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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[allenlondon]

Plenty of comments on the lines of 'my muvva had
8 children and we all got fed'. Good for muvva.

My old mum wasn't that poor (not rich either) and we never went hungry.

But what she taught me was kindness.

When Mrs.Mann's boys came to the door with an empty bucket and asked to 'borrow' some coal, they got coal. Never mind that Mrs.Mann lived in a fairly nice house, smoked, (and probably ate well, too).

When the Sikh men came up from Betterware in North Street with their little cases full of brushes (which we didn't want), they always went away with sixpence, 'for luck'.

And a hundred other acts of selflessness, of pure kindness; I didn't appreciate her at the time, of course, but now I do.

And her FIRST reaction on hearing that some children were going hungry would have been to make them sandwiches, NOT to blame the parents.

Oh, incidentally, voted Tory most of her life, although in her latter years her natural intelligence began to kick in, and she had doubts.

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[ummmm]

Exactly.

[ToraToraTora]

allen "But what she taught me was kindness. " - stop it my sides are splitting, kindness? PMSL!

[bhg481]

TTT - I think your last post defines your character beautifully.

[ToraToraTora]

allen's mum may have been kind but he hasn't inherited that trait. Have you seen some of his nastiness? hypocrisy? On this very thread I was viciously abused early on and he made it BA. Kind? nope!

[ummmm]

You really need to toughen up, TTT. Viciously abused.....I don't think so.

[allenlondon]

Tora3.

There is a line between taking life seriously but being able to laugh at yourself...

and taking life SO seriously that you are unable to laugh at yourself, or anything else.

I am afraid you cross the line, regularly.

I might get cross and throw insults about (when provoked!) but I don't go harumphing off over the hills crying 'Foul, foul, send him off ref!'

A.

[ToraToraTora]

have you read all this thread ummm? Some early answers have been removed.

[allenlondon]

2 or 3 removed, actually, and they from the extreme nasties having a pop at me! Personally, I wouldn't remove them, rather let them stand so people can judge for themselves.

[royfromaus]

And a hundred other acts of selflessness, of pure kindness; I didn't appreciate her at the time, of course, but now I do.
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Why didn't you appreciate her at the time?

[Mozz71]

Most on here have crossed the line on occasion, some more than others. I expect that Tora has been the "vicious abuser" just as many times as he's been abused.

[ummmm]

Yes....I've read the whole thread.

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sure most of us have tales like that Allen, I know I do - hand me downs, not just within the family but up and down the neighbourhood. Grandma pretending she'd made too much stew as she took a pot over the road to a family.

I don't think that less people care ( though some might) but the sense of togetherness in a community is sometimes lacking.

In some places this awful year has seen an improvement in looking out for those less fortunate than ourselves.

[allenlondon]

royfrom "Why didn't you appreciate her at the time?".

Because I was young, and a prat. I became older.

Your excuse?

[royfromaus]

See...he can't help himself.

I always appreciated my mother, she was a wonderful person.

[allenlondon]

Liar

[iluvmargie]

Same here roy, wish I still had her in my life.

[royfromaus]

Can all the people who think allen is a nice person see this?

[Mamyalynne]

As a child I doubt I fully appreciated how hard it was at times for my parents in bringing us up, it's not easy to pinpoint the moment when you realise that ( for me at least).

[ToraToraTora]

"2 or 3 removed, actually, and they from the extreme nasties having a pop at me! Personally, I wouldn't remove them, rather let them stand so people can judge for themselves. " - nope at least one was at me, I specifically made a note of it and assumed it would be taken down at some point.