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To want everyone to know the names of the MPs who voted against feeding hungry children?

631 replies

WrongKindOfFace · 22/10/2020 07:40

Remember Marcus Rashford and his campaign to extend free school meals? Yesterday all but a handful of Tory MPs voted against extending free school meals over the school holidays until Easter 2021. You can see if your MP is amongst them here: votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/896#noes

Whatever your thoughts on what parents should be doing some children are going to go hungry. Why punish the children because of the sins of the parent? And remember most people on benefits are in work.

Plus there is a bloody pandemic. We’re in unprecedented times. People who were just about managing are now on the bones of their arse.

We have billions to spaff up the wall on a useless test and trace system, or useless Ppe but we can’t feed a few hungry kids. And le’t not forget that the MPs voting against this get subsidised meals and can claim for their food on expenses.

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XEbonyrose1X · 22/10/2020 13:14

It's disgusting. The rich will never know what it's like. My children are lucky enough to have three meals and snacks a day. But I would never presume that's the case for everyone.

Our child's school did donations to the food bank for harvest festival. The list of things they were desperate for was just so long. Basically it was everything. Tea, coffee, squash, milk, long life tins, biscuits, puddings, rice, pasta, cereal, kids snacks, sauces. The list went on and on. People shouldn't be starving in 2020. The government should be ashamed.

I'd dread to think what some children have been through this year. The government have really let them down.

W3dontdoduvets · 22/10/2020 13:14

How anyone can defend these scummy Tories is beyond me. They must have the empathy/sympathy gene missing. It Is INDEFENSIBLE.

alphabetti · 22/10/2020 13:15

Mine voted against providing meals for vulnerable children yet constantly posts photos of him having fancy coffees/sweet treats and meals out at places that are not the cheapest prices. It’s a shame he doesn’t realise what a dick he has been!!!

KEA321 · 22/10/2020 13:16

My waste of space MP voted no. He always does, completely tows the party line. Utter scumbags. It makes me so angry.

W3dontdoduvets · 22/10/2020 13:16

Some pp said they doubt anyone here watches HOC, I presume they mean PMQT. How patronising, I watch it every Wednesday, I’m sure lots here do.

TeddyIsaHe · 22/10/2020 13:17

The Tories are scum though.

This mixed with the absolutely appalling shitshow that no deal brexit is going to bring after a horrendous pandemic winter?

Anyone standing up for them needs to have a serious look at themselves. Which they won’t, because staunch Tories can’t see the horrific things that happen outside of their little blue bubbles.

TeddyIsaHe · 22/10/2020 13:18

And who doesn’t watch PMQs? It’s great fun watching KS annihilate that useless lump of meat every week.

yetanothernamitynamechange · 22/10/2020 13:19

@Sobeyondthehills I heard another one on the news - apparently the problem would be allieviated if feckless fathers contributed more. Well yes they should but:

  1. They often don't
  2. I havent seen the government falling over itself to introduce legislation that makes them
  3. The absolute cheek of it when BoJo is leader of their party
Ohtherewearethen · 22/10/2020 13:20

@GetOffYourHighHorse - you really are clutching at straws here. Literally the only argument you can come up with, and therefore keep repeating, is that someone called a Tory MP 'scum', as though it is the worst thing in the world. May I remind you of your great leader's comments about gay men (tank-topped bum boys), Muslim women and black people? Let me guess, you are none of these so don't see them as offensive. As you are a Tory, however, you take great offense to the term 'Tory scum' because you are one.

As for it not being 'ideal' for constituents to not have a single clue about what their MP stands for and believes in...well, I really don't know what to say to that. You are clearly anti-democracy and would rather a totalitarian state. If you make bad choices you have to expect consequences. It's what we teach children from a very young age. What you are suggesting is that MPs can act as deplorably as they wish that can have devastating effects on millions of people and it can all be kept secret from the plebs. That is a very dangerous road to start paying with gold.
I do not agree with people threatening MPs' families any more than I agree with MPs being given carte blanche to make decisions on behalf of the country without giving the country the right to know what those decisions are.

yetanothernamitynamechange · 22/10/2020 13:21

Although also the automatic reply said they can only reply to residents in the constiuency. I am an overseas voter so am registered to vote there as it was my last place of residence but I am not resident there now. So I don't suppose I will be receiving a reply anyway :(

SoloMummy · 22/10/2020 13:21

@mrshoho

And do you know how little your household income needs to be to qualify for fsms now if you need universal credit? £7400 pa. On the old system it was something like £16000. There is something very wrong in this country.
This is what I think needs to be acted on and publicised more wildly.
Yesyoudoknowme · 22/10/2020 13:22

Mine voted no too, surprise surprise - and he is married to the woman in charge of test and trace... Angry

malificent7 · 22/10/2020 13:23

Utter bastards but then we did vote them in as a nation so what did everyone expect?

MagicoRomantico · 22/10/2020 13:26

One of the MPs that voted no is the Children's Minister, Vicky Ford.
Yep, you heard that right: THE CHILDREN'S MINISTER.

nosswith · 22/10/2020 13:27

Mr Johnson and his government withdraw the whip from people and deselect those who vote against the party line. So some will have voted as they did to keep their jobs (they hope) in 2024.

Awful as it is, they are prepared to be led by a misognyist part time Prime Minister and hungry children terrible as it is compares nothing to those who have died through his inactions. Harold Shipman killed fewer by his actions.

anothergloriusmorning · 22/10/2020 13:27

*In a perfect world all parents would be both able and willing to feed all their children with enough nutritious food, multiple meals, every day. But we know that for countless reasons, far too many children don't get good, nourishing meals, don't get enough to soothe empty tummies even if it's not good and nourishing.

The fact that not all parents can manage to feed their children is never, NEVER the child's fault, and any society, from a civilised one like ours to the most remote tribes, should recognise that a collective effort is needed to see that the children are fed.*

Couldn't agree more!

GetOffYourHighHorse · 22/10/2020 13:29

'Literally the only argument you can come up with, and therefore keep repeating, is that someone called a Tory MP 'scum', as though it is the worst thing in the world.'

'Someone'. The deputy leader of the opposition you mean and also half the posters on this thread. MPs family's are being abused. Stop minimising. It is not ok.

What about Sunak's announcements today did you look at the link? Noooo that'll be 'whataboutery' or a 'derailment'.

Carry on with your 'yeah but no but free school meals scum! innit' chat.

DynamoKev · 22/10/2020 13:30

@malificent7

Utter bastards but then we did vote them in as a nation so what did everyone expect?
The majority of people who bothered to vote didn't vote Tory
TeddyIsaHe · 22/10/2020 13:32

Ffs. People are actually DYING because of Tories and the rightwingers are moaning because there’s nasty people on Twitter.

You couldn’t make this shit up.

DuncinToffee · 22/10/2020 13:37

What about Sunak's announcements today did you look at the link? Noooo that'll be 'whataboutery' or a 'derailment'.

They made a U-turn, now they can make another one for school meals in holiday time.

OnceUponAnEnzyme · 22/10/2020 13:37

@W3dontdoduvets

Some pp said they doubt anyone here watches HOC, I presume they mean PMQT. How patronising, I watch it every Wednesday, I’m sure lots here do.
I do. Well, I watch it on catch up on a Thursday, but still...

It makes me mad and sad as hell, but I watch.

VinylDetective · 22/10/2020 13:38

MPs family's are being abused. Stop minimising. It is not ok

It’s far more OK than kids not having enough to eat.

Devlesko · 22/10/2020 13:40

MPs family's are being abused. Stop minimising. It is not ok

Yep, that's what comes from marrying and having kids with them.
Perhaps they deserve it, not the families but the MP's let them worry a bit. Couldn't have happened to more suitable people, tbh.

0blio · 22/10/2020 13:44

I'm just waiting to see if my MP replies to the person who called him out on twitter for voting no. I won't hold my breath Sad

Ohtherewearethen · 22/10/2020 13:49

@GetOffYourHighHorse

Carry on with your 'yeah but no but free school meals scum! innit' chat

I don't speak like that. I don't know what kind of point you're trying to make by suggesting I do. That I am ineloquent? Unintelligent? That I don't have a valid point to make? Interesting when all you can come up with is that MPs should be able to vote for abhorrent policies on private so that they are not accountable for their actions and that 'someone' used the word 'scum' about a Tory MP they knew, based on the beliefs they hold. No opinions on the disgusting comments your wonderful PM made about huge numbers of our population that he doesn't actually know, or...?