Marcus Rashford - School Meals Vouchers Campaign

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NerveAgent said:

Sounds like you’ve got in to a load of conspiracy bks to explain to yourself why the “people should give him credit” doesn’t play out with everyone.

Because me giving the lad credit for his achievements when other people are claiming he's run by a "lobbying firm" and is controlled by his "real bosses" is definitely me getting into a load of conspiracy bks.

Seems legit

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Hadn't twigged he hadn't had the actual ceremony.

Marcus Rashford: Manchester United striker to give MBE to mum

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They really don't do irony or self-awareness do they

Tory MP who said Marcus Rashford should focus on his day job has a second job

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Countdown said:

Do you think she would feel any guilt if it was also pointed out to her that his work was for the benefit of others and not for £86 an hour like hers.

Say what you like about Boris, he's managed to make sleaze, corruption and hypocrisy almost a non-issue.

Honestly I doubt the self-awareness is even there.

I suspect it's as simple as the lad did something to shame the Government so he must be criticised for it.

Not far off what you see on here.

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Some children are fat.

Some are also starving.

I'm no nutritionist but I believe obesity can be down to quality of food not just quantity.

Not really sure what your point is

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What I don't get is if people object to the cost of a bit of food what on earth will they say when they see the tax bill to put children in care and every poor parent in jail?

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poo at Paul's said:

Perhaps there would be a disinsentive for the same feckless "parents" or their ilk to breed merely for the financial gain they will receive, if there is a chance the kid gets taken off (thus cutting off the money) or they end up in clink for child abuse? So one needs to consider the ongoing reduction in costs and well as the increase.

It also fails to consider the fundamental rationale, that is a parent is unable or unwilling to provide the most basic of "care" for their kid, ie feeding them, what other elements of care are missing? In many cases, the child would be better in care and the cost of that has to be wieghed but it should not be the overiding decision.

Feeding a kid tow meals a day oneself is a few pounds a week, it really is. The problem if you make the State responsible for that, it becomes a few hundred or so! But unless someone else does do it, in many cases the kid still wont get fed .

I'm sure we could all point to cases where children have died of the most abhorrent physical abuse imaginable where neighbours will say "we heard things and reported it" anyone looking would think "how the hell were they left so they could do that?".

When you can't clear that bar I honestly don't think we're going to see kids taken into care any time soon because their parents give them a 2L bottle of Cola to shut them up.

I'm fairly sure quite a few developed countries think nothing of providing school meals for children.

We seem a rather mean spirited nation with lots of talk of "looking after our own" but when push comes to shove somehow these children don't qualify as "our own".

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Biggy Stardust said:

Just public birching followed by a spell in the stocks with unrestricted hurling of rotten fruit/eggs, then. No worries.

I get the feeling that for some parents no amount of attempts at re-education would work.

Probably not and I'm sure most people would support something in between doing nothing v the stocks.

I think the issue is more the view that doing things where the only people who lose out are the kids who are blameless in all of this is an appropriate response.

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I know everyone loves a bit of James O'Brien but this is worth a listen as it's actually rather illustrative of the "we need to look after our own" mentality.

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1461304500598280197...

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Christmas: Marcus Rashford and Tom Kerridge create £10 dinner

Doesn't look half-bad

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Digga said:

I have a degree of sympathy.

My mate is a chippy and he and is part of a team of (highly proficient and trustworthy) tradesmen that spend most of their time trouping from one footballer's house to another. Most of them have necessarily high security as a precaution, but some because they have had the misfortune to be targeted. If you are in the public eye, you have to be very careful and a dog is one of the few, legally permitted forms of protection.

The dog is bought as a working dog, ready trained and I think the cropping of the ears was likely coincidental rather than being specified.

I don't know anything about dogs and I wouldn't be surprised if Rashford knows very little either.

There's a difference between ignorance and "can you crop its ears please?".

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I wonder if he'll come out of retirement

Give more pupils free school meals, teachers in England say

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Very insightful Pete.

Bless your kind heart

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Nice gesture.

Marcus Rashford Book Club to give away 50,000 books this summer

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Looks like this might be coming up again.

Fears of widespread child hunger spark calls for universal free school meals in UK