This MP should be sacked

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Disgusting comments. He should be sacked.

@picklemewalnuts

Honestly I think a lot of what Ben says is in line with what his constituents think. He's the kind of guy who thinks he's just saying what everyone else is thinking. Strangely, and I shake my head whenever I see his twitter feed, in person he's quite a nice bloke. I'm pretty sure he's too new to have voted on any gay rights legislation.

His point would be that some of the parents that fail to feed their children are feckless, and a £20 tesco voucher won't mend that and won't get near the kids.

The scheme won't get near the kids that need it most, won't help the kids that actually are starving in the holidays, it will go to families that prioritise feeding their kids anyway. It will help them, but not the ones most in need.

I've never voted conservative.

The scheme perhaps won't help the children than need it most but it will help very many kids, like the boy Rashford was.

It is true there is another, much smaller, group that are very difficult to reach but what exactly are his government doing to reach them?

You don't refuse to help anyone because you can't help everyone.

Don't bother @ToadyMcToadface , I've found it. It's not quite what he said.

He says the head agrees with him that free school meals don't effectively target the kids most in need, and that we need to do more to help them.

@Cam77

Loads of Tory MPs harbour such opinions, most are just a bit cleverer at keeping them to themselves most of the time unless in similar company. Rather than calling for him to be sacked we might consider as a nation stopping voting for this party. Not holding my breath!

Indeed.

All but 5 Conservative MPs voted against this bill

The entire Labour party voted for it, plus 5 rebel Tories (along with the other minority parties.

Even Nigel Farage thinks it's disgraceful that it was voted down. And I never thought I'd see the day when I agreed with him.

. Has never voted on equalgay rights, has never voted on allowingmarriagebetween two people of same sex,

you do realise that means there have been no such votes since 2017 when he was first elected, right?

FWIW, Bradley seems to be rather popular in Mansfield, given that he was the first Tory to win it, in 2017, and now has a 16,000 vote majority.

I agree @RunBackwards. I just dislike the opportunistic misrepresentation of what MPs say.

Argue the toss and disagree with what they say, not what Twitter is telling you they said. That first image shows the first of 4 tweets. The next three may explain better.

@Mummyoflittledragon Section on Marcus Rashford on BBC news is on now so I expect Ben Bradley will be part of it?

Coming from a typical grotty British estate myself I can believe the illiteracy and drug figures. Pretending these things don’t happen fools no one. The question is whether he’s right about the food vouchers not reaching the kids: and then what actually will.

@Mummyoflittledragon it’s on now.

Before you organise a lynch mob take the trouble to read what he wrote. He said FSM won’t reach the most vulnerable children.

Ugh, that’s the 2nd time today I’ve had to read his arrogant and vile comments - the Mayor of Salford has tweeted against him, too.

There are a few Tories like this, e.g., Andrew Rosindell who won Romford back from Labour, and is hugely popular there because he is the archetype of 'Romford man'.

The Conservative Party is nastier than its ever been. In fact I would suggest like Peter Hitchens has done that calling it any longer the Conservative Party is a disservice to somewhat milder more rational and moderate versions, and I say that as a Labour voter. John Major's party didn't demonize immigrants, single parent families, the disabled and spend campaigns dog whistling to racists. Half the MPs in the modern Tory Party don't even know what the word conservative means. They are bigoted US style neoliberals, not Conservatives.

Ben Bradley is on BBC Breakfast now...

@Northernparent68

Before you organise a lynch mob take the trouble to read what he wrote. He said FSM won’t reach the most vulnerable children.

He “actually wrote” that free school meal vouchers were effectively spent in “brothels and crack dens” during the Summer.

Yeah he's on BBC news now ... talking about his Twitter post. Taken out of context again. Funny how the context is totally black and white huh. Letting him off far too lightly there. Just called him out about being a total liar... inadvertently apparebrly. Poor little lamb being misunderstood all over the place. Awful human being.

Naga is interviewing him and doesn't seem impressed!

Acommonreader

Thanks for the responses. I’m watching it.

Perhaps - wild suggestion here - we might look at how the adults end up in these situations and look at how to change that. It’s never been as simple as ‘education, education, education’ (Blair before someone complains): where are the jobs and why are living costs so high?

Who sacks him, though? He is employed by his constituents.

@MayYouLiveInInterestingTimes

Perhaps - wild suggestion here - we might look at how the adults end up in these situations and look at how to change that. It’s never been as simple as ‘education, education, education’ (Blair before someone complains): where are the jobs and why are living costs so high?

The adults who end up on these situations were likely hungry children on free school meals themselves, who weren’t supported to achieve different outcomes and so the cycle continues.

Make sure his comments are known about when the next GE comes.

What different outcomes actually exist though?

Make sure his comments are known about when the next GE comes.

Do you think that his comments are unpopular with his constituents though? I'd be surprised if they are.

This guy is on the telly now, probably a damage limitation exercise.

What I don't understand is if they are saying UC has increased as it should feed kids that way, then his argument is that increasing UC isn't going to feed them anyway if they will just spend it on drugs. Doesn't make sense and not a counter argument.

Also says communities are responsible for feeding kids. So if a community has 75% of families who are below poverty line and businesses going to the wall, how does that work?

As I have said before on here, as long as children live in these conditions they will go hungry. If the government aren't going to ensure that children can grow up in a safe home where they can thrive, the least the government can do is feed them.

We've got Rob Roberts. He's the one who allegedly pesters young interns for sex. His fb page is hilarious, he's banned anyone from disagreeing with him.