Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Sad to see MPs who represent Dover.South Thanet and Folkestone voted against Free School meals at half term and holidays .They represent some of the most deprived areas in Kent .Do they not visit these areas .
Surely this was playing politics with the welfare of children??.
Before my mate Keith jumps in you can be a Tory but still show compassion .
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Starve your dog and you'd end up in court charged with annimal cruelty.
Don't feed your kids and it's the Government's responsibility?
If only there was some way of giving parents money to feed their kids.
How about giving them £21.05 for the eldest and £13.95 for additional children each week and calling it Child Benefit?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You know as well as I do Bob.They do get the benefits but some parents donot always provide for their children.A former teacher you would have seen this .So called middle class parents know how to cook and sew. There are still children who rely on free school meals .I donot understand
where up to the age of seven I believe all children get free meals .I know jolly well many parents of those children can afford to pay .When my children were at school Each week dinner money and bus fares set aside society needs to change and realise we should not punish the children because not all parents are able to grasp how to manage their money.No child should go hungry .We. As a country have not sought out the problems of the need for dependency on benefits .I like hats others like tattoos and nail extensions each to their own .
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,892
While a few are genuinely struggling and need all the help available, how many have the latest phone or huge tv, smoke, drink, even do drugs.
Maybe it is a generation thing but this oldie thinks far to many have no idea how to budget and expect everything to be handed out to them for free.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Then it’s time that those who are so dependant and choose to smoke and drink etc were educated .I recall sitting on a bus couple with two small children ,parents were drinking soft drinks and the older child asked for a drink ,The parents carried on drinking and would not give the child a drink.I gave them a look but to no avail. We have social workers health visitors but some children are just dragged up .My point is no child should go hungry .Open up a canteen or church hall feed the children .
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
I dropped off a food parcel at the food bank recently and saw one of neighbours picking up a food parcel, understandable 3 children, part time job and mother on social, that evening they had dominoes pizzas delivered. I guess a 3 day food parcel equates to three 12inch deep pans and 2 liters of pop.
Natalie voted the way i would have wanted her to.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes and I could name a few in River who has food parcels I had to rely on my sons or venture to the coop..Sons had to put said food on doorstep .
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
school dinners when i went to secodry school 2/6 pence a week buss fares where the same. so 5 bobs a week times 2 10 bobs a week. those where the days.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Those were the days my friend .Well my post has stirred up this site.It needs it sometimes.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Sue
You may surprised that thevl way our MPs voted is of no surprise ,
But labour will play politics on it .
It will probably have an effect more up north where Tory M voted like our MOs which could give labour a little hope
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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So that's more than £6,000 per day for 'consultants' on a failing track and trace system versus £15 a week for food vouchers. Or £522m for the 'eat out to help out' scheme subisiding those who can afford restaurant meals as opposed to £24m to nourish children who can't.
England won't pay when Northern Ireland will do so and Wales and Scotland have committed to do so until spring next year.
People aren't stupid. They can see the way England is going. And here the sanctimonious start to bleat their self-righteous wisdom because a few, just a few, might misuse the system. So let's penalise them all, shall we? What does it matter if some go hungry?
I would expect nothing else from the spineless Natalie but I do take my hat off to the few Tory MPs who had the courage to stand up to such petty venality at the inevitable cost to their own careers.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A good post Ray.There always those,who,play the system but don’t punish the children.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Sue Nicholas wrote:A good post Ray.There always those,who,play the system but don’t punish the children.
Sue, have you been on the same sauce as Boris?
Your changing posts on this thread made me smile and think of an old song entitled:
Do nothing and nothing happens.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Bob Whysman wrote:Sue, have you been on the same sauce as Boris?
Your changing posts on this thread made me smile and think of an old song entitled:
If there's a sauce drinker on this thread, Bob, it would appear to be you. If you read Sue's original post you might just work out that we're making the same point.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Sue
It was Bob that said it
Not me. Lol
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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It's astonishing that the government, with the financial floodgates wide open, have decided to dig in on this, of all things! I've no idea what the strategists are up to.
I can only assume it's to cover up something even more dodgy - or to give some junk food to the right wing of the party before we concede ground on Brexit.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Neil Moors wrote:It's astonishing that the government, with the financial floodgates wide open, have decided to dig in on this, of all things! I've no idea what the strategists are up to.
I can only assume it's to cover up something even more dodgy - or to give some junk food to the right wing of the party before we concede ground on Brexit.
Cummings is waiting for the result of the American election before he decides his next Brexit move. He knows Biden values peace in Ireland much more than he does stuffing chlorinated chicken down our throats.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Why should Cummings have that kind of power
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
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Keith I think you’ll find that Mr Bliar’s main adviser was in a similar position of influence. It’s been like that ever since Henry VIII appointed Thomas More and Cardinal Wolsey, among others:
https://www.teachithistory.co.uk/resources/ks4/henry-viii-and-the-reformation/british-studies/henry-s-advisors/28253Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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