This MP should be sacked

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Disgusting comments. He should be sacked.

They’re all getting 4.1% pay rise to bring their salary up to £84000 😧 but they can’t feed vulnerable children.

Just remember they are not "getting" a 4.1% pay rise, these people voted for their own pay rise. Remember that next time you vote.

@catzrulz

They’re all getting 4.1% pay rise to bring their salary up to £84000 😧 but they can’t feed vulnerable children.

Just remember they are not "getting" a 4.1% pay rise, these people voted for their own pay rise. Remember that next time you vote.

Surely it’s all MPs getting the pay rise, not just the Torys? Given that, I’m not sure how that will affect who I vote for.

List of who voted for/against from The Standard

Scroll to the end of the report.

Our local M.P voted against.

We have a massive problem in my area with poverty & a high need for food bank usage.

It won't link now, sorry.

How on earth can he claim it's not true when his tweets are right there for all to see?

Their FB page seems to be down, or is it my crappy connection

Unsurprisingly the snake also known as my local Tory boy MP voted against. He is a vile creature.

Sobeyond
Yes. You are right there. I knew before even clicking on the link that my MP voted against. So many rich boys playing at politics for shits and giggles like it’s a game of dungeons and dragons.

@JamieLeeCurtains

This MP?

Been trying to work it out ...

Yes I asked MN to change it to say Mp , autocorrect thought morning was better

That’s not what he said.

Even if we disregard the second tweet (which he definitely said btw), in his first tweet he’s blaming that 25% of parents for being illiterate, and implying that makes them unfit to be parents.

If it’s true that is a huge systematic failing. But it’s not their fault. And if they’ve been failed in such a huge way, no wonder some of them may be finding it hard to support their children. Who are the innocent victims in all of this.

He’s effectively saying if your parent can’t read, you don’t deserve to eat.

Shame on him.

However this is rather too political from a school - though I imagine they’re seeing the direct effects of this government’s policies and feeling desperately anxious about what some of their children are facing while they’re not in school.

What kind of garbage do people vote in parliament. What a disgusting human being Bradley is.
Racist, dismissive, lying full of hyperbole and misconceptions.
He picked a school incident in constituency and created a narrative. Illiterate parents can’t be good parents? And his education is wasted on him if he’s such a small-minded idiot.
And as the local MP should he be fixing the problem? Disgusting piece he is.

Ben Bradley is a shit. A dreadful excuse for a human being. His Twitter feed is grim.

If he meant it or if he "miswrote" either way doesn't matter. As he was presumably not raised in a crack den or a brothel he should know better. Surely he should see that the fact that children are in these situations at all mean they need more help. A lot of people are in desperate situations...
MPs could help by donating their recent pay rise... Honestly most of them are not deserving of it atm

He should have stopped to think that if their parents can't read it was probably due to a failure of the tory education policies over the past decade

WTF is Mansfield doing with a Tory MP?!

The election in December feels like another lifetime ago, given all that's happened since, but I thought then and I still think now that all the erstwhile safe Labour seats that voted Tory were voting against Corbyn, Momentum, identity politics and the pathetic apology for a party that Labour has become, not really for the Tories, Johnson and his vile crew of self-serving mediocrities. I'd be amazed if this guy got re-elected.

I don't see the school's post as political. They're outraged (understandably) at the face-free slurs on the families they work with. Good on them for standing up for them.

Good on the school for calling this out. There comes a point where as a teacher you have a moral and professional responsibility to advocate for your pupils even if it's against the local MP. His extreme comments and voting record have caused this.

Fact-free!

I came on to agree that this morning should be sacked, it's been absolutely shocking so far.

The member of staff at the school that wrote it is the one who needs sacking. Whatever the rights and wrong of what the MP said, no employee at a school should be writing such politicised bile which will be a total breach of their code of conduct.

This is what funnily enough, is similar to what a (BAME) government minister was referring to last week with teachers spewing their own political views to children. They should keep it to themselves and get on with doing what they are paid to do..and teach our kids

So he knows that there's a woman in this area so desperate for money that she needs to live (and work?) in a brothel to feed her kid... And his solution to this is to restrict or remove alternative ways for her to feed her kid?! That's right Ben, economically force women to make choices you don't like, vote down any ways of them escaping that situation, and then use their desperate situation to justify not helping then. Utter cunt.

@RunBackwards

75% have a social worker, in his constituency? I'm not sure if that's an appalling failure or a huge success, that they have so many SWs available?!

The man is odious, I wonder if that charity payment was ever made, but doesn't he have a point about a school getting involved in politics? They're right of course but also brave!

What makes you think there are “so many SWs” available, as opposed to the more likely reality that SWs are stretched very thin with huge caseloads per person?

I wasn't been entirely serious LittleRa, I know there's no way on earth 75% are being effectively served by social workers.

@Marieg10 Teachers, Head teachers and lecturers are all exempt from political restrictions and will not be regarded as holding “politically restricted posts” whatever their role or remuneration level. However I also don’t see what is partisan about reporting someone’s words - Ben Bradley said it in writing - if he doesn’t like it being reported he should have thought before he typed.