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Hope everyone has signed the Petition to End Child Food Poverty started by Marcus Rashford MBE.
Nearly 700 000 people have already.
Nearly 700 000 people have already.
A bit like MPs then....but without the subsidised meals and bars.Just a suggestion here. How about as the country is in a financial black hole now and for god knows how long why don’t all premier league players donate 5% of their wages for say 3 months. They are in a hugely privileged position and a good number of them( not all and I understand Rashfords idea) have no idea how the real world works these days.
I don't disagree that the issues why support is needed go much deeper. It is an absolute crying shame that the Tories spent the last decade ripping the a**e out of all of these services in the name of austerity, don't you think?Marcus Rashford's campaign is to get the state to provide meals in school holidays to all children eligible for FSM.
It needs to be more nuanced than that and target those most in need.
There are plenty of kids of FSM who, whilst obviously not rich, are doing OK and parents neither want nor need FSM in the holidays.
Equally there are lots of children who are in dire and desperate need of support not just with food but with a whole range of complex issues.
So rather than spend the money on a broad brush approach for hundreds of thousands who don't want it, it should be better targeted and direct help for those most in need That's also why Government has given Councils additional funding for localised and targeted help for those families among other things during Covid.
It is far broader than meals alone, and needs social services et al to get to the root of the problem for some children.
Unfortunately it is also a fairly large publicity band wagon for folk to jump on.
Marcus Rashford's campaign is to get the state to provide meals in school holidays to all children eligible for FSM.
It needs to be more nuanced than that and target those most in need.
There are plenty of kids of FSM who, whilst obviously not rich, are doing OK and parents neither want nor need FSM in the holidays.
Equally there are lots of children who are in dire and desperate need of support not just with food but with a whole range of complex issues.
So rather than spend the money on a broad brush approach for hundreds of thousands who don't want it, it should be better targeted and direct help for those most in need That's also why Government has given Councils additional funding for localised and targeted help for those families among other things during Covid.
It is far broader than meals alone, and needs social services et al to get to the root of the problem for some children.
Unfortunately it is also a fairly large publicity band wagon for folk to jump on.
I am not saying MP’s aren’t lucky by wages although they have a hugely important job whichever party they represent but just for comparison the average MP gets £82000 a year and the average Premier league footballer gets £2,880,000 or 35.12 times as much.A bit like MPs then....but without the subsidised meals and bars.
Here's the menu from the Members dining room from September 2019: https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/mdr-main-10.09.19.pdf
And I have signed the petition.
And it is fantastic to see so many local businesses offering to feed kids for free over half term and subsequent holidays...and equally shameful that the government voted against putting their hands in their pockets to meet the genuine need in the first place....including 6 ministers from the DoE.
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Hello, Ben. You really need to be a bit more careful on social media and probably should avoid going on BBC Breakfast when you can be skewered so easily over your tweets.
I can't agree, I'm entirely comfortable with people getting something they don't need if that means those that do need it, get it.I have a child who gets free school meals but we certainly don’t need them during school holidays so as Essex yellows says it needs to be targeted to those who need it.
Hello, Ben. You really need to be a bit more careful on social media and probably should avoid going on BBC Breakfast when you can be skewered so easily over your tweets.
Great to see Essex Yellows is out defending the "Don't Give Food to Hungry Kids During a Pandemic" Party.
I knew he was a loyal Conservative, but I thought even his Loyalty had limits.
Imagine describing feeding hungry children, or demanding that hungry children get fed "jumping on the bandwagon'
Better to jump on that bandwagon than push kids under the bus.
The CONSERVATIVEs have spent 12 BILLION Pounds on a test and trace app that didn't work. Hundreds of Millions on Dodgy PPE contracts for donors.
They don't care about saving money
He got it right and folk take it out of context to jump on the band wagon.