Marus Rushford - AIBU?

[Pr1mr0se]

it's admirable that he feels he can raise the topic of school meals and poverty and the campaign seems to be growing wings with the food alliance HOWEVER AIBU to think that given that he is an extremely wealthy footballer with many footballer contacts in similar positions that they should be putting their money where their mouth is, so to speak too?

@LioneIRichTea

Why do people pick on footballers? Someone had it right when they said it’s because they grew up working class and are now millionaires and for some reason that’s not allowed, they should stay in their box.

Plenty of super rich people in this country who are rich from absolutely no talent at all, yet people always go for the footballers.

But yes, it’s the Government’s job.

I've never thought of it this way but it's so true. Thank you for that post

Lol he probably gives lots of money to charity tbh.

And why do you care so much about Marcus Rashford and footballers giving money - what about all the hedge fund billionaires in this country? The aristocracy? Members of the current f*cking government who have more money than sense?

Interesting that you want working class boys made good to foot the bill.

I would remember that he has already given a considerable amount of his free time, energy and effort to help others less fortunate than himself, I should imagine it has taken many hours to do all the interviews he has done.

He probably also acts in an advisory capacity and has learned about the current situation. So regardless of whether or not he is donating actual funds, I would say he is more than doing his bit.

I actually think it's the responsibility of parents to feed their kids, with the government stepping in in times of hardship.

Even wealthy individuals have nothing like the sums available to personally support hundreds of thousands of children

(and a footballer especially would be wise to build up savings and assets, because just one accident can end a career permanently)

It takes £ hundreds of millions, sometimes £ billions, which only a government with access to 40 million taxpayers can finance and organise

OP Try turning your attention to the Government and the House of Lords which is full of moneyed people. Why are you not asking what are they doing with their millions? No instead you decided to call out Marcus Rashford instead. Shame on you.

Marcus Rashford has done more to alleviate poverty in a few months than this fucking government has in 12 years - both in terms of his own time and money. Not least using his profile to raise the issue and but eloquently sharing his direct experience of having grown up in poverty.

So what if he uses his PR machine, he's making an effective change to policy and bringing people and organisations along with him. It's more than this shitshow of politicians are able to do.

@Pr1mr0se

it's admirable that he feels he can raise the topic of school meals and poverty and the campaign seems to be growing wings with the food alliance HOWEVER AIBU to think that given that he is an extremely wealthy footballer with many footballer contacts in similar positions that they should be putting their money where their mouth is, so to speak too?

Nothing you say has any weight considering you couldn't be bothered to get his name right.

If you google it, there is a long list of his charity work. Slate footballers as much as you like but a fair whack of them pull their charitable weight.

In addition to what everyone else has said, there's also the point that even if he donated 90% of his salary to needy kids, it wouldn't be a long term solution. It'd be great for a few years or decades, but then what? The only long-term solution is to implement state welfare systems that ensure we all, together, take care of society's most vulnerable, rather than relying on the odd millionaire donor here and there.

As someone’s already mentioned, he’s raised over £20 million for FareShare to provide meals to vulnerable children and families. He drew enough publicity to pressure the government to U turn on free school meal vouchers over the summer holidays.
From the BBC ‘The U-turn means the government will pay the extra £120m to extend free school meal vouchers across the six weeks of the holidays, available to 1.3 million children.’

Whatever money he gives personally, and I’m sure he does give personally, he’s been responsible for unlocking funding that equals more than twice his net worth. In a few months. Would else would you like him to do?

At least have a decency to acknowledge the wrong name fgs.

Jealousy. Pure jealousy. Working class people who make good always encounter this. Especially when it comes to footballers. For people like the OP, Marcus Rashford could never in a million years do right for wrong.

How about we question the government ministers shifting ££ offshore to avoid tax?
The giving of ££ to pals for ‘contracts’?
The loans to billionaires to sustain their businesses?
Eat out to help out, costing billions when kids are going hungry?
Clear to see the Tories on MN

I guess the OP isn't coming back.

I have to say listen him describe how his mum carefully budgeted to but food for him, his brothers and herself had some food for everyday was horrifying. And then his mum went to speak to his coaches about how she couldn't do it anymore, and his team going out of their way to take him in early to their programme to help his family.

This is the type of young man we should encourage our children to look up too, and not these other vaped 'stars' who offer nothing but their own ego.

@HoneysuckIejasmine

It is not the responsibility of wealthy individuals to pay for food programmes for children, it is the responsibility of the government.

If only it was the responsibility of the parents.

I wonder if people who say so stridently that 'parents should feed their own children' ever bother to lobby the government or indeed even give a shit about the scandal of unpaid and evaded child support in this country?

@JamieLeeCurtains
Of course they don’t, they live in their bubble of prep schools, well paid husbands and coffee morning, voting Tory 😡

I guess they find Marcus Rashford threatening, @SBTLove, shining his light like that.

@JamieLeeCurtains

I wonder if people who say so stridently that 'parents should feed their own children' ever bother to lobby the government or indeed even give a shit about the scandal of unpaid and evaded child support in this country?

They are the same sort of people who would have their begging bowl out in a second should any financial mishap befall them - no doubt, society would owe them due to their "exceptional" circumstances.

I didn't hear anyone say that people shouldn't take furlough money to feed their kids. Easy to judge the poor though eh?

@MannymanMunroe
I did see some moaning going on from ‘shocked’ workers horrified at how little UC was and wouldn’t cover their lifestyles and also moaning about SE grants not being high enough, well maybe not fiddle your tax return 🤣

@JamieLeeCurtains
It's thinly veiled jealousy & racism at the uppity young black man daring to step
out his box.
He can’t win, sits in his mansion doing nothing he’s selfish, steps up and gets criticised as not enough.