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

[WrongKindOfFace]

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.

Does that MP realise that Lily will be able to vote at the next election? If she is organised enough to write, she may be able to influence others and help unseat him next time.

At the age of 31 BJ described the children of single mothers as "ill raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate" so no surprise he wouldnt care if they were hungry.

He does of course, speak from experience having at least two children outside marriage.

I think he will surmise from Lily's letter that she won't be voting for him.😁

'Says it all about this Government.No social conscience.'

They've increased UC by £20 a week!

You do know benefits haven't been cut in the pandemic don't you? So those on benefits are no worse off and those on low wages can apply for UC.

They should have continued fsm throughout the holidays though, if nothing else but to stop people jumping on the 'starving children' emotive bandwagon.

Many councils are using the millions extra given to them by Government to feed all these alleged starving children, which they could have just done in the first place. Targeted support! Well done councils.

'Does that MP realise that Lily will be able to vote at the next election?'
Oh come off it, the people complaining probably wouldn't have voted from them in the first place 🙄.

The meals system that ran over the summer didn't work for our semi rural community. An offshoot of the food bank ended up running a drop off system as the laces to use the vouchers weren't accessible by public transport and using £5 of fuel rather offset the benefit. If the Tori's have voted down the vouchers scheme in favour of providing the money to local councils to support local schemes which can better serve the demographic of that area then it doesn't seem unreasonable imo. It remains to be seen if this comes to fruition though. I've contacted our mp to ask exactly what is being done.

'Does that MP realise that Lily will be able to vote at the next election?'
Oh come off it, the people complaining probably wouldn't have voted from them in the first place

Of course they would, tories and labour voters arent a hive mind

( whats the word for a group of labour voters)

Oh arse, bold fail

Philip Davies has a majority of 6,242. This with a bit of effort can be overturned. In my constituency we managed to destroy a 9,000 Tory majority in 2017. It was hard work, but doable. Get organised now.

Oh come off it, the people complaining probably wouldn't have voted from them in the first place.
No, and he can pretty much guarantee that they won't now.

'Of course they would, tories and labour voters arent a hive mind'

Whether people admit it or not I would suggest the vast majority of 'ToryScum!' Posters on here just might not be those who would usually vote for them..

'If the Tori's have voted down the vouchers scheme in favour of providing the money to local councils to support local schemes '

They should have spelt it out to councils that they must budget with the money given to them to target those in need. If they have a high proportion of fsm in their council/Borough then provision should have been made. Mayors want all this autonomy yet couldn't organises a piss up in a brewery.

Whether people admit it or not I would suggest the vast majority of 'ToryScum!' Posters on here just might not be those who would usually vote for them..

Maybe you should have been a little clearer in your post...

I agree anyone saying tory scum wouldnt vote for them

I do not agree that any one complaining wouldn’t vote from them

'do not agree that any one complaining wouldn’t vote from them'

Ah right. Yes you're right I shouldve been clearer sorry.

I would suggest that most (if not all) wanging on at length and emailing their MPs, plus those using abusive language wouldn’t have voted for them anyway. So no votes (in 4 years time..) lost really.

Good that MaccyDs have stepped up to offer free food.

You know, you're right. I might have gone a whole lifetime without ever having voted Conservative and so there's clearly no vote lost there.

But I live in a constituency that regularly swings from blue to red and back again. I don't believe all those who voted Conservative in the last election but Labour the time before would be cool with the dark side of the Tory rhetoric, do you? I think robbing poor children of food security in a pandemic while you stuff your face with subsidised nosh has bad optics and given the public shit fit in action by Matt Vickers, so does he. That's a vote loser.

@GetOffYourHighHorse

'do not agree that any one complaining wouldn’t vote from them'

Ah right. Yes you're right I shouldve been clearer sorry.

I would suggest that most (if not all) wanging on at length and emailing their MPs, plus those using abusive language wouldn’t have voted for them anyway. So no votes (in 4 years time..) lost really.

Good that MaccyDs have stepped up to offer free food.

Absolutely agree both with the language and mcdonalds 😀

I find the McDonalds references from that poster and the one who thinks it is funny awful. You come across as sneering and judgemental and it is stomach churning.

'You come across as sneering and judgemental and it is stomach churning.'

Oh stop being dramatic. 'Stomach churning' 🙄. 'm not sneering at all. I think it's great that businesses are stepping up.

However the most important thing is that councils, who bleat on about wanting local control use the powers given to them, as some indeed are. The 'ToryScum' give them cash to do just that.

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I hope to hell that people remember the state of our NHS, schools, social care, mental health provision at the next election. Our Country is as polarised now as it was a hundred years ago. Rich and privileged doing just fine looking down on the on the impoverished. Fuck them.

Tory MP saying businesses offering food to charities shouldn't receive any bailouts.

@mrshoho

I hope to hell that people remember the state of our NHS, schools, social care, mental health provision at the next election. Our Country is as polarised now as it was a hundred years ago. Rich and privileged doing just fine looking down on the on the impoverished. Fuck them.

I doubt it. They didn't last election.

@SerendipityJane

Tory MP saying businesses offering food to charities shouldn't receive any bailouts.

They really are heartless bastards. Come the revolution I’d starve them to death.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-local-authority-emergency-assistance-grant-for-food-and-essential-supplies/coronavirus-covid-19-local-authority-emergency-assistance-grant-for-food-and-essential-supplies

'Heartless bastards'.

@GetOffYourHighHorse

'You come across as sneering and judgemental and it is stomach churning.'

Oh stop being dramatic. 'Stomach churning' 🙄. 'm not sneering at all. I think it's great that businesses are stepping up.

However the most important thing is that councils, who bleat on about wanting local control use the powers given to them, as some indeed are. The 'ToryScum' give them cash to do just that.

Yeah right. You just had to single out McDonalds and that other poster thought it funny. It's quite clear and yes I find it stomach churning.

'You just had to single out McDonalds and that other poster thought it funny. It's quite clear and yes I find it stomach churning.'

It is in the news, I'm not 'singling it out'! What's wrong with Macdonalds anyway, are you a snob? Perhaps they'll lead the way and tescos will dish out meal deals.

@GetOffYourHighHorse

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-local-authority-emergency-assistance-grant-for-food-and-essential-supplies/coronavirus-covid-19-local-authority-emergency-assistance-grant-for-food-and-essential-supplies

'Heartless bastards'.

They got that cash months ago. About what, one pound odd per head?

Must be the funding equivalent of the mumsnet chicken.

@SerendipityJane

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Gobsmacking that he said it, and even more so that they’re now trying to blame Angela Rayner for taking it out of context.

I’m not particularly au fait with the cost of smack these days but I’m fairly sure that it can’t be purchased for two tins of smart price beans and a potato.

'They got that cash months ago'

Ah right if they've been given it it doesn't count. Once given they are then scum. Got it.

I think you'll find they are continuing to fund councils, as of course they should. The councils in turn have the responsibility of local distribution.

Yes I agree the smack comment was unacceptable as was Rayner's scum comment. They should all communicate professionally. Even Rayner.