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Teresa Coffe tweeted in response to Marcus Rashford" You cannot disconnect water" Christ what a horrid, horrid bitch. What I wasn't aware about you cannot get free school meals if your household net income is more than £7500 PA, fuck that is mean as hell. Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils. Marcus Rashford launched an online petition earlier this week calling on the Government to make three commitments to support vulnerable children as part of …
Following the Marcus Rashford letter, the Man United star earned plenty of praise from the football world and Health Secretary Matt Hancock also joined the bandwagon.

So if your household net income is say 200 quid a week you cannot have free meals. well done Mark Rashford and a rare well done to the Government. 250% increase in food poverty and rising...This is not going away anytime soon and neither am I... https://t.co/dCwT07WShz. All the latest Man Utd news, views and transfer rumours from the MEN ahead of tonight's Champions League fixture vs PSG. "Was there space in the US market for Robbie Williams and Justin Timberlake? The Marcus Rashford letter and conversation with UK PM Boris Johnson ensured that school kids would continue to receive free meals during the summer holidays as the government overturned their decision. Even better is that Sir Keir Starmer now doesn’t have to make a big thing of this at PMQs tomorrow and can instead move focus on to things like the really grubby planning decision Robert Jenrick had to disown and the even smellier £108m bung to Pestfix Limited to supply PPE.

Rashford is one of five children in his immediate family and has been working hard to help those in a similar situation to the one he grew up in as a youngster.

He is not a leader in any real sense of the word. Well there is a surprise, they really are clueless, how was this ever a good idea?

BBC MOTD host Gary Lineker was one of the many to mock Hancock. The Government has rejected Marcus Rashford's plea to extend free school meal vouchers over the summer, despite a groundswell of support for the footballer from senior politicians. I don’t even know what to say. "When I heard the schools were closing I wanted to make a positive influence and make sure the kids are getting the meals they need.". He has been useless. it is a very modest letter too, i think i am correct in thinking he has done a staggering amount of charity work during lockdown. "Personal, powerful and undeniable," the mayor tweeted. But the government will not be funding the provision in the same way and Labour has warned that the funding is not nearly enough to cover the estimated £115m cost of providing free school meals. It calls for three policy recommendations from the national food strategy to be implemented without delay: Expand free school meals to under-16s in households where a parent is on universal credit. I mean, the education of most children has been fucked, so might as well stop feeding them too. "In the past I have done a lot of work to do with children. "It's a nice moment for me personally but I feel like I'm still at the beginning of the journey that I set out to try to achieve," Rashford told the BBC after receiving the award. This is such an important and moving letter. PM’s spokesman indicates government will not back calls for meals in school holidays Last modified on Thu 15 Oct 2020 16.31 EDT Marcus Rashford has vowed not to … So what. Marcus Rashford 'thanks PM for U-turn' on free school meals after Johnson calls him on phone.

"I remember when I was in school I was on free meals and my mum wouldn't get home until 6 o'clock, so my next meal would have been about 8 o'clock. However, Boris Johnson appears resistant to changing the policy, having already announced a new £63 million local authority welfare assistance scheme to support the most vulnerable during the financial fallout from Covid-19. Of course it is nonsense to say this is not about politics. The PM will respond to Marcus Rashford’s letter as soon as he can – he has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some very important issues.”.
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but he’s got loads of good people around him though yeah? Of course he's had help writing it. Cheesetoastie dry your eyes mate. https://twitter.com/marcusrashforrd/status/1272861517080342528?s=21, i think the whole country can unite behind this one and the eloquent way he put it.

He promised to write to the footballer soon after the launch of the maketheuturn campaign urging the government to change their mind. @MarcusRashford is right, we cannot let 1.3 million children go hungry this summer.Thank you, Marcus, for all the work you are doing to support children during the coronavirus crisis. The Tory chair of the Commons education select committee, Robert Halfon, joined Rashford in criticising the government’s refusal. We need a long-term plan to combat child food hunger, especially given 32% of families have had a drop in income since March. Mr Davey, the acting Lib Dem leader, has written back to Rashford to thank him for his bravery in speaking out.

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(Except the stuff about his football career). Let them eat cake! The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said that while paid employment reduces the risk of poverty, about 56% of people living in poverty were also in a working household in 2018, compared with 39% 20 years ago.

Will read later but heh at the personal letterhead. Soz. BJ it is being reported will resign sometime in 2021.

Terrified of the latest opinion poll. I would be doing myself, my family and my community an injustice if I didn't stand here today with my voice and my platform and ask you for help.". If he wrote this himself and unaided then he is certainly one to watch. . Today I am asking that all MPs put their rivalries aside and stand in solidarity on an issue that could prove detrimental to the stability of families across the country for generations to come. The Prime Minister has rejected a call from Manchester United and England star Marcus Rashford to extend the free school meals scheme into the summer holidays. ", Andy Burnham, his Manchester counterpart, hailed Rashford's letter as "outstanding". This free meal voucher has blown up on GMB this morning. We’re in a different position now with schools back open to all pupils. Hancock is the politician we deserve. Clearly all over this isn't he? Teresa Coffe tweeted in response to Marcus Rashford" You cannot disconnect water" Christ what a horrid, horrid bitch. Marcus Rashford, a footballer for Manchester United, has shared an open letter to the government, asking for it to reverse its decision to stop free school meal vouchers. Awful, tbf it is illegal to disconnect water from a residence for failure to pay bills, that doesn't detract from the substance of his message, I don't know of course the extent to which unscrupulous landlords do disconnect water.