Off Topic Ian Beale’s Free School Meals On Wheels

I’m chatting away on WhatsApp to my brother about it now.

 

The prices of greggs have more than doubled since I was at school

 

how come?

 

He wasn’t very good at maths at school.

 

I used to be able to get 4 pasties for a pound and an iced split for 24 p

 

no I meant how come you chat outa your arse so much

soz didn’t make myself clear

 

i never said that anyone who is struggling is a sponger, but I will accept your apology

 

Marcus Rashford absolutely smashing life on twitter today
https://twitter.com/MarcusRashford?s=09





It goes on and on and on.

Top. Lad

 

Anyone know if this is right?

Just makes it worse if so.

 

Very moving reading not only the tweets from the food businesses but the response from the public wanting to donate to help them provide these meals.

 

Fukin sad at the same time. Sad people have to do this in the 1st place. Fully ashamed of the government.

 

It’s not true.

They get a £25 a night food allowance if staying away from their constituency and London.

The food and drink services at the House of Commons operates at a £2.5m per annum loss though, so in essence the food and drink they buy at Westminster is subsidised, albeit indirectly.

 

I prefer to celebrate the generous spirit of people but suspect that there will either be a sudden policy u-turn or it will end up being a PR disaster for this government.

 

Labour, Local councils, businesses and people like Rashford should keep the pressure on the Govt to change their policy on this.

Its ****ing shameful to allow kids to go hungry. There’s no excuse for it whatsoever.

 

So I assume we all agree that Rashford comes across as a top guy for his work here? There's so many times a person can come across as disingenuous or self-serving and there's not even an ounce of that from him that I can see, just a grade A guy doing what he can. He's good to not get too involved with individual politicians too, nothing to be gained there, just keep saying the right things, applying pressure and giving credit where it's due.

 

I went to a Comprehensive in a very poor part of the country (Gateshead) and then worked in Norris Green and Bootle (Liverpool). There's a lot of hard working people who try their best to give their children the kind of lives they wish they had been able to have themselves and any help makes a much bigger difference to them than it does to me. There's also a minority who make horrible life decisions (drink, drugs, crime, etc) and their children are affected by it in ways that it's nicer for society at large to just try and ignore, as a society of course it's possible to just say "well those people just shouldn't have kids" or "those people should be using their money to look after their own children" but factually if they do have children and they aren't looking after them then making sure those children are fed is a bare minimum. Those children didn't play any part in creating the situation in which they live, the mere idea that they should bare the brunt of others decisions is abhorrent.

 

Rashford’s a class act, and there’s no doubt that there’s plenty of other footballers like him out there who keep their off-pitch activity to themselves, then there’s others like Juan Mata and Sadio Mane who get more of the media spotlight for their great work. It’s not difficult to see who the nice guys are I suppose.

 

I’m certainly coming back tonight