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

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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.

Were there any pairings? Possibly not given only 5 Labour and 2 Lib Dems didn't vote (shame on you Ed Davey) but if there were then potentially even more Tories voted against by pairing.

I didn't think I could loathe my pathetic excuse of an MP any more than I already do.

Turns out I can.

Definitely @IndieTara. It's a dreadful situation. The pandemic has simply highlighted the vast gulf between rich and poor in this country, and people can't understand (perhaps they choose not to?) the complexity of it.

Not enough money for school dinners...

Interesting, as my MP is a complete twat, so I was surprised to find that his name isn't on the list. He is evidently slightly less of a twat than I thought.

@DontBeShelfish that lack of understanding is something I see all the time in comments etc on the local community FB groups I'm part of. Well meaning people but no real idea.

No surprise that the Tory MP for my constituency is on the list. His voting record is the pits. Nasty man.

'There has never been free school meals in holidays, under any government.'

There has never been lockdown, furlough with reduced wages at best and complete job losses at worst, and the frequent need for self-isolation under any government.

If a self-employed person or zero hours contract worker or someone at serious risk of redundancy knows that self-isolation for 2 weeks after exposure or staying at home with symptoms will make them unable to feed their kids adequately, then they are likely to go to work if they possibly can and avoid self-isolating or even getting tested. Then the virus spreads. For that reason alone, apart from the hundred and one other reasons for not punishing kids for their parents' poverty, it's important to make sure that all children have access to meals at this time.

@OnceUponAnEnzyme

Not enough money for school dinners...

This is Nigel Farage's tweet . Even he doesn't agree with them.

"If the government can subsidise Eat Out to Help Out, not being seen to give poor kids lunch in the school holidays looks mean and is wrong."

twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1319172209403961346

Good God. Too right wing even for Nigel Farage? Who'd have thought it possible? (Has anyone checked to see what Katie Hopkins has to say on the matter?)

(Anyone still believe our government isn't rabidly right wing? It can't be long now before that innovative new post-Brexit "Workhouse in the Community" programme starts, complete with centres bearing a legend along the lines of "Gemüseanbaugebiete macht frei"....) (Once all the Eastern European pickers have been sent packing under Priti Patel's policy revisions, obviously....)

Just leaving this here. It’s the subsidised menu our MPs got to enjoy in the House of Commons dining room today. Anyone else fancy dining out on rib-eye in a prime London location for less than a tenner?

@OnceUponAnEnzyme

Not enough money for school dinners...

To be honest, that money is going to people who have lost their livelihoods. I can’t begrudge them government support. It shouldn’t be one or the other.

Mine on there too, not surprised, he is a little snivelling tory arselicker .I have just sent him a piece of my mind via email .
I cannot put my rage and hatred into words towards these arsewipes, what thoughts go through someone's mind when saying no to feeding a hungry child ,for a fairly short time too. I hope they all choke on the contents of their fortnum and mason christmas hampers.

The Tories are in power indefinitely. Nothing to do but hunker down. Or, if you vote for them, be happy.

@VinylDetective did you read the article?

That £85,000 (equivalent to over 35,000 free dinners) went to a close friend of Boris, who is worth £700m himself and to prop up a 'business' he allows to be run by his 17 year old son - who is still at school.

It was a grant given to support this business during the winter months - even though the business only ever operates during summer months.

I would genuinly be amazed if it saved anyone's livelihood.

[quote OnceUponAnEnzyme]@VinylDetective did you read the article?

That £85,000 (equivalent to over 35,000 free dinners) went to a close friend of Boris, who is worth £700m himself and to prop up a 'business' he allows to be run by his 17 year old son - who is still at school.

It was a grant given to support this business during the winter months - even though the business only ever operates during summer months.

I would genuinly be amazed if it saved anyone's livelihood.[/quote]
Sorry, I skim read it. I credited the bastards with too much. I should know better.

Easily done - to not realise just how low this government can sink or how far into the money pot they've got their grubby fat fingers.

Mine voted yes, but we are in a strong Labour seat.

People are being totally hysterical saying children are starving to death. They aren’t. Education is the key - how to budget and manage money. Free school meals today, what next? Providing clothes? Do people stop to think that by increasing government spending on the level we are currently is going to condemn their kids to a lifetime of paying huge taxes in the future to pay off all this debt? Nothing in life is free, there will come a time when the payback comes, and we will be seen as the selfish generation who lived for today with no thought for our children or grandchildren.

I hate them. Every single one of them. Equally I despise every single selfish fucker who voted them in in December.

So Marcus Rashford says jump and if others don't ask how high, they should be flamed and lambasted?

Are we only enthralled by celebrity viewpoints and only then get agitated to think about starving children and that the panacea to it is to chuck £15 a week at
them in school holidays!

I don't doubt his sincerity having received free meals myself when I was a child. However, not all on free school meals are starving. Most parents feed their children. We should instead identify the ones who are not and support the families to ensure they meet their number one priority of feeding their children.

Free school meals today, what next? Providing clothes?

If you let the hairdresser cut your hair, next thing you know she'll be hacking off your ears!

I knew my local MP would be on there, he's the most obnoxious person I've ever had cause to meet. It comes to something when the Tory party make Nigel Farage look reasonable.

The same 'David Ross' of the David Ross Education (Academy) Trust

schoolsweek.co.uk/david-ross-education-trust-cleared-of-wrongdoing-but-is-vulnerable-financially-esfa-rules/

schoolsweek.co.uk/coronavirus-david-ross-education-trust-furloughs-dozens-of-staff/