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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[ToraToraTora]

"Because I was young, and a prat. I became older. " -.......PMSL!

[royfromaus]

I didn't say parents, my father was a ***.

[iluvmargie]

I can see it roy, don't worry.

[ToraToraTora]

roy: "Can all the people who think allen is a nice person see this? " - think only Allen thinks he's a nice person.

[Mozz71]

Well, good to see that such an important thread isn't immune to derailment. Well done everyone, Andy couldn't have done better himself.

[iluvmargie]

I was around 14/15 when I realised how much my parents did for me and my siblings. It suddenly hit me like a bolt from the blue. I actually remember the exact moment. We are so very lucky if we have good parents.

[Mamyalynne]

I mentioned parents, it was my reply - it was correcting anyone.

As it happens I was inseparable from my Father and my Mother tolerated me but she was a good woman.

[Mamyalynne]

* it was not correcting anyone.

[royfromaus]

I'm not worried, Marge. I just wonder why someone so obviously filled with hate pretends to care about other people.

[royfromaus]

I was having a go at your post,Mamya. I was highlighting that my mother's plight was made harder by having an abusive waste of space husband.

[Prudie]

There's not a single person on this thread who would not willingly give to a starving child allen and you know it. In fact you just used the topic to draw in those you perceive as hard-hearted right wingers so you could bash them (and in some cases insult them beyond the usual accepted bounds of AB) and hold yourself up as a caring human being. All people have questioned is whether it should be given carte-blanche across the board - something anyone with any sense would do.

[royfromaus]

A good well-observed answer, Prudie.

[iluvmargie]

^ Ditto.

[Sqad]

I am a it confused allenlondon, to whom does the BA refer.
To be more precise, which post?

[Mamyalynne]

I agree that a carte-blanche approach would be foolish which is why restricting it to those already in receipt is the only possible way at present - unless a new tier of means testing is introduced and that in itself brings costs.

[Prudie]

Don't worry sqad, that's about the 6th he's given on this thread so far - socialism in action :-)

[iluvmargie]

He keeps changing the BA Sqad!!

[Sqad]

Lol..i know prudie, I know.

[allenlondon]

I like to give everyone a go, Sqad.

Nice person? Not particularly. I'm a PERSON - nice bits, nasty bits, and spades get called spades!

[Sqad]

allen....yes,yes I know,but you haven't answered my question.....to which post does the BA allude?