(err)londons imagination.

[ynnafymmi]

@18.41.Nah,the real terrorists friend.Bojo is just incompetent.Corbyn was not only incompetent,he was a friend of murderous scum both within the IRA and the PLO.Strabard.(anagram)

[gulliver1]

YFM. Bednobs,are you referring to Boris and his alliance with the Neo-Nazi party and the Anti muslim party.?

[ynnafymmi]

The neo-nazi party?They must be anti-semites.I know a former leader of a major political party in the UK who was also anti-semitic.Was this you were talking about?

[Mozz71]

//Nah,the real terrorists friend.Bojo is just incompetent.Corbyn was not only incompetent,he was a friend of murderous scum both within the IRA and the PLO.Strabard.(anagram)//

Ynna, I know you're not a fan of Jezza, but what the *** has this issue got to do with him? It's like me starting a rant about George Osborne.

[bednobs]

who incidentally also didnt pay back his food subsidy presumably :0)

[Mozz71]

//who incidentally also didnt pay back his food subsidy presumably :0)//

What a NAKWER (anagram) ;-)

[ynnafymmi]

Sorry,Mozz.Just annoyed we have a deficit of proper,real,sustainable governance in this benighted country.Plus i dont like foreign trolls being allowed on this site.

[bednobs]

prefer good old british trolls?

[Mozz71]

//foreign trolls//

??

[ynnafymmi]

Sadly,Mozz,sadly.

[Mozz71]

Who are you referring to Ynna? Allen? Gully?

[allenlondon]

Out of interest, what is this allen(err)london claptrap.

My name is Allen, and I’ve lived here for 50 years.

Is your name really ynnafimmy?

[ynnafymmi]

You decide Mozz...Either or neither or both,take your pick...

[ynnafymmi]

@19.32.Time to start backing Britain instead of deriding our country all the time,boyo.If you have lived in this country for fifty years why do you hate us Brits so much.