Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
Its refreshing to see that people still have certain values and morals in this country and that certain people care about the less well off and whether they will go hungry this winter. It gives a sense of pride. This is what coming together is, shame it's taken a Man UTD player to lead by example.
Yes I am sure these football players earning millions every year worry so much they can't sleep until their next paycheque.
 
1. It worked and got the pub name in the paper
2. It's not a positive thing that the pub wont be around after covid. People will lose jobs and income.
3. If a chancellor isnt worried about businesses closing then they are in the wrong job.
But as the article states, it isnt about politics but about humanitrism
Actually?
1. It worked and got the pub name in the paper... then... But as the article states, it isnt about politics but about humanitrism? eer contradiction?
 
Actually?
1. It worked and got the pub name in the paper... then... But as the article states, it isnt about politics but about humanitrism? eer contradiction?
Not at all. That's media attention for them, advertising if you like. The government just provided the ammunition for them to do so. Silly
 
Not quite sure you truly understand any of this Ellers, that's a shame
I understand it bob... all you and a couple of others do is post nothing but anti-government stuff. You don't post anything else. Always the same cr2p. I keep saying you need to look behind the headlines and see what is really going on.
 
I understand it bob... all you and a couple of others do is post nothing but anti-government stuff. You don't post anything else. Always the same cr2p. I keep saying you need to look behind the headlines and see what is really going on.
Like I say, you dont understand it. How could I possibly be pro government on this matter without being a ruthless, horrible ignorant twat?
 
Like I say, you dont understand it. How could I possibly be pro government on this matter without being a ruthless, horrible ignorant twat?
I understand it just fine. However if the landlord wanted to bar Sunak he should have done it descretly like what my local landlord did to some idiot that kept swearing. He went to the media for publicity and nothing else. Show me all the stuff the landlord as done for kids school dinners in the past?
 
Anyway, will leave you too it Ellers. Think we all know your stance on this issue, whether you admit it or not. Sweet dreams
Sadly bob you know nothing of my stance.You're just another person jumping on the anti-government train.
 
I understand it bob... all you and a couple of others do is post nothing but anti-government stuff. You don't post anything else. Always the same cr2p. I keep saying you need to look behind the headlines and see what is really going on.

What’s really going on?

Are they secretly doing a brilliant job?
 
Only yesterday I exchanged messages with a friend who moved from London to Warrington last year. She has found it quite shocking how anti government people are, and how people feel decisions are made with only London in mind.

The school dinners situation is one I saw first hand when I ran youth clubs in East London before moving to Paris. Half the time kids went hungry as parents didn't have the means to feed them, and half the time it was because parents chose to spend the money on the wrong things. The kids would then follow their parent's example and if they had money, it would go towards a can of coke and sweets/chocolate. We spent quite a lot of time in youth clubs, cooking meals altogether, so the kids could see how to cook from scratch, instead of just sticking a pizza in the oven/paying for a takeaway.

As is so often the case, what is needed is a little bit of education and a willingness to learn. It is possible to eat well for not much, but it requires time to prepare, and knowing where, and sometimes when, you can buy food cheaply.

On that note, I'm off to the market, where I can get fruit and veg for a family of four, for a week, for around €15 (£13.60).
 
Only yesterday I exchanged messages with a friend who moved from London to Warrington last year. She has found it quite shocking how anti government people are, and how people feel decisions are made with only London in mind.

The school dinners situation is one I saw first hand when I ran youth clubs in East London before moving to Paris. Half the time kids went hungry as parents didn't have the means to feed them, and half the time it was because parents chose to spend the money on the wrong things. The kids would then follow their parent's example and if they had money, it would go towards a can of coke and sweets/chocolate. We spent quite a lot of time in youth clubs, cooking meals altogether, so the kids could see how to cook from scratch, instead of just sticking a pizza in the oven/paying for a takeaway.

As is so often the case, what is needed is a little bit of education and a willingness to learn. It is possible to eat well for not much, but it requires time to prepare, and knowing where, and sometimes when, you can buy food cheaply.

On that note, I'm off to the market, where I can get fruit and veg for a family of four, for a week, for around €15 (£13.60).

To be fair I think they just have contempt for everyone when they don’t need their votes.

There appears to be some sort of competition on Twitter for which random backbencher you’ve never heard of can show themselves to be the least humane. Ben Bradley is still winning but has the unfair advantage for previous comments about benefits claimants being sterilised.
 
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It seems like the majority of the country is rallying around to feed hungry children during the school holidays, obviously apart from ruthless tories (bar 5). McDonalds is now donating 1 million meals aswell.
 
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